To catch a worm

I've always avoided using my flash drive on computers other than mine at the office or the two laptops that we have here at home. But when I presented our department's curricular proposals last Tuesday I had to plug my flash drive into somebody else's laptop at the meeting in order to show the presentation slides I had prepared. Aware that other computers in campus are notorious for harboring undetected viruses, I plugged my flash drive into this laptop which has an updated anti-virus software installed. And voila, a worm!--which luckily the anti-virus software was able to remove. While I can finally breath a sigh of relief, I have resolved that next time I have to share or use my files elsewhere I'll just email them to whoever is in-charge.

A fellow arachnophobic

I laughed when I read story #2035 over at One Sentence: I walked into the bathroom, saw the large spider in the tub, and decided a shower could wait. That sure sounds like me. Sometimes though--depending on how large the spider is, of course--I just grit my teeth, step into the shower stall and hope the spider is more afraid of me than I am of it. One can't afford to miss a shower in this country's hot muggy weather!

Missed queues

About a quarter of an hour after twelve noon I walked to KFC to buy lunch expecting as always to stand in line for at least ten minutes before my turn came to order. It was therefore a shock to find that there were no queues at all! Such a phenomenon would usually occur well before or after lunchtime. What it was about today, a typical class day during the summer term, that caused those queues to disappear I have yet to figure out. Hmmm.