Me-Ouch

When I was in NYC a few weekends ago, I quickly glanced over to look at the newspaper headlines on the stand but kept walking.  Mid-block, I am starting to actually think about what I read...was it true?  I couldn't wait to get to the next set of boxes to look again.

I wasn't crazy, the New York Post did in fact read "Cat survives 12-story plunge". 

Seriously?  This made the FRONT PAGE of a newspaper?  I understand that we might not have these fabulous newsworthy things happen all the time, but surely there are better things for a front page article?

How does a story like this even make it into the news?   Would YOU ever call the press when something so mundane happens?  Who cares?  This isn't even the first cat falling incident, after all the whole 9 lives thing had to come from somewhere.  In 2006 a cat fell 10-stories, in 2008 a cat in Toronto fell 17-stories and in 2009 a cat fell 26-stories.  I am sure there are even more articles, but I really have no desire to keep googling that.

What kind of people are those that report such instances?  When I find a mouse in my apartment should I call the news saying 'a mouse invaded my apartment, but he seems respectful and only poops in two spots'.  Or maybe the press will find it interesting that as a single women I tried to fix my refrigerator's water line and microwave but was unsuccessful so I have been with out ice for 6 months and without a microwave for 18 months.  Can you believe I have adapted to THOSE kinds of changes?  Should I start telling people how to live with out relying on a microwave? Maybe I can write a whole book!  (hopefully you realize I am being very sarcastic)

Sure, for all you cat lovers, maybe this story is great, it even included a nice size picture of the cat with the IV...but even you have to admit that it is not front page worthy, maybe buried on page 20 somewhere.

Judgment day rescheduled

Well, dear readers, we are still here.  Harold Camping wrongly predicted Judgement day again this past weekend.  Last week when I found out about Judgement Day from my Facebook feed, I looked it up and read a few websites.  Sure, anything can be made to sound good and you can find mathematical connections in almost anything.

However, I had two major problems.  I thought I was so smart, finding a loop hole in his reasoning...leap year.  However, when I googled leap year, I learned that Julius Caesar developed the Julian Calendar which became effective in 45 BC distributing an extra 10 days throughout the year.  This calendar was revised and added a day in February in years that are divisible by 4, except for years divisible by 100 that do not leave a remainder of 200, 600 when divisible by 900.   Anyway - there went my disproving Harold Camping.

The second was what about all the other religions that do not believe in God?  Why would they be banished with us sinners?  And how come the church wasn't saying anything about it? 

I started to also think about all the people that have spent so much money making underground bunkers and stocking up for the end.  First, if the world was going to explode in a few months - that would include all those bunkers dissolving too.  Second, would you want to live alone on this world if you did survive? What about all your friends?  Can you go through life alone - how do you repopulate the world? What do you do when you run out of supplies?  It is like that movie Will Smith was in, but worse since Earth would be virtually destroyed.

Did I think judgment day was the beginning of the end of the world?  Not so much - see, I have a destiny.  I am supposed to marry and have 2 kids.  I can't do that in the next 5 months...so yeah, I thought I'd still be around.

So, let's take a moment and appreciate that we are here, living a life.  Let's be grateful for what we have and enjoy each and every day.

snooping on partner can mean jail time...

Have you heard about the man on trial for 'snopping' through wife's email?  I was appalled when I heard about this just moments ago. At first, my reaction was....why would he be on the news? What wife would actually press charges?  Then it dawned on me...a guilty one.

I know I am jaded since I have been cheated on.  But the realities seem parallel.  Do you trust your partner? If so, wouldn't s/he have your pass code or you don't have passwords?  Are there things you don't want your special someone to know - why not? 

I am not sure what the vows of marriage are - but being faithful I think is in there...and I am pretty sure when you live together somethings you now share.  If you don't want to share it...then create a really really hard password or create a new email. 

If the password was in the desk drawer - and you lived together...I don't get it.  Just because the lady got caught cheating she needed to get revenge?  Felony misuse of a computer?  That is such bull-shit.  How is it hacking, when he HAD the password?  It wasn't like he sat there for 3 days for 10 hours a day trying random passwords - and finally getting in.  He had it.  Isn't that some sort of consent?

I wish I had SI's password then I would have ended the agony way before I did.  And you what? A few months after I moved out and I was there "visiting" since we were trying to work it out, he set me up on the computer to watch an episode of LOST I missed, and after I checked my email.  Google you don't have to log out, so his popped up.  I then saw so many emails from the mistress. I did read a few since he told me they weren't speaking - but apparently they were engaged for months....and months I mean like WAY before I moved out...six months before to be exact - before I knew she existed.  So snooping was beneficial to catch people in a lie.  Further, after that little bump in the road, a few months later when we were still working it out and he was adamant about helping me trust him again, I asked for snapshots of his email or a temporary password just to check...but that was an impossible task for him since it would only continue to prove him more guilty.   And is it really snooping when you LIVE together? When you are MARRIED? I think not. 

If you aren't guilty, you wouldn't care.  I really hope this guy doesn't get 5 years in jail!

I keep wondering why the law is constantly protecting the more guilty.  So, I snooped through credit card statements and discovered a secret life that my 4 year live in boyfriend had. - So, what, I would go to jail? Isn't that more insult to injury? He already gets the breakup - and then throwing the faithful one in jail? UGH I am getting more annoyed writing so I have to stop...but you catch my drift.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/email-snooping-wife-brings-michigan-man-felony-computer/story?id=12488956