Em made us both breakfast - bacon and eggs... mmm mmm so very tasty :D

Her aunt Karen was coming over today, to take us both to Smiths Falls, where Em would be having an interview at Shorewood Packaging (where Karen works) for a job there. It wasn't long before Karen arrived at Em's house, and she brought Caden with her. On the drive to Smiths Falls, Caden was being very noisy... he's only 3, so it's to be expected!

Karen asked me if I could help her fix her computer as she was having some trouble with it, so I sat down at the keyboard and started to check out what the problems were, and she took Em down to the factory for her interview.

She asked Caden if he wanted to come with her and Em, but he said "No, I want to stay with Alex". Awwww! Karen asked if that was OK with me, and it was, so she left.

Looking at her computer, she said that it wouldn't defrag or scandisk properly. Well I couldn't see the program that was causing the problem, but using 'msconfig' and disabling all startup items, rebooting then running scandisk and defrag solved that temporarily. I left the computer to run through both of those which would take at least an hour to complete.

Karen came back after dropping off Em, and I told her what I had done to get scandisk and defrag running, and she asked me to fix a couple other things. She had an error coming up when she opens Wordperfect, something about Phillips Freespeech. I tried to uninstall it, no joy. So I reinstalled it, and uninstalled it... still no joy. So I just reinstalled it and left it there. Obviously the uninstall routine needed some work as it wasn't removing a component from Wordperfect properly, and just leaving it installed was the easiest solution. She also said there was a problem with their webcam but when I looked at it, it seemed to work ok. Maybe it was just my magic touch? ;)

Karen's daughter, Teneisha got pissed off that she wasn't allowed to come with Em and I back to Eva's, so she threw a temper tantrum. Stomping around, banging on the floor as hard as she could, screaming, calling her mum names and throwing stuff. She threw a couple shoes into the kitchen, then a skipping rope which hit me in the back. That stung a little! Karen made her apologise for that. She finally calmed down, and sat down at the dinner table with a puzzle book and asked me for some help. She even moved to my side of the table so we could work on it together. She is quite a nice kid, when she isn't in a bad mood :P

Karen cooked us all dinner (Em and I, her husband, herself and their 3 kids). We had BBQed pork chops, carrots and baked potatoes with sour cream. Very tasty. Just as we were sitting down to dinner, someone noticed a drip coming from the ceiling... the shower was leaking above! Karen got on a chair and poked at the suspended ceiling and warned me to move... I did, slowly... and got a bit wet as all the water on the panel fell right where I had just been sitting!

On the way home, Karen took us to McDonalds to get milkshakes, as a thank you for fixing her PC. Of course I had a vanilla one... they are fantastic in Canada. Actually made with loads of REAL vanilla, not the crappy fake stuff they use over here and in the States. I love them so much!! Kept me quiet for a while I can tell you, hehe.