Reasons to hate Windows, volume whatever

So Windows was nagging me to install the latest security upgrade--an upgrade for Internet Explorer 6, which I --almost-- never use. Rather than tell it "forget about this update", I figure that --almost-- is reason enough to get take the update even though I know I'll have to reboot my machine afterwards. (If a Windows Update requires a reboot, a popup window will nag you every 15 minutes until you reboot.)

So, I take the upgrade. I reboot my machine and walk away. Five minutes later, I come back... to discover that I had somewhere along the line scheduled "on the next restart" a disk scan for my secondary internal hard drive, D:. Argh--can't use the computer until that's done. So I do some tasks around the house, figuring it will be done in an hour. I check back in... and it's also running a chkdsk on my 500 GB external hard drive. On which I ran a chkdsk less than a week ago.

The whole escapade kept me away from my computer for over five hours, time when I really wanted to be working on Tales of the Arabian Nights. Argh! Argh! ARGH!

Anyway, it's back now. But geez.

And it's that time again

Time for my annual pointer to nellorat's 2003 Christmas Classic, "A Christmas Tail".

Santa bless us, every one!

Warning: lots of photos of rats so cute you will simply fall over ded from teh cyutniss.