Another issue of the Wireless Outpost Newsletter. This newsletter
is for the soon to be educated cellular phone user community. If you know of
anyone else that may have an interest in our newsletter, make sure to forward
them a copy. Now we move forward at Mach II speed!
[Note: This newsletter is delivered Bi Weekly on Wednesday.]
IMPORTANT WARNING TO ONLINE SHOPPERS! READ THIS RIGHT AWAY!
We heard that a couple of wireless carrier websites were hacked and customer info including payment info has been stolen. If you have used a wireless carrier's website to make a purchase then you need to check your credit card statements for irregular activity. We know that this info is generally sold to criminals who will go online and make unauthorized purchases from websites that allow anonymous purchases. We have to deal with it all the time.
As a disclaimer, not all shopping sites are easy to hack customer info. We are not sure how this information was stored or how anyone could have gained access to the customer info. The word is that it may have been ex employees. Just an FYI. Our shopping cart is set up to protect our customers because we have to actually access a password protected server that allows us to pick up only half of the payment info. The other half of the payment info we have to obtain through another means which has two codes to confirm that the two parts match. It is more work for us but it saves us and you from becoming victims of fraud.
Some of our readers have gotten upset with us in the past for not mentioning these cases in our newsletters before so we are putting out this advisory today. Again, we do not have all the details to confirm it was an inside job. With all the encryption security, firewalls, etc. used by wireless carrier websites now, it is very likely to be the case. Either way, it is a felony offense and the jerks who did this should be locked up for quite a while.
THE HYPE OF MEDIA CAN CREATE SOME SCARY CONSUMER PERCEPTIONS
I can understand being concerned about driver distractions, or anything else that is going to endanger lives for that matter. So I am going to give you a little background info, and then you will see why I say the media can be dangerous and irresponsible at times.
In a previous newsletter, we gave you the statistics on driver distractions that showed that cell phone use was less than 1% of those contributing factors to an accident. Some advocates of driver restrictions said that they were skewed because people wouldn't tell the truth about cell phone use being the cause of an accident. Why wouldn't people say they were using a cell phone? It is a less embarrassing option than say putting on makeup or changing the radio dial.
Now we move along to the Florida Highway Safety Office's latest report. These reports are compiled from police reports all across the state. This reports supports the National Highway's report on cell phones being less than 1% of the contributing factors to an accident. The Florida report showed that out of 102,293 crashes that were tallied for the first seven months, only 140 of them had cell phone use as a contributing factor.
What I am about to tell you now will probably surprise some of you. I know that I was floored when I read it because of one other item that should be noted which I will get to in a moment. A poll was recently conducted on 1,000 adults on traffic concerns. A whopping 75% of them said cell phone use while driving and they felt that cell phone use should be banned while driving except for emergencies.
Here is why I was stunned beyond belief. People's concern with others driving while using a cell phone was above that of being concerned about drunk drivers! I get really angry with irresponsible media sources spewing garbage in an attempt to improve ratings or increase subscribership. First the media played on consumer fears with the cell phone hazards and when that waned they moved right along to driver distraction. Driver distraction may be equated with drunk driving but drunk driving is far more dangerous due to complete mental incapacitation of the vehicle operator.
I spoke to a good friend of mine who was a journalist student some time back. He told me some interesting things about journalism. The first thing he told me was that I should always remember that any type of journalism on TV, radio, or in print was yellow because they wouldn't cover all the facts to a story. I heard that before but I didn't think about it too much. It wasn't until much later that I learned just how yellow journalism could be when I realized that being Politically Correct (PC) was the in thing nowadays.
When you read about a "victim of violence", see if the media tell you if they had a criminal record as long as your arm. They won't because it isn't PC and it doesn't make for a good story. I am not saying that all victims are criminals. But the media
do have a tendency to distort the information available and
neglect to tell all the facts. Either that or they fail to discover all the facts before they roll out a story. Frankly, I am tired of criminals being labeled as victims by the media or supposed victims crying wolf and the media
jump all over it for ratings and circulation and then we find out it was a hoax.
I would put the media and politicians in the same category. Neither one of them are in touch with the real world and most of them are out to promote their own agendas and views to the public. Here is why I get so irritated with the media. They throw so much garbage at us to think as collective beings similar to those Borgs(?) rather than think as individuals that even the terrorist say that it is the media that weaken us as a people. We are inundated with subliminal propaganda couched in "news" articles. I am not referring to any type of government conspiracy here either.
