A win at Moruya

We went to the races at Moruya (on the NSW South Coast) the other day.  We decided to make it an all-day trip because Moruya is about 2 1/2 hours away.

We had Kevin Sweeney riding him, which was good; we have a lot of faith in him.  We don't have to give him riding instructions because we can leave it to him to find his way between or around the opposition, and he knows better than us how the other jockeys are likely to perform on the day.

Diamond Jay was last for most of the race, and then when they reached the straight, she just powered past the opposition.  It always makes the trip home more enjoyable with a trophy in your hand.

The downside of a win is the amount of time Karyn likes to spend celebrating in the bar afterwards.

Everyone else had left until it was just us, the bartender, and the police wondering why there were still people at the track.

Windows can be so frustrating at times...

I'm sitting here at the moment with a friend's laptop on my desk. I feel like throwing it on the floor and jumping on it.

Like most girls' laptops that I get to fix the virus protector is about 2 years out of date. I think that it came with a 3 month free licence for Norton Antivirus, and when that ran out it nobody ever bothered with it again. Now what I have found is that an expired version of Norton is worse than a virus itself. Norton seems to try unsuccessfully to connect back to headquarters, and it hates you trying to use your laptop until it is good and ready to allow you. The first thing I always have to do is deinstall Norton completely. I often have to download the additional Norton deinstaller/cleanup tool to make sure that everything is properly removed - apparently the standard de-install leaves bad stuff hanging around.

Now Internet Explorer causes the machine to hang. I've had to load Firefox just to access the Internet.

But every now and then the machine just ... hangs..... for about 5 frustrating minutes. And then ... bingo... its back.

While its hung, it's really hung. I can't even get the Task Manager to run, so I've no idea what could be causing the hang.

I've tried downloading a bunch of Windows updates, but after downloading they refuse to install. I can see I've got a bit of work in front of me. Maybe a couple of days' worth.