Been there. The word is surreal.

I almost stopped here because you can't beat "synergy" for the worst. But I got plenty of laughs from the rest of the comments. Thx.

Yes, Leverage as a verb.

There must be a Starbucks nearby. They're everywhere.

I've used RegDefense by Xionix with success for years. I don't have it scheduled - I run it when the machine seems to be responding slower than usual. After it runs, there is a noticable difference in response time.

Yes, I still write .bat files. Old fogie, perhaps, but whatever gets the job done, I say. BTW, someone mentioned PowerShell. Is it worth learning? I wrote lots of shell scripts when I worked on Unix systems and it would be nice to have a Windows equivalent.

My reaction was (and still is) "I can't believe they pay me so much money for doing something that's so much fun".