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Hot Playground Day

Outside with Daddy

Happy Birthday Becky!

No pictures for this post...I am borrowing space on JEO's blog to wish my friend--BCN-BJPF a Happy Day and blessed year! jmlo

BAND-AID

A series of pictures in which JEO models a plastic BAND-AID after an unfortunate episode involving a disposable razor.

Of Drum Solos and Technology

For those of you who have not had the opportunity to see the Newsboys in concert, here's a video clip of the technically neato rotating, verticle, drum duel, solo thingy that they do at some of their concerts. Maybe lobiwan could build his own drum rotating platform with some spare bailing wire, plywood, and scrap metal that he has lying around the farm.

In Which I Share My Vocabulary Thus Far

Though my vocabulary regarding the written word is more extensive than my spoken vocabulary, I felt I should share my spoken vocabulary here. This is so that all of you who have had, or will have, the privilege of speaking with me may know what it is that I have said or will be saying.

• Apple (n, adj) - 1. Apple 2. Sweet 3. Desert 4. Fruit
• Boo - Peek-a-boo. Usually accompanied with hands covering the eyes
• Book (n) - 1. Written, bound work 2. Read to me
• Byebye - 1. I'm leaving. 2. Your leaving so see you later 3. You should leave now
• Choochoo - Noise a tree makes. See tree.
• Daddy (n) - 1. Father 2. Mother. As in "Hey! Parental unit, give me some attention and meet my every whim and fancy."
• Done - Whatever it was I was doing I am finished and ready to move on to something else
• Down (v) - To remove from a high place to a low place. As in Get me out of this high chair so that I may run about wildly, putting my hands into anything I can touch.
• Eat (v) - 1. I would like sustenance 2. Feed me 3. Ingest the food I don't want
• Eow - Noise a cat makes
• Hello - Greeting used to draw attention to my irresistible cuteness
• Ilk (n) - 1. Cow juice 2. I'm thirsty
• Ite (n) - Light. Object which provides luminesence
• Ialdijeklgi - Explanation of some deep philosophical concept. As in Ialdijeklgi agoo truck wepnoo ignay tree.
• Mama (n) - Mother. See Daddy
• Moo (n) - 1. Cow 2. Bull 3. Any large animal vaguely resembling a cow or bull
• Nana (n) - 1. Great grandma 2. Bananna
• Nighnigh - 1. Good night 2. Time to go to bed
• No - 1. Appropriate answer to any question 2. No
• Oobry - Blueberry
• Ouk - 1. Ouch 2. Pain 3. That looks like it would be painful Often used interchangebly with owie
• Owie - 1. Sore spot 2. Nearly invisible, or invisible, perceived blemish on the body
• Pooh (n) - Anything that looks like... well, anything that looks like pooh. Refried beans, mud, etc
• Tankoo - Thank you.
• Tootoo - 1. Have a nice time being gone 2. Credit card 3. Toodle loo 4. Break a leg Usually accompanied with byebye. See byebye
• Tree (n) - Train
• Truck (n) - 1. Crayon 2. truck 3. something cool 4. Airplane 5. any large vehicle
• Whadoing - 1. Questiong asking what's going on 2. What are you doing?
• Whaisdat - 1. Request for identification of an object 2. Give me the thing you are holding
• Whergego - 1. I can no longer see the thing that I was interested in 2. Where is the item I was interested in?
• Yuck - That's icky

Watch Star Wars Episodes IV - VI - Quickly (in color)

In case your inner geek is alive and well and itching to be let out, take a gander at these 3 Star Wars episodes. You may want to get some pop-corn...

Episode IV

Episode V

Episode VI

JEO

What I could do with $15,000,000

I'm so very excited that this opportunity to claim $15,000,000 from somebody I have never heard of residing in the UK has come my way. They say that altruism is dead and that there is no such thing as a free lunch. Well, for all those nay-sayers and pessimists, I submit to you proof in the letter below that one may indeed reap the benefits of shady dealings with random people with poor writing skills and lack of a command of proper English grammar:

OFFICIAL NOTIFICATION OF THE AVAILABILITY OF DEPOSIT BOX FOR YOU.

I represent Morgan & Associates, a local firm that arranges untraceable asset management and safekeeping of special and valuable packages and baggage in trust for reputable clients that are honest and trustworthy.

We have information concerning of the availability of a safe deposit box with a Vaults Storage Company which has been listed in your name. A benefactor(testator)made you the beneficiary of the deposit box which contains US15,000,000.00. as a secret trust.

Secret trust arises where a person called testator (benefactor) transfers property to another party (trustee)to be held on trust for the benefit of a beneficiary who does not know that such a trust exists until the time sated in the instrument creating the trust have reached.

Financial assets like this are considered unclaimed when contact with a beneficiary is lost for an extended period or the where about is unknown to the executors of the trust .

This often happens due to a name change after marriage or divorce, an unreported change name and address or expired postal forwarding order,incomplete, illegible records and result of computer and clerical errors. When owners or their heirs fail to claim an asset over a specified number of years known as the dormancy period, those left holding the trust property(money)in a case like this where the trust was invested, probate officer and administrator of trust properties had ordered transfer custody to a special trust account in a process known as es-cheat. your inheritance is now es-cheated to the storage company.

