What's For Dinner?

Chicken tenders fried in chocolate sauce.

Someone grabbed the wrong bottle.

Tastes weird.

Spam I Get

I got an email today. It was VERY scary, especially as I am reading a thriller in which the FBI plays a big part.

---

Re: You Have Only 48hours...F.B.I Alert.

FROM: FBI Washington, D.C.

TO: Redacted
DATE: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 4:07 PM

You need to do everything possible within today and tomorrow. Read attached for full detail.

Attachments
Download All
2011-Alert.html

---

Oh, no, I don't think I'm going to download that.

Glasses

Went to the eye doctor the other day. Good news: no new problems.  Bad news: Two-year restriction on new frames isn't up until August 1st, two weeks from then. Insurance co. (VSP) won't approve an exception, even though I've saved them several hundred dollars, I'm sure, by not going to the eye doctor last year. Thank you so much, VSP!

Rotten Patrons

I guess some people think that candy bars are recyclable.



Then there are those miscreants that just leave their garbage on the shelves.  I found three of these stuffed behind or between the books the other week, but this one appeared today after a massive number of patrons stormed the shelves to check out books.  And by massive, I mean ninety books checked out! Yea for that, anyway!



I love the Made/Ready/Discard date/times, it makes it easy to tell how long it has been sitting on the shelf!

Uhhh, I guess the pictures are too wide, I guess you will have to scroll to see the rest of  the images. Sorry about that!

Yet Another Scam

Got a CASHIER'S CHECK for $1,271.02 (TWO CENTS!) in the mail today from STAR Marketing in Los Alamitos. A legitimate company, according to the web site I Googled. I had to Google it because there was no URL on the letter.

It says I've been selected as a NEW CANDIDATE to be a Mystery Shopper! Uh huh.

It says (I have to call them for details, of course. It's a 760 area code in SoCal.) I get to evaluate Western Union by sending $945.00 to someone. I get to keep $200.00! Wow! All that money for so little work! What a deal!

I Googled the phone number (with the word 'scam') and I find the SAME phone number used for a scam in Poway (California) with a DIFFERENT company. Interesting.

Oh, and the letter has a Canadian stamp on it.

So many clues that it is a TOTAL SCAM, as if anyone had a doubt!

I hope STAR Marketing put a disclaimer on their website that they have nothing to do with this scam. It can not be good for their business to be linked to dishonesty by these scammers.

They (the scammers) sure did a good job on the letter and check, though.

A New Scam

Yay, I won the Department Of State Immigration Lottery. Yes, there IS a lottery, for visas, but I don't think they pay your airplane ticket nor give you a hundred-thousand dollars.

Plus, I'm already here!

U.S. Department of State

From:
immigrations

To:
Public Communication Division, PA/PL
U.S. Department of State
Washington, D.C. 20520
www.dvlottery.state.gov

Congratulations!!!

You are among those randomly selected and registered for further consideration in the (DV) DIVERSITY IMMIGRANT PROGRAM for the fiscal Year 2010. This official U.S. government program aims to diversify the United States population by creating an immigration opportunity for under-represented groups. Properly completed entries are entered into a computer-generated lottery and winners are randomly selected.Winners and their family members are able to live, work, and study in the United States!

Your visa winning/case numbers identity is 2010AF00J051PXXX and the serial net visa passport attached to your case number is SNVPh700IU. Your visa type permits you to travel with your family and Your visa duration is 10 years multiple entry to the United States. It is renewable upon expiration and it permits you to work, study and own properties in the United States.

Your selection as a winner entitles you to $100,000 (One Hundred Thousand Dollars) which will be made available to you upon your arrival in the United States. The visa gives you an opportunity to apply for and acquire a United States of America citizenship green card while residing in the United States of America.

Thanks
Mahabir Estrella Fernandez

PLEASE CONTACT CONSULAR Jeffrey Kellerman WITH YOUR WINNING CASE NUMBERS AND YOUR VISA PASSPORT SERIAL NUMBERS. HE WILL HANDLE YOUR VISA DOCUMENTATIONS, ALSO GUIDE AND PUT YOU THROUGH YOUR VISA AND FLIGHT TICKET DOCUMENTS PROCESSING. HIS CONTACT DETAILS ARE LISTED BELOW.

Name: Jeffrey Kellerman
Email: us_consular@mail2usa.com
Office Phone: +447035986005
Alternate: +447011130080


DISCLAIMER :

This e-mail is for the intended recipient only If you have received it by mistake please let us know by reply and then delete it from your system,access, disclosure, copying, distribution or reliance on any of it by anyone else is prohibited.

If you as intended recipient have received this e-mail incorrectly, please notify the sender (via e-mail) Immediately.

So Much For That

After finishing So Much For That, by Lionel Shriver, a most excellent book, I have quite decided I will never have chemotherapy, and maybe not even surgery, if I have a re-occurrence of something awful. (Don't click that second link, do do the first, I am just being silly there.)