[Weekend] Last Day of Vacation

I'm currently plugged in on my work laptop, just to check in, clean out my inbox, and make sure the thing doesn't need any weird system updates (and also to sneak a peak at the main EDI inbox to see if there are any critical issues I'll have to deal with when I return tomorrow). I've moved pretty much every clock and watch in the house forward an hour. I'm currently having my morning cuppa joe. I've got some ideas for an RTS post brewing on an open doc. Mythbusters is currently on TV, and they've been playing the first four Harry Potter films on ABCFamily all weekend.

Over the past week, we've gone to two museums (on the same day), bought yarn, bought books, gone through the rest of our books to cull stuff we don't want, gone to the symphony, watched many movies on either the Roku, Netflix, or on TV, ate out at many of our favorite places, had the best ice cream in the city, gotten my haircut (finally!), drank more coffee than we really should, gotten a lot of walking in, cleaned the apartment, seen Watchmen, and slept in as late as we could (which really isn't all that late).

Sure, I'm kind of bummed that today's the last day of my vacation, but I'd like to think I got a lot done and enjoyed myself doing it (even the haircut--it's very amusing getting schooled by a funny older Chinese lady who thinks I waited too long to get it done). I still feel as though I should have gotten more writing done, but even that was a good vacation--being away from that and not stressing out over it was definitely worth it.

So yeah, I think this vacation was a WIN. :)

More later...

[PC] IE Weirdness

Okay, I know I haven't downloaded any weird viruses, and none of my security programs are finding any viruses, malware, or whatnot.

However, over the last few weeks, my Internet Explorer has been acting weird. It seems that every now and again, especially when I'm going from one page to another (or when I first pop up at a page), the page will suddenly change to what looks like the My Computer folder and show as if it's scanning the folders and finding malware. I usually stop it immediately--which will either close the browser or want to continue scanning.

Now, to my knowledge, none of my security programs do that, and I know I haven't changed any of the settings to make it do that. I don't even know what might be doing it. And as said, McAfee, Ad-Aware, and all the other security programs aren't catching anything.

Another weird thing? Every now and again a second browser window will pop up that will supposedly bring me to the Yellow Pages site. No idea why that is happening, either.

(And yes, if you're wondering, I'm writing this on my work PC at the moment, which is not having this issue at all.)

Emm says it's happened to her a few times, and she's convinced it might be some of the ads on some of the pages. Both of our pop-up blockers have been working overtime the last few weeks, too.

Any ideas/suggestions/horror stories as to why this might be happening and what I might be able to do to stop it? I'm this close to reinstalling IE7 just to be on the safe side.

As an aside, this seems to have popped up when I downloaded Google Chrome when I updated Google Earth, so I'm wondering if a setting on that browser (which I never use and probably should get rid of) is causing this.

Help me, LJ, you're my only hope! (Well, there is C|Net too, but I couldn't pass up a bit of geeky silliness...)

Thanks ahead of time!

[Weekend] Later on...

Things done today:
--Lunch at Rogue (mmm, Chocolate Stout... :) )
--shopping at store for random stuff
--laundry
--dry-clean my brown coat
--run various cleaners on my computer
--recharge my Dana
--check personal inbox on work laptop (98 emails, for those keeping count)

Things still to do:
--possible RTS post
--charge up Zune/put more tunage on it
--backup writing files on thumb drive as well as on J drive
--go to bed early :(