Demons begone!

Upon the advice of djnoise and the better part of my non-lazy brain that knows what's good for me (and my 'puter), I've just finished downloading and installing things that are good for my noisebox and getting rid of things that are bad for it. After three scans with anti-spyware software; the banishment of IE, KaZaa, and 150 odd spyware-related objects; a poke through my system folder; and the introduction of Mozilla; I think I'm feeling much better now, thanks.
It's a wonder it even ran reasonably well with all that crap. Maybe complicated sound edits might not take so bloody long, now, if I'm lucky. That'd be neat.

Other good things about today:

errands with Star5
roti
ice cream
seeing old friend and briefly seeing brother
scrabble
having real health insurance as of midnight
mayday as of midnight

Definitely time for bed.

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Work was really, really stupid today. My boss is an amazingly strange and incredibly difficult person to work with/around. Among the most unsettling things goin' 'round at my job is the rumor that we are not getting spring reviews, which would mean I'm not getting any sort of raise, even though I got kinda shafted on my last one and even since then have taken on boatloads of new responsibilities (in part based on expectation of recompense come this spring...) If this turns out to be true, and not just hearsay, it may unfortuantely be worth ditching my cool coworkers for something that pays more. 'Cause yeah, that job market is soooo flush right now... (sigh)
Thanks to s4 and K for listening to me bitch, K for paying for dinner, and the Triple Rock for cheap beer and eats.
pbbbblllt.