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Dork Update?

Dad (aka The Dork) called the police yesterday.
He claimed that I was not allowing son to have any contact with him and would they come check on son, and file any reports with CYS that might be neccessary.
He claimed that he has been calling son on a daily basis and calls are not being answered, nor messages returned.
He told then he was concerned for son's welfare.
(dad lives in TX, son here in PA)



Well.... the police had a nice talk with son, and left rather peeved at Dad for filing a false report.
Seems as if Dad omitted to tell police that son is the one refusing to talk with him, and that son is emailing dad, but dad is not responding to son's emails.
Son showed the police his phone, where it showed the last time dad had actually tried to call, which was the 16th.
Son offered to show police the emails he has written to dad, to which dad is not responding to.
And. . . son is almost 19 and can talk to he wants, when he wants.
Police agreed that I have nothing to do with this.
Son can make his own decisions.
He simply does not want to talk with dad.
He is angry with dad
It happens.



After the police left, fully satisfied that son is fine, and in no danger, and doing well..... son flipped out.
Son called our attorney, who strongly suggests calling the state attorney generals office in texas and filing a report as to what dad did.
(sigh)

If interested in the history of this mess , see previous post
Update

I can't believe he called the police.
Another odd thing, some of dad's family is less than 2 hours from here, and if he was really concerned, or if the family is, as he has stated, why havn't they called or driven up to 'check-up' on son???
Chit, no one from dad's family has even acknowledged son's graduation from High School...


And it is my son who is the one who is getting hurt out of all of this mess.

Are We That Stupid?

Last night I was deleting some spam from my other email account.
As I was wading thru the spam, a subject line caught my eye.
It was from someone named Rose Something-or-other, and she wanted to introduce herself to her readers.
So I skimmed it.

Oh My Stars!
What a sad life this woman has led. (coff)(coff)
Seems as if she is finally being forced out of her country, where-ever that is, by her government, for political reasons. (Uh huh)
Over the years she and her family have saved a considerable fortune and are in fear that the government will confiscate it from them before they leave. (Uh huh)
So why the email?

Her request is this:
She wants the reader to forward personal banking information to her so she can temporairily deposit her 18million dollars for safe-keeping. (Uh huh)
Upon arriving to the United States, her destination, she will contact the reader so she can reclaim her money.(Uh huh)

Okay so let's just look at this.

Safe???
In MY account???
Like I wouldn't spend it........  
I could certainly use some food and a new car or three
(I currently have low expectations)
And I could always come up with things to purchase with that sort of money.
Would NOT be a problem

Next,
I am going to rush right away and email a total stranger all my personal banking information, including my PIN# (Uh huh)
Do I really look THAT blonde???

This bit of spam is so full of crudbuckets, it is actually funny.
It did make for amusing reading tho.

Time for coffee
Later

G'nite

you know you need sleep when you see this and find it really funny....


Just saying HI 

Later.

its raining

Update:
It's still raining.
Still Yuck.
(but I got alot done today with my library.)
Now I need to get 'young-son' to lift the boxes for me.

Monday AM:
Yuck
Its raining

Later

Its Beautiful Out!!!

Its incredible out!
Hard to believe its July.
The past three weeks here have been so nice weather-wise.
I woke up around 6 and the sun was just starting to warm the flowers and the porch looked so inviting. . .
I had my coffee and my book out there for about 3 hours.
And its still wonderful out.
I put the food out for the critters and as I was on the porch, the birds and squirrels came right over and ate.
They didn't seem to care that I was there, eitehr that or they have come to realize that I supply the food and they know I wont hurt them.
Its really amazing to have dozens of birds, eating breakfast less than 3 feet from where you sit.
I will have to do yardwork today, simply to have an excuse to be outside.
This is the kind of morning that you are actually thankful to be alive, in spite of all the upheavel that might be going on in your life.
That bad stuff doesn't matter right now.
The sun is shining, God's in His Heaven and all is right with the world.
(Until the phone rings, that is.)

Headed back outside before the phone rings.
With coffee.
Later

Mind Ache

Having a mind ache here. 
Been working on my songs blog. 
Just Some Songs blog
Its nothing really, just something that I want to do.  I am taking some of the lyrics/songs that over the years really reached out and grabbed my soul for some reason, and simply putting them on a blog, with graphics. 
Its a Good Creative Outlet, as mum would say.
. . . and its fun
Well, its fun for me anyways.

I need to start writing more.
I seem to go in spurts, so glad I am not trying to make a living at it, I would be broke.
But its been about 7 months since inspiration struck, and I hope its not dead.
I spent some time yesterday reading over some past writings, wondering if I would have any that I would consider 'good' enough to put on here, and. . .
Not Yet.
Most of it is depressing, and sad. 
I dont think that needs to be shared. 
My friend Kev, says I should. 
He has read some of it and has liked it.
I dont know.
He thinks these blogs are good for me because he knows I like to write and ramble and what-not. 
Not sure what I think , but I am having fun playing with them.

Later 

One Way of Promoting Traffic Safety

I could possibly see shooting a warning shot towards a driver for running a red light, but this???

Offbeat News
Tuesday, July 20, 2004
PRAGUE (Reuters) - A Czech police officer took a police campaign to cut traffic accidents a little too far when he shot at a pedestrian who crossed a road on a red light.
The policeman in the western city of Pilsen first fired a warning shot in the air. But when the man refused to return to the pavement, the officer shot at him twice but missed, the online edition of the Czech daily Pravo said.

No one was injured. The police officer faces a criminal investigation.

It's 2:am

Its 2:am, the fear is gone.
Oh wait,,, that's Twilight Zone by Golden Earring, knew I had heard it somewhere.
Good Song,by the way.
Fits this time of night.
Laying there trying to sleep, and its not gonna happen.
Only had 2 cups of coffee today, that was all the caffeine I had.
And the mind is going into warp drive tonight.
Too much stress and not enough ways to burn it off, I imagine.

I need another creative outlet.
In the winter, its no problem, I am a crochet fanatic and do beautiful work.
However its just too dang hot and humid to try and work with yarns in the summer.
I used to work with graphics a lot on here, in the past, but have not done too much of that lately either.
And I am not about to drag out the oils this time of night or year.
That is another winter pastime

I have a thing about colours and how they work together.
My mum says she has never dreamed in colour whereas I always have.
I didn't know you could dream in black and white.

2 theories on this issue:
1) as she grew up before colour TV, she 'sees' things as she saw them growing up
or
2) everyone dreams in black and white, and some just automatically convert it to colour upon wakening.

Just one of those things to ponder in the dead of night, I guess.