We left Arlington at 1:30 p.m. Friday, headed to Floyd. Stopped in Manassas for gas ($1.95 a gallon for 87 octane) and headed back west on I-66 at 2:15.

This would be tight. The reception for the Floyd County High School alumni show at the Jacksonville Center started at 7 and traffic is always heavy on I-81 on Friday afternoons.

Colleen had the deepest green eyes of anyone I?ve ever known ? the kind of deep, emerald green that comes from an Irish heritage.

?So pleased to know you,? she said when we first met. ?My name?s Colleen.? The name floated off her tongue in a pure Irish brogue.

Although we saw each other almost weekly, it would be more than a year before I learned her last name. First names only at meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous.

She finally revealed it at a coffee shop after one of our meetings. It was very Irish last name.

Tourista season is upon us. Mabry Mill (above) is open, the weather is warm enough for musicians to play outside at the Jamboree on Friday nights and traffic is increasing at our studio in The Jacksonville Center. Speaking of the Jamboree, you can listen to National Public Radio’s report on their web page.

After many attempts to isolate and rid a development web server of a pesky Trojan file that disabled some function and hid files from both view and use, we threw in the towel and set up a new server, transferring the development web site to it.

I’m cleaning my Glock and looking for some hacker with too much time on his hands.

Looks like it’s gonna be one of those weeks. One of our web servers started flaking this morning, refusing to allow users to sign on.

At first we thought it was a virus or Trojan horse but both the anti-virus and anti-Trojan scanners reported no problems. Yet certain files that should have been on the server were missing and when we tried to restore them, the system said they were already there.