BigE's Photo Shoot

Somebody wanted to take a few pictures. It's an interesting sequence.

Here's the TV


Here's our Lunar Jim DVD starting up


Then came the picture of the fridge and Arnie's bum


Then came the calendar. This one I have no idea why



Busted! What are you doing?

Back for more fun

Sure enough, first words out of BigE's mouth today was "Can we go to N's house today?

This from the kid who's too tired to hold his head up.

A Day at N's

We were invited over to the house of a friend of BigE's from daycare. They'd just gotten their pool installed. So we dropped by to help break it in.

Of course we dragged along the evil water guns. They were a big hit.



By the time those were confiscated we moved onto to some swimming. BigE was having a blast in the water. After a bit of swimming he wanted to do some jumping.



See that great form. Great throw. Everything working great. Now when BigE went the other way he some how managed to either land on me or scoop a wall of water up into my face. Specifically my nose.



Nice farmer tan hunh?

Fun day all around. We hung around for a little take out. When we headed home BigE wasn't denying he was tired. He just went to bed. He didn't even notice Dada wasn't there. And that's unusual for him.

Who's Pamela Bussey

Oddest thing started happening a few months back. I started getting semi legit emails from US companies say I'd registered for online access, bill payment or whatever. Semi legit because they didn't ask me to login and do something via a bad link in the email.

I ignored a few. A couple that led back to a Gas company I replied to customer service to let them that whomever had this account had the wrong email address. Two days later there was another email simply saying the password had been changed. Oh well thank goodness they addressed the issue.

Just this week I was invited to attend the local Neighbourhood Watch. I'd like to help. Next time I'm in the southern US. But seriously I replied to the organizer and explained the situation. He was kind enough to take me off the emails but I'm not sure if he told the person who signed up with the wrong email.

That I believe is Pamela Bussey. Maybe Pam Bussey.

So now I know when she changes her password. I don't know her password. I just know who has her mortgage and who is her gas supplier. I get an email or two a month.

That's not so bad. It's the sudden up surge in SPAM that really bothers me.

It took me a couple of days to put it together. My primary email account is with a major web company. I'd had it over 12 years, as my primary email for over 10 years. And I've never seen anything like the last two weeks. Even before they rolled out the latest spam protection I don't think I got this much.

I kept thinking how the hell did this happen? Then after making a filter to drop anything not address to me, as much of this email wasn't, the next one still landed in my inbox. Addressed to Pamela Bussey at my email address.

So it wasn't me. But sadly where ever the address was being harvested from the person had accidentally put the wrong email address up. My address.

The moral of the story? Well Mr Peabody I'm not sure. Maybe make sure you know your email address. Even if the accidental recipient isn't malicious you maybe causing them grief.

Quote of the Day 24

It's bedtime and BigE is fried. We're trying to get through snuggles when he decides he'd like to have some milk know.

BigE "I want my milk"

Dada "You didn't say the magic word."

BigE "I REALLLLLY want my milk. I want it now"

Well aren't those some special words

Well that's a third

Continuing on the success of Well that's a first we've had our third good drop off at daycare.

Small miracles.

Spotting Email SPAM

A continuation of Email spam is a nice little article from Paypal Phishing Guide that has a nice explanation of what to look for in your email.

Don't worry if you don't use or know what Paypal is. The general principles are still the same an apply to any email.

What's Phishing? It's using a fake site that looks like the real thing in order to steal your information.

Child vs XBOX 360

From Captain Capitalism Blog comes one we might find amusing Child vs. X-Box 360 - The Best of Cpt. Capitalism.

I have to find that post where we see the comparative costs.