New Couch Time

The couch in our living room is falling apart. The seams have split near the back where you sit. This is not unexpected. We had this thing when we moved into the house. It is time for a new one.

We almost bought a new one last year. But the sales clerk at the store that I liked try to pull a fast one and charge me more at checkout. She would not change the price to the amount we had agreed upon, so I would not buy that couch.

Today I went to another one of the company stores I like. There was a guy there from another state. He had a lot of trouble taking my order. He kept calling his boss on this cell phone. After he entered my order, I reviewed it on the computer screen and found a lot of problems.

Hopefully in one week, we will have 2 new black leather couches delivered. They have good support for sitting. They also are very puffy and comfy. We are getting two because the love seat costs the same as a couch. Might as well get a longer piece of furniture for the same price.

In Search of Cherry

Last weekend we had the anime convention. Then we worked on building a storage unit for firewood outside. I was very tired on Sunday. So Little Kat and I skipped our usual shopping.

This was too bad because coca cola products were on sale at our store. Today I decided to force myself to go pick up some cokes. I was disturbed to find that they did not have any cherry coke. Momoko like that the best.

All the had in cherry was cherry cola zero. Yuck. Instead I picked up an extra Barqs root beer. Everybody here likes Barqs. I also loaded up on regular coke.

Getting the Apps

I essentially play one game on my laptop these days. It is Angband. It is the most primitive dungeons and dragons application you ever saw. Everything is a bunch of alphabet characters on the screen. It looks like a broke down MS-DOS game. However I have been playing a variation of this game ever since the college days.

The rest of the family plays iPhone apps. A family favorite seems to be this zombie farm thing. Momoko is pretty much hooked, working on it all hours of the day and night. Little Kat is fighting back to stay in the lead by purchasing some help with real cash. Doh!

I finally broke down and did a search for some of the more popular iPhone apps. Got about 20 free games downloaded to my PC. Just today I synced my iPhone to the PC and downloaded the games. Too bad I need to study my programming. Otherwise I would be playing those games right now. One app I did not download is zombie farm. It looks just too addictive. And now, back to my programming.

Convention Day

Today was the day Momoko planned for us to go to the anime convention. Somehow I ended up driving us there. There was some sort of fire next to the Interstate that delayed us. There was also some confusion when we got to the place how to get to parking. I was tired before the whole thing started.

We wandered around this huge convention hall to find the place to check in. The line was massive. It felt like forever before we checked in. I kept asking Momoko whether she wanted to leave before we even checked in. But no, she was determined to go to this thing. The line snaked around back and forth like we were going to a baseball game. Little Kat and I were forced to spy on scantily clad girls dressed in what I assume were some anime character costumes. Little Kat also say his friend from school near the end of the line.

After checking in, I was reading to take a rest. Little Kat and I muscled into a place to sit, while Kit Kat and Momoko bought some sandwiches. Our first event was the voice actors panel. This featured the people who do the English version voices of the animations we watch. Guess what? There was a line to get into the room. Dang. However once we got in, I was pleasantly surprised that the voices from some of my favorite characters were sitting in front of us. They took questions from the crowd and shared a lot of funny stories with us. The biggest bonus was that I got to sit down in the audience for a whopping hour and a half.

Anime Convention

Tomorrow the whole family is going to an anime convention. We were going to rent a room in the hotel. However the thing is less than an hour away. So we are just going to drive there for the day.

The highlight of the convention seems to be the actors that do the voices for the characters we love. Previously I had a grand plan to dress up in an anime outfit. However the costume I want would probably need to be customer made. Since I am a busy guy, there never seemed any time take care of that.

Little Kat wants to attend the Pokemon session. He is also planning to meet up with his friend who goes to this convention every year. I am betting we can count on Kit Kat to wear her animal ears. Darn. I wish I had planned better and had a costume to wear.

Paper Plates and Cups

Last week I was about to go to bed one night when Kit Kat called for help. The dishwasher door would not close. Thus she could not wash the dishes. Momoko took a look at it. Then I did too. The latch on the door would not hook.

Normally I would just buy a new dishwasher. But the floor underneath the dishwasher is not level. This caused a major pain when we bought our current dishwasher. So I want to avoid that nightmare again.

Kit Kat washed the dishes by hand. We decided to use paper plates, plastic cups, and plastic utensils until the problem is fixed. I called up manufacturer. They referred me to a local repair company. Let's hope we can get this thing fixed soon.

Kit Kat Hacked

Kit Kat came downstairs and told Momoko her PC got infected. Something was telling her she needed to pay up to get the license to fix the problem. It sounded like a scam to me. Kit Kat said she had to pay $70 to buy the program to fix the problem. That's when I knew this was a scam.

Me and Kit Kat found the program that was causing all the ruckus. It was called avg. This was not the real AVG Antivirus. It was a bad program pretending to be AVG. I killed the program and deleted it.

The problem was not fully fixed. The virus left some trails behind to make Kit Kat's life difficult. None of her web browsers would work. It kept saying that Windows could not find the program. It took a while to find and delete the registry keys making this happen.

When all was said and done, I told Kit Kat we should download a real antivirus program to clean everything up. We tried Spyware Doctor. After installing, running it, finding a lot of bugs, it asked us to buy the darn thing. Nooooooooo. Luckily Microsoft had Security Essentials already on Kit Kat's machine. It found and removed the bad virus for us. Whew.