JUSTAFUNGI

I'm finding out the internet dating arena can be a bizarre place. So far I haven't got past the IM (Instant Message) part.

Here are some real conversations I've had on the sites IM board:
My impressions of the conversation are in ( parenthesis)

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*FUNFORUSOR: Hello pretty
(*sigh*what a corny first line )

ME: Hello

FUNFORUSOR: were do you live?
(Oh boy, & a bad speller, better check his profile :/

ME: I see in your profile that you quote "God is #1 in my life" & your religion is Christian.
I don't think we'd get along anyway, I'm an atheist.

FUNFORUSOR: were do you live?
(hmmm, maybe he didn't see my last comment :(

ME: I don't think that matters at the moment. I'm curious, would you date an atheist?

FUNFORUSOR: i am prince
(huh!?)

ME: "I am prince?" What does that mean?

FUNFORUSOR: my name is prince were do you live?
(WTF?)
Conversation terminated.
*AKA Nairobi the dating scammer.
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europman: hello pretty you are looking lovely mmmm

(Yikes!) I didn't EVEN want to explore that avenue.
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cougar pet: I'm depressed.

Me: about what?

cougar pet: I'm too big

me: you mean you are overweight?

cougar pet: no i have 12 inches.

Cougar pet's profile stated he was 28 years old, I suspect 12 or 13.

This is an interesting site with some on line dating statistics & real life experiences.

I know that online dating is serious business for some folks & they really are looking for companionship, marriage, etc... I would not lead anyone on that I thought was serious, but I'm soooo tempted to use some of my acting & costume photos to make up a persona...

Sometimes even I have bad ideas

Yesterday I got the notion to join a online dating site. Nothing serious, I thought it might be fun because I've never done it. I also toyed with the idea of letting my blogging buddies screen dates for me, but, a friend said, that definitely was not a good idea. Not that you guys wouldn't do a good job. But, it might be construed as rude to the other person.
Anyway, out of curiosity I joined a free dating site.
I don't have a very good impression of the whole thing today. Maybe I picked the wrong site or implied something in my profile that I didn't mean. What happened was, 5 minutes after my profile was up, I started getting IMs from men who did not leave a very good impression on me.
One guy said, I burn hotter then a firefly on spaish fly. & he spelled Spanish wrong! Give me a break!

This is something I'm confused about, all these guys want me to join them in a chat room somewhere else & they all seem to be from Canada. It seems a little odd... the last one is calling himself luv_yu8. (luv yu? *snicker* :)
On the dating site IM board "luv_yu8" has terrible grammar & mangles his English so horribly he sounds like a Nairobi scammer. You wouldn't think a person would deliberately want to sound illiterate. Maybe he's French/Canadian?

I'll have to study this further...

THREE MORE & I'M DONE FOR THE SEASON!

Mizz Belle Amore is heading out for her third to the last play of the season!

That's it I promise. No more pictures of me taking pictures of myself. I'm going to go out to my garden plot Sat. morning at the community garden to harvest. I'll take pictures of that.

Immunity from religious manipulation...

One of the benifits of being an atheist is immunity from religious manipulation.

Latest E-mail from my brother to my Mom:
You need to get on your knees and pray. The Lord is sufficient for me you know that, Be strong.

My advice. Stop beating the bible, it is not the answer.

The answer is faith in Jesus in the Lord Mom. Please whatever it is that you have let it go and be free for once.

Otherwise mother, you will continue to live on and suffer for all of the things that you think that you should suffer for. And if it was up to God you will burn in Hell, but Jesus is our savior Mom.. Get it in you brain, you are saved, just believe and be baptized and believe. LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!!

Quoting Betty and Stanley:

> Vern, you are going to have to ask your friends for money. I do not > have any, I believe the Lord is telling you you need to ask them > according to the consulate, time is running out.. they are being > very kind. I thought you had the Visa thing all straightened out > You have friends, use them!! I'll try to do what I can, but, I > don't know what to do.. I just have to trust the Lord, He is my > only hope. Are you getting any feed back from your friends that you > e mailed?? Love you Mom

Hmmm, he's starting to sound a bit desperate, isn't he? Perhaps he's facing jail now? I believe when his visa ran out he went over to Laos for a while. Maybe he moved back into Thailand illegally or something?

