Oddly Enough

Subtle:
Has anyone else noticed that the people in the background of the ad for that PMS-symptom easing birth control pill Yaz are singing "We're not gonna take it!"?
Not-so-Subtle:
I haven't been on for a few days. And to be quite honest, there's a couple good reasons. Mostly that I haven't been keeping track of what I have been eating. Ever since last Sunday, I've just been gnoshing more and more. I know, I know. Back on track, though. Since I got up, I've only had a ham sandwich, a small handful (~1 serving) of Harvest Cheddar Sunchips, and a Green Giant vegetable blend package. Around 3-4, I'll have a lean cuisine steamer bowl (whiskey steak, IIRC).
The other reason is that I did something incredibly stupid and messed up my computer.

Best of intentions, right? Aubrey uses my computer, too - complete with her own username and password. So, anything she does is her business, and not mine. I trust her to make good decisions about things.
Then again, I'm not completely stupid. Because even though she's only supposed to get on when mom or I are around, she conveniently forgets early on Saturday and Sunday mornings. So I installed parental controls, IP logging, that sort of thing. I also made sure that she has a limited user account, without sudo access. Which means that she can't install or uninstall programs, turn off my logging daemons or really hide anything. And every once in a while -- after she goes to bed -- I read the logs. It's intrusive, it's sneaky, and it shows an appalling lack of trust in my only daughter. It's also good parenting. I check up on her. I've told her what kind of people get online, that not everybody is looking out for her. I don't want to scare her, I just want her to be aware of it. And she knows that there are some sites that we don't care if she looks at, some sites we'd rather her not look at that we aren't going to get upset about, and that there are a whole lot of sites that we really don't want her to look at until she lives another 8-10 years. And she knows that I'm going to be checking on her at times.

But, while she was going to the sites we approve of, her browser (Firefox) would crash. A combination of too many flash ads and just plain bad coding, really. So I had her back things up, saved my stuff, and tried to fix things. And I finally said, "you know what, screw it;" and went to reinstall. Which was all fine and dandy, until I realized that all my install disks are scratched. In a spot that doesn't come into play until after the disk is formatted (bye-bye data) and everything else is installed. I don't know how all of my disks lost the same program (the program that controlls the installation stuff), but it's made it hell trying to get it back up and running. So I'm sitting up here at work, trying to ride a torrent for a new disk, and it's a bit slow going. I'm down to about an hour left. Hopefully, this one will work.