Manarent computer viruses a pain in the butt? We had a particularly nasty one. We had noticed a significant decline in our PCs performance since Christmas break. It just got worse and worse. Obviously, McAfee never saw it coming. I ran a full system scan with McAfee, installed and ran Malwarebytes (which almost always solves any issues Ive experienced) and even Spybot Search & Destroy. Full scans of all three of those came up completely empty handed. I searched installed programs, verified all of the running process and even my startup registry. Even Google searches came up with nothing. Well, after a few days where it got really nasty (especially over the weekend), I gave up and decided to start fresh. So, we backed everything up that we could and after a reformatting of the drive and several hours of installing the operating system and programs with all the updates, were back up now and faster than ever! I guess it pays to beas Matt saida computer nerd, eh? 😛 This is not an exaggeration; the sun did not even make a guest appearance this weeknot even once. I think I have seasonal affective disorder! 🙁 I thought the title of this weeks blog entry to be even more apropos than it normally islet me explain. I just told you the first half; how it was as overcast and rainy this week as it is in the UK. Heres the other half On Monday, the kids were off for MLK day and the sitter was on vacation. Matt stayed home, Bu went with Grandma and Gigi and Luke stayed with Christy & Alex. Shortly after I arrived at work, I got a text from Ann with the sad news that one of the dogs at Mom & Sandys house had died. Minnie Mabel Campsendell passed away at the vets office. She had been very sick and was diagnosed with, among other things, doggie diabetes. She had been at the vet for most of last week and her prognosis was not good. Her passing saved Grandma and Gigi from making that tough decision We know that Gigi is very sad and it broke her heart to lose Minnieas it did Maryann. So our condolences go out to them this week; its always hard to lose a pet. Ann created the perfect memory of Minnie in her latter years. She was always so sweet. She would waddle over and look at you with those sad eyes; tail wagging. She would drop on her side, roll over and lie there until you petted her belly. She wasnt discriminatory either; she would do that to everyone who would give her an ounce of attention. 😉 She was a good dog. That night, Abby and Ann attended both of Bus dance classes at Dixon Dance Studio. Gigi, I present to youMinnie through the years