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I rarely answer calls from numbers I don't recognize, however I did put out a few bids and customers have called to discuss prices. I'm also working on a large renovation and the contractor has me in touch with some of the trades as I need specific placement of walls, plumbing and electrical.
A call came through and I answered without saying anything. The guy on the other end spoke first and knew my name. He started into a sales pitch for some computer service. I stopped him cold and told him to remove my number from his list.
Hanging up, I placed his number on my blocked number list.

I've been using the same phone for a few years and plan to upgrade sometime next year. Normally, I clone all my contacts and data from the old phone to the replacement phone. Having repeated the same procedure for at least 5 phones. I'm curious now if the new phone will receive the blocked list in the transfer. I've never seen a blocked caller list to verify who's on it.

Last night, I received a text message from an unknown number stating my Citibank account has been put on hold due to recent activity and to restore the account, visit the link provided to verify.
Thanks but no thanks. That's a 100% phishing scam in an attempt to get my banking information. The beauty is I don't have a Citibank account.

If I did, I would call my bank to verify and not click the link in the text message.
I reverse Googled the number but it turned up nothing. There's a good chance it was spoofed and not really assigned by a phone carrier.

Be safe, tis the season as scammers are in high-gear.

I'm amazed at the lazy people in this world who go through life doing a job that's less than acceptable. In some cases dangerous. Lots of websites hosting proof of these people doing stupid things.

The oldest one that I know of this the dead animal in the roadway painted over when they striped the lanes. Judging by the cars in the photo it happened a generation ago.




Another example is the restroom partition door that belongs on the side with the toilet and not the urinal. Someone bought materials and supplied labor, probably using engineered drawings to construct this thing.



(from this site)

From the time I left the parking lot of my condo at 8:45am until 6:00pm when I returned home, I encountered an amazing amount of aggressive drivers. Three cars in front of me making a U-Turn on a red light. New law? I can wait for the turn arrow. Thanks.
Getting cut off in the parking lot leaving a gas station and that driver runs a red light.
I'm in the middle lane of the turnpike and watching cars on the left of me zoom in front to get into the right lane cutting off cars that were cutting off cars trying to merge onto the turnpike. Shit like this all day!

Of course... it's Friday and a FULL MOON...

This is a fascinating article, and a real eye-opener on the shadowy organisations and players - in this case the Carlyle Group and David Rubenstein - deeply enmeshed in the war against President Trump throughout his presidency. This organisation and this person are connected to every major event in U.S. politics throughout Trump's presidency - from the RussiaGate (fabricated) scandal, to the engineered UkraineGate impeachment (where it was only Quid Pro Joe who took part in any Quid Pro Quo), to the 2020 election via the acquisition of Dominion Voting Systems in 2018, and even - in the case of Rubenstein - ties to the much talked about Event 201 (and less talked about Clade X) which preceded Covid-19 but ultimately served as a roadmap for government-corporate-news coordination in response to the pandemic. A must read:

Might This Be The REAL Reason The US/West Are Concerned About Climate Change?

It's a fascinating Geopolitical Perspective on the climate issue - Well worth a watch.

In Heaven she is known as the gentle one, the war maker, the Advocate. But she was first called the silent one, dubbed by her family, because, unlike her cousins, when she was hungry, or needed changing, or needed a hug. She laid in silence, and her aunties uncles and grandparents alike LOOOOVED her. Of course her cousins, who werent getting the same amount of attention when she came to their houses HAAAATED her.

She would withdraw, and grow even more quiet, when she watched as her cousins would be angry at her not knowing why only seeing their anger. Her cousins bullied her, however her cousins grew tired of being angry, and left her be. Most of them...

Then there were her parents, they began to resent her too. She was never home for more than 2 days a week IF her parents were lucky. Once both her grandmothers fought over her. One was going to whangai (adopt) her as tradition goes the first born is given to the grandparents so when he or she comes of age takes care of them as Maori ways dictate. BUT the other grandmother was not letting that happen. so to appease grandmother julie she was promised the second born instead.

In the beginning for her parents it was absolutely terrifying when they realized, they did not know when she was hungry and that sometimes they forgot she was there, she would not cry out for their love or for food in her belly. But no one knew why... 'The Old Man' she once called Dod told her why, without realizing, when she was in her late teeens.
One night on the piss her old man told her, "Did you know that while your mum was giving birth to you she yelled 'GET THIS f*ckING THING OUT OF ME!!!'? It was later on when after deep thought she said in her mind, "this is why i became silent" she had become terrified of the most pure and fierce hatred from the person who gave birth to her. little did they know she was that intelligent with next level asp. She would like you to know that the greater the gentleness the higher asp, and hers was extremely high.

I would like to end it here for now she broke down crying you know that ugly cry u get when someone u deeply love who passed as a kid? Out of everyone in her life the one who genuinely loved her was her dog. It is the only pure love and happiness she felt that never wavered because guess what? everyone else did later on in her life...

Thats not the sad part in this situation, she stopped instantly after roughly 5 secs, she is terrified someone might attack her scars at her most weakest moment. People enjoyed hurting her at her lowest...

To be continued.



This was the music we were listening to as I wrote this:

Pandemonium at CS this black Friday. Maybe people got caught up in the holiday spirit and emotions were running high. Complaints and spinoff blogs of deleted comments, banning and blogs that went poof in the night. Obviously, some people didn't have much to do.
Things appear to have calmed down now.

I happened to be involved in a construction project yesterday that involved $4,000 in lumber to remake tables at the flying field. Not much sleep as I was up around 4:30am and got to the lumber store with 6 other guys who loaded a rented truck to move all the stuff to the county park.

About 20 volunteers on and off got nearly all the work done. We have a few benches to fabricate today and that's it for the next 10 years... All the structural lumber is pressure treated and painted. The table tops are of synthetic 1x6 boards that are rated for 25 years.
We removed a bunch of warped and rusty folding tables and 'more than doubled' the amount of setup tables.

Issues, issues, let me get you some tissues...

Basically, it's a term to describe a gun assembled from parts (usually bought online) and has no manufacturers serial number. By purchasing a kit or individual parts, someone can build a gun that cannot be traced back to a manufacturer or gun sale allowing the owner/purchaser to get around the legality of registering the firearm.

That's a new twist on the phrase "If guns were outlawed, only outlaws would have guns."

"It's Not About Science - It's About Punishing People You Don't Understand And Don't Like." - See @ 2:50

It's Also 'bout Gov't convincing folks it's DOING SOMETHING.
Whether it's Doing Something that's EFFECTIVE is of Secondary Importance.