Ebaying baby toys

I just put a load more toys that the kids have outgrown up on Ebay.

Baby puzzles and toddler electronic toys that a 6 year old and her 4 year old sister don’t play with anymore.

I feel sad. I always laughed at people who said that the time goes too quick and to enjoy it – but they knew what they were talking about.

Oh, and Chloe proclaimed yesterday, completely out of the blue, that she “wants to go and see Buzz”. So if an enterprising 6 year old turns up in Atlanta, give me a call yeah? You made such an impression on her Buzz!

BellSouth punishes the NOPD for New Orleans’ free wireless

Angry BellSouth Withdrew Donation, New Orleans Says
Hours after New Orleans officials announced Tuesday that they would deploy a city-owned, wireless Internet network in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, regional phone giant BellSouth Corp. withdrew an offer to donate one of its damaged buildings that would have housed new police headquarters, city officials said yesterday.

Way to go BellSouth. While I’m not sold on the idea that free wireless internet in the CBD and French Quarter is going to immediately boost the economy of New Orleans, I do think it’s a good idea, and it will help in a year or two, as more basic services become more reliable. Now if NOLA extended it across the entire city, as well as Jefferson Parish, that would be something.

BellSouth can go sit with Tom Benson and the city of San Antonio and the rest of them ready to take advantage of the Gulf Coast’s misfortune for their own personal gain.

Phishing emails

I don’t know about you, but I have been getting alot of phishing emails. Phishing is the goofy name for a spam email that attempts to collect personal information about you by using a legitimate-looking email. It’s a little more sophisticated than the “Hi I am Mr. Rochard Mbotatu and I am needing your help to recover my 10 million dollars bank account stolen from my mother who was Princess of Zaire when our government was overthrown” emails that everyone’s heard of by now.

The emails I was getting awhile back are a phish scam. Recently, I’ve been getting them from folks claiming to be eBay, the IRS, and my favorite, the CIA. The CIA one was cute. It said that my IP address was logged viewing 20 illegal websites in the past month and that I should open up the zip file attached to the email to reveiw their logs. I’m not exactly sure what an illegal website is, but I’m sure if the CIA has a definition for an illegal website, that I’ve looked at a lot more than 20 in the past month….

Here’s a link I saw today about how to stop phish emails, and a little quiz to test your ability to spot them.

Link: http://survey.mailfrontier.com/survey/quiztest.html via Lifehacker

The Top Ten Good Things About Christmas

1. An entire week off.
2. Christmas dinner, Christmas cookies, Christmas candies, Christmas alcoholic beverages.
4. Decorating the house with lights. If they’re up any other time of year, you just look lazy.
5. Being with the family and then going out Christmas night with your friends.
6. Trying to put little fake reindeer ears on pets.
7. Christmas Eve, when there’s nothing left to do but look at the lit and decorated tree.
8. Christmas morning with coffee and presents.
9. Still getting toys even though you’re 27 years old.
10. Watching TNT’s 24-hour marathon of A Christmas Story.

Snow-maha

Today my brother and I were standing on the back porch of our house. There was a bunch of snow on the detached garage’s roof. We both took turns knocking the snow off by throwing old metal folding chairs at the roof. It didn’t work. Then Chuck had to climb onto the snowy roof, and retrieve one of the folded folding chairs that got stuck up there. (We threw them folded and unfolded to cover all our bases). Chuck almost fell off the roof many times, but he took my advice (“Stay low”) and made it back to the porch safely. I was so scared for him. So scared.

Also, before the chair incident we went under a big tree in the back with the intentions of shaking it, and making all the snow come down. This did not work because the tree was too big to shake. But Chuck did try to “buck” it like a bull. Chuck is so brave.

Now That I Have a Flask…

A collection of activities I can now drink at thanks to the birthday flask Dave gave me:

1) Sporting Events
2) Sledding
3) Sking
4) Snowball Fights
5) Shoveling
6) Drinking
7) Playing Cards
8) Riding Horses
9) Camping
10)Typing
11) Working
12) Mowing
13) Axing
14) Sleeping
15) State Fairs
16) Skating
17) Snowshoing
18) Shopping
19) Kite-flying
20) Cursing
21) Candle Making
22) Boating
23) Whoring
24) Fighting
25) Proposing

Thanks again Dave!