Dog Ate Homework

By Jim Hagarty
Sorry for the delay in getting anything posted today but here’s my lame and feeble excuse. I clicked on something I shouldn’t have while I was browsing the Internet earlier today and picked up the nastiest virus I have ever had. The first time this happened to me a few years ago, I freaked right out, but I’ve gotten pretty good at destroying these bugs through trial and error and help from Google and YouTube and I see them as a challenge now. The one today was very stubborn, however, and I wondered if I would ever get rid of it, but finally, success! My greatest conquest came on the day I eliminated a virus by finding the code for it in my system, going in and adding just one number in the middle of a whole series of numbers the virus had laid there. Adding that number didn’t allow the virus to operate any more. Yay!

Author: Jim Hagarty

I am a 72-year-old retired journalist, busy recovering from a lifelong career as an unretired journalist. This year marks a half century of my scratching out little fables about life. My interests include genealogy, humour and music. I live in a little blue shack in Canada and spend most of my time trying to stay out of trouble. I am not that good at it. I also spent years teaching journalism. Poor state of journalism today: My fault. I have a family I don't deserve, a dog that adores me, and two cars the junk yard refuses to accept. My prized possessions include my old guitar and a razor my Dad gave me when I was 14 and which I still use when I bother to shave. Oh, and my great-great-grandfather's blackthorn stick he brought from Ireland in the 1850s. I have only one opinion but it is a good one: People take too many showers.