janmagic's Birthday Party

My dear friend janmagic invited me to her birthday party on Friday.  And what she wanted to do for her birthday party was to lead a group of friends on a trip to the Museum of Science and Industry, to see the Body Worlds exhibit, take in the Omnimax movie about the human body, and see a tiny bit of the rest of the museum in the remaining time.

( That was the plan. To learn how it actually worked out, look here. )

Virus help?

I think I may have picked up a weird computer virus.

See, everything seems to be working normally on my machine, except that everything I do is too slow.

But it's not the computer that's running slow.  I'm running slow.  I got home a bit past 8:30, read my email (skipping a good number of the GT list messages that I wasn't interested in), skimmed my friends page, and wrote the previous two entries.  This could have taken an hour, maybe an hour and a half tops, but it's almost 1 now.  Something's wrong here.

Suggestions or advice welcomed.