Dear Unscrupulous Hotmail-hacking Thief

Dear Thief,

Please stop sending illegal and illiterate messages to my "firends!!!" I am outraged that you stole my email address book and sent out 250 messages this morning at 4:20 am. If I could I would fill your email with spam myself, but you surpassed my limit for outgoing email and I can't send any more, now for 24 hours!

Please Cease and Desist!
I will do all I can to make sure noone ever goes to your website!

This is the message you sent and even changed my personal signature to insert it in other actual emails from me!

Dear firend:AA

Hello.How are you doing recently?Some days ago, I came across a wonderful electronic company on the web and had a pleasant chat with the sales manager. He told me that they are planning to lower the prices greatly in order to adapt to the global economic crisis, so that they can expand their overseas market. I have bought an iphone and a computer,and i am very satisfied with their items and services.If you have time,you can have a look. Their website: xxxxx
email: shop09 at 188.com
I wrote it this way so you know what it is, but it doesn't create a link. Send him a nasty message if you like...

Beloved readers, how do I get revenge on this fiend? Please send suggestions by way of making a comment to this post. Thanks.

A Hypnotic Suggestion

A book I'd like to read:


A Hypnotic Suggestion by Alison Jones

When a man is found murdered in his North Carolina home, Dr. Susan Kemper, psychologist and forensic hypnotherapist, is on the case, going against the wishes of her domineering husband and the lead detective who considers her methods laughable. In fact, the only person who wants her there is Tom Danford, the compelling, criminal attorney fighting to prove that his client is not the killer.

The deeper Susan delves into the case, the more her marriage deteriorates. She has long hidden her unique ability to enter a hypnotized state with witnesses...

It seems the author, Alison Jones is a forensic hypnotist. I wonder if it is somehow autobiographical?

I told you

I told you they love me at the Blood Bank:

They sent me a Happy Birthday wish!

Spectacular Spectacles

I don't want to blame this on aging, but my birthday is coming up (on Sunday).



I now need to wear glasses. Pretty much all the time. But I don't. I usually need them for reading, unless I am outside in bright sunlight. I need them to read Newspapers all the time, even in sunlight. And driving. And using the computer. But I still prefer to take them off when doing housework, or talking to someone, or watching TV (unless I have to read subtitles) or shopping. It's more convenient to take my son shopping with me, to read the expiration dates on the coupons.



But ...glasses? They are quite fashionable these days. And so widespread that they no longer say "men don't make passes at girls who wear glasses."



What an outdated, sexist expression!
Remember when the put thick lenses with clunky black frames on Marilyn Monroe to make her look unattractive?!! If you remember that, then you are older than me!!


I guess I could wear contacts, but then I don't have a choice whether to wear them or not. I think if I wore contacts it would be difficult to take them off, and that is something I would only want to do once per day. So, if I'm at work I'll wear my glasses. Or reading. Or driving. I keep my spare pair in the car.


So, just what is my objection to wearing glasses?



Because they make me feel older? No, many young people wear glasses.

Maybe because they make me look more studious? No, that's a good thing.

Because they hide my beautiful hazel eyes? Noooo.



What is it?!



Maybe because they continually slip down my nose? Maybe because my hair gets stuck in the hinges and they pull out some hair when I take them off? Maybe because it seems my eyes itch and I need to rub them more when I am wearing them. Does anyone else have any of these problems? I can't be the only one!

And even though the optometrist technicians all say "you'll get used to them!" It still seems like I'm walking on a moving boat when I'm walking down the stairs. And I don't really want to (get used to them)!


Just stubborn, I guess. If I do wear them all the time and get used to them , then I will be dependent on them.

Maybe if I call them spectacles, I'll like them better. Is there another word for glasses?

Vision-aids.
Bifocals.
Double monocles.
Lenses.
Opticle technological magnification apparatus.
Vision Enhancement Devices, or VEDs, for short.

I'll stick with spectacles, or maybe spectaculars. Yeah, I like that!

Interview with a Vampire

Yesterday I saw my friendly phlebotomist on the bloodmobile in order to donate some blood. I've got premium in my veins and the Blood Bank calls me every time they have a bloodmobile in my area.

So I must thank my supervisor for the title as he said I could take a break to go to the bloodmobile during my work day and I should log it as "interview with a vampire!"

I remember reading awhile ago that the Japanese were trying to come up with a synthetic blood which would not carry infrections and could not be rejected by any blood type. I guess they haven't yet developed one that good, or else it may be too expensive to produce in mass quantities, because I cannot find synthetic blood on the internet. I can find "substitute blood products" which are synthetic, but they can't do everything blood does.

One type of these products is called Perfluorocarbon emulsions (PFCE) and they are considered oxygen therapeutics, which apparently are superior to hemoglobin in delivering oxygen to the cells according to this PR release:

Due to the synthetic nature of PFCE's, the product has a shelf life of 2 years and minimizes the risk of infection or immunologic reaction resulting from a transfusion (i.e. mismatched blood type, mismatched Rh factor or diseases such as HIV and Hepatitis B). In addition, PFCE's dissolve oxygen (unlike hemoglobin, which binds the molecule), which allow them to load/unload oxygen 2 times faster than hemoglobin, extract >90% of the transported oxygen and as evident in Oxygent™ (a current PFCE product), deliver the amount of oxygen of 1-2 units of red blood cells in one unit of PFCE product (100-110 ml). About 4-12 hours after infusion, the PFCE particles are removed from the circulation via normal respiration.

Blood is an amazing fluid. It serves many functions.

to be continued...

Growing Wiser

These are the words of Marianne Williamson in The Age of Miracles:

This is not the end. It is the beginning...Growing older just happens; growing wise is something else again. The challenge of age is not to skip life's disappointments, but to transcend them. We transcend them by learning the lessons they have taught us, however painful...But the miracle of change is that nothing that happened before this moment has any bearing on what's possible now, except that what you learned from it can be fuel for a magnificent future.

My apologies to Marianne for changing the word "midlife" in the last paragraph to "change."

Very Persuasive

This Is For Real {!firstname_fix}

Do you ever get emails that begin like this?

I like it when they do use my first name, but often when I sign up for things I use a pseudonym so I will know that it is not a true acquaintance of mine.

Another interesting subject line frorm my email today: Let your volcano erupt!

Now that is enticing. That gets me to open the email.

The subject on the first line, gets labeled as junk.