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So, my sister downloaded some toobar thing. And god knows whatever else that came with it. I'm going to have to start sitting behind her when she's on the internets and making sure she doesn't click on the "OOH, pretteh screen savers" or anything, because I'm veritably positive that most of our problems are coming from her. To make a long story short, we're prolly going to have to wipe the computer because the popups are every minute or so and the virus protection that comes with our DSL has been corrupted by something or another (I can't believe it took me this long to realize that the weird "directory broken" message that pops up that you just click through when the computer starts wasn't from Trillian--it mentioned Yahoo in the filename, so I just assumed--but the YahooDSL virus blocker, meaning that we've been virus-protection-less for ages now).

This doesn't really affect me, though there are games and such that I've got installed but don't have the CD for anymore that I'll end up losing the ability to play. The siblings are freaking out about losing the Sims families, though, which is stupid considering I already accidentally lost them when I tried to install Bon Voyage (god only knows why, but BV changes the file types of all your saved games to be unreadable by the original versions) only to find out that even though my video card is on their list and drivered up and all, it won't work due to some glitch in the game that EA is blaming on the card. And then somebody tried to uninstall BV but it didn't fully do so or something. . . I haven't really bothered to find out what's wrong there since I don't care all that much and it won't matter when we wipe it anyway.

Yes. So I really hope it happens, just because it'd be lovely to actually have hard drive space again and for the computer to actually go as fast as it's supposed to, but unless I do it myself, I don't know if it's going to happen at all.

O AND an epilogue.

These barbecue potato chips that I just ate? HOT. They're okay (pretty good, actually) when you're eating them, but when you're done, your throat just kinda smokes.

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*lmao* you lost their Sims families already and they dunno.

I like BBQ chips, but I'm very picky about them, and insane about v. hot foods. Yum.

Well, I think they know, but they don't realize that it's permanent. They think it just has to do with the random glitchyness that the computer's been having lately, when really, it's a ~~normal~~ admitted side effect of the installation.

Yeah? In general, I'm good with the ones like these, where it's hot after it goes down. I don't like it if it's hot on your tongue. Mexican spicy I don't like much, Indian spicy I do. Idunno.

I've never had Indian food but I really want to try it sometime.

...people actually fall for the whole "Free Pretty Screensavers" thing? :O

I once had smoked bacon flavored chips... yanno that smell inside of a charcoal grill? It tasted like that. Too much smoke-flavor XD

Evidently little children do. I think a lot of it was links off of Neopets and Neopets screensavers and such, because I've seen a lot of that crap on there.

Yeah? Blech. Not enough bacon to go with your smoke, no? It's like bean and bacon soup. Sometimes (*cough*ShopN'Save brand*cough*) it's all smoke and no beans or bacon.