Our work is to provide legal assistance and claims administration through the Treasury Solicitor, Department of the Probate Registry for transfer of custody of the safe deposit box to you as the sole and legal beneficiary.
After which we will arrange the release of the safe deposit box to you.

More Information will be provided concerning the deposit box when you get back to us.

Thank you and I remain


Steven Morgan
Morgan & Associates
23 Lincoln's Inn Fields,
London WC3A 4LH
United Kingdom

Now it is interesting to me that Steven found it necessary to reiterate after writing this very kind e-mail that he has still remained Steven Morgan. Perhaps he is on the lamb and is used to going by numerous aliases. A little research indicates that he has not always "remained" Steven Morgan as may be seen by the same e-mail apparently sent back in early December of 2006 http://419mail.blogspot.com/2006/12/legal-notice-from-stanley-morris-llp.html. He has also "remained" Paul Bishops, Phillip Davies, etc, etc.

A little more research indicates that this "Law Firm" may be a bit dodgey as it appears to have changed addresses quite a few times (based on the same e-mail having been sent to others):

Morgan Legal
66 Lincoln’s Avenue,
London WC2A 3LH
United Kingdom
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Thank you and I remain
Paul Bishops
Bishops & Associates
66 Lincolns Inn Fields,
London WC2A 3LH
United Kingdom
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One letter had this at the top:

Morgan & Associates
23 Lincoln's Inn Fields,
London WC2A 3LH
United Kingdom

And this at the bottom:

Paul Bishops
Morgan & Associates
23 Lincoln's Inn Fields,
London WC3A 4LH
United Kingdom

Maybe the postal code doesn't matter that much in the UK
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Paul Bishops
G.Morgan & Associates
Middlesex, London
United Kingdom
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Thank you and I sincerely remain
Phillip Davies
Associate Attorney
Stanley & Morris LLP

But, all of the addresses I could find seemed to check out on Mapquest. I'm really unsure of which address to use when sending my sensitive account information. I guess I should probably use all of them.

I do feel like I'm getting a little ripped off. No, not because the whole thing seems a bit shady and questionable as to honorable intentions - I have no problem with that. I feel I'm not getting the best deal because some people have been told that there is up to $25,000,000 available. I don't know about you but an extra $10,000,000 would be a nice bit of folding money to have around. I think I'm going to counter offer $20,000,000. What could I loose? After all, some people are only being offered $1,000,000 so I should feel pretty good about that.

The location, whether it is 66 Lincoln's Inn Fields or 23 Lincoln's Inn Fields or 66 Lincoln Avenue, is legit - except for the postal code which is close enough, so I think I'm good there. Based upon all this information checking out I think I'm pretty secure from any Nigerian scam so I'm going to go for it. For those of you who are friends and family and would like to go in on this with me, I hear that the people you contact usually need copious amounts of cash to make the transaction go through, you are more than welcome to. Just send me your social security number, name, credit card information, and a bank account routing number and I'll deal you in.

Thanks.

JEO

When You're on the Wrong Side of the Law

A month ago when my Grandpa Marion, Uncle Matthew, and Cousin Anna came out to visit from the Flat Lands we went to Crater Lake as you have likely noted from the previous posts. There was over 12 feet of snow on the ground which made easy work of activities such as making snow angels, snow cones, yellow snow, and sledding. We weren't interested in the former but did take part in the latter. My daddy thought that sledding off the snow drifts on the lodge would be the most fun as it offered the opportunity to not have to hike through the snow to the actual designated sledding area and to sled with a view of the lake, as seen by these pictures.

Who would have thought, however, that these innocent, benign, innocuous activities should be verboten? Yes, my daddy is a veritable criminal and a ringleader of sorts. To lead his brother-in-law, Uncle Matthew, down the wayward path - unconscionable. Not to mention besmirching my mommy in her association with daddy. It is said that nefarious pursuits such as this are gateways to activities leading to a life of crime and of running from the Law.

Apparently it is illegal to sled off lodge roofs in United States' (including territories) National Parks. It doesn't matter that the lodge is mostly buried in snow. At any rate, the Crater Lake Lodge Sledding Law Enforcement Special Task Force (CLLSLESTF) was dispatched to intervene and remove us by force, if necessary. The photo below shows the captain of the CLLSLESTF intercepting my daddy to bring the full force of the Law upon his wayward activities.

My daddy protested that it's a free country and that many people have died in defense and protection of his right to sled off lodge roofs in national parks. This unleashed the wrath of the the CLLSLESTF captain as shown in the picture below.

Were it not for my daddy's silver tongue and the fact that he is my daddy he would surely have been sent down the river, or slope as it may be in this case, for a very long time.

The moral of the story is: Freedom does not extend to lodge roof sledding, no matter how much snow. If you have any other morals to this story you might want to share, please do. I'm looking for ones to live my life by.

JEO

Crater Lake and Sledding

Big Trees with Grandpa Marion, Cousin Anna and photographer Uncle Matthew