Jordan Independent - vacation - Comments

I can sympathies i manage

jasonla — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:10:30 -0500

I can sympathies i manage over a dozen pop accounts all of which get sorted in outlook to their own inbox i'm receiving hundreds a week in junk and have seen them all. When i went on vacation to greece as i do each year for about a month i came home to find that when i set outlook to receive new emails there were a few thousand in the inbox. I try and take my laptop now on vacation to download emails on a regular basis last time i was away i was on a Royal Caribbean thankfully they had internet access. Occasionally i'll respond to emails like this taking up the time of the scamers and hoping i saved someone from dealing with them and just for kicks to see what they say when you respond. Whats sad is the real people who've sent them money thousands upon thousands from all over the world. Search youtube for nigerian scam and you'll see them being arrested over there but that does little to stop the emails.

But without all those junk

Ruth Anne Maddox — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:00:09 -0500

But without all those junk e-mails, I would never repeatedly win the lotteries of various countries or receive any "Dear Sweetest" letters begging for help with moving money into American bank accounts.

Just today, I was offered 20 percent of $45 million U.S. if I just use my bank account as a vehicle for exchange from Johannesburg, South Africa.

Mr. Richard Laubsheri assures me, "After going through some old files in the records, I discovered that if I do not remit this money out urgently it would be forfeited for nothing. The owner of this account is Mr Smith B. Andrew, a foreigner, and a miner at a Gold Company, a geologist by profession and died since 2000. No other person knows this account or anything concerning it, the account has no beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that the company does not know anything about this account ..."

I am so honored to be chosen (insert strong sarcasm here). I can't believe that people actually fall for this and lose their life savings "helping" people.

I talked to Brandon

Mathias Baden — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:16:15 -0500

I talked to Brandon yesterday. He said he was leaving at 4:30 a.m. today for the trip. Read more about it in his column, which is on page 4 of today's print edition.

(Mathias Baden is the editor of the Jordan Independent. He can be reached at editor@jordannews.com.)

My goal last night was to

Brandon — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:47:24 -0500

My goal last night was to get my car cleaned out for the trip. That did not happen, so I’ll be working on it later this afternoon. That’s probably my least favorite part of any trip.

I, too, vote for green

Mathias Baden — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:34:01 -0500

I, too, vote for green grass.

(Mathias Baden is the editor of the Jordan Independent. He can be reached at editor@jordannews.com.)

At least the snow is good

Brandon — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:37:59 -0500

At least the snow is good for one thing, as a customer who visited the office of the Jordan Independent pointed out: more snow means fewer bugs. Still, I’d rather have blue skies and green grass at this point in the year.

Yea, enough with the snow

Tom Schardin — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:46:48 -0500

Yea, enough with the snow already.

Snow! Snow! Enough already.

Brandon — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:40:07 -0500

Snow! Snow! Enough already.

Was the weather already

Brandon — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:35:31 -0500

Was the weather already short lived? The forecast calls for only 40 degrees or so today, while it’s supposed to get colder tomorrow. What happened to our sunshine days?

Everyone, including Editors,

bigbobbob — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 16:48:41 -0600

Everyone, including Editors, (or especially Editors) have the experience of sending out what they think are important words of wisdom and getting little or no response. Kinda a 'blah' reaction. Sort of like "Hollering down the rain barrel", ... and the echo says "Ain't nobody here but us chickens". We, like it or not, got a War and an Election going on. All that tends to distract and to remind us . . . We ain't got it too bad after all.

One would think that with

mittens — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 12:52:03 -0600

One would think that with the attitude of many Americans too scared to venture outside and be the least bit active that they could at least share in the conversation here. It sure beats a marathon of "Hogan Knows Best".

Speaking of spending time

Brandon — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 11:32:42 -0600

Speaking of spending time outside enjoying the snow, I got a pretty sweet set of cross country skis for Christmas this year. Anyone have any suggestions on where the best place to use them might be?

I keep checking in to see

Ruth Anne Maddox — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:32:26 -0600

I keep checking in to see who's posting what and I haven't been able to find a topic to chime in on because it's like a ghost town here...

Come on, people, turn off the TV (it's all reruns) and share. It's not like you're outside playing in the snow, because I've been unsuccessfully looking for people doing that, too.

Woe is you two

Mathias Baden — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:03:00 -0600

Woe is you two ...

(Mathias Baden is the editor of the Jordan Independent. He can be reached at editor@jordannews.com.)

Hi, Brandon. I'm waving at

Ruth Anne Maddox — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 15:42:09 -0600

Hi, Brandon. I'm waving at you. Can you see me? I'm here at my desk in Shakopee. Didn't come in as early as you if the time-stamp is correct -- and will try to sneak out before 5. Don't tell.

Oddly enough, though, I did actually have an interview today, so I got a little something done while I was here.