Two scams that are in the news hit our household today.

The first was a sextortion email. This one was a copycat though, since it had an an email address that was obviously found through a hack (vendorname@wellgolly.com), but they didn’t have the password to prove that they’d been monitoring the webcam.

And then I got to talk to a “Microsoft Security Team” member that was informing me that the internet on my computer was illegal. I tried to get him to clarify what he meant by expressing confusion about how the internet was on my computer, since as far as I know, it is outside my house, but I wasn’t able to string him along. And just for a point of reference, we only use Macs, iPads, and iPhones here, so there was no way that they detected “Illegal internet activity on my Windows”.

Lots of interesting combinations of numbers on the odometer lately. I noticed this one just before I turned off the car.

We found this Fischer’s Lutino lovebird in our back yard and invited him in. We think he escaped from his cage by lifting up the door because he goes around the cage bobbing his head as he tries to lift the bars. The doors are all zip-tied now, but he still thinks he can get out.

It turns out that he is really a she, as you can see in this video when she presents to our cockatiel.