Thursday, March 10, 2011

I'm so lucky!

How are you today?

WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER
Address: No. 5 Western Avenue Cotonou,
West Africa, Republic Du' Benin
Tel: (+229) 98836350

Dear: Customer,

Information reaching us from our corporate headquarters here in Porto - Novo, the capital state of Benin Republic, states that you only have 48hours to effect your payment for the updating of your mtcn# number to enable you cash up your first $6000 from your total fund of ( seven hundred thousand united state dollars) since you are finding it difficult to make this payment we have decided that you are to go ahead and pay whatever you have out of the total fee of $200 required for the updating fee since you are not able to come up with the required charge. But mind you, no amount below $50 will be accepted so we expect you to pay whatever amount from $50 and above. You are to pay what ever you have for the updating fee and we will activate your mtcn# number upon receipt of this payment.

Be informed that you will have to pay the balance fee of your updating upon cashing up of your first $6000 also i am using this medium to inform you that failure to pay the balance charge will leave us with no option but to deactivate your mtcn# number of which you will and can never cash up the balance fee, i want you to send the updating and activation fee with the information bellow.
Receiver:
Dominic Okechukwu

Country:
Cotonou / Benin Republic


Text Question: Transfer Code ?
Answer: 001

AMOUNT SENT:

Please any amount you send let us know but remember what so ever amount below $95 will not be accepted. You can send us the payment informations immediately you send the money. Immediately we confirm the activation fee we will send you the first receipt of your $6000 at the same day. Regards Mr. GOODLUCK ANDERSON from western union money transfer office Porto-Novo Benin Republic.

In addition to this, we have decided to compensate our entire client due to their inability to pay the requested fee from the authorities, the compensation started this morning been 20th of Febuary and it will end on 28 Febuary 2011 by reducing the high cost to low amount.

As the matter of fact, the transferring fee and all cost requested from the authorities has been cut down to any amount as you can afford and that is only money you have to pay to receive your payment because the transferring of your funds were approved and signed as well and we do contacted you today for your immediate attention over it.

Note that anything that has the beginning is also has the end in that case, first come first serve.

Western Union Money Transfer Service Office.

You are entitle to receive your payment today if you do send the money today as well

We are waiting to hear from you today with the fee to enable this department to release your payment immediately.

Look forward for your anticipated response.

Best Regards;
Mr.GOODLUCK ANDERSON
Tel: (+229) 98836350
WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Should I Port My Number to Google Voice?

I've been thinking about doing this a lot. I don't know if it is worth it after reading the article. Who knows, maybe at some point I will, but it seems like a big hassle. I've got an android phone, and you'd think it should be fairly easy to make it work seamlessly. Who knows.


1st Run

So tonight I started on my arduous journey of running 500 miles before I turn 30. It was a hard fought 1.41 miles. But, I've got the first 1.41 miles in the bag. That's the good news. The bad news is I only have 214 days before I turn 30. That's 2.33 miles per day if you do the math. I'm already behind on mileage per day.

I shouldn't have waited until I got home from work to start the run. If I had run this morning, albeit in the fog, I think it would have gone better. It was really warm and the sidewalk had frozen spots of water on it. The little patches of ice definitely made it interesting. It was dark and poorly lit, and once in awhile those patches would remind me to slow down.

I had a running partner tonight. Rock, my American bulldog, joined me. He needed the exercise, too. He's been cramped up in the new townhouse, and we haven't gotten him to the dog park lately. He's such a good runner. I have to drop the leash though when I run with him. You know, he stops to do his business, and being the bad dog owner that I am, I let him do his business while I keep running. Hey, he always catches up. Besides, would you pick up dog poop and then run with it? I have a hard enough time picking it up and putting it in the garbage.

Well, anyways. Tonight was the first step in fulfilling my goal. I had been talking big at work; I'm going to run five miles tonight. No, that didn't happen, but I made sure to get in some progress. Five hundred still seems like 498.59 miles away though.

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Worldometers - real time world statistics

This is crazy! It keeps a running tally on all sorts of things. Check it out and look at things like new book titles published this year compared to blog posts today.


Saturday, January 22, 2011

Midwest Marines: Today's incentives for a job well done

Apathy has sunk its claws deep into the ribcages of today's youth. We need to turn this around before it is too late for the future generations.


Thursday, December 23, 2010

Spider’s forecheck too organized for Chaos

The Spiders and the Chaos met once again, at the cleverly named Richfield Arena, for what is always a tough matchup between the two teams. This time the Spiders came out on top in regulation with a fine destruction of the Chaos team. Even with the short bench of just 11 skaters the Spiders were able to pour on the forecheck and keep the Chaos pinned in their own zone for nearly the entire game.

The Spiders started out strong right away. Their passes were crisp and tape-to-tape, which is fairly uncommon. Center Mike Johnson started the barrage of goals early with the first goal just 2 minutes 29 seconds into the first period. Mike Schroeder and Jason Freed, in their one-year deal with the Spiders, add assists to their point totals to secure them a contract extension, possibly even signing bonuses and endorsement deals.

