Not Dumb Enough for my Own Good:

I have just decided that I am technically misplaced in time and it is my own not-dumb-enough fault. If I were like most of the people in my generation my son would have had to have learned more about computers out of self-defense. But no, I had to be leading edge. I had to do computer driven animatronics with synthetic speech and phoneme activated lip/muscle slave response way back in 1981.

Not only have I done damage to myself and distanced myself from my whole generation, I have done damage to my son who should by all rights be the computer guru in the house fighting this virus right now while I stand around asking stupid questions about RAM and ROM and saying things like maybe if we just reboot one more time?.

I know it is still there. It turned off my virus protection and firewall software on the way past my defenses and I am still getting a floppy disk(s) fail (40) message at bootup. The root virus protection was turned off in CMOS. It`s still in there. The little spyware infections I have stamped out are just smokescreen. I know it is still in there but I can`t find it.

I am sorry Tobias, my son; I have damaged your computer skills development by being too self-sufficient. Right now you don`t know how sorry I really am.  ¶ 9:07 AM