My First Trip: Day Eighteen

Disclaimer: This is an edited version of my diary from December 2000. Some information contained may be incorrect, and opinions I expressed then are not the opinions of Aaron Rowe in 2006. I have posted it purely for the Novelty value.

Thursday 8th December 2000

Morning M3...

M3...'s first breakfast was good. Instead of V...'s separate grapefruit and fruit salad dishes the two were mixed together. It was really tasty. E... was impressed because he didn't have to sugar his grapefruit.

There wasn't much to do today. I was waiting for D... to sort out the LPO so that I could take it to Cosmas, and that was it. So I twiddled my thumbs for a bit, and then went to the house for lunch. We had corned beef in the sandwiches today, and that was really good.

Worms

In the afternoon D... had an email from K3... to say that every email D... had sent to him today gave an error message that an unsafe ActiveX object was embedded in it that it would not use, and that it might not display properly. Sounds strange I thought.

So I investigated to try and find out what was happening and I discovered that every email D... had sent in the last couple of days had an attachment embedded inside that made all sorts of changes to your system. Realising that this was an email worm, I sent a few Details to P... So he could get from the internet the details I needed to clear it out manually and send them to me.

D... sent an email to everybody he'd written to over the last few days to warn them, and also making sure that if they hadn't got infected the first time they would now.

At 6 we hadn't left the office yet and the guy who's getting us our new office furniture brought round a chair to show us. It wasn't exactly what D... had asked for but it was very good quality. D... told him to bring around some tomorrow with higher backs.

Hot Hot Hot Soup

Dinner tonight was brilliant. It started with a spicy vegetable soup It tasted like he'd put half a bottle of Tabasco in it. I think it was a bit too hot for D... but I loved it. Following the soup was peppered steak and chips. Fantastic.

There weren't any good films on tonight so everybody went to bed. I was the last up at 10:30 and just as I was brushing my teeth the phone started ringing. I really couldn't be bothered to walk all the way to the phone and I figured it wouldn't be for me anyway and that whoever it was would figure out we've gone to bed with out me having to tell them.