PayPal Scam

Just received this email from work, sent to all council workers. Thought it might be a good plan to share....

Dear Colleagues,

The following scam has recently come to our attention as a number of Officers received an e-mail containing the images and text below. Further investigation identified this as a very convincing fraud.

Though not targeted at LBB corporate systems I bring it to your attention as an example of the increasing sophistication of scam e-mails. It is easy to see why someone might be fooled and it acts as a reminder to us all to be very careful when online.

The key to validating such messages is to contact the contractor (in this case Paypal) directly. If you received this and were a Paypal customer then you should go to their published website, either using a search engine like Google, or your Favorites. This means you make sure you go to the right website. You must avoid using the links in the fraudulent message itself as they will take you to a convincing but bogus site.

NB. Embedded links have been removed from the image below.

April Fuckwits

Work switched over to a new IT support provider today and guess what, I can't log in and I can't do any work! At all! Everything I need is on my desktop.

Apparently it will take until 5th April to get it back up again. Seriously new guys? All you have to do is reactivate an existing sodding account!


This would be good if I didn't have quite so many urgent things to do this morning and I didn't need to get paid!

Anyone would think it was April Fools Day!


I'm off to curl up in a ball in a corner somewhere.....

FRAZZLED!

I AM OFFICIALLY KNACKERED!

Working 9-10 hours a day for the past three weeks has not been good for me. Worse still, I have to work at this rate until at least end of April.

I am going to be exhausted.

Then, to top it all off nicely, I will have to start looking for work, because I will no longer have a job, thanks to this sham of a government and their cutbacks, not to mention the bastard banks who caused this financial hoo-ha to start with. Retarded fuckheads. I hate you all.

Awesome.

Thank you.

That is all.

Best Lullaby Ever: by Tim Minchin

Fairies

A married couple in their sixties are visited one day by a fairy, who grants them both a wish.

"I want to travel around the world with my husband" says the wife.

Two tickets for a luxury cruise magically appear in her hand.

Her husband says, "Sorry love but my wish is to have a wife 30 years younger than me."

So the fairy waves her magic wand and the husband becomes 92.

The moral of this story: Men who are ungrateful bastards should remember, fairies are female.

The first of many Glitzdays...

KT and I had a really rather fab evening last night. We had planned on going out for a meal for Valentine's Day but as he is somewhat lurgyfied and pennies are a bit on the short side, we opted for a nice quiet night in instead.

Kids were packed off to their rooms by 7:30pm and KT and I sat at my dining table to a home cooked dinner of trout baked with lemon and dill; pan fried prawns, mushrooms and spinach with chilli and lemon (I didn't have any limes!); green salad and at KT's request, some chips. I had planned on new potatoes but chips actually went pretty well! We washed this down with a glass of wine and finished it off with filter coffee and gluten free chocolate tiffin and biscuits.

We sat and chatted for hours. It was lovely to spend some "us" time together with no distractions. Just the two of us.

It made me realise that we do that so rarely and it got me thinking. I think we should declare one day a month to be Glitzday. A day (or evening) when KT and I just spend time together with no-one else around and no distractions. I think that's a good plan.

Happy Valentines Day KT

I love you very much. You mean the world to me and I can't possibly express how glad I am that we found each other again.

I love you for who you are and because of who I am when I am with you. You are my soul mate. You make me feel happy and whole. Without you I would be a shadow of me.

May we have many, many more Valentine's Days together.

Yours Forever

Toni xxx

Congratulations!!!

Michelle and Michael Wilson, congratulations on the birth of your baby girl.

Kyle, commiserations on having three younger sisters!

Harrumphs and horrible decisions

Woke up tired and a bit grumpy this morning.

Firstly, my big double bed was too empty. No KT to cuddle, which was initially disappointing then just depressing.
Secondly, I had yet another crap night's sleep. I recall last checking the time just before 3am.

Seriously, this is not good. After staying with KT for a month between December and January, I've got used to sharing a bed and now find myself in the unfortunate position of not actually being able to fall asleep properly by myself any more.

Given that we are unlikely to be sharing a bed on a permanent basis any time soon (if ever, given his lack of enthusiasm) then I probably need to start weaning myself off, so to speak.

Much as I hate to say it, and really don't want to go there, if this is going to permanently be a "long distance only see each other half the week" relationship then perhaps I had better stick to weekends only. At least that will give me a fighting chance of getting some sleep in future, even if I will hate it and miss him.

I am so tired today I can't think straight.

Quick!

Squish it!