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Sure, Now You Tell Me
Today a laptop was delivered to me for virus/malware removal. Before I got started on my work, I wanted to clean the laptop because the screen was kind of funky and so was the keyboard. I spritzed a...
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If I Say It, I’ll Have to Do It
This post is more for my benefit than yours. I’m taking a two-week vacation in early June. Everyone who knows it asks me where I’m going. While I’d like to say I’m jumping on a plane to take me to...
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The Copier’s Over Here Next to the Irony
This morning at work I took an elevator to a lab I’m responsible for maintaining. Two service workers from a copier rental place got on-board with me. They asked if I worked in the building. “Yep....
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Malware Bytes
In my line of work, I find myself cleaning malware off my clients’ computers two or three times a week. Sometimes that involves an entire reinstall of Windows, applications and data. You have no idea...
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Travelogue: Norfolk, Virginia
Hey, peeps! I’m home from a business conference I attended in Norfolk, Virginia. Oh, sweet blog, how I’ve missed you! Here are some random observations I collected along the way: 1. A garden shed with...
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Week in Review
A co-worker of mine sneezes so violently I’m afraid his spleen may come flying out one of these days. And it startles me every time. I told him “Geez, dude. Ring a bell before you do that.” Was that...
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My New Favorite Thing
I have a new love in my life. Don’t worry. There will always be bacon. My new love and I met while I worked on a colleague’s computer. She noticed I was admiring something on her desk, which I used...
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A Nightmare of the Worst Kind
I had a nightmare last night. One of the sweaty, high-anxiety, glad-I’m- awake-now variety. It wasn’t about being chased by an ax murderer. It wasn’t about finding myself taking a college exam that I...
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Where There’s a Hair, There’s a Way
I have eyebrow OCD. No, I’m not one of those women who plucks her eyebrows until there’s no hair left and then have to pencil in new ones. That’s just freaky and wrong. I will, however, obsess over a...
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In Which We Give Thanks for Teeny Tiny, Light-Weight Technology
My team was recently moved to new offices at the university where I work. We’re now housed behind rows and rows of stacks at one of the two campus libraries. Taped to the door of our makeshift...
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Feed the Hungry. Embrace the Crazy.
We’re embracing the crazy again at The Junk Drawer. If I gave you the chance, what would you dare me to do? Something gross? Something scary? Something embarrassing? If I offered the power to choose...
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January 20 is Clown Day
Many of you know that this Friday, January 20th, is Clown Day. The day I agreed I would go to work dressed in full clown gear after you donated so much to my food bank fundraiser. Let me tell you,...
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Clown Day and The Movie Trailer
Clown Day was a huge success, except for the fact that students on our campus couldn’t have cared less that a clown walked among them. I’m still calling it a win because no one threw a pie at me. I’ll...
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Weird Guy in the Men’s Room
I don’t profess to know what goes on in a typical men’s room and I don’t have a desire to know, really. What happens in the men’s room should stay in the men’s room. Except that weird things happen in...
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Mug Shots
I work with a mug hoarder apparently. Right before quittin’ time today, I walked into the kitchenette to rinse out my mug and found a colleague, Sherri (not her real name, or maybe it is) cleaning out...
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I Don’t Know Why I Even Try
Today at work I was asked by a professor to upgrade some software for her. Software that you have to stay near and babysit while it installs. This would be a long visit. And since it was during my...
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Identity Theft Made Easy
This afternoon I went down to the computer labs in my building at work to hang up signs about National Cyber Security Awareness Month. (Huh. How ‘bout that. A government site that’s still running….)...
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Once Upon a Timepiece
I attended a conference this week for writers in higher education. During one of the sessions, I sat next to a woman who intrigued me because she was wearing a device on her left wrist that looked...
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Local Woman Finds and Disposes of Mysterious Candy Found in Office
BETHLEHEM, PA – A local woman found a smashed doughnut-shaped sugared jelly candy on the floor of her office that she claims she never purchased. Kathy Frederick, 48, of Bethlehem, PA discovered the...
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“Hi, Guy Who Got the Weirdest Malware I’ve Ever Seen!”
I’ve never been good at remembering names. Faces, yes. If I met you only once before, I can usually remember the context of the meeting. I’d probably even remember a lot about you if we spoke at length...
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