Grant Laird, Jr. Blog

After reading long article about Invasion of the Computer Snatchers from WashingtonPost.com — it’s amazing to see those people make living off on other people’s computer such as installing virus, spyware, adware, etc.

Bottom line, you really need to keep your computer up to date regularly. Make sure you have anti-virus and anti-spyware installed and running properly all the times.

You can download get free anti-virus version at Grisoft.com — it works very well for me for couple of years now. For anti-spyware, you should get free Microsoft Defenser — make sure you are running valid Windows XP. You can try another free anti-spyware version called Lavasoft Ad-Aware — I haven’t used it for while now but give it a try if you like.

Of course you should back up your data regularly — I don’t mean everyday (Maybe once every three months) unless you can afford 2nd hard drive as backup.  Back it up on your blank CD-R disc. It can hold a lot of stuff and it is cheap.

You can see list here — I did posted while ago and it has not changed at all.

Grant W Laird, Jr.
http://blog.grantlairdjr.com

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Grant W. Laird Jr.
http://blog.grantlairdjr.com

When you have your first child, you learn great deal. In my case, I had to learn very fast because I became a daddy when I was 18 years old. We went ahead and have 2nd child about two years later. We wanted to have children with closer age.

Anyway, it is rewarding when you went thru trial and errors with a lot of support from outside families. No questions about it.

This is my favorite story and I always telling to friends about it. It is about my older daughter who must have pacifier in her mouth everyday. She loves to wear pacifier — it wasn’t that big deal but once she was like two years or so, we knew it is time for her to quit using pacifier.

I used to take her to daycare every morning before go to work. I got sick of seeing her wear pacifier. What did I do about it? One time, I decide to hide her pacifier by putting it into my truck glove box before dropping her off at daycare. Of course, she didn’t notice it.

Unfortunately, she still have plenty pacifiers at home. I keep doing everyday by putting her pacifiers in glove box before she goes to daycare. About two weeks later, her grandmother noticed we are running out of pacifiers so she went and buy some more for her. 

My wife kept asking me what happened to all pacifiers and I lied to her saying I have no idea. Of course, I did continued take her pacifiers into my glove box again the following weeks.

Once we ran out of pacifiers again. I told my daughter we lost it all and she has to quit. She seems willing to quit using pacifiers next few days for first time. That’s how she quitted doing pacifiers. My wife and my grandmother in law never knew I was hiding all those pacifiers for while.

One day, my wife rode with me in my truck; she decided to look at glove box for no reason. She shocked to see so many pacifiers in it. It was like 20 of them! She was impressed that I did it all just for our daughter to quit pacifier for good.

It is a true story. Jessica will be 18 years old this year.

Grant W Laird Jr.
http://blog.grantlairdjr.com

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