The Spiders, winning nearly every face-off, grabbed a goal from the quick hands of Yard. After winning the face-off, Spiders rock-solid defender Rob Droullard set up winger Jake Cison for a one-timer. Cison blasted an end-over-end shot at the net. Yard grabbed out of the air, threw it to his stick and swatted it past the netminder. It was such a quick play that even the camera crews weren’t able to catch a shot of it. Luckily, a fan was able to capture the action and post it to YouTube here:

With the early two-goal lead the Spiders took it right into the second period. The Spiders lines were shuffling throughout the game due to the three centers and only two sets of wings. However, that didn’t stop the Semper Fi line from getting on the board again. This time it was Cory Vandenberghe, getting his long awaited second goal of the season, burning the goalie with a blistering shot of about five miles per hour. Vandenberghe claims, during the post-game press conference, it was a planned move as he let the puck slide off his stick and right through the five hole of the goalie.

The Spiders were enjoying their three-goal lead. And the Chaos weren’t taking it very well, with Corder jumping into the penalty box for roughing on the following face-off. The Spiders were able to fire the puck on net quite a few times, and the Chaos goalie also showed some flashes of great goaltending coming up with some big saves.

Eventually, Cison would make the Chaos, and Corder, pay for the mistake as he battled all four of the Chaos penalty killers before he eventually slammed it past the goalie. Spiders teammates were scared to congratulate Cison after his goal because of the anger that could be seen behind his cage. Even the Spiders netminder Travis Fransen said during his post game interview he could see Cison mean-mugging everyone on the ice from the opposite end.

As the Spiders defensemen built a brick wall at the Chaos blue line Johnson tallied his second of the night with some hard work and the help of Cison.

Yard, Jason Freed and Tim Wahlberg jumped on the ice to take the next shift. They would make it a good one. Droullard maintaining that brick wall at the blue line would set up Yard for his second of the night. Freed would also get an assist on the goal.

Jake “Do-it-Yourself” Cison would eventually grab another goal, unassisted again, with just 41 seconds left in the second period. The Spiders put in five goals in the second period making the score 7-0 going into the third.

The third period would go just like the first and second periods as the Spiders continued their ferocious forecheck foray. The defensemen moved the bricks during intermission and most of the play would continue to happen in the offensive zone. Spiders center Christian Heitzman got into the scoring mood in the third period. Heitzman put on a puck-handling clinic as he battled his way through Chaos defenders and found the back of the net. Cison and Grotbeck get assists on the play.

The next two goals would come from Freed. The first one happened thanks to the hard work of Wahlberg who dug the puck out of the corner and made a great pass to Yard. Yard centered the puck to Freed, who was wide open in the slot, blowing a one-timer past the Chaos goalie.
From there, the Spiders started to slide a bit. Yard would be called for a tripping penalty behind the play. Wanting to get on the scoresheet any way he could, Flannery was not to be outdone and would get called for tripping in the same play giving the Chaos a 5-on-3 power play. Just 24 seconds into the power play the Chaos were able to get one by Fransen making the score 9-1. The Spiders would finish off the 5-on-4 penalty kill.

Somehow, Chaos defenseman Webb was able to escape out of his zone and put one past Fransen.
Freed was able to sneak the puck past the worn-down goalie for a second time as time was nearing expiration with assists going to Jake “Record Setting” Cison and Yard.

Heitzman, checking stats on the bench, realized the other two centers had two goals apiece. Not to be outdone he went and put in his second of the night with 33 seconds left on the clock.

Nine Spiders recorded points in the game for a team total of 26 points. The D1 squad has really found some unit cohesion this year maintaining a perfect 7-0 record. The next hurdle for the Spiders to overcome is putting up zero on the scoreboard for Fransen. Their next opportunity will be against the Fighting Saints at the Coliseum next year.

Monday, December 13, 2010

Shotguns vs. Robbers

Another e-mail I got... Take it for what it's worth.

Shotgun preteen vs. Illegal alien Home Invaders: Butte, Montana

Two illegal aliens, Ralphel Resindez, 23, and Enrico Garza, 26, probably believed they would easily overpower home-alone 11 year old Patricia Harrington after her father had left their two-story home.

It seems the two crooks were not truly aware of two things:
1 - They were in Montana
2 - Patricia has been a clay shooting champion since she was nine.

Patricia was in her upstairs room when the two men broke through the front door of the house. She quickly ran to her father's room and grabbed his 12 gauge Mossberg 500 shotgun.

Resindez was the first to get up to the second floor and was the first to catch a near point blank blast of buckshot from the 11-year-old's knee crouch aim. He suffered fatal wounds to his abdomen and genitals.

When Garza ran to the foot of the stairs, he took a blast to the left shoulder and staggered out into the street where he bled to death before medical help could arrive.

It was found out later that Resindez was armed with a stolen 45 caliber handgun he had taken from another home invasion robbery. The victim of that robbery, 50-year-old David 0Burien, was not so lucky. He died from stab wounds to the chest.

Have you ever wondered why good stuff never makes NBC, CBS, PBS, MSNBC, CNN, or ABC news...an 11 year old girl, properly trained, defended her home, and herself - against two murderous, illegal immigrants...and she wins, she is still alive.

Now that is Gun Control!