The Writer's Life 3/13 - Quandary

I found this at Yahoo News, for those who love their medicine with a chocolate coating: "An inmate in New York is accused of hiding oxycodone pills in his rectum and selling them to other inmates at his jail..."


Since my PC was infiltrated by pop up bugs last month, it has acted unpredictably. I've been using the Firefox browser for years. For the past week, I've been unable to play games at RewardTV, where I accumulate points and cash them in for an Amazon GC or a CD or DVD I sell on the street. It occurred to me to try IE, and it worked fine. Yesterday I noticed I wasn't getting any pop-ups there. When the problems first began, I tried both IE and Google Chrome, and neither worked any better than Firefox. I wonder if all the work I did uninstalling unwanted programs worked in IE. This morning I began building up my favorites list there. Maybe this is just temporary relief and the bugs will eventually adjust and torment me here as well. Now I face a quandary -- do I uninstall Firefox and re-install it at a later date? The Avast virus scan showed a list of 20 or so hazards it was unable to fix. Most of them had Firefox in the title. What a pleasure it is not hearing that soft female voice saying, every few seconds: "Threat has been detected." The version of IE I'm using may be five years behind the times. Do I upload the latest or leave well enough alone? Decisions, decisions.


Friday the 13th proved lucky for the floating book shop. The ten CDs Political Man donated yesterday were gone by the first 15 minutes of operation. Later, a middle aged gentleman wheeled a handcart toward me. There were about 40 books stacked on it, many of them large pictorials on art, all in Russian. It must have been 100 pounds worth. Half sold by the end of the session. Spasibo, sir. My thanks also to the young man who swapped about ten paperbacks for three of the books I had on display. He has done this frequently. He eyes my books all the time, but I refuse to trade them, although I suppose I could use a little creative bookkeeping to count it as a sale.
Vic's 5th Novel: http://tinyurl.com/okxkwh5
Vic's 4th novel: tinyurl.com/bszwlxh
Vic's 3rd Novel:  http://tinyurl.com/7e9jty3
Vic's Short Story on Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/k95k3nx
Vic's Short Story Collection: http://www.tiny.cc/Oycgb
Vic's 2nd Novel: http://tiny.cc/0iHLb Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/kx3d3uf
Vic's 1st Novel: http://tinyurl.com/pdxwsnt
Vic's Rom-Com Screenplay: http://tinyurl.com/kny5llp
Vic's Horror Screenplay: http://tinyurl.com/cyckn3f
Vic's Blog: http://vicfortezza.blogspot.com/
Vic's Web Site: http://members.tripod.com/vic_fortezza/Literature/