Then we have violent criminals who are paroled early only to find that they go out and commit another crime. But they are victims of society or the prison system failed to reform them. The media may not think they are worthless scum as I do but that is because they do not have to deal with reality. They want to report a fantasy world but it often breaks down to fraud, falsehoods, and lies, in my opinion. But the media
have a strong power of influence on our perceptions. That is why people consider talking on a cell phone to be more dangerous than drunk driving. How much more ridiculous can this get?
SWALLOWING A WIRELESS CAMERA ALLOWS DR's AN INSIDE LOOK
A company in Israel has just advanced medical science to a whole new level. I have had to have intestinal probes done for ulcers and I can't say it felt good or was
a lot of fun. I think I had rather rub salt in every scratch I should ever get from now on
than go through one of those probes again. Here is what the company is Israel has manufactured.
They have build a wireless camera that can be swallowed as a large pill which is about the length of a quarter. The patient wears a device on their waist which records the video transmissions from the pill as it travels through the intestines. As some point you will flush the pill down the toilet but that is okay because they are disposable and relatively cheap to make.
The images are transmitted in color too so that doctors can look to see if any nasty tumors may be hiding inside or if there is some other medical
problem that may require treatment. The device has passed both the FCC and FDA requirements for use as a medical telemetry device.
The only problem seen so far is in trying to reduce interference on the transmissions of the device thus the waist pack. With being only a few inches away it should work fine. Once that has been figured out we can probably expect to see more wireless devices being designed for medical use. The FCC has already set aside wireless spectrum for this purpose.
What we may see in the future is some type of device on a tether that can be put into the blood stream to check for heart disease. That would take out some of the pain and intrusiveness in doing that type of procedure. I am getting on
a roll here. Then maybe it can do some type of sonic blast to unclog the arteries to the heart. I am not a doctor so I don't know if they can do that or not.
In case you would like to research it further, the company name is Given Imaging. The pill camera isn't available yet but it should be in the near future. If
you're interested in other wireless video devices, check out Pedagog too. They have wireless security cameras which have been rolled out on the market.
SELLING WIRELESS ON THE WWW IS THE DOMAIN OF THE CARRIERS
The verdict is in on companies trying to go online to resell wireless services and products. It is almost entirely the domain of the wireless carriers. Many companies who have tried to do it have failed
miserably. Even companies backed by the cell phone manufacturers who once claimed that they would do fine are struggling and ended up laying off people.
Now retailer Amazon.com has tried to get into the game. They are entering an area
where many others who were better positioned in wireless have failed. There are two basic reasons for this happening. The first being that consumers use the internet to research more than they use it for purchases. The second is that wireless carriers don't really want to partner with online resellers. Why would they when they have offline stores and agents to sell their wares.
The other obstacle is that online sales as a whole only account for 1% of all retail sales. In a good year they may account for no more than 1.9% of all retail sales. This is the reason why many online companies wash out of the business by trying to become pure play internet retailers. Casualties among wireless oriented internet retailers has been quite substantial.
Those that haven't gone out of business have changed their business orientation or have gone to reducing their prices so low they can only afford a no frills website. I recently saw one website that once offered a variety of products. In an effort to survive, they have switched to offering products from two manufacturers and the selection is very limited. They couldn't afford the web design so they moved over to one of those prefabricated online store companies. Makes you wonder why they even bother.
The latest findings suggest that the only way to sell online is if you are selling wireless services and products direct. Wireless is a tricky business in and of itself which requires plenty of marketing expertise that is not required in other industries. That and you need the necessary resources to give consumers the biggest bang for their buck while earning a profit.
It is a good thing for the carriers that we are not bigger than we are. If we were then we would give them a serious run for their money. We would do that by employing guerilla tactics like they have never seen before. But I don't think we are even a bleep on the radar right now so our size doesn't really matter.
Anyway, it looks like Amazon is the last place you can go outside of a carrier's website to do some comparison shopping. If the past history serves to repeat itself, Amazon too will drop the service in the future. Enjoy it while you still can or start bookmarking the carrier websites. From the looks of things, there aren't going to be any left in a while.
THE WIRELESS CARRIER NETWORKS HAVE NOTHING ON EVC!
I don't mean the wireless networks. I am talking about a network of industry contacts. Have any of you ever really looked at your address books and thought. Wow! I have a lot of names in here. In our business, we compile names of industry contracts and we don't really think about it. Recently, I was going through our contact lists that we have accumulated and I was a bit surprised. Why was I surprised?
