My First Trip: Day Nineteen

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.

Friday 8th December 2000

One Week To Go!

Friday at last. In one weeks time I'll be on my way home for Christmas. I was first down for breakfast again, another helping of fresh fruit. D... turned up at the same time as M1... and E... came down. I let D... and E... head off to the office while I waited to go with M1... who was on the phone to Calgary.

First thing I went with J4... to Hyperias office to set up an account for email access. it cost 20,000 Naira and we paid in 50s so it took a while to count. They set up the new account and said it would be active at midday. For an internet company they had very few computers in their offices.

Worms 2

D2... the company solicitor is getting the new email account for the laptop I'm fixing for him. P...'s virus removal instructions arrived this morning and I cleaned out the nasty bits from each of the computers. The worm found its way to D... from this old laptop that's being given to D2... While I was testing it earlier this week I sent an email using the account already installed on the machine to D..., so that we could verify I had set it up correctly. I had no idea at the time but I had infected him with the virus. It cleverly adds itself to your email signature and using outlook express it's completely invisible, you wouldn't know you had it until your computer suddenly shuts down when you open an email.

D2... was coming around to have a meeting with D... and E... and he wanted to pick the laptop up. He came with us to the house for lunch and M3... had been told to prepare an extra plate. What had been forgotten was that D2... is currently fasting for Ramadan. Oops. Still he's invited me & D... out to breakfast on Sunday morning for fixing his laptop, so I don't think he's sticking to it very hard. Unless he means breakfast at 5:30 or something.

Dinner tonight was spagbol. Mmmmm.

Happy Birthday Ranni

As it was Friday night it is standard procedure to go out somewhere for the evening. We'd had an invite to Ranni's Birthday Party at planet 44 so We showed up and invented only 2 drinks this time. The cake was interesting because it was made of ice-cream and meringue. Ranni was forty today. Today was also the 20th anniversary of John Lennon's Murder.