I just received a virus-laden e-mail that was ostensibly from T.K. Ryan, creator of the very silly comic strip, Tumbleweeds. I say "ostensibly" because some viruses that come to you are not really from the person they say they're from. Some "spoof" the sender's name, and it may be that the person with the diseased computer was not Mr. Ryan but just someone who had both his e-mail address and mine in their address book. I've never met Tom Ryan, but I always enjoyed his strip. And the virus e-mail (which was caught by Norton Anti-Virus before it could infect my computer) did do some good.
It caused me to visit www.tumbleweeds.com, where I laughed out loud at several vintage episodes, and got the address to order an autographed copy of the latest collection. Which I'll do just as soon as I post this and figure out why the hell I'm up and reading old Tumbleweeds strips at 4:45 AM.