Let's get the self-pity part out of the way, then I'll move
on to less self-centered stuff ...
( A much less expensive fumble this time, but it
still bugs me )
Less self-pitying but still kinda whiny,
( more DTV grumbling )
In the not-whiny-just-mundane department, last week I got
my first SMS phishing attempt. (I tweeted it at the time but
never got around to posting here.) While I was coming out of
the pharmacy I got a text message alerting me to unusual
activity on my credit union account and directing me to call
a certain phone number. This, of course, did not smell right,
so I asked Google-SMS for the main number of my credit union,
called that, and said, "I just got an alert on my cell phone
that sounds like a phishing scam, but I thought I should check
just in case," and got an immediate response of, "It's bogus,
and we're aware of it. We don't know where the scammers got
the phone numbers from." When I got home I searched the web
for the phone number in the text message and found a bunch of
news stories about the scam.
As I recall, pure water isn't an especially good conductor
of electricity. How much stuff does there have to be dissolved
in Baltimore city water, for me to get a static electric shock
when I put my hands under the tap on especially crackly days?
(The knobs are acrylic, so I don't get zapped turning the water
on; not until my finger hits the stream of water.) I should
try it in the dark to see whether I can get a visible spark
(probably not).
And yes, I'm aware that tap water isn't supposed to be pure.
At the very least there'll be chloride and fluoride ions in
there. But I have evaporative crystal formation evidence that
Baltimore water has a significant mineral content. I don't
notice a strong taste, but the rime (I can still call
it 'rime' when it's mineral deposits instead of ice, right?)
on the pan sitting atop an electric radiator (the space heater
in the bathroom) tells me what my taste buds don't. (I'm seeing
much less mineral buildup this year than in past years, by the
way.) I just hope that whatever minerals are in there are good
for me (which seems not-unlikely).
And at this point I'd better start doing other things I need
to do, instead of trying to remember what else I'd been planning
to write about that escaped my foggy brain.
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