~CommonKnowledge25

Can't say much right now since it's late and I'm falling asleep as I writer this so this is just a quick note to talk briefly about the craziness that has been my life for about a week.

It all started with a car search, found a pretty decent one for a decent price and we (my parents and I) were all happy and good but this guy from another dealership is freaking out, calling the house phone in Tampa obsessively, saying we had a contract with him to buy a car. There is absolutely no validity to what he is saying (he alluded to threatening to sue me and my parents) so I really am not worried at all about it. It's a none-issue but I thought I'd mention it to prove that the world is going crazy.

Finally seems to have gotten rid of the trojan that attacked me from out of nowhere (I swear I will NEVER go on Internet Explorer again) but that was a stressful couple of days until I found the solution and talked with a group of tech guys from the company that made the new software I bought to clear out the trojan and all it brought. They sent me a way to clear out the remnants that were still hanging on after the initial cleaning but my computer and internet in general seem to still be running slower than they should but my brother today surprised me by volunteering to look at it next time we see each other (he'll always do something like this if I ask but usually it takes a lot of goading and annoyance for him to actually do it) I see him in about ten days for his wedding and he said he'd do it then but I think he'll be a bit busy, what with the "I dos" and all. But I'll see him again just a week after for a cousin's wedding so he agreed to do it then.

I spent a few days consumed with cleaning out and packing while trying to deal with my computer, fix a brewing fight with my mother, and somehow managed to make a video for a contest deadline. Made it in by the skin of my teeth due to the trojan being....well...a tojan. Now, I've accumulated a fair amount of stuff over the years and although I was content to leave most of it behind at my parents' house, my mother, being the gifted packer that she is, managed to fit pretty much EVERYTHING I own into my new car. Sure, on the way up we couldn't see out the back window but hey, that's what side mirrors are for

We (my mom and I) left on Friday morning (and I cried at leaving the dog- he's an only boy and the last of the 'childhood pets'and managed to make it through some pretty scary moments of driving up the east coast- more on that at a later date but here is a teaser to one incident: it involves a tractor trailer, construction barrels, a motorcycle and me nearly being on two wheels...

So now we've arrived back in upstate New York, all set to move into my new place on the farm tomorrow. We'd planned on getting up early from the hotel we're at, driving to the farm, unloading everything and going shopping at some point for groceries and the things I need but didn't bring and of course, setting up my new place. But at around eight-ish tonight my new employer called to say that we'd have to push back the meeting by half a day due to some circumstances. Those circumstances turn out to be the person who had my job leaving on bad terms, but not leaving until tomorrow morning, and the apartment and farm need some TLC before I arrive.

I shudder to think about it but for now, its past 1230 and I am beat.

More later when I can.....not that anyone reads these thing anyways