I won!

The National Lottery Board
Home Office:L## 1NL Liverpool,
P. O. Box ####, UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Reference Number: UK/######/68
Batch Number: 074/05/####
Ticket Number: ##4756005451##.

WINNING NOTIFICATION:

We happily announce to you the draw (#1377) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY, online Sweepstakes International program held on Wed. 4th March, 2009. Your e-mail address attached to e-ticket number: ##475600545 1## with Serial number ####/02 drew the lucky (lotto) numbers:

03 21 25 32 37 46

Bonus ball (#15)which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e match 6 plus bonus. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £540,000(Five hundred and forty thousand pounds sterling) in cash credited to file KTU/####118308/03. This is from a total cash prize of £3,240,000 shared amongst the (6) lucky winners in this category i.e Match 6 plus bonus.

All participants for the online version were selected randomly from the World Wide Websites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online.

Your prize award has been insured in your name and is ready for claims. To begin your claims therefore, you are advised to expeditiously contact our licensed and accredited claims agent for Overseas Lottery Winners within a period of 21 days (date of this email inclusive) for the processing of your winnings and remittance to your designated bank account after all statutory obligations have been satisfactorily dispensed with.

This promotion takes place Bi-weekly. Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your £540.000(Five hundred and forty thousand pounds sterling) would be released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe.

Please be informed that claims not processed within the stipulated period may be forfeited to the pool without further notice.

Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact her. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims is processed and your prize remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned.

To file for claim, fill out the information required in the verification form and establish contact via e-mail between the hours of 8.00am - 7.30pm on Monday through Saturday and contact our overseas claims unit with the information below:

OVERSEAS CLAIMS UNIT
United Kingdom Lottery Fiduciary
Contact Person: Mr. John W---, email:

sec##...@yahoo.com.hk

VERIFICATION FORM

1.FULL NAMES:__________________________________
2.ADDRESS:_____________________________________
_______________________________________________
3.SEX:__________
4.AGE:__________
5.MARITAL STATUS:___________________
6.OCCUPATION:_______________________
7.E-MAIL ADDRESS:_____________________________
8.TELEPHONE NUMBER:__________________________
9.LOTTO NUMBER:____________________ B. DRAW NUMBER:______________
10.TICKET NUMBER:___________________
11.SERIAL NUMBER:__________________
12.AMOUNT WON:______________________
13.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY/INDIVIDUAL__________________________________________
14. COUNTRY________________________________

CLAIMANT SIGNATORY DECLARATION
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I,......................................HEREBY DECLARE THAT I HAVE NEVER RECIEVED ANY FORM OF SETTLEMENT FROM THE UK. NATIONAL LOTTERY NOR ANY MEMBER OF MY FAMILY. I, THEREFORE, DECLARE THAT THE UK. NATIONAL LOTTERY ACTS ON MY BEHALF IN THE PROCESSING AND TRANSFER OF MY PRIZE AS INSTRUCTED BY ME.
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You can go to our online result site to confirm your winnings and also for verification of your winning numbers: www.national-l0ttery.c0.^k/pl@yer/p/res^lts/res^lts.d0

Goodluck from me and members of staff of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.

Yours faithfully,

Mrs Kathleen W--, for

Dr. Carl A. M--.
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program.
Phone :+44- ####066047
+44- ####065627

Or not. I highlighted the bits that made me suspicious, but the punctuation and grammar are just wrong in places. Then there's the fact that I never buy lottery tickets. I hid those numbers and names just in case I won. ha ha ha [I actually hid them so that no one gets jammed up with these people.]

This is...just...incredible

Just found this in an email from a coworker which she sent to several of us; she is a reference librarian:
I assume Hurricane Ike is named after the former president? Think what would have happened if it would have been named after the current one!While I tend to agree that the idea of naming anything after Bush is farcical and probably will end up as a disaster, she apparently doesn't realize that "Ike" is a first name (hello, Ike Turner?) nor that the storms are not named for individuals.

Do y'all see why there are days when I want to put my face through a wall?

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Urban Word:

27/4: 27 seconds a day, 4 days a week, i.e. quite rare

Identifying the person who put this in an email will be easier if I note that her ideal work plan is 27/4. She even includes Sundays in that work-week!

....er...?

There is an etymology blog I scan fairly regularly. Today's post is pretty funny, about the connections between science, shit and Saxons. This, in the midst of finals, when Sparky has the following tests tomorrow: biology, P.E., and world history.

Sue me; it made me laugh!

Also, the medical situation that crash-landed on our heads last week seems to be less terminal than expected. Dean sat up in a chair for a couple of hours today, having had the tube removed from his throat yesterday morning. He's eating (well, ok, I'm not sure "protein shakes" is the same as "eating") and off almost all the meds.

Ideas for someone age 34 who is trying to not drink himself into his father's state: where can he hang out where there won't be a temptation to drink. Besides church, cuz...yeah, not gonna happen.

I have a sinus headache.

Beast is home. His mom had a biopsy yesterday. His dad is not doing well. Right now, we're all holding steady.

K, I need to write the daily email to my family about Dean.

Mood: Good, but VERY tired
Hair: the less said the better
Listening to: Beast talking to his mom on the phone

Oh, and today's the Fourth Anniversary of this blog. Party hats on, y'all!!

Who reads their own sigs?

Pursuant to a phone call I just received, I noticed my work sig for the first time in eons:

Cat A. Loger
Cataloger/General Reference Librarian
Yellow Birdie Public Library
10-8 W. DT Way
Birdieville, USA
555 / 555-5555
mailto: cat@birdieville....

How interesting that sometime since the big blowup last winter I changed my job title [back] to "Cataloger/General Reference Librarian" from "Head of Technical Services." No further need to gild my job title-lily (which technically is Head of TS, I think).

Just another small benefit brought to me and the rest of the world to whom I write emails by the Powers That Be in our lovely, collegial consortium. Thank you, PtB {raspberries}. I am just me again. W00t.

What's on YOUR mind?

Today was one of those days when virtually everything I dealt with came with a heaping helping of double entendre, starting with my arrival at work at noon (when I saw a box with a handwritten label saying NETFLIX, only I thought the LI was a U), all the way until the meme I just finished about wine (which mentions wild meat). Snakes were involved. The number 69 cropped up a couple of times. Book titles seemed much too easily misinterpreted. "I'm a Lumberjack" showed up in Launchcast, along with a crunk-y song that had me running for the Urban Dictionary website to look up Lipton teabags. Is there some kind of astrological alignment happening that I'm not aware of? Or, as was suggested to me, is it all just me? I need my skull opened up and rinsed with soapy water.

Whatever. I sure hope tomorrow I get back to my sweet, clueless self. (hah!)

Two days late, but oh my!

Google revealed a new service a couple of days ago, tied in with their Gmail. Too cool.

Nothing original to say

Yep, just more of the same going on in my life.

So I'll share a bizarre email that arrived in my inbox this morning from Heph@estus Greenw00d [I changed the vowels, it arrived with 'a' and 'o's intact]. Here's the email, sans attachment but otherwise complete:

We dogtrotted, including the dog, to the grove, then followed

And, just adding to the bizarre-ity, here are the ads at the side [I was going to include the links, but changed my mind--I've changed vowels here, also]:

Sp0ns0red L!nks


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