Well, after going through it all, I realized that we have contacts with
a lot of people in the industry covering all different parts of the wireless industry. Our contacts include those people who started out in the wireless business from the first year it was offered to the public as a service. That was 17 years ago which is a very long time for someone to be in this industry.
Most of us migrated into wireless from another telecom specialty. I took a quick
look-see at how many companies we had out there for cell site acquisition and selection were on file. A couple of dozen. So then I am getting goofy trying to think of something to stump me. So I chose wireless payphones. 2 results. Wireless payphones? I will have to check on that some more because
I can't say I have ever heard of them. I will research that and post it in our next newsletter.
My point being that I was stumped trying to find something to stump my search. That is how extensive our contact list has become. Our list just keeps growing too because there are so many new services and products becoming available to both
commercial and consumer users.
So here is the deal. If any of our readers find a product or service they have heard about and would like for us to do some research and post it in our newsletter, let us know. Believe me, it will
be difficult to surprise me as I have seen a lot of different products being put out on the market. If I hadn't then I wouldn't be writing about them in just about every newsletter issue we put out.
The new products and services you read about in here, the majority of the general public has no clue they exist. We have had people contact us a year later about a product or service that we wrote about in one of our newsletters. Speaking of our network establishment. Let me give you a blast from the past on disposable cell phones.
Remember the disposable cell phones that were supposedly being offered by small company out of Florida named TelAmerica as a MLM scheme. (Not the other TelAmerica located outside of Florida.) They were the ones that had potential distributors trying to convince us to jump on the wagon or we were going to miss out on this fantastic opportunity.
Not only were we unable to locate the actual company but their MLM disposable cell phone program has suddenly disappeared and their potential distributors moved on to other
activities. I wonder what happened to the Florida company's exclusive rights to market the disposable cell phones?
I think I am going to run off to be an investigative reporter. The only thing that has held me back so far is that I have an aversion to starving. But I make my contributions to the contact list too. I have every fast food
restaurant within a 1 mile radius in there. It's grouped under the title Fat Food. Remember, a nutritional diet is important to your health. I follow that advice religiously and so should you.
HAVE YOUR TRIED TO ACTIVATE YOUR CELL PHONE WITH A DIFFERENT CARRIER?
This article was written at the request of Richard T., a subscriber
of our fantastic newsletter. His comments and questions were related to why he couldn't switch his cell phone from one carrier such as Verizon to another carrier like Sprint PCS even though the two of them use the exact same model of cellular phones. A very good question to have asked! We will do our best to explain it here in a general sense.
In some cases, you cannot transfer cell phones from one carrier to the next. This is especially true of national coverage prepaid cellular phones. In a nutshell, prepaid cellular phones have a special software built into them to ensure that the airtime cards used can only be used for that specific carrier's network. On a postpaid billing level, this applies to those carriers that have only offered digital service since their inception. In this instance that would be Sprint PCS and AT&T Wireless.
However, you can transfer a phone from say Verizon to Cingular and from Cingular to Alltel provided the phone you are using supports the network they use. This means that the carrier's network has to support CDMA or TDMA phones depending on which type you have. CDMA is most common today. But you cannot take a phone from Sprint PCS and use it on AT&T's networks nor on Cingular's networks either.
The one thing to keep in mind is that Sprint PCS and AT&T Wireless are the smallest of all the major carriers. In an effort to retain customers they have "locked" their cellular phones to their networks. In other words, you can only use the phones they offer with service on their networks. As a consumer, you will be reluctant to switch carriers because you would have to buy an unlocked phone to use on another carrier's network.
Even if you have a Qualcomm 2700 phone being sold by say Verizon Wireless and Sprint PCS has the same model available, you still will not be able to transfer the phone over. The phone being sold by Verizon is considered "unlocked" or not restricted to just their network but the phone with Sprint PCS is "locked" which means it can only be used on their network. The "unlocked" phones are not (and I use this term loosely) "compatible" with locked phone networks such as the one used by Sprint PCS.
Another advantage to having locked phones is that the carriers can repurchase used phones locked to their network at a substantially lower cost and then resell them at a profit to consumers who lost their phones. However, the phones are still sold at a lower price than it would cost to replace the phone as new. It is not an issue of ripping off customers, it is an issue of survival as a smaller wireless carrier.
