Hospitals,hackers,schools and silver linings

It has been an interesting 3 or 4 weeks, I have bee away from WA for quite a while foe various reasons, all alluded to in my heading.

You will be,I hope, pleased to know I have not succumbed to my nemesis...captain cancer, and things are looking positive. Touch wood, he says as he pats his wife on the head. A double boo boo as touching the head in South East Asia is considered a bit rude, but ripping foreigners off is ok. Oo0hh, tetchy Stevoi.

Hospitals and Schools

When things are sent to try us, they usually come in a friggin bucket loads, and that is what has happened.

My mother in law (No MIL jokes please, she is a good man, lol) ended up in hospital for a week and has just got home. She is weak but still kicking (Me).

The hospital she has insurance with ( You buy insurance for the hospital you use in Vietnam) does not provide meals, so my wife had to get up early and cook breakfast etc.

Time consuming and it takes her away from our ESL schools here. My wife does most of the general Manager stuff for our schools. And during all this, read on, we opened another school. So more work, hahaha.

To make things easier , I have redesigned a lot of the back end stuff (tax, wages, students,classes etc.) and put it into a package that turns it from a manual system to automated. i will be releasing this as a package for small to medium ESL schools in Vietnam and Thailand.

Hackers

Also, I wanted more, during all this, I got hacked big time. 3 computer, my i-phone and the router. Still slowly working through it,

I first noticed it on my old computer and kicked him out that, but his ego didn't like that and he went full monty. ( I know its a he, as he couldn't help himself and left a small message on part of a screen keyboard "puzzle' to get get into my computer). And he is Vietnamese as I saw some of his nefarious workings.

To cut a long story short, I have everything back in working condition and slowly reopening accounts on social media and other business accounts to check everything out and take back control. I expect this will take another couple of weeks.

The only thing that made me happy, or flattered my ego hehe, was when I got my new laptop checked out at dell, they said this guy was very good. So at least I peed him off for a few days.

The Silver Lining

My knowledge of computers, routers and anti virus, malware, blah blah blah has skyrocketed. I spent a straight 24 hours with no sleep fighting this turd, and am using this knowledge to configure my own "network" with support from an amazing company which uses traditional and AI structures to prevent and hehe...more.

The other great thing, and probably even better, was with the downtime I have had time to think about my online businesses and will be refining and changing a lot of the ways I do business online.

The obvious one out of this is ....OK, let's turn it into a question. Tell me why you may not buy something online, even if you love it?

My personal silver lining is that not being in front of a screen everyday has given me time to be me.

Have a Great One

Stevoi