Virus and Malware often are brought into company networks via the lowly USB drive.

It can be especially crippling if the company does not run internal anti-virus and only have security on their internet connection.

Also proprietary company information walks out the door the same way.

Yep. Several companies we have dealt with in the past required all media go to the IT department to be scanned, and uploaded to the corporate data server by the IT department. They completely block FTP. One client was so frustrated she took her personal laptop to the local McDonald's to download the files we had on the FTP site and then copy it to a company issued thumb drive.

I fully understand all that, it makes it a pain for the end user.

The funniest one was the big boss wanted the images we provided in a presentation he was to give that afternoon. The IT department was trying all the delay tactics to make themselves feel important. He said he looked face to face with the head of IT and told the IT guy if the file is not on his network in the next 15 minutes to go find another company to annoy. I sent him some of the Dilbert cartoons with Mordac the denier of information. He loved them.

morning all. We have had a set back with the wife. The drugs have killed off enough white blood cells that they are worried. She may have to do a course of ABX just to maintain and keep the nasty stuff away.

Sorry to hear that David. Sounds like the problems my niece's boy Gage is having. He looks like one of those people with Alopecia. He is in pain most of the time as well. Told my brother maybe Gage should try using pot. Brother looked at me like I was crazy and said NO. Have heard it helps manage the pain and also weight loss from stomach upset, but I am neither a doctor nor Have I stayed in a Holiday Inn Express.

The chemo is not got here like that yet but the whites are down so she has to be very careful. She goes back in Friday for another blood draw. Hoping to still make the parade this weekend.

My niece and her husband spent the first 3 months of his treatment in Houston while all that was going on. They didn't move the treatments local until it was stabilized, but still gets pretty sick.

He lost all his hair just before his HS graduation. His Dad is the school coach and gave a tear jerking commencement speech about coping with the situation.

that is a bummer. I hope he get better. So far I can not get the wife to stay home and away from anyone. The dog is sick and needs to go to the vet today at 4. She is insisting on taking her. I don't think she gets it that if she gets sick this just drags out longer.

It is tough to just shut down. Had to go thru that with my foot. Spent months that I had to sit or lay around with my foot above my heart. If it weren't for the drugs...

I still started getting around and doing things before I was supposed to. Ran errands around town in the Range Rover with my right foot up on the dash and operated the pedals left footed. The surgeon said the important thing was to keep my foot above my heart and not ever put any weight on it.

Sorry to her about your wife David, it simply sucks on all levels.

One of my acquaintance couples (don't know em well enough to say friends) went through a similar experience. She looked horrible at the peak of treatment. Somehow sh kept a positive mental attitude and was determined to see her daughter get married and her daughter was only 12. It was some mother daughter bond and she kept fighting. She made it through the treatment and is still waiting for her daughter to get married 10 years later.

On a totally different subject we have a road runner in the neighborhood. He is cool to watch. I saw him (or her I can't tell) one day with a lizard in its mouth. Several times with bugs it has captured and looking for more. I had no idea they could jump so high, and kinda fly. That sucker jumped to the top of the 8 foot stockade fence and then to the storage building in the yard behind ours. He hoped over to different fence and glided to the ground. He was after something this morning. He is pretty fast. Hopefully no coyotes will come looking for him. I will go after any yote I see with more than an Acme product.

Better make sure Wiley didn't buy it before you use it.....

Roadrunner
(Geococcyx californianus)

You have to use the species name in parenthesis, you just have to or it's just doesn't look right.

We had a Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) in our yard in CA. He was fun to watch. We also had burrowing owls. They were awesome. The were used to us being around but any stranger that walked down the driveway they ran off. Better than watch dogs!

they knew who the landlord was.

Ours must be a (Geococcyx Oklahomanus)!

or lost

Roadrunners have been around her a long time.

Greater Roadrunner - The Exterminator - Oklahoma Birds and Butterflies

From what this site is saying the one we have around here is a male Greater Roadrunner.

beep beep!

Yea, according to the web, a coyote can run 43 MPH. A Roadrunner only 17.

I am SHOCKED that all those great cartoons I watched are not an accurate depiction of reality. Next I am going to find out that walking off of a cliff one does not fall until you look down.

my childhood is ruined.

I am still a child so mine is not yet ruined.