Neither Sprint PCS nor AT&T Wireless have the network coverage that the major carriers offer to cell phone users. Nor do they have the number of subscribers using their service as the larger carriers do either. This means they do not have the necessary revenue to build out their network as quickly as the top 3 carriers can. In an effort to compete, they are figuratively speaking guarding their borders by choosing to offer service in this manner.
The disadvantages are that existing cellular phone subscribers might be reluctant to switch to their service because they cannot take the phones with them to a new carrier. Especially when you have
aggressive promotions by Verizon Wireless who offers an updated phone to subscribers every two years as part of their service. But Sprint PCS does have one advantage over the other wireless carriers. They are normally the first to roll out new features with their cellular phones. They were the first to offer voice activation, phones with color LCD screens, and a host of other features in the past.
It has worked to appeal to some consumers who were using other carriers because they wanted the new features and were willing to switch over to Sprint PCS even though they had to buy a new phone. So you will need to take into consideration that if you switch to Sprint PCS or AT&T wireless then you will not be able to take your phone with you to another carrier if you are thinking of moving on.
Thanks to Richard, it looks like we will have a new addition to our ebook when we do our annual update in March. If anyone else has something they would like us to write about, please send us an email at
cpn@cellularphonenews.com
and we will see what we can do to include it here.
THE LATEST ON INTERNET CRIMINALS WHO HAVE NO CLUE (MESSAGE FOR OSAMA TOO)
Back on my soapbox to ridicule criminals. My favorites are the internet criminals. Excuse me if I am not politically correct and I do not portray these people as
victims of society. I just like busting their chops every now and then. That and for some reason we seem to get fraudulent orders every week. On to my ranting of the clueless criminals.
First it was criminals in America who attempted to place fraudulent orders with EVC. We kept busting them and providing them with reservations for a "taxpayer's vacation". Word must have gotten around because we don't see
any more of these morons trying to place fraudulent orders on our site. Well we did have one but we had their phone permanently disabled. I do hope they were not expecting any important phone calls!
For a while, all was quiet and then we started getting fraudulent orders mostly from eastern
European countries like Romania. Since we knew that the FBI was there to assist Romania with setting up a state criminal division, we politely informed them that the long arm of the law could reach out to them. I don't know if it was a criminal ring or what but suddenly we had no more fraudulent orders from there.
For the last 6 months or so we have been getting fraudulent orders from French Indonesia aka Vietnam. We know they can read
English because they place the orders in English. I also know they hate having their country called French Indonesia. When they do not get an order they respond with this type of statement in a follow up email.
*****
Hello Dear Sirs.
We are taking holiday from our family in Vietnam. We need your animal phones ordered quickly. We please ask that you deliver them items to this hotel presented on the order. Very good thank you.
*****
Yeah right. I will process that order right away. Besides as a red blooded American, I always tell people I am going on holiday because I like to pretend I am British. I would look at an order like that and say what holiday weekend is so long that somebody would take their family to French Indonesia? And why do they need novelty phones while they are on vacation?
From the looks of the above email statement, I think it is a safe bet to assume that Microsoft software hasn't spread around to French Indonesia yet. A simple grammar check would have fixed that. The worst part is that we get these types of orders every week from there. We didn't have the heart to tell them that the credit cards they were trying to use have already been cancelled.
They must have gotten the info from some website or customer database that was hacked because they had complete information of the credit card holder too. I can see them now feverishly placing an order and getting all excited thinking they just pulled a fast one on the rich
Americans. I couldn't believe that the most recent one was on 9/23/01. They make all kinds of stupid mistakes that trip red flags even if they didn't send a follow up email to their order.
We responded to the email presented on the order with a subliminal message. It contained the following message:
MOVE TO AFGHANISTAN REAL SOON! AFGHANISTAN HARBORS TERRORISTS AND WELCOMES FRENCH INDONESIAN CRIMINALS TOO. MOVE TO AFGHANISTAN REAL SOON!
In case you didn't know, there are French Indonesian Freedom Fighters who have said they will join Bin Laden's cause to eradicate the American Dream. I think they are the ones who keep trying to buy stuff from us using stolen credit cards. At least they used to until we put up a new message stating we will not ship to Indonesia.
While I am on the subject of cowardly terrorists. Let me go ahead and create a subliminal message for Bin Laden and his friends in this newsletter.
