John

As a sometime traveler, I like to keep up on current trends. Those jerks who planned to blow up American airplanes flying in from the UK brought about another ripple in the TSA pond, so TSA responded with a new set of regulations ( List of Prohibited Items )

Items in the list include antibiotic creams, like Neosporin, toothpaste, mouthwash, lip gloss,  bubble bath, and liquid mascara. Items that can be carried into the passenger compartment of an airplane? Gel-filled brassieres and personal lubricant. I can\’t brush my teeth, but Trixy can be a busty vixen, and, well, I won\’t even to mention anything Rodney might be doing with the personal lubricant…

Just seems absurd to me.

I got this in the email today:

FROM: Mrs GLORY JOHNSON

AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT.
AFRICA DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB)
OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA-FASO.

Dear Friend,		(PRIVATE & ONFIDENTIAL)

I am Mrs Glory Johnson the Director in charge of auditing and

accounting ection of Africa Development Bank (A.D.B) Ouagadougou Burkina-Faso

in West Africa. With due respect and regard I have decided to contact you on a

business transaction that will be very beneficial to both of us at the

nd of the transaction.

During our investigation and auditing in this bank, my department came

across a very huge sum of money belonging to a deceased person who died

on 31st October 1999  in a plane crash and the fund has been dormant in

his account with this Bank without any claim of the fund in our custody

either from his family or relation before my discovery to this development.

Although personally, I keep this information secret within myself to

enable the whole plans and idea be Profitable and successful during the time

of execution. The said amount was U.S $10,500,000.00 (TEN MILLION FIVE

HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS ONLY).

Meanwhile all the whole arrangement to put claim over this fund as the

Confide next of kin to the deceased, get the required approval andtransfer this money to a foreign account has been put in place and directives

and needed information will be relayed to you as soon as you indicate your

interest and willingness to assist me and also benefit your self to

this great business opportunity.

In fact I could have done this deal alone but because of my position in

this country as a civil servant (A Banker), we are not allowed to operate a

foreign account and would eventually raise an eye brow on my side

during the time of transfer because I work in this bank.

This is the actual reason why it will require a second party or fellow

who will forward claims as the next of kin to the Bank and also present a

foreign account where he will need the money to be re-transferred into

\\on his request as it may be after due verification and clarification by

the correspondent branch of the bank where the whole money will be remitted

from to your own designation bank account.

I dont want this money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill.

Our Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained

unclaimed after some years, the money will be transferred into the Bank

treasury as unclaimed fund.

The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned

by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkina be cannot

stand as next of kin to a foreigner.

I will not fail to inform you that this transaction is 100% risk free.

On smooth conclusion of this transaction, you will be entitled to 30% of

the total sum as gratification, while 5% will be set aside to take care of

expenses that may arise during the time of transfer and also telephone

bills, while 65% will be for me. Please, you have been advanced to keep

\"top secret\" as I am still in service and intend to retire from service

after I conclude this deal with you.

I will be monitoring the whole situation here in this bank until you

confirm the money in your account and ask me to come down to your country for

subsequent sharing of the fund according to percentages previously

indicated and further investment, either in your country or any country you

advice us to invest in. All other necessary vital information will be sent to you

when I hear from you. I look forward to receive your e-mail or call 0226

7644 9047.

Yours faithfully,

Mrs Glory Johnson.

I don\'t know - it sort of sounds legitimage to me. Right...

She\’s having issues, I guess, with posting a photo of \”appropriate\” size. Not hard at all, really, with the tools Word Press gives you. First, you need to upload an image: Upload, select, hit the upload button.

Then in the Browse All window, select the photo, and send it to the editor. With the image tool, change the file name from blah.thumbnail.jpg to blah.jpg to bring a full-size picture in:

But that might be too large an image, so select the image, and click the image tool (the TREE – the TREE!) and use it to adjust the size of the image (after renaming it)…

Or, you can simply push the picture up and use the thumbnail version (no need to use the image tool):

which conveniently sizes it for you.

Voila! Pictures of the kids!

I got this photo mailed to meAnd this is Cassie, our dog, a Chow Chow / Australian Shepherd cross (we think). It\’s pretty easy to post photos with WordPress.com

Just testing, actually. My sister wants a blog. I\’m the feasibility study. This is a picture of me standing in Berlin recently. The red guy next to me is a bear.  (More about the bear)