Good news always first, they say: I found a handy little program that gets rid of all the junk and garbage on your computer. Probably y'all alread know all this (especially you, ggdany), but everytime you visit any website they stick all kinds of junk on your hardware; fragments, information, advertising, cookies (even if you're not hungry), and other stuff that clutters up the dang thing and gradually slows it down to a crawl. Anyhow, it's named Webroot Window Washer (www.webroot.com) and it costs $29.95 for...hmm...how long?...come to think of it, I don't know. Must be a year or so though, 'cause they give you a thirty-day free trial period if you want it. Still, it pops up on the screen whenever it runs (for about 15-30 seconds) and it kills stuff off faster'n a Gatling gun. So, I bought it and this Dell's plumbin' looks like Mr. Clean gave it a once-over.
Bad news: Prodigal son, M.W.Ben, has returned home. Married in July; the honeymoon's over. Too bad -- I had such high hopes. And they started off so well -- she paid off all his credit card balances (no small feat), bought his and hers $500 each camera-equipped cell phones, and threw an elaborate wedding (they wanted to get the basics out of the way first and worry about the incidentals--groceries, rent, utilities, car payment, stuff like that-- later). I was quite impressed with that kind of up-front money she displayed. Turns out, unfortunately, that's all the money she had in the world (big EIC refund), and, just for gouger, her check for his tux bounced (talk about embarrassin'). Then, too, her car was repoed shortly after the wedding (come to find out--those "options" the salesman said he was "throwing in" included a GPS tracker). Said she really didn't care anyway; since she was four payments behind and, besides, that dealership, Car TODAY!, seemed just a tad shady as the interest cost more than the car (never mind that beeper).
Oh well; such is life, as the old man used to say.
Bad news: Prodigal son, M.W.Ben, has returned home. Married in July; the honeymoon's over. Too bad -- I had such high hopes. And they started off so well -- she paid off all his credit card balances (no small feat), bought his and hers $500 each camera-equipped cell phones, and threw an elaborate wedding (they wanted to get the basics out of the way first and worry about the incidentals--groceries, rent, utilities, car payment, stuff like that-- later). I was quite impressed with that kind of up-front money she displayed. Turns out, unfortunately, that's all the money she had in the world (big EIC refund), and, just for gouger, her check for his tux bounced (talk about embarrassin'). Then, too, her car was repoed shortly after the wedding (come to find out--those "options" the salesman said he was "throwing in" included a GPS tracker). Said she really didn't care anyway; since she was four payments behind and, besides, that dealership, Car TODAY!, seemed just a tad shady as the interest cost more than the car (never mind that beeper).
Oh well; such is life, as the old man used to say.
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