YOUR COURAGE IS AS IMPRESSIVE AS THE SIGHT OF A SLUG. YOU LOOK LIKE GOATS. YOU SMELL LIKE GOATS TOO. TO STOP BATHING IS NOT CONSIDERED BIOLOGICAL WARFARE. FREDDY KRUEGER HAS BEEN ASSIGNED AS OUR NEW AMBASSADOR TO YOUR COUNTRY. WE WON'T LET YOU STARVE. A CARE PACKAGE OF PORK CHOPS IS ON THE WAY. EAT THEM AND YOU ARE A CANNIBAL.
NEW WEBSITE COMPILES INFO FOR USERS TO LOCATE CELL PHONE DEAD ZONES
The publisher of the website written about in this article is a man on a mission. What has got him on a mission? The lack of real information available to consumers on wireless coverage. Specifically the holes in wireless coverage known as dead zones. When he couldn't find any information on the subject, he decided to create a website where this information could be found. So we asked him about his website and why he created it. Here is his response.
"I created www.deadcellzones.com out of frustration with my cell phone service and lack of consumer information regarding carrier coverage areas in the Los Angeles area. Most carriers paint a very pretty picture of how they cover the entire metro area. However, we all know this is not true! Their coverages are marred by
sporadic areas of service break-ups or flat-out no
service at all.
"After recognizing we had identified a HUGE problem and scouring the web unsuccessfully for solutions, we knew we were on to something. Everyone we asked told us they could identify at minimum 2 or 3 specific areas or intersections in the city where a dropped call was expected -- the infamous "I'm going to lose you in a second..." Based on this research, we decided
to assemble a comprehensive collection of dead cell zones in major metros. This grass-roots effort entails cellular users across the country to contribute to our database, which will arm consumers with REAL information about local carrier service.
"Over the last few years I have estimated that approximately 1 out of every 5 of my cell phone calls resulted in a dropped call. (This may be a conservative number for some other carriers.) My provider claims to have technology to reimburse me for these calls if I simply redial the number. Unfortunately, after tirelessly reviewing my invoice every month, I've determined that their technology doesn't work! So you ask yourself, why can't the carriers fix this problem? No, a better question is why WOULD the carriers want to fix this problem? If I initiate or receive 3 calls to the same person in one minute because of being dropped, the carrier makes
approximately $.75 cents for one minute of air time. Is this fair? Doesn't it make sense to be charged for only $.25 cents of air time? If my estimates are correct, I waste $240 per year on 960 (80 per month) dropped calls based on a $1,200 annual bill. You can do the math to figure out how much money the entire wireless consumer base wastes throughout the country on dropped calls. It's a big number and big problem that doesn't appear to be improving any time soon!"
That just about sums up the website and why it exists. Oh, he also stated that he started it up because he felt that cell phone
users were frustrated with their cellular phone service and needed a way to vent. Not a bad idea if you ask me. I should have thought of it first. In fact, I am banning the entire internet population from putting up anymore wireless websites unless I think of it first. But if we did that then we wouldn't have any websites worth visiting so I will retract that ban.
You may not think you need this service now but there is a chance that you will in the future. We would recommend that you help build this free service to help not only yourselves but everyone else who may find your input to be useful. As more of them pop up, we will keep you informed. We hope they help you in becoming "educated" users of cellular phones.
READ ALL ABOUT CELLULAR PHONE USER'S BEEF WITH SPRINT PCS
Did you know that carriers have bought just about every domain name they could think of that associates their company name with the word "sucks"? Looks like the webmasters at Sprint PCS missed one and whoever designed it did a pretty good job. There are others but they are a bit tougher to find based on the domain name. This one is actually kind of funny.
Even if you are a fan of Sprint PCS, you might still get some chuckles out of poster's comments. It isn't that I really dislike Sprint PCS myself. I just like busting their chops. When I get bored with them I will move on to AT&T Wireless next. But I don't use either of them as my wireless carrier so I have no reason to dislike them. You won't find a ATTWSsucks.com or anything like that because the carrier has already bought them.
But this website is obviously for Sprint PCS users who think that the service sucks. The website has a place for horror stories, links about Sprint PCS, another called "Sprint
Exposed", and one for "My story" which relates to the website owner's own experience with Sprint PCS service.
Here is where it gets bizarre. They have employees of Sprint PCS who have
written to the publisher and agreed with many of the comments posted on the website! Sure there are always disgruntled employees at any company but some of these posts are quite revealing. You should check them out and see for yourself. So far there are only five posts from employees. But I think this website is still kind of new because I believe this is the one that I checked out earlier this year and it wasn't up yet.