Isn't it amazing how people use their religion to act stupidly or use it to conveniently blame God for their foolish behavior? Take my brother for instance. He gives away everything he owns & moves to Thailand with $8,000 because God has a plan for him to save the heathens. He hooks up with a woman & starts living with her within the first two mths. it's Gods idea of course. When it all goes sour & he runs out of money he uses religion to solicit money from his friends & family & when he doesn't get what he wants he uses religion again, to beat them over the head.


I find that so dispicable.
I have a feeling I will have to help get his sorry religious ass home, anyway. *sigh*

I Haven't washed my hair for a month...

Taking my picture in the mirror. Happy with my hair.

I've gone "no-poo". I quit shampooing my hair 4 weeks ago & it feels great! The final test was when I went to my hairdresser last week to get it cut & she pronounced it clean & healthy .

When I first heard about going no-poo I thought WTF? why would anyone quit using shampoo & conditioner? I had visions of greasy dreadlocks & flies buzzing around my head. I always thought shampoo/conditioner was a prerequisite for clean hair. But, I decided to give it a try, anyway.
I'm convinced...No more buying shampoo or conditioner for me.

Seriously, it's got to be good not to use all those chemicals, dyes & smelly perfumes on your head & there is the added benefit of saving money & creating less plastic for landfills.
Besides it's fun to tell people you haven't washed your hair in a month. :)

I'm really going to hell now...

Two days after I post about "spam" mail I receive this:

Dearest friends and family,

Please do not think that I need sympathy but please do read this message. The Embassy here in Chiang Mai wanted me to contact as many friends and family as I can to ask for assistance because they are working on getting me back to the states. Here's why:

15August2009

I'm e-mailing you because I really need prayer right now. I do believe that the Lord's grace is sufficient for me, but I have just this week been diagnosed with "Epilepsy" that is possibly due to a small cystic mass in my brain.

Most of you know that before last November I was a very healthy man, 12 years as a soldier and 13 years as a Respiratory Therapist. I had never been hospitalized for an illness, prior to last year. It started with a 3 day hospitalization from "acute psychosis" and memory loss while I was teaching in the Bangkok area last November/December. After the holidays I was recovered enough to start teaching again and then I was struck with another bout of "acute psychosis" and 2 weeks of memory loss. I was hospitalized for nearly 3 weeks as well as 3 days in jail and that was when the "mass," (about 9mm in diameter,) was discovered in my brain towars the rear to the right of my Medulla, by MRI with contrast. It took me 4 months to recover and I finally was teaching again. At that time many of you from the U.S. and Thailand helped me pay the hospital bills and passport visa fees that ran up due to overstaying my visa. In the end the total was over 75,000 Thai Baht or about $2500. This is not much in American standards but in Thailand it is quite a bit of money. My salary was THB 30,000 per month (about $900) prior to my hospitalization. And most of you know that I gave away everything I had prior to leaving for Thailand and only came here with $8000.

In March I asked you if you could help me raise about $2000 so I could get back to the states and get to a VA hospital since I am a combat veteran. The Army had garunteed that in case of severe ilness they would take care of me.

Anyway, to make a long story short, We were only able to get together $1400. But praise the Lord, I was able to get back on my feet and get the teaching job in Pichai. This was not enough for a plane ticket and the passport fees to get back to the states,so my alternate plan was to work for 2 semesters and save enough money to get myself back to the states, maybe in January or so.

Thank God I got a job but unfortunately this did not go as planned because once I started working in Pichai, first I was denied health insurance in case I got sick again and second, after 8 weeks of teaching,I did get sick again. I was just released from the hospital today because I was found unconcious on the train from Uttaradit to Chiang Mai and my heart was in SVT (Supra-Ventricular-Tachicardia) due to a seizure. This is where I was finally tested for and now diagnosed to have the "epilepsy." Although the Internal Med docs and the Psychiactric specialist think it has to do with the cyst/"mass," the Neurologist thinks different and he says I just have "right temporal lobe epilepsy."

I've contacted the Consulate General in Chiang Mai and they are working on getting me back to