Melodramatic Fool

At least got the shoveling done (not that there's much snow), and what presents I do have wrapped. Ordered almost all the rest that I need. Just need a few more stores Fri/Sat to be done-done. And the stuff that has to be mailed is ready to go, so that can be done Tues. That's progress at least.

Car went in to have the accident damage repaired yesterday, found out today that...yeah, Saturn parts are hard to find now, so they won't have it done until Tuesday or Wednesday earliest. We're a one-car family. Yeah. So now I've got to rent a car. At least Dad can help the husband get to work tomorrow, and get me over to Enterprise. The other person's insurance is...just not talking to USAA. Though USAA says that they will handle it if this continues (has been a month) and will go to arbitration if need be. Such stupid hassle for what was a minor fender bender.

I fail so hard at WoW. I suck at the new heroics, like seriously suck. And I'm pretty sure most of my guildmates like the husband well more than they like me right now. Really starting to feel like I don't fit in anymore, and starting to think I'm just not good enough for what the game is right now.

I guess I should be happy that I've got heat and the internet http://www.johnnywander.com/comics/232 so at least I'm warm and able to make bitchy, whining posts, yeah? :/

Diane's super special, non-spoilery, one-word review of Iron Man 2? WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! \o/

After, friend Don treated us to late dinner at IHOP as a belated anniversary sort of thing. And after after, I made an absolute fool of myself. We were walking out of the restaurant, talking about who knows what (the conversation had covered various comic universes and meandered through Star Trek recent vs. original, Babylon 5, and Aqua Teen Hunger Force), and I managed to trip over the seam between two sidewalk squares.

Thanks to having been starting to step off the curb, trip led to swearing multi-stumble led to full 100% wipeout. I am awesome. Only reason I didn't end up shredding my hands and knees was I think I twisted left overcompensating to keep from falling off the curb and landed side first before front. Now to see if all the padding stops bruises or no. :p Various bits are freaking complainy, though (hello, wrists). As is my pride, considering that was all right along restaurant windows, as well as in front of the husband and the guys we were with. Haven't tripped so stupidly since my early high school days when I was still the sort of person to go on a youth group retreat, and did a full somersault tripping over air molecules while running through a motel parking lot with other kids.

Did I ever mention how I don't have depth perception/stereoscopic vision, technically? Yeah. (And someday I'll have to tell about what a great idea it was to sign up for softball when I was 11, from my best friend smacking me right between the eyes with a softball while we were playing catch, to the coach having yelling fits because I tended to swing while the ball was still a good five feet in front of the plate. Or not, that's probably all good enough story right there. :| )

Spaced off the gas utility bill, just realized as I was doing financial stuff a bit ago. It's due tomorrow, and of course when I went to put the mail out to send it, the mail person had already been by here. See, if I got up at a normal time instead of sleeping in too late (again), and if I would have gotten ready and done bills right away instead of messing around on the computer first, I would have had it out to be picked up in time. This is how not to be an adult.

Also, I'm an irritable bitch to people in my WoW guild, and am awesome at screwing up on the Sindragosa fight, more than anyone else. Yay.

Stupid 3-ibuprofen headache. Stupid, stupid hormone/PMS depressive mood crash. Stupid feeling like fail because of a game. Stupid house feeling cold even though our highs this week are above freezing and we're actually getting thawing. Stupid me being useless-worthless and getting nothing done today, much less still not managing any writing at all (two months and counting...). Hell with ibuprofen. I'ma gonna go find a brick.

Least I'm managing to sleep by 2am lately. And the tree pruning to deal with the damage from the recent storms will just be a few hundred, not as bad as I'd anticipated. So.

Today (yesterday?) I got to be like everybody else--my WoW account was hacked into. Got called about 3:15am by Aaron, to say Akseru was online and not responding to anyone talking to him (time and that being how they knew it wasn't me). Then they hit two alts, as well as an unguilded bank alt the Nightmare Walking people couldn't see. I was able to use James' laptop and pc to get my password rechanged and log in to boot the hacker offline. Contacted ingame support, and they started the process to hopefully restore what was taken/sold (including quite a lot of game gold, materials, consumables : / ), and have been running scans on my computer since--Macscan, then Avast.

I know of good scanner programs for finding viruses/malware/spyware/trojans/keyloggers, but all the ones I know of are PC only, so been having to do some websearching, using stuff that James, Aaron, and I have come up with. So far Macscan found nothing but 97 'tracker cookies', but Avast is showing 5 viruses. Don't look like keylogger sorts, but it's not done yet. Then I'll see what I can find at another site I was recommended. Hoping some Mac users in my guild and James' (couple in each) might have some advice.

Several dumb things about it, from the I Am So Stupid files: I've known that someone's been trying to compromise my account. I've been getting the auto emails from Blizzard saying that password retrieval has been requested. It means someone's been *trying*. Add to this that yesterday am I logged in to check my bank toon okay, but a couple hours later my password wouldn't work. At all. How I handled this was *extremely* stupid--I rechanged my password...on my own computer. Meaning that if it is a keylogger, they had the new one just as easily as the old. Then after, I didn't start scouring for malware or anything WHY NOT OMG. I don't know. What was I thinking? So naturally it happened again.

I should have had a scanning regimen all along. The "I have a Mac" defense really doesn't fly anymore--especially when hackers focused on WoW know it's both Mac and PC. I should have changed the pw on James' computer if I thought mine was compromised. The moment I suspected something I should have started scanning and whatnot then. I should have changed my pw, which I'd been using forever, long before this. I should have bought the special authenticator gadget they've been offering since hax have started becoming so frequent.

I'm just lucky Aaron and other guild people were online, and that he had my phone number. I'm lucky that he and another guild buddy just dropped *everything* that they were doing in game to find my toon and keep sending the person invites and trade requests (which cause ingame pop up windows) to harass them and slow them down. Lot of hacking cases end with people logging in to totally empty banks and naked toons. I've got my gear, and should be able to have things restored or rolled back to before-hack. And I'm lucky there're multiple computers in the house so I could try to fix things quick from an uncompromised one.

The weird bit though, that concerns us since even clearing out malware and keyloggers won't help--I'd received alerts that someone was trying to access my password recently. When *I* changed my password both times, I got email saying that the password had been changed. The two times the hacker somehow changed my password...no email either time. No alert. They changed it, my email address never was altered, but I didn't get any notification. But I did when *I* then rechanged it. What the hell. I've made sure that was part of my report to Blizz, but still, what the hell.

Anyway, long story short: FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF. And that's at myself just as much as at the hacker.