An update

Oh dear interpeeps...I do not even know where to begin. I have not fallen off the face of the earth. It has been almost a month since I blogged. So much has been going on, I do not even know how to start. I don't know if any of you have noticed, but I haven't been commenting on any blogs at all. Maybe you didn't miss my "words of wisdom" (insert sarcasm). I will try and be okay with that. This is going to be long, but bear with me, I haven't talked to you all in a while.

Three Fridays ago I was working from home and by 4 pm, I was done with my work. No commute, better efficiency, earlier work getting done. Anyway, it was one of the most complex calculation and analysis I had done in my three year engineering career and I breathed a sigh of relief after sending it for editing. I figured I should celebrate by cooking something special. Not that the cooking was a celebration, but the eating is and I don't get to eat special stuff unless I cook it. I am not a huge fan of eating out and the things I want, you get in no restaurant in America. So I set out to make something called puttu and kadala. I have no translation for puttu, but kadala is chick peas curry. I wanted to do a quick check as to how to make the curry and I navigated to a website that I usually go to to get recipes for my cooking. It went to the website and then my laptop hung. My computer got infected. If you weren't paying attention, it was my WORK LAPTOP.

With all the complex analysis on a CONFIDENTIAL project I was working on.

The name of the virus was infostealer.

I completely and totally freaked out.

To cut a long story and the tears and anxiety short, I called corporate, they started working on it, and now we seemed to have killed it. But I made a decision. I will only go to one non-work related website at work. And that is gmail. And I have been doing that since. So, while I am reading all your blogs (or the ones I get the entire post in reader), I do not click on over to your site to comment. Not because I think your site is bad. But a lot of you have a bunch of third party functionality enabled in your blogs and you could just be the innocent victim. Maybe it is all fine and I am overreacting. But I am erring on the side of caution here.

And now I find it difficult to write this paragraph. I am not intentionally targeting anyone, but I just wanted to share what my virus checker found. It found that the site Biblical womanhood had installed an adware on my laptop. It is not a site I read regularly. I must have gone there a while back. It just sucks that innocent people are the victims of this kind of malicious stuff. The adware must have come from some harmless thing she has running on the site. I just mentioned that so that people are aware.

This post has gone on long enough, maybe I will write some more soon in another post.

Till then, y'all be safe.

Quick Question

I haven't been here forever, but I wanted to pop in really quick to get an opinion from you all. I have a million things to share, but for now, here is my quick question.

Below is a picture of our Master bathroom. We have a mirror which runs the entire length of the counter top. It is one of the beveled edge mirrors.




Hopefully, the picture is clear. I want something like this I saw something slightly different at the store, but this is the closest I could see online.

What do you say?

Should I change or leave well enough alone?