I’m on holiday from work for the next two week. As you can guess I’m planning to do some work on my next story which I have been lazily ignoring over the past few weeks to play The Witcher 2 game. I finished it last weekend but started a new game as I know that there are lots still undiscovered in the game as well as there being other paths that you can take in game. I don’t know if it will lead to a different ending or just another path to the same outcome. I’ll find out though in due course but first I need to start writing again.
Someone phoned my house today saying they were from Microsoft and that my computer had a virus. If you haven’t heard of this before it’s a scam. What they want is for you to go to a website and download a programme that gives them control of your machine. If you do you’ll soon find yourself part of a botnet and your system will have every kind of nasty you could imagine. Of course I challenged the woman on the phone at which point she became a little abusive. After a few moments of this she tried another tact of saying she knew me and how handsome I was. Though flattered I had to laugh at this. She even gave me an old address where she believed I still lived as proof of her statement, adding to the hilarity of it all. I shouldn’t laugh really as this is the sort of scam that can so easily catch out the less wary, so be warned.
I’ve been picking more gooseberries this week and almost have enough to make some wine with them. After the phone call Magz and I headed downtown so I could get wine yeast plus other things to be ready for when I have enough. That will be in the next few days as I’m only short by eight oz short, not much really. Magz has also been enjoying my strawberries that have ripened over the past week. I didn’t get loads though but the ones I have had so far have been large and very juicy, just the way Magz likes them. I also got some peas today, just three pods which my daughter ate half of them while I got the rest. Nothing like peas straight from the pod on a warm day such as today is there? That is another thing for this holiday, the garden. There’s a lot to do in the form of weeding and some work in front of my hut as in laying some slabs. It’s one of those jobs that I have been meaning to do since last year. I did get it started but never finished it so I’ll do a bit more and maybe it will get completed in a time for next century, hehehe.