Here is something that you may miss if you were looking for it. At the bottom of these pages is a link for Sprint PCS affiliates Terms and conditions of use. Click it on and read the content that comes up on that one. It is quite humorous and they make many disclaimers of not being affiliated with Sprint PCS.
At the bottom of all that they have a scrolling link that runs across the bottom of the page that states the BBB gave Sprint PCS the lowest rating ever. You have to be quick with the mouse to click the link but it will redirect you to a website article. Save it for last though so that you can check out the rest of the website.
I would have to say that this is probably the most uniquely designed cell phone that I have yet to see. I would say that GitWit has some people who think outside the box. Everybody has been talking about getting to the teen market and these people seem to have come up with the right product. At least it looks that way. Here is what they did.
What is the one item that most kids are familiar with today that turns them into Zombies besides a TV. The answer is a keypad control for home video games. Not only is it designed to look like a video game pad, they took it a step further with adding "smart" skins. Put on a new skin and it will change the color and features of the phone.
The company that came up with these Teen Phones is GITWit Inc. The name appears to be some kind of play on the lingo that some teenagers use which is translated as "Get With" without the proper enunciation. They are a startup out of Kirkland, Washington, and the CEO is a former
executive of Microsoft that invented Direct X.
The way we read it, they will be looking for the skins to be able to be changed as frequently as the cell phone owner, in this case a teenager, would like to do. The cellular phones themselves will be used on CDMA and GSM networks. We are not clear about this but these phones may be used as prepaid cellular phones geared to the teen market.
So how much will it cost for these "skins". Probably around $20 to $40 a piece. One unique piece to the skins is that if a music
label wanted to co-brand the skins, they could put out their artist's music in the form of ring tones that the skins would recognize and play to notify the cell phone user of an incoming call or as the message heard on voicemail.
Looks like they are on the right track and are the first company to really identify what might trip the trigger of the teen market. We would have to concur that they might have something here with the design and function of these types of cell phones. Nobody ever said that cell phones had to be manufactured to look a certain way.
We can't tell you when they are expected to hit the market because that information wasn't released. Then again as a startup, you can never be sure that they will ever be released if R&D costs exceed their current capitalization through the Venture Capitalist funds. But if they manage to get a product out there, they will have captured a niche market that most companies have avoided due to the high churn rate.
COMMENTS FROM THE WATER COOLER - ARE WE GOING TO BE SUED?
Me and my big mouth, eh? Keeps me a bit paranoid especially when I hear another attorney or two just signed up for our newsletter. I can't help but ask if we are going to be sued for writing something that somebody didn't like. I get these little reassurances that I have the right to free speech, lots of attorneys use cell phones bonehead, etc., etc. I lost count on how many attorneys have
subscribed to our newsletter.
Mark, why do you think your brethren sign up for our newsletter? Is it because they use cell phones or is it because they are out to get my
measly little paycheck as a settlement? Did any of you see that movie with Mel Gibson called "Conspiracy Theory"? At least Mel was smart enough to make his newsletter an underground publication. Now that the FBI has introduced Carnivore into our ISP networks, I may be in for some big trouble.
Government employees are subscribed to our newsletter too. I think they are tracking everything I write to see what rules and regulations, real or otherwise that they can enforce to shut me up for ten minutes. Similar response to that too. I am told that although poorly paid and overworked, they too might own a cell phone. The other reason I was told that they sign up is because they might actually care what the public thinks. Doesn't that sound like a perfect response or what?
I think it is too perfect. They have to have been rehearsed. If you ask me I think they are all in on this conspiracy to steal my paycheck and toss me into a rubber room. Attorneys are out to bankrupt the company so I will be without a job and find real employment somewhere. I even saw a car parked across the street with tinted windows. Freaked me out. Then I realized it was mine. Whew! What a relief that was.
Now that my Prozac is starting to take effect. Don't forget to thank our government employees for what they do. They often have thankless jobs and take the brunt of our frustration and abuse. Sometimes they even sacrifice their lives for us. Too often we take them for granted and they are as human as we are. It is not their fault that we have to cut through so much red tape. We need to let them know we appreciate what they do for us because we may not get to do it later.
As far as the attorneys. Um. Ah. I am pleading the fifth on that one! But I will say I love the attorney who helped me get a divorce from the wicked witch of the west, er, was that north? If it wasn't for him I would have never had the chance to meet and marry my beautiful wife and soulmate.
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