Viral woes, Return of the Killer Sandwich (repeat)

[Tabouli]

Hey ho, folks...

Riddikulus indeed.  It's 1:30am and with every passing minute I am ruing the folly which induced me to buy (yes *buy*) an online virus scanner.  After several fruitless and lengthy attempts at downloading my purchase and four increasingly irritated emails to the McAfee support staff, they finally explained to me why I couldn't get it download, after which, tonight, I have spent probably three hours of rather expensive online time to get it to work.  And now it's scanning my hard drive, and has been for no less than 55 minutes, with no sign of abating.  And though it's detected 10 infected files and counting, as I suspected (nothing email infectable, so fear not), I have been wondering for some days now whether this was all a very bad idea.

Sigh.

What to do to entertain myself during this vigil at the computer, I asked myself?  Freecell has its moments, but only when you get a string of easy games (!), too tired to websurf, and reading the paper online is frustratingly slow... in the time you've spent waiting an endless 20 seconds or so (amazing how long this feels when you're sitting in front of a monitor!) per article and realising that you don't want to read a third of the articles materialising anyway, you might just as well have walked to the newsagency and bought one!  Gzzz.  Then, in my long trek through the paper, I discovered an amusing article by Maureen O'Down on George W Bush which refers to peanut butter and jelly sandwiches (that gloriously American of dishes!) as PBJs!  Now, I've heard of BLTs, but PBJs?  How many initialled sandwiches are there?

Musing on this most profound of questions, I was reminded of the HP4GU-OT sussurations (?) on the subject of sandwiches.  Aha! I thought.  What better forum at which to raise this pressing matter?

Tabouli.

PS  Scan complete!  Praise be, now I can go to bed...


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