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Eleven Million five Hundred Thousand Dollars

07.31.2008

Do you ever get these emails?

From: Malik Walker Chambers Subject: Notification of Bequest
To: 
Date: Thursday, July 31, 2008, 2:32 AM
Notification of Bequest

On behalf of the Trustees and Executor of the Estate of
Late Andreas
Schranner, I hereby attempt to reach you again.

I wish to notify you that late Andreas Schranner made you a
beneficiary to his will.He left the sum of Eleven Million
five
Hundred Thousand Dollars.($11,500,000.00 ) to you  in the
codicil and
last testament this will.

This may sound strange and unbelievable to you,but it is
real and
true.Late Andreas Schranner until his death was a very
dedicated
Christian who  loved to give out.

His great philanthropy earned him numerous awards during 
his life
time, Late Andreas Schranner died at the age of 71
years.According to
him this money is to support your activities and to help
the poor and
the needy.

Please You should fill the information below for more
directives and
informations and send it to the email address below,
maliklawchambers_solicitorsltd@hotmail.com

1.Full Name
2.Telephone number,
3.Age
4.contact address/Country
5.occupation

Yours In Service,
Barr. Malik Walker (Esq)

Do you ever send a response?

Dear Barr. Malik Walker (Esq),

Upon most glorious receipt of your email communication, I am humbled in response to your having a most pleasantness of days. I am saddened to hear of the passing of the Late Andreas Schranner. Unfortunately, my activities were not in research of helping the poor and the needy, but rather in how many licks it takes one to reach the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop.

This has been a question long left unanswered in my country of birth for many generations. Millions have sought the answer but none have gleaned the truth from investigations upon their independent behalves. Although my research is not that in which you have had it listed within, it was important research upon which I was charged with investigating on the behalf of the Late Andreas Schranner and hope that with your help in the much needed funding I may continue.

I would enjoy contacting you in person for more details via the telephone if it would be more easier than the electronic email. I do not have a phone, as I am against federal regulation fees imposed on the customer, but I am able to barter for the use of my neighbor's phone for 15 minutes on weekdays. If you have a telephone number and time in which it would be convenient to gain contact, please let me know with utmost hastings.

Joining you in mourning, [Some Name I Made Up]

I wonder when I'll get my eleven mil?

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Horrible NPH

07.27.2008

I gave in to internet pressure over the weekend and downloaded Dr Horrible's Sing-a-long Blog from iTunes - a musical comedy superhero whatsit from Joss Whedon.

So far I've watched the 3 acts of the show (is it a show?) twice. Despite not liking musicals, I'm singing along with the songs. But what makes this worth watching is the content gay man Neil Patrick "Doogie" Harris.

So go watch it. Buy it off iTunes. Steal it off one of those file sharing servers. Just go watch it!

After you watch it, NPH's Old Spice commercial where he used to be a doctor, for pretend. Until then, I'll be trying to get my PhD in Horribleness.

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Deck Begone, Day Two

07.21.2008

It's almost a week later, but I'm finally posting pics of Day 2 of the back deck demolition. Day 1 went pretty quick.

After Day 2

So now the deck is gone. In about 2 weeks my contractor returns from vacation and starts on the rest of my fixit list. More pics to follow!

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Deck Begone, Day One

07.15.2008

The grand fixing up of the house has begun. Phase One: Get Rid of the Damned Deck started today. And for anyone that doesn't know me well enough, I've gotten a contractor to take care of all of this. I'd end up tearing down the house if I tried any of this.

Before:

After Day One:

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Canuck Stoop Watch... ENGAGED!

07.05.2008

The Canadian Dollar is worth 98 US cents right now. Good for Canada, bad for anyone looking for deals north of the border. There are a couple of things I've been waiting to pop up on my Amazon radar: Bret Harts autobiography and season 2 of Joey (Don't judge me!). The Bret Hart book has been available in Canada for a while, and I've just been assuming sales for the first season of Joey were so poor that the studio didn't think it was worth the effort to release the 2nd season.

I found myself cruising some message boards and noticed a thread titled "Joey Season 2 UK DVD Release". Huh? After digging through a couple of threads, it seemed that not only was Joey coming out in England, but season 2 had been available in Canada for a few months via Canadian Amazon. Canada and the US share DVD region encoding, so it should all be compatible. I took this opportunity to fill up my cart with Joey and Bret Hart. Unfortunately, Canadian Amazon is treated as a separate business than normal Amazon, so my free shipping upgrade account didn't apply. Even worse, there was a $12 shipping charge due to changing countries, or something like that. But I think of this as one of those times I found what I wanted, so it's worth paying a little bit of a premium to get it.

After placing my order, I thought of checking out eBay to see if I could pick up the Bret Hart book and Joey DVD. Even with the international shipping charge, I still saved about $20 via Canadian Amazon from what eBay sellers were charging.

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