Location: St. Augustine, FL
About Me: A high school Biology teacher's coping with rosacea while living in the interesting and sometimes insane world of public education.
November 21, 2004
Road Trip !
It's been an eventful week. Wednesday I fired up the computer and it promptly started loading tons of spyware onto the hard drive. I worked with it all day but even the spyware program I had from home could not rid my computer of all the garbage. I discovered that a backdoor Trojan virus had apparently snuck in through our server. I couldn't understand how this could happen since I had a virus program installed and supposedly running. When I checked, I found out that the computer tech had upgraded the system to Windows 2000 over the summer but had forgotten to upgrade the virus program. The current program would not work with Windows 2000. I took the computer to the tech and explained what was happening. It's now his mess to clear up since it was his fault that the computer was vulnerable in the first place. Of course it will probably be weeks before I see the computer again since the administration has been pulling him from his regular duties to sub for classes when they run short of substitutes! Unbelievable. We have one computer tech to take care of over 150 computers as well as teach a couple of computer classes and now he has to substitute as well. Lord help us all.
On a more positive note, our principal seems to be making an effort to get out more and talk with the students and teachers. He even smiled and said hello to me when we passed in the hallway.
Friday most of the 9th grade class went to Busch Gardens for the day. My wife Karen chaperoned on the bus with me. The kids were great and we all had a good time. It was sunny, but the temperature was moderate. I stayed in the shade as much as possible and drank lots of water. I also used a sun block moisturizer. As a result, the flushing did not get out of control. Saturday there was a little flushing and irritation, but it's better Sunday. I always worry about the heat since that is one of my main flushing triggers. The sun by itself doesn't seem to affect the rosacea symptoms as it does with some people. We are all different as to triggers. The one thing that almost always will trigger a flare in rosacea is alcohol. It's one thing I have to avoid or I pay the price every time.
Posted by Ken Albin on November 21, 2004 08:06 AM