Relay For Life

It's been one heck of a busy couple of weeks over here. I would like to tell you all about it, but I have to start this morning with this, ACS :: Relay For Life. On May 15th, Marcy, me and our friend Kerry are all going to walk in a Relay For Life. You see Marcy's Grandmother Marcene was recently diagnosed with cancer, and then without even having time to fight it, taken from us this past weekend. Luckily for her, Marcene did not have to suffer this disease for long, but so many others have, sometimes it seems needlessly.

In case you haven't heard of it before, the American Cancer Society's Relay For Life raises money for cancer research. I could not think of a better way to spend a weekend. I do however need to be sponsored. If anyone is willing to kick in a couple of bucks and sponsor me for this great cause, you can click on the button below to do so. Any and all donations will go directly to the American Cancer Society and be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

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Getting Into Heaven (Joke)

A minister dies and is waiting in line at the Pearly Gates.

Ahead of him is a guy who's dressed in sunglasses, a loud shirt, leather jacket, and jeans.

Saint Peter addresses the man wearing somewhat sloppy clothes, "Who are you, so that I may know whether or not to admit you to the Kingdom of Heaven?"

The guy replies, "I'm Jack Thomas Jr., taxi-driver, of Noo Yawk City."

Saint Peter consults his list. He smiles and says to the taxi-driver, "Take this silken robe and golden staff and enter the Kingdom of Heaven."

The taxi-driver goes into Heaven with his robe and staff. Then it's the minister's turn. He stands up tall and booms out, "I am Joseph Snow, pastor of Saint Mary's Church, for the last forty-three years."

Saint Peter consults his list. He says to the minister, "Take this cotton robe and wooden staff and enter the Kingdom of Heaven."

"Just a minute," says the minister. "That man before me was a taxi-driver, and he gets a silken robe and golden staff. Why, How can this be?"

Saint Peter, looks to the preacher and says,

"Up here, we work by results,"

"While you preached, people slept. While Jack drove, people prayed."

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Priviledged

William Shakespeare, Shirley Temple Black, Lee Majors, Sandra Dee, Joyce DeWitt and Valerie Bertinelli. What do these famous people have in common? As I am priviledged to have my wife Marcy in my life every day, they all have the priveledge of sharing their birthdate with her.

Happy Birthday Marcy!!!

I Love You!!!

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Great Advice

I just read a great post. Here's some great advice from a man who goes by the name S-Train.

To paraphrase, S-Train was approached by a man who recently returned from Iraq minus an eye and scarred arms from an RPG attack. The man asked him, how do you deal with life after war? It's so obvious an answer that he gives, yet we're all so quick to say we need therapy or we need this or that drug. In a day and age where there will be a lot of men and women returning home not feeling normal ever again, we need more people like S-Train to greet them.

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It's a Conspiracy

First it was Anxiousdog, then it was Solonor.

In two completely unrelated posts today, these two bloggers have embedded "Wake Me up before you Go, Go" so deeply in my brain that no amount of music listening will cleanse. What's even worse is someone here at work caught me whistling it while I was getting a cup of coffee. That's just down right embarassing. It wont stop either, it keeps looping through my head. Someone, anyone, find me the stop button. Heeeelllllpppp.

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I'm a Librarian

So dumb I had to post it. This is me:

You're a swank noisy househusband running from the law. You are liked by crazy detectives telling you their life stories. Be proud of what you are...You are a Librarian!

What kind of Librarian! are you?

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Fraudulent E-Mails

We all know about my obsession with entering sweeps, but online-sweepstakes.com also has a very good forum. This morning someone brought up the fraudulent e-mails that have been going around looking for people to enter their credit card information into a form that looks like it would be from that company. This practice is called phishing, and it's growing more rampant every day. This morning's topic is about the e-mail that looks like it comes from Citibank. I just received one of these puppies today.

Citibank has done a good job of instructing their consumers how to report these e-mails. Go to www.citibank.com and click on "Consumer Alert" to report this e-mail fraud. This site is very self-explanatory, with a list of all the different subject lines that have been reported, and an on-line form to fill out and submit your fraud claim. They have also set up a toll free number to call just in case you have fallen victim to this scam.

Yahoo!, Ebay and Paypal also have information about these e-mails on their sites, and how to report phishing. For more info on the CitiBank e-mails, check out the link below:
Forums - Fraud Alert: CitiBank phishing email with Address Bar

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