Well, I finally finished the "other social studies" section of the VHSL questions. Now I am to work on "earth science" and nag my contractors into getting things done.
We didn't go out, just to the Metro 29 Diner for lunch and the Don Pablo's in the Potomac Yard Shopping Center (or whatever that thing's called at Glebe and Route 1.) Tomorrow Rebecca and I will drive out to see Luray Caverns and then up to her parents in Berryville, where we'll have dinner with her sister Abby and her husband John.
Here's the spam count.
Today (66): Porn 14, Stock tips 14, Cheap stuff 9, Loans 9, Free stuff 8, Male performance 7, Self-improvement 3, Meet women 1, Blank 1. Chinese 13, Spanish 6, Italian 1.
Overall (775): Stock tips 138, Loans 133, Cheap stuff 117, Free stuff 116, Male performance 90, Porn 81, Self-improvement 36, Casinos 17, Blank 16, Meet women 14, offline scams 8, e-scams 7, political 2. Chinese 59, Spanish 44, unknown Asian 14, Italian 7, Japense 4, Portuguese 2, French 1.
Friday, July 28, 2006
Thursday, July 27, 2006
My wife also got an email about some opportunity to adopt blind kids from Asia. Hopefully this isn't a scam designed to separate us from our money. In any case, she's forwarding it to me, and I honestly think we'd be as good a parent to blind kids as anyone else -- we wouldn't make the mistake of believing our kids are made of glass or in treating our kids as if they were 100% incompetent.
Well not much today aside from me taking a trip to Starbucks ... Rebecca work up with a headache that lasted pretty much all day. Tomorrow, we're heading out to Luray to Luray Caverns. If that doesn't pan out then we will be going to PF Chang's China Bistro -- we've been threatening to do that ever since Rebecca's co-worker raved about the place -- hopefully it'll be twice the taste good at twice the price. Either that, or I might convince Adam to go there when we practice reading the questions for the VHSL Scholastic Bowl competition. We've caught a few embarrassing errors before the questions went out to press.
I also learned that Championship Manager 01-02 doesn't play well with the JAWS screen reader that my wife needs. So it goes back to the downstairs computer, where I am managing the Miami Fusion FC (yes, I know the game is old) and the Ghana national team. In 2006, I led Ghana to a title in the African Nations Cup and a good finish in the World Cup -- beating Iran 3-0, drawing to eventual champions France 0-0 but losing to eventual runners-up Romania 3-0. So their performance this year doesn't surprise me. However, about 1/3 of my Miami squad dislikes me due to our early exit from the MLS playoffs in 2007.
Spam count for 7/27. I seem to be getting a LOT of Chinese porn spam.
However, my mom forwarded me some amazing photos from Pearl Harbor. I don't know where they were from originally (it was a fifth-generation forward by the time I got it). The source is "AN OLD SHIPMATE ON THE USS QUAPAW ATF-11O." according to the initial email. But, in any case, here are the photos on my Yahoo photo album. I doubt that my five readers will overload the quota Yahoo gives me.
Here's something else worth seeing.
Oh wait. Enough already. Here's the count.
Today (39): Porn 12, Cheap stuff 6, Loans 6, Stock tips 6, Free stuff 2, Casinos 2, Male performance 1, self-improvement 1, Meet women 1, e-scams 1, offline scams 1. Chinese 12, Spanish 1, Portuguese 1.
Overall (709): Stock tips 124, Loans 124, Free stuff 108, Cheap stuff 108, Male performance 83, Porn 67, Self-improvement 33, Casinos 17, Blank 15, Meet women 13, offline scams 8, e-scams 7, Political 2. Chinese 46, Spanish 38, Unknown Asian 14, Italian 6, Japanese 4, Portuguese 2, French 1.
Well not much today aside from me taking a trip to Starbucks ... Rebecca work up with a headache that lasted pretty much all day. Tomorrow, we're heading out to Luray to Luray Caverns. If that doesn't pan out then we will be going to PF Chang's China Bistro -- we've been threatening to do that ever since Rebecca's co-worker raved about the place -- hopefully it'll be twice the taste good at twice the price. Either that, or I might convince Adam to go there when we practice reading the questions for the VHSL Scholastic Bowl competition. We've caught a few embarrassing errors before the questions went out to press.
I also learned that Championship Manager 01-02 doesn't play well with the JAWS screen reader that my wife needs. So it goes back to the downstairs computer, where I am managing the Miami Fusion FC (yes, I know the game is old) and the Ghana national team. In 2006, I led Ghana to a title in the African Nations Cup and a good finish in the World Cup -- beating Iran 3-0, drawing to eventual champions France 0-0 but losing to eventual runners-up Romania 3-0. So their performance this year doesn't surprise me. However, about 1/3 of my Miami squad dislikes me due to our early exit from the MLS playoffs in 2007.
