thehowe_v7.1

Something interesting happened to me today. Actually, somethings interesting happened, but I'll take them one at a time. So the other day, I was checking my hotmail account when I noticed some mail that looked like it had been returned because the addresses were incorrect. This intrigued me, because I haven't sent any mail from that account for a few months now. I looked, and the message was a porn advertisement, so I figured the spammers had just disguised the message as a returned message to get me to read it. No big deal, they're always trying new stuff. But I'd been meaning to change my password anyways, so I figured this was as good a time as any to do it. Well, today when I tried to sign in to my email, I got a rather peculiar message. I was informed that I had tried to sign in to my account too many times unsuccessfully, and so my account was locked for a few minutes. This was also interesting, because I only typed in my old password by mistake once, and that's never been enough to trigger that message before. I wonder now if perhaps something more sinister than I realized was going on. Maybe my password was grabbed at one of the internet cafes I used in Europe? I'm not sure, but it's rather disturbing. Luckily, nothing important ever comes to that email address, so no real harm came from it.

In other, totally unrelated news, I went with my family to pick blueberries today. We got to the place we've been going to every summer for as long as I can remember, but this year we left after picking for only a few minutes. This year their crop has been infested by bugs, and almost every blueberry had little white worms in it. It was really gross. We ended up just going out and buying blueberries from the market instead.

I feel so proud! Earlier this week I received my first African Email Scam! For those of you who have never heard of these infamous scams, I suggest you visit here. My distressed e-mailer was a Mr. Dirty Rotten Nigerian Taofeek Savimbi, the son of the late Angolan rebel leader Jonas Savimbi. Apparently his partner father transferred 25 pesos US$50,000.000.00 (Fifty Million Dollars!) to a cardboard box security firm in his basement the Netherlands before this scam his death. I think I'll be a real asshole nice guy and laugh repeatedly at the foolish bastards send them all of my bank account information right away!

So I got some junk e-mail yesterday that was entitled, "Friend, we want your skin!"

Now I'm no health expert or anything, but I'm pretty sure that I'd like to keep my skin thank you very much. And frankly, anybody that wants my skin is no friend of mine. I didn't actually read the message, but I'm assuming it was from a mutant strain of zombies that need to eat skin instead of brains. Or maybe it was those darn lepers again.