Pins and Needles

My computer - already sputtering along due to a past malware incursion - is now in critical condition. I took it in to try and recover my personal files, which have not been backed up for ages and ages. If that fails ... most of my stories are dead. I have some "in the cloud" (Lord how I hate that term) on Google Docs, but the majority of my partial works are on that hard drive.

I'm praying for a positive outcome.

Dumb Move

Little background history on me: I was once fired from an IBM for "downloading pornography." What I was actually doing was using the internet to find images for people's wallpaper on their computer desktop. Apparently cute pictures of kittens, celebrities of both sexes and yes, a few women in bikinis (**gasp**) count as pornography at IBM.

Of course, the guy that actually did download pornography wasn't me. The same manager that fired me had previously asked me to discretely delete all the porn from the other guy's computer after he quit. Yes, he quit, and that wasn't his spin. They knew he downloaded porn, but didn't fire him for it. He quit to move to a better job.

So what have I been doing at my new job lately? I can't tell you, because I don't want there to be a public record of it, but let's just say that Google documents are far too easy to access from anywhere to not use.