Spam count for 7/27. I seem to be getting a LOT of Chinese porn spam.
However, my mom forwarded me some amazing photos from Pearl Harbor. I don't know where they were from originally (it was a fifth-generation forward by the time I got it). The source is "AN OLD SHIPMATE ON THE USS QUAPAW ATF-11O." according to the initial email. But, in any case, here are the photos on my Yahoo photo album. I doubt that my five readers will overload the quota Yahoo gives me.
Here's something else worth seeing.
Oh wait. Enough already. Here's the count.
Today (39): Porn 12, Cheap stuff 6, Loans 6, Stock tips 6, Free stuff 2, Casinos 2, Male performance 1, self-improvement 1, Meet women 1, e-scams 1, offline scams 1. Chinese 12, Spanish 1, Portuguese 1.
Overall (709): Stock tips 124, Loans 124, Free stuff 108, Cheap stuff 108, Male performance 83, Porn 67, Self-improvement 33, Casinos 17, Blank 15, Meet women 13, offline scams 8, e-scams 7, Political 2. Chinese 46, Spanish 38, Unknown Asian 14, Italian 6, Japanese 4, Portuguese 2, French 1.
Well, it's another day. Lots of spam today.
Turns out yesterday's "cheap stuff/Undetermined Asian" spam was really Chinese porn.
So take away 12 from cheap stuff/Undetermined Asian and add 12 to porn/Chinese.
Today (73): Porn 18, Loans 16, Free stuff 13, Stock tips 12, Cheap stuff 5, Male improvement 3, Blank 2, Self-improvement 1, Meet women 1, Offline scams 1, Political 1. Chinese 17, Spanish 3, Italian 1.
Total (670): Stock tips 118, Loans 118, Free stuff 106, Cheap stuff 102, Male performance 82, Porn 55, self-improvement 32, Casinos 15, Blank 15, Meet women 12, Offline scams 7, E-scams 6, Political 2. Spanish 37, Chinese 34, Undetermined Asian 14, Italian 6, Japanese 4, French 1, Portuguese 1.
Turns out yesterday's "cheap stuff/Undetermined Asian" spam was really Chinese porn.
So take away 12 from cheap stuff/Undetermined Asian and add 12 to porn/Chinese.
Today (73): Porn 18, Loans 16, Free stuff 13, Stock tips 12, Cheap stuff 5, Male improvement 3, Blank 2, Self-improvement 1, Meet women 1, Offline scams 1, Political 1. Chinese 17, Spanish 3, Italian 1.
Total (670): Stock tips 118, Loans 118, Free stuff 106, Cheap stuff 102, Male performance 82, Porn 55, self-improvement 32, Casinos 15, Blank 15, Meet women 12, Offline scams 7, E-scams 6, Political 2. Spanish 37, Chinese 34, Undetermined Asian 14, Italian 6, Japanese 4, French 1, Portuguese 1.
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Well, last night we just stayed in. We went out to the Paradiso Restaurant in Springfield. Today, we're going to go out with Rebecca's friend Sarah, and Rebecca wants to make a real effort to see The Devil Wears Prada.
We also had a devil of a time ... we're trying to get long-term care insurance and one of the questions was, "Have you received disability payments in the past five years?" Well -- she has, since she is blind. This means she gets disability (I figure this makes up for her not being able to work a job such as a 7-Eleven and being pretty much restricted to "brain work.") But she hasn't been getting it since she started working for Northrop in April 2002.
Well yesterday they had one of their on-staff RN or LPN types call her, and they had a survey. They asked a weird mix of questions, which included "what do you do for entertainment?" (um, we go to concerts, plays, visit family/friends, that sort of thing?) and not "are you or have you ever been addicted to illegal drugs?" I guess there might be some legal reasons for this odd mix of questions, but Rebecca just felt weird. The lady was perfectly pleasant, she tells me, but she just felt weird.
Rebecca owes Helen Bloomingburg, a nice older lady from church, a call. Rebecca's been wanting to go out to lunch with Helen for some time now -- and we talked to her Sunday and she was agreeable to it. Also, she owes her sister a call so we can go out to dinner or lunch sometime (including my brother-in-law, too!) The latter I might do if I get tired of waiting.
I think next year, I need to sit down in February and plan out our vacation. We might go somewhere nice. Or, we might just do a few day trips. We'll see. If there's a baby on the way, we might do just what we did this year.
Spam count for today. I got like 12 Asian spams today -- I can usually tell them by the !@???!!??? type characters -- there is no image to help me figure if it is Japanese or Chinese. Some of the English words in these spams indicate it might also be Hindi -- I'm sure there might be Hebrew spam, too.
