Blog for One

Early winter day,
writing TPS reports.
Rather be in bed.

THE NANOWRIMO WRITER DEFENDER

This should help writers on deadlines keep interruptions at bay…

This weekend, we are having another of our nieces over for a sleepover.

Homework’s been done, and now the girls (Bianca and Francesca) are playing around with Bianca’s violin.

Hilarity is bound to ensue.

This is by far the oddest SPAM I have received to date:

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where you can shop around most wanted and needed items in your life. Our weapon section has wide range of hard-to-find machine guns, silencers, armour-piercing ammos and others.

First of all, let’s check our 3 top-selling items:

1. Russian surface-to-air missle SA-14 “Gremlin” (upgraded analog of SS-16 “Strela”) from our supplies in Kazakhstan. Due to high demand, it takes about 4 weeks to backorder that item. Weight is 10,2 kg., lenght – 1427 mm. You can make a huge party and you can have tons of fun launching your “Gremlin” with your buddies.

2. Israeli bestselling submashine-gun “Tavor” 5.56″ (upgraded analog of 7.65″ “Uzi”), comes with 2 full clips of standart ammo + bonus one clip of armour-piercing ammo.

3. Russian booby trap made in 5 versions:
- a bottle of Jim Beam (200 grammes of C4 inside),
- a can of Budlight beer (150 grammes of C4 inside),
- a Barbie-doll (100 grammes of C4 inside),
- a cell phone (50 grammes of C4 inside),
- a lighter Zippo (25 grammes of C4 insid You can take one with you to the school or college and have alot of fun with your buddies. Buy more than 10 pieces of booby traps, and we upgrade C4 to C4+ for free. (C4+ can not be detected in airports or any other areas).

Also we have our Dutch-based shop where you can buy some drugs to make your life more wonderful and funny.

We have wide selection of Ganzha, Crack, both synthetic and natural Heroin. And our prices are affordables for everyone. If you want to buy anything from us, just visit our site, contact administrator and get full price-list. We accept all major credit cards, wire transfers and money orders. Please ask for details if you want to use Western Union or Moneygram money transfers.

P.S. Due to our government laws all items from our shop can be sold only to 18+ aged people. We can ask you for age verification before shipping. You can also make an order by the phone: 973-xxx-xxx fax: 973-989-xxxx 973-590-xxxx Fax: 973-590-xxxx

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My commentary: What web-page-from-hell did I enter this e-mail address on????

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So here I am in wonderful Markham Ontario, home of IBM training facilities.

4 days of operations training for yet another computer platform, with a dozen or so other folk.

Airport security was much tighter than usual, which was a little unnerving. I kept wondering “What do they know that I don’t?” (yes I know a multitude of answers can be found to this question, but I digress)

The flight was uneventful, but I did get to read a few interesting articles on the upcoming elections in the United States.

A few choice quotes from Thomas L. Friedman from the New York Times:

• “American politics is so polarized today that there is no centre, only sides”
• “When the world liked Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan, America had more power in the world.”
• “When U.S. policy makes such a profound lurch to the right, when we start edxporting fear instead of hope, the whole centre of gravity of the world is affected…”

An interesting read to be sure …