Saturday, February 2, 2008

"Taking care of Business and workin over time..."

So I'm not technically working over time but I'm working none the less.

Currently I am:
Feeling: mellow
Listening to: the soothing music from my boss' Reiki room
Tasting: the last few bits of a mint I had 10 mins ago
Located: At work

So here I sit. Another day at this boring a** job counting the minutes till I can go home. Since my boss is in her healing room with a client, thus leaving me to entertain myself, I decided its interwebs time. Normaly I will fire up th ol' lappy, search for a connection to wireless and amuse myself for a few hours. Today was a day to check my email. Losts of junk mail, (seriously? How many different "male enhancement" drugs that "realy work no lie" can there possibly be?) and an email from my Uncle Tim. A forward message as usual. Normally he sends emails with funny pictures and jokes in them. But today my poor poor uncle fell victim to "the mega money hoax". You know the one where Bill Gates wants to give you a buttload of cash just for sending this email to all your friends. Being the skeptical cynic I am, I decided to do a quick Google search of the names listed in the actual email (after having scrolled through 10 miles of previous senders). After just typing one name into Google search I was given exactly 1,810 different websites basically stating the "Pearlas Sandborn(or sanbourne)" is just a figment of some bored computer geek's imagination. She doesn't exist. Yet tons of people still forward this bogus email.

I belive the reason people will forward things of this nature is because it claims to yeild a lot of money in return for your minimal efforts. Yes I said it. The drive behind this is greed and people's general laziness. I'm just plain fed up with it. I get enough junk email from strangers(I really dont think Oprah needs my money). Now my own family is getting sucked in.

In an attempt to either make my Uncle Tim laugh his a** off or make him stutter with embarrasment over his temporary lapse in intelligence I replied to his email(after cutting out the 10 miles of previous senders YOUR WELCOME!!!) saying "Do a google search on little Miss Pearlas Sandborn. Let me know what you find :) love Andrea". I wonder what he'll reply with, if anything at all.

Have a nice day!

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