For today (48 total): Cheap stuff 17, Stock tips 9, Free stuff 6, Male performance 6, Loans 3, Self-improvement 2, Meet women 2, Porn 1, Casinos 1, Blank 1. Unknown Asian 12 (!), Spanish 3, Japanese 1, Italian 1.
Overall (597 total): Cheap stuff 109, Stock tips 106, Loans 102, Free stuff 93, Male performance 79, Self-improvement 31, Porn 25, Casinos 15, Blank 13, Meet women 11, e-scams 6, offline scams 6, political 1. Spanish 34, Unknown Asian 26, Chinese 5, Italian 5, Japanese 4, Portuguese 1, French 1.
We also had a devil of a time ... we're trying to get long-term care insurance and one of the questions was, "Have you received disability payments in the past five years?" Well -- she has, since she is blind. This means she gets disability (I figure this makes up for her not being able to work a job such as a 7-Eleven and being pretty much restricted to "brain work.") But she hasn't been getting it since she started working for Northrop in April 2002.
Well yesterday they had one of their on-staff RN or LPN types call her, and they had a survey. They asked a weird mix of questions, which included "what do you do for entertainment?" (um, we go to concerts, plays, visit family/friends, that sort of thing?) and not "are you or have you ever been addicted to illegal drugs?" I guess there might be some legal reasons for this odd mix of questions, but Rebecca just felt weird. The lady was perfectly pleasant, she tells me, but she just felt weird.
Rebecca owes Helen Bloomingburg, a nice older lady from church, a call. Rebecca's been wanting to go out to lunch with Helen for some time now -- and we talked to her Sunday and she was agreeable to it. Also, she owes her sister a call so we can go out to dinner or lunch sometime (including my brother-in-law, too!) The latter I might do if I get tired of waiting.
I think next year, I need to sit down in February and plan out our vacation. We might go somewhere nice. Or, we might just do a few day trips. We'll see. If there's a baby on the way, we might do just what we did this year.
Spam count for today. I got like 12 Asian spams today -- I can usually tell them by the !@???!!??? type characters -- there is no image to help me figure if it is Japanese or Chinese. Some of the English words in these spams indicate it might also be Hindi -- I'm sure there might be Hebrew spam, too.
For today (48 total): Cheap stuff 17, Stock tips 9, Free stuff 6, Male performance 6, Loans 3, Self-improvement 2, Meet women 2, Porn 1, Casinos 1, Blank 1. Unknown Asian 12 (!), Spanish 3, Japanese 1, Italian 1.
Overall (597 total): Cheap stuff 109, Stock tips 106, Loans 102, Free stuff 93, Male performance 79, Self-improvement 31, Porn 25, Casinos 15, Blank 13, Meet women 11, e-scams 6, offline scams 6, political 1. Spanish 34, Unknown Asian 26, Chinese 5, Italian 5, Japanese 4, Portuguese 1, French 1.
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
It's Tuesday. What more can I say?
Deciding whether to see the Front Royal Cardinals or The Devil Wears Prada. Rebecca is going back and forth as we speak, probably to decide upon ...nothing! :-)
Today's SPAM count (37 total)
Loans 10, Free stuff 9, Stock tips 9, Cheap stuff 6, Porn 2, Male performance 1. 4 Spanish spams and 1 Italian spam.
Total count (549 total)
Loans 99, Stock tips 97, Cheap stuff 92, Free stuff 87, Male performance 73, self-improvement 29, porn 24, casinos 14, blank 12, meet women 9, e-scams 6, offline scams 6, political 1. 31 Spanish, 14 undetermined Asian, 5 Chinese, 4 Italian, 3 Japanese, 1 Portuguese and 1 French.
Deciding whether to see the Front Royal Cardinals or The Devil Wears Prada. Rebecca is going back and forth as we speak, probably to decide upon ...nothing! :-)
Today's SPAM count (37 total)
Loans 10, Free stuff 9, Stock tips 9, Cheap stuff 6, Porn 2, Male performance 1. 4 Spanish spams and 1 Italian spam.
Total count (549 total)
Loans 99, Stock tips 97, Cheap stuff 92, Free stuff 87, Male performance 73, self-improvement 29, porn 24, casinos 14, blank 12, meet women 9, e-scams 6, offline scams 6, political 1. 31 Spanish, 14 undetermined Asian, 5 Chinese, 4 Italian, 3 Japanese, 1 Portuguese and 1 French.
Monday, July 24, 2006
Well, today was another fun day. I went to the Northern Virginia Lions Camp to help out with a cookout that was being prepared for a youth exchange camp hosted by some Tidewater-area Lions Clubs. One of these days I might take the plunge and actually join Lions. We shall see.
My in-laws are going down to Wise, VA, for the annual Remote Area Medical Program this weekend. Rebecca and I might go next year. I'd rather spend my anniversary helping people, then spending time with Rebecca, than going on some overpriced vacation and sitting in traffic for too long.
