Collected Thoughts

I haven't really watched TAR, I keep forgetting when it's on. PlusI hate Jonathan and watching him makes my head hurt. It would have made me so happy if he'd been kicked off for pushing Victoria. A lot of people commented on that and how he was just back on the show like nothing happened.

One of my guilty pleasures is MTV's Real World/Road Rules challenge, I don't really know who the people are but generally I like to watch (except this year when they seem to be taking some of Fear Factor's grosser ideas). MTV has a rule that a physical alteraction will get you kicked off. Hitting, shoving, etc and you are sent home. They sent someone home. Now, I haven't seen Jonathan's actions against Victoria so I don't know how the two situations compare, but the inicident that got the guy kicked off was fairly minor.

Two guys were upset at each other and arguing, one grabbed the others hand and the guy who was grabbed used an open hand to swat/shove the other guy's head to get him away. Automatic elimination.

No one fell down, it didn't look like anyone got really hurt, the guy who was shoved didn't want an elimintation but it didn't matter, those are the rules.

I wish TAR had rules like that they were willing to stick to, maybe I'd be actively trying to remember to watch TAR instead of cringing and wishing it were better.

There were sucky things about today. 1) I realized I'm probably screwed out of an ebay purchase. The person never sent me anything and is no longer a registered user, but I'm going through the steps to try and get my money back.

Alos my computer crapped out. My new one. the shiny new one. I thought it was Comcast and their stupid broadband, but no, I was told to call HP. The first HP person didn't offer anything helpful other than "run system recovery." I didn't back anything up because I was pissed off and not thinking straight, but that's okay because I hadn't downloaded that much. Mostly I wanted my money back, I was put on hold for a manager and got disconnected.

When I called back a lady helped me, she went through all kinds of things and now my computer is working right. However if I have this problem in a week I'm going to be back to angry and only wanting a refund.

She suggested something called Trend Micro that can run scans for viruses and suggested I use it along with SpySubtract and Norton. Just to be sure. So that's what I did and it looks like my computer is clean right now.