Crazy Weekend- Lost Camera

I must apologize for going two whole days without posting.

I had one of the craziest and most stressful weekends I have had in a long long time the last couple of days. (Okay, it was mostly Saturday. I spent Sunday recovering.)

Time, my sanity, and certain legal restraints do not permit me to recount all the events of my Saturday.

Some of the details I can give include:

-An 8 hour round trip drive (in one day) to see the DC Temple.

-Taking my husband's car keys with me to DC, leaving him stranded in the midst of crisis.

-Two separate and unrelated trips to the emergency room (in one day).

-Crazy rain storm that caused trees to break and branches to fall in the road.

And yet, I see as I read over those few details, they are insufficient to truly relate even a portion of the anxiety I and my family endured this weekend.

The good news is:

I got to take CJ and Mark to see the temple. They got to tour the visitor's center and the grounds with their primary.

I got some much needed items from the distribution center while I was there.

I got some quality time with my boys.

There were no accidents and no one was injured while driving.

I had some great friends step up to help out when we needed it.

At the end of the day when I finally got home at 11:30pm (I left at 6:30am), and after our second emergency room visit was over, everyone was healthy and surpisingly happy.

Through it all I knew I was being watched over and cared for and I know I was blessed with wisdom in how to handle some of the events.

The right words came to me when I needed them, and I was able to help someone I care about deal with something very painful to him.

I also took some beautiful pictures of the temple that I was planning on posting, but when I went to get my camera this morning I couldn't find it. If I find it soon I will post the pics so you all can share in some of the beautiful parts of the day as well.

Thanks for caring, -Della

People still fall for this?

I got this e-mail the other day.

I am surprised this is still out there and that people are still falling for it.

The e-mail said:

From the desk of Mr Samba Ibrahim

Bill and exchange manager

African development bank

Ouagadougou Burkina Faso

Dear friend,

I crave your indulgence for the unsolicited nature of this letter, but it was borne out of desperation and current development. Please bear with me. My name is Mr Samba Ibrahim an auditor of African development bank. I discovered existing dormant account for 5 years.

When I discovered that there had been neither continuation nor withdrawals from this account for this long period and our banking law stipulates that any unserviceable account for more than 5 years will gointo the bank revenue as an unclaimed fund.

I have made personal inquiries about the depositor and his next of kin but sadly, the depositor and his next of kin died in motor accident while the rest of the family died in Iraq during the crisis, I only made this investigation just to be double sure of this fact and since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives.

I seek your consent to present yourself as the next of kin of the deceased. as an auditor in the bank I will use my position in the bank to help you becoming thenext of kin to the estate, so that the proceeds of this account valued at $25.6 million dollars can be transferred to you, this is the story in a nutshell.

Now I want an account over seas where the bank will transfer this fund. Thereafter, I will come for the sharing and investment, also to use part of the money to help the iranians, it is a careful network and for the past eleven months i have worked out everything to ensure a hitch-free operation.

[Blah blah blah, more about how this guy is trustworthy.]

This message is respectfully yours,

Mr Samba Ibrahim

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In case you didn't catch on, this is a SCAM!

All this guy wants is my bank account information so he can clean it out and keep it for himself. And I am sure he is not even African. He is probably some 30 something bald dude living in his Mom's basement.

There is another common one where some guy mails you a check for $5000 and asks you to deposit it in your account because he doesn't have access to a safe account. He says just send him back a money order for $2500 and you can keep the rest. So people fall for this, they send the money order, go buy a big screen tv with this windfall and then find out that the original $5000 check was fake and they have just given away $2500 dollars that they don't have.

This is a warning to my blogging friends, just in case you haven't heard of these. Please don't fall for this stuff.

Don't give anybody your bank account information. I never give out my bank account info to anybody unless I was the one who called them. I don't care who they are.

Even people that I legitimately owe money to can send me a paper bill. They don't need my info over the phone.

I once got a phone call that said I had won a cruise. All I had to do was give them my bank account information to "verify my identity". When I wouldn't give it to them, they tried to make feel stupid for not trusting them.

Some times they call you to ask for donations for a good cause, but they are not legitimate. If you are not sure, hang up the phone.

Please be careful.

These fleecers are out there trying to take advantage of you.

Good, intelligent people fall for this stuff all the time.

Be good, be intelligent, but don't get screwed.

-Della

A Puzzle

Mike sent me an e-mail that contained the following puzzle:

A man wanted to get into his work building, but he had forgotten his code.

However, he did remember five clues. These are what those clues were:

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The fifth number plus the third number equals fourteen.

The fourth number is one more than the second number.

The first number is one less than twice the second number.

The second number plus the third number equals ten.

The sum of all five numbers is 30.

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What were the five numbers and in what order?

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The cool thing about the e-mail was that there was an attachment which was coded. The code had to be entered in order to open the attachment.

The code to the attachment was the answer to the puzzle.

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I couldn't figure out how to put the coded attachment in the blog, but if you think you know the answer leave a comment and I will forward the e-mail to you. Assuming, of course, that I know your e-mail address.

Have fun. I know several of you will get it.

-Della

Wordless Wednesday

Memorial Day- again

I didn't get around to posting yesterday, but I did want to pay more homage to our soldiers and veterans.

So here are some Memorial Day cartoons. (Thanks again, Grandpa).

I guess I ended up doing this a day late after all. But I think that's ok. We need to remember these guys every day.

-Della

Sunday Post, Memorial Day

This time I am going to be a day ahead instead of behind and post for Memorial Day today.

I had to pick what to post since I get a lot of great patriotic e-mails from my Grandpa (who is a veteran himself).

I am going with simplicity.

Chances are you have seen this before, but it is true everytime.

It is the VETERAN, not the preacher,

who has given us freedom of religion.

It is the VETERAN, not the reporter,

who has given us freedom of the press.

It is the VETERAN, not the poet,

who has given us freedom of speech.

It is the VETERAN, not the campus organizer,

who has given us freedom to assemble.

It is the VETERAN, not the lawyer,

who has given us the right to a fair trial.

It is the VETERAN, not the politician,

Who has given us the right to vote.

A lot of people trash our government, but have never lived in communism or under tyranny.

People complain about taxes, but drive on the roads their taxes pay for.

They protest wars, but don't take thought for their freedom of speech that allows them to protest.

They outrage about the economy, but buy products made overseas.

They denounce the president, but have never had to pay homage to a king or emperor.

I love my country.

I love the USA.

I thank God I was born here and have the freedoms, privileges and opportunities I have.

I thank the Veterans, who have fought, served, and been buried under our flag, for preserving my quality of life.

GOD bless the USA!

Don't Road Rage the Grandma

Another cool Grannie, making sure that sonny shows her the respect she deserves.