Tomorrow -- we might go to see the Front Royal Cardinals play, but more likely we'll see The Devil Wears Prada and then out to dinner at a place to be determined.
Before I left, I walked Rebecca through some of the bill-paying processes. Property taxes went up, so the escrow account on my mortgage was very hungry, almost to the tune of a monthly principal/interest payment. Once that's done, I'll be able to pay the regular payment sometime next week -- when I am not on vacation (gasp!)
Well, off to writing some more Scholastic Bowl questions -- this time in the category of "Other Social Studies."
I think I might start advertising my blog now, at least to friends and family.
Spam count for 7/24: 30 loans/mortgage (!), 18 stock tips, 12 male performance, 12 cheap stuff, 4 blank, 4 free stuff, 4 other self-improvement, 3 porn, 1 meet women. I got 4 Spanish, 2 Italian and 2 Untermined Asian spams as well. 88 spams in all.
Overall: 89 loans, 88 stock tips, 86 cheap stuff, 78 free stuff, 72 male performance, 29 self-improvement, 22 porn, 14 casinos, 12 blank, 9 meet women, 6 e-scams, 6 offline scams, 1 political. 27 Spanish, 14 undetermined Asian, 5 Chinese, 3 Japanese, 3 Italian, 1 Portuguese and 1 French.
I got a few spams which consisted of a single word. I decided to include that in the blank category. The most bizarre spam remains the sushi restaurant in Chile (?!)
My in-laws are going down to Wise, VA, for the annual Remote Area Medical Program this weekend. Rebecca and I might go next year. I'd rather spend my anniversary helping people, then spending time with Rebecca, than going on some overpriced vacation and sitting in traffic for too long.
Tomorrow -- we might go to see the Front Royal Cardinals play, but more likely we'll see The Devil Wears Prada and then out to dinner at a place to be determined.
Before I left, I walked Rebecca through some of the bill-paying processes. Property taxes went up, so the escrow account on my mortgage was very hungry, almost to the tune of a monthly principal/interest payment. Once that's done, I'll be able to pay the regular payment sometime next week -- when I am not on vacation (gasp!)
Well, off to writing some more Scholastic Bowl questions -- this time in the category of "Other Social Studies."
I think I might start advertising my blog now, at least to friends and family.
Spam count for 7/24: 30 loans/mortgage (!), 18 stock tips, 12 male performance, 12 cheap stuff, 4 blank, 4 free stuff, 4 other self-improvement, 3 porn, 1 meet women. I got 4 Spanish, 2 Italian and 2 Untermined Asian spams as well. 88 spams in all.
Overall: 89 loans, 88 stock tips, 86 cheap stuff, 78 free stuff, 72 male performance, 29 self-improvement, 22 porn, 14 casinos, 12 blank, 9 meet women, 6 e-scams, 6 offline scams, 1 political. 27 Spanish, 14 undetermined Asian, 5 Chinese, 3 Japanese, 3 Italian, 1 Portuguese and 1 French.
I got a few spams which consisted of a single word. I decided to include that in the blank category. The most bizarre spam remains the sushi restaurant in Chile (?!)
Sunday, July 23, 2006
Got back from church just now. Waiting until we're hungry to go out. Our Oreck vacuum cleaner gave out -- there is a belt inside the vacuum that has to rotate on there -- it frayed for the SECOND time this month. So I am throwing out the darn thing and have solicited advice from family members -- I may as well ask the four or five readers of this blog for further advice.
Well, here's the SPAM count for today. 43 new spams showed up in my mail today, and I've seen 424 of them since I started this idea a week ago.
Stock tips 13 (70)
Cheap stuff 9 (74)
Male performance 7 (60)
Loans 4 (59)
Casinos 4 (14)
Self-improvement 3 (25)
Free stuff 2 (74)
Porn 1 (19)
nul points: Blank (8), Meet women (8), e-scams (6), offline scams (6), Political (1)
Undetermined Asian 7 (12)
Italian 1 (1) -- the first Italian spam -- yay!
nul points: Spanish (23), Chinese (5), Japanese (3), Portuguese (1), French (1) 0
Well, here's the SPAM count for today. 43 new spams showed up in my mail today, and I've seen 424 of them since I started this idea a week ago.
Stock tips 13 (70)
Cheap stuff 9 (74)
Male performance 7 (60)
Loans 4 (59)
Casinos 4 (14)
Self-improvement 3 (25)
Free stuff 2 (74)
Porn 1 (19)
nul points: Blank (8), Meet women (8), e-scams (6), offline scams (6), Political (1)
Undetermined Asian 7 (12)
Italian 1 (1) -- the first Italian spam -- yay!
nul points: Spanish (23), Chinese (5), Japanese (3), Portuguese (1), French (1) 0
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