Until then, enjoy the ride.

You know how you get pharmaceutical spam?

The ones that try to sell you assorted medicines over the Internet?

Buy your Xanax from us!

Get your OxyCodone from us!

Order your Adderall from us!

Just got one.

They said they “do not require recipes” for the drugs they sell.

Freudian slip? LOL.

I imagine they meant that they do not require prescriptions.

They will even sell me acetaminophen without a prescription! Amazing. I never knew Tylenol was hard to get.

At any rate, I’m not going to buy drugs from a (a) spammer with a (b) domain name consisting of random letters and numbers who (c) uses an order page titled “my[slang term for male body part].html” especially when the medications offered have nothing to do with that.

Try to hit all their bases, maybe.

Silly spammers. Tricks are for kids. LOL.

Do you know what’s great about Wordless Wednesday?

This…

Cool, eh?

Story: LAPD seeks tighter regulations on toy guns

I think various places around the country have similar regulations.

I remember when I was a kid, I had a popcap gun that looked real, except for brightly colored red crosshairs at the end of the barrel of the gun. In later years, I’ve noticed that more than just the tip of the barrel on toy guns are in bright colors.

But, you know, as kids, we took those bits of red plastic out, so the gun would look real. More fun when you’re playing.

Of course, more dangerous if you were to encounter police or something, which I imagine is why more than the tips of toy guns these days are made of brightly colored plastics. (Of course, we might have spray painted them dark anyways.)

It’s a good idea to protect kids, of course. The last thing you want is a kid playing cops & robbers with his friends wind up getting shot because someone thought he had a real gun.

So, you make toy guns brightly colored so as to distinguish them from the real thing.

Okay, so what happens when criminals start painting their real guns in bright neon colors?

Will that make police and others more hesitant to shoot? Will they think, oh, that’s just a toy?

Will we end up with fewer accidental shootings of kids, but more shootings of police?

And, what happens when real and toy guns become virtually indistinguishable, again? Kids will be less safe? Which brings us back to square one, no?

It would be cool if I had a picture of tanks to post.

But, I don’t.

Sorry.

Odd, we had thunder and lightning last night, but no rain.

Which is good, of course.

But, still, the lightning kept me from doing much on the computer.

Which wouldn’t have been so bad if I had things to do off the computer.

Which I didn’t.

Oh well.

And, so, thus ends another lame weekend blog post.

Just when you thought it was safe to go outside again…

More rain.

Ugh.

Just…

…ugh.

So tired of the rain.

You know, I think I complained of drought before, but now I am complaining about the rain.

There’s been too much of it.

Need balance.

It’s hard to believe spammers can hit a new low, but they can.

This time, trying to bank off of the tsunami that hit a couple years ago.

They even included links to newspaper articles to assure me it actually happened.

Apparently, this bank’s client had $30.5 million in their account.

Since the client died in the tsunami, this account has been dormant all these years.

If no one claims it, it will be turned over to the Hong Kong government.

So, they want me to claim it because I am from the same country as the deceased. And I share other unlisted characteristics.

Whatever that means.

For my trouble, they are willing to give me 30%, the account manager will keep 65% and the bank will keep 5%.

Sad that they take advantage of tragedies like this.

And, you know, you’d think they could offer me a larger share. How about 65% for me and 30% for the account manager? After all, if I don’t help him out, he gets nothing anyway. So, he should be happy with 30%. Greedy twit.

Especially since none of this money is real and he won’t be splitting anything with me. In such a case, I think he could offer me a larger percentage.

But, 30% of 30.5 million dollars? That’s only 9.15 million dollars! Geesh. I used to make more than by winning the European, UN and various other “eMail” lotteries.

The economy must be really bad when even the spammers have to understate the fake money they will give you.

Would it be safe to stay in the basement if the world ends?

That was apparently a popular question last month.

The answer, of course, depends on how the world ends.

Now, according to one preacher, the world was supposed to experience the Rapture last month. Well, in case of Rapture, staying in the basement isn’t going to prevent anything. God will find you. The point of the Rapture is to save people from the end of the world, so being raptured would be safer than staying in your basement.

On the other hand, if aliens come to Earth and begin abducting people in a Rapture-like fashion, then your basement may or may not be safe, depending upon the sophistication of their sensors and transportation technologies.

If the world ends in a flood, staying in the basement will likely not be safe, unless you have a waterproof basement with doors with waterproof seals and all that, which is likely not standard issue in most homes.

If the world ends in severe winds, you may be safe in your basement.

If an asteroid hits the Earth, you’ll be safe in your basement, unless, of course, it’s a direct hit, in which case, you’ll be flatter than a sheet of paper whether you were outside, upstairs or in the basement.

If the Earth explodes, staying in your basement will not be safe.

If the world ends due to a nuclear, biological or chemical attack, you may be safe in your basement if it has been sufficiently secured against such things. Various instructions for turning your basement into an effective shelter under such circumstances are widely available online, including old government resources from the 1950’s and 1960’s.

If the world ends due to a zombie apocalypse, you may be safe in your basement, if you can secure the doors and windows and if your zombified relatives and neighbors don’t have the key.

If the world ends due to a gamma ray burst, you may be safe in your basement, but it won’t much matter because everything on the surface of the Earth will be dead and you’ll probably starve to death as soon as your food supplies run out.

If the world ends due to the sun dying or going supernova or whatever, your basement will not be safe because you’ll either freeze to death or fry to a crisp.

Of course, the end of the world is the end of the world, and your basement is part of the world. So, if the world ends, so does your basement. Generally, though, when people talk about the end of the world, they probably mean the almost end of the world, as in the end of civilization as we know it, and not the end end. Because the end end is the end end, you know?

So, the bottom line is, whether or not you’ll be safe in your basement if the world ends will depend largely on how the world ends.

Well, the baby bird I photographed Saturday is doing well.

Apparently, the parents did return after all.

Above is the baby bird’s picture from Monday. It’s a little blurry and hard to see, but he/she has grown. Not shown in the picture is a lot more budding feathers than he/she had on Saturday.

And his/her eyes are open now.