A hobbling hobgoblin laptop.

Today I am writing from my laptop! This old cow has been out of commission due to a dehabilitating illness (read virus) that kept it from functioning. Now it works! Well, sort of works... When I start it up, it grinds and winds until entering the main windows desktop. Once I get into the desktop it asks me for my staff login. Not knowing what the staff login is, I put whatever seems fun. This then begins a short video of a man metamorphing into a butterfly where a massive window appears in his head and we are teleported through bad animated drawings to the tune of cheezy music. A giant WINDOWS 95 logo smashes into the screen and then a massive error message appears that says my graphics whatever FAILED in at least 30 point font and in vicious blood red. I don't get what the issue is, since for one thing I am running XP, and clearly the graphics are working well enough that I can work with photos and things. I found a work around though, if I slide the login off the screen it doesn't bug me about becoming a bug. You can't quit out and you can't even ctrl alt delete it. But the virus is gone, and windows is reinstalled. Tomorrow I leave for New York, lets hope this old boat can keep up.