The computer in the Man Cave is fucked up. Plain and simple, and by the hand of both men, the computer may not live to see another day. Malcolm loves to cruise nasty porn sites, and Jachin has a bad habit of clicking on those pop ups that say "Your computer is infected, click here to fix it!!!" Well, for those of you that DON'T know, your computer probably wasn't infected UNTIL you clicked on that pop up, then it was for sure. So between the both of them, this machine is jacked, and to ice the cake, it had no installed active virus protection program. POW!
I drove up yesterday afternoon with the Jujubear to spend some time trying to fix it. Jachin was around, and he let us in, and spent time playing with Juju on the Wii. They are in a fierce competition in Frisbee Golf, and I'm not sure who had more fun...Jachin or Juju. LOL So I worked, and like the big bad wolf, I huffed and I puffed and I didn't blow a damn thing down on this computer. I ran Ad-Aware, which removed 187 threats and actually allowed me to navigate the PC back online. Ad-Aware is a free spyware removal tool that you can find at www.lavasoft.com. I did then manage to get AVG Free edition installed (for those that would like an awesome free virus protection program, visit www.grisoft.com and look for the AVG Free Home edition, it rocks.) Having installed an actual virus software, I scanned the PC, and took a moment to chat with my friend Merlin about computers and how to fix them, and listened to him laugh and repeat his litany "Jesus FUCK, it's garbage now! Wipe it clean and do a Factory Reboot!!" AVG had isolated a virus and quarantined it, some trojan downloader. I rebooted, and quickly learned that the PC was even more fucked up. LOLOL. But children take priority, and after hugs and kisses, and a couple of bites, I left Malcolm to come home, promising to see him the next morning.
We'd talked, Malcolm and I, during the whole PC debacle, of how he trusts me like no one else. He has also made me Trusted and Loved, given me all of his passwords, and allowed me unsolicited access anytime at the Man Cave. I'll be taking his laptop home with me soon to fix that as well. What man do you know who would be comfortable having his girlfriend have unsupervised, unlimited access to his personal laptop? Not many would be willing to have all their secrets revealed. I was positively glowing last night from the fact that our relationship had escalated another notch on the belt, gone another milestone.
This morning I headed back to the Man Cave, early even, to finish fighting with the beast, and to hopefully get a little personal time with Malcolm. I couldn't reach him on the way up, which kind of bothered me. I had some communications with Jachin, all vague and sketchy. I had kept losing the signal with him, but not only would Malcolm not open the door, Jachin wouldn't come downstairs either. I couldn't understand why nobody would let me in. Malcolm's car was there, and why would they make me stand out in the cold? After some words with Jachin, I left to come home, unable to stop the tears from gliding down my face.
Malcolm called me, and I just couldn't speak to him. He called back a half hour later, and I decided it was time to put my big girl panties on and confront him. When he heard my tear stained voice, he asked what was wrong, like he had no idea. Then he asked me why I wasn't at his house....
I kinda lost my mind and launched into a tirade on him, only to find out we'd simply had a communication breakdown. Shit.
He'd had an appointment this morning that I'd forgotten about, and he'd thought I'd be arriving back at his house at my normal time. And Jachin hadn't been home at all, but I hadn't heard him tell me that at any time, and it made perfect sense, taking into account all of his questions to me and his hedging answers. Not only had Jachin not made it clear to me he hadn't been there, he couldn't have let me in anyways because HE was locked out, having forgotten his own house keys. He also told me later that he'd been forbidden by Medusa to assist me, since he was hanging out with her. Nice. I realized in that moment how much baggage of insecurity I was still carrying around with me from my previous relationship, all that wondering and waiting for the other shoe to drop all the time. I guess some small part of me is still waiting for a Malcolm shoe to drop, except it still hasn't.
Malcolm was so concerned over my mental well being today, that he called to check on me every hour. He was so incredibly sweet, offered to provide me with physical proof of his where-abouts if I needed it, and reassured me that he loved me and that nothing had changed overnight. He wanted me to know that he wasn't cheating on me and leaving me out in the cold, that he would never do that to me. He wanted me to believe that he values our relationship, that he is happy with me. He wanted to know that I wasn't going anywhere. He told me how much he loved that I could challenge him mentally and keep him interested. And he loves that I accept the challenge OF HIM, and stay to earn his trust and love. I feel incredibly blessed by the universe to have this beautiful, quirky, intelligent, and sexy man as mine. And I feel so cradled and cherished by him.
Tonight Malcolm was so funny. "So....do you think you can come back and fix the PC?" He so hesitantly asked me, like he was afraid it would become the sorest subject in the universe. LOL, "Yes, I'll finish it." I promised I'd be back early next week to finish the job. The nice part is that the extra time has given me more opportunity to consult with Merlin, my modern day wizard friend. To learn things like ...how the hell do you start a PC in safe mode? I know it used to be by holding the shift key. Now it's this tap tap on the F8 key, which by the way....DIDN'T FUCKING WORK!!! Apparently I was either tapping too fast or too damn slow? It's also given me more opportunity to make Merlin laugh at me some more. So I devised a strategy to fix the Man Cave PC, using an old recovery disc containing Windows Millennium, and an upgrade to Windows XP I've yet to find. I didn't want to tell Merlin, because I knew his revulsion to the atrocity that was Millennium would cause another peal of laughter to be forthcoming. I wasn't wrong. In fact, I know he's still laughing right now. All I can say is this "DON'T BE A HATER, IT WAS A GREAT IDEA!" LOLOL, tainted by the stench of Millennium or not, at least the Man Cave PC will be functional, PROTECTED, and at some point, actually upgraded to XP again, if only I can find that damn disc. :)
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