Thursday, December 13, 2007
In the last half hour of peace and quiet
I'm going to try to get a little post written before Mike comes home. Unless he has a darn good explanation for why my car keys were not where I had them hidden (very long story cut to spare you more of my tedious ranting), we are NOT going to be putting up the tree this afternoon as planned. A stampede of many herds of drama llamas will probably ensue.
Another son, Big Sterling (Onetruckertorulethemall) has emailed to say he's "turtled up" in his semi somewhere in Massachusetts, because of the snow storm. We are expected to get snow here tomorrow, as well. I think today was the only sunny day out of the whole past week. In other cold-related news, I am making a BIG pot of home-made vegetable beef soup even we speak. Or, you know, as I type and you subsequently read.
I have been making fairly good progress in re-deranging things around here, especially my work area. Book sales are going slow but steady, and there have been some kind of cool ones. A while back, I sold a children's book from the 60s to the author, or at least someone with the same name as the author. Last week I was contacted by a lady who wanted to get another children's book post-haste, as a shower gift for a friend. The book was written by the grandmother of the friend (the one the shower was being held for). She knew about it but didn't have a copy--so by now she does!
Yesterday a man called me about yet ANOTHER children's book (they should call this time of year the nostalg-idays!), now rather scarce and pricey. But he wanted a really nice copy to give to his granddaughter. It had been a favorite of his daughter's that he read to her many times when she was little, so now the tradition can continue!
I was also able to use my online biz expertise to help out the son of a friend this week. He had listed a phone for sale on Craig's List, and someone wanted him to send it to a "client in Italy". (Red flag #1) He had gotten an email supposedly from PayPal saying the funds had been taken from the buyer's account, and would be forwarded to him as soon as he sent in proof he had mailed the phone. OMGWTFBBQredflag2!!!!!!
I was 99% sure this was a scam, but had him call PayPal just to make absolutely sure they hadn't changed their rules lately and I hadn't heard about it. He did, and reported back to me that they said he should NOT send the phone, and halt all dealings with the scammer. I suggested that if the guy did give it one last try, he should just say, "Gosh, the funds never got into my account, you better have PayPal run a trace for you."
The guy did call, the kid told him what I said to tell him, and the defeated would-be scammer hung up without saying another word.
I believe the youth today say "PWNED!" on such occasions.
Another son, Big Sterling (Onetruckertorulethemall) has emailed to say he's "turtled up" in his semi somewhere in Massachusetts, because of the snow storm. We are expected to get snow here tomorrow, as well. I think today was the only sunny day out of the whole past week. In other cold-related news, I am making a BIG pot of home-made vegetable beef soup even we speak. Or, you know, as I type and you subsequently read.
I have been making fairly good progress in re-deranging things around here, especially my work area. Book sales are going slow but steady, and there have been some kind of cool ones. A while back, I sold a children's book from the 60s to the author, or at least someone with the same name as the author. Last week I was contacted by a lady who wanted to get another children's book post-haste, as a shower gift for a friend. The book was written by the grandmother of the friend (the one the shower was being held for). She knew about it but didn't have a copy--so by now she does!
Yesterday a man called me about yet ANOTHER children's book (they should call this time of year the nostalg-idays!), now rather scarce and pricey. But he wanted a really nice copy to give to his granddaughter. It had been a favorite of his daughter's that he read to her many times when she was little, so now the tradition can continue!
I was also able to use my online biz expertise to help out the son of a friend this week. He had listed a phone for sale on Craig's List, and someone wanted him to send it to a "client in Italy". (Red flag #1) He had gotten an email supposedly from PayPal saying the funds had been taken from the buyer's account, and would be forwarded to him as soon as he sent in proof he had mailed the phone. OMGWTFBBQredflag2!!!!!!
I was 99% sure this was a scam, but had him call PayPal just to make absolutely sure they hadn't changed their rules lately and I hadn't heard about it. He did, and reported back to me that they said he should NOT send the phone, and halt all dealings with the scammer. I suggested that if the guy did give it one last try, he should just say, "Gosh, the funds never got into my account, you better have PayPal run a trace for you."
The guy did call, the kid told him what I said to tell him, and the defeated would-be scammer hung up without saying another word.
I believe the youth today say "PWNED!" on such occasions.
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