Buddy's Blog

Sorry, I didn’t get to my email today.

Phillip B is a lawyer up in Tennessee, and he sent me a couple things, you might be interested in seeing. The first has something of a WOW! factor, at least I thought so when I viewed it:

The second is some good advice about your security.

1. LONG –TERM PARKING

Some people leave their car in the long-term parking at the airport while away, and thieves broke into the car.  Using the information on the car’s registration in the glove compartment, they hotwired the car and drove to the people’s  home and robbed it. So, if you are going to leave the car in long-term parking,  you should NOT leave the registration/insurance cards in it, nor your remote garage door opener. This gives another thing to think about with all our new electronic technology.

2. GPS

  Some fans had their car broken into while they were at a football game. Their car was parked on the green which was adjacent to the football stadium and specially allotted to football fans. Things stolen from the car included a garage door remote control, some money and a GPS which had been prominently mounted on   the dashboard. When the victims got home, they found that their house had been ransacked and just about everything worth anything had been stolen. The thieves had used the GPS to guide them to the house. They then used the garage remote control to open the garage door and gain entry to the house. The thieves knew the owners were at the football game, they knew what time the game was scheduled to finish and so they knew how much time they had to clean out the house. It would appear that they had brought a truck to empty  the house of its contents. Something to consider if you have a GPS – don’t put your home address in it. Put   a nearby address (like a store or gas station) so you can still find your way home if you need to, but no one   else would know where you live if your GPS were stolen.

3. CELL PHONES

I never thought of this! This lady has now changed her habit of how she lists her names on her cell phone after her handbag was stolen. Her handbag, which contained her cell phone, credit card, wallet, etc., was stolen. Twenty minutes later when she called her hubby, from a pay phone telling him what had happened, hubby says, “I received your text asking about our Pin number and I replied a little while ago.” When they rushed down to the bank, the bank staff told them all the money was already withdrawn. The thief had actually used the stolen cell phone to text “hubby” in the contact list and got hold of the pin number. Within 20 minutes he had withdrawn all the money from their bank account.

4. PURSE IN THE GROCERY CART SCAM

A lady went grocery-shopping at a local mall and left her purse sitting in the children’s seat of the cart while she  reached  for something off a shelf. Her wallet was stolen, and she reported it  to the store personnel. After returning home, she received a phone call from the Mall Security to say that they had her wallet and that although there was no money in it, it did still hold her personal papers. She immediately went to pick up her wallet, only to be told by Mall Security that they had not called her. By the time she returned home again, her house had been broken into and burglarized. The thieves knew that by calling and saying they were Mall Security, they could lure her out of her house long enough for them to burglarize it.

4.1   MORAL OF THE STORY

1. Do not disclose the relationship between you and the people in your contact list. Avoid using names like Home, Honey, Hubby, Sweetheart, Dad, Mum, etc.
2. And very importantly, when sensitive info is being asked through texts, CONFIRM by calling back.
3. Also, when you’re being texted by friends or family to meet them somewhere, be sure to call back to confirm that the message came from them. If you don’t reach them, be very careful about going places to meet “family and friends” who text you.

Another großartig old LP from the salvage Shoppe…

Howdy. From 2010…

Hey, I took violin lessons for four years. I was about as good as Effie.

Actually, it was Saturday in China when I posted yesterday. But today is really Saturday. I think. This is Friday’s strip. Time for a tune-up.

Does this ever happen to you? I love chili, and last week I made my standard 6 quarts. But I forgot and left it on the stove for an hour. It boiled down to mush. It was awful. I added some already cooked hamburger and cooked it again. Well that didn’t help, so I added a bunch cayenne powder and cooked it again. No good. So I added a bunch more of poblano peppers. Ditto. So I added another can of beans and another can of tomato sauce and a bunch more of whole cayenne peppers from my garden and cooked it again. My old step daddy used to say “Mixing horse shit and ice cream don’t improve the flavor of either one.”

Lisa got it.

I wonder if whoever wrote the music got it from the movie. The film was made in 1957, just 22 years after the movie. And Elvis was really, really great in that performance. In my view, he was the greatest entertainer of the 20th Century. Do you know who was the top American performer in the first half of the last century? Al Jolsen started in 1910 and continued performing until 1950.

How many of you can get this one – Frau G and I like the old movies. We get them mainly on TCM on Hulu. One of the really nice things is there are no commercials. Last night we watched Public Hero Number One from 1935 starring Chester Morris, Jean Arthur and Lionel Barrymore. Lionel played a drunken doctor, and he was great in the role. You might remember Chester as Boston Blackie. I always liked him. It was a gangster movie. The bad guys were the Purple Gang. Here’s the quiz: In what other movie was the Purple Gang? Answer tomorrow, but I’m sure some of you will know it.

Any idea what these tiny mushroom are? They are growing on my potting bench and they are about 5mm tall.

Back in 1989 I had a carpenter do some work on my stairs. His name was Ed something. Frau G called him Ed Nedhead. He was a nice guy, and he looked something like my drawing of him. The most remarkable thing about him was that he could talk exactly like Donald Duck. No matter what I asked him he’d answer like Donald Duck, all the while spraying spit. Very funny.

I just figured this out last week: