March 3, 2003

• Brian was nearly the victim of yet another scam.  Someone attempted to get him to send them the money while posing as the seller.  The actual seller was, in reality, slower than tar in contacting Brian which was almost his undoing.  Luckily there were some complications in the transfer of funds to the crooks and Brian was able to stop it before we were out $1500.  We did lose the wire fee of $100.  An expensive lesson (that could have been even more expensive) learned.  We will never use E-bay to buy anything that cannot go through Paypal.  It is too risky and wrought with fraud. 

  
  

                                                  

  
  

  In the meantime we had a nice time yesterday with the family.  Gary and family were up and the kids entertained Serra~V so well she just had to be in the thick of things.  By the end of the evening she had gone from her weeble wobble version of crawl to the actual thing.  She is still a little slow at it and would rather find furniture to help her cruise but is making progress in that direction. 

  
  

  I have had the impression of late that our country is in the calm before the storm.  Life seems to keep going rather normally at present but at the same time things are building rapidly toward conflict.  I wonder where our worlds will be in a year.  Our brother in Law, Ian, who is Holly’s husband was shipped out last Wednesday to Turkey.  He is in the National Guard.  He was given only a few days warning and now he is gone for a year they are told.  A YEAR!  I can’t imagine sending my husband away for that long.  Imagine those that have children.  If only those intent upon doing evil would “disappear.”  We have people trained to make that happen.  There are too many prophesies about what the future holds to really hope for a peaceful outcome to the events that are mounting. 

  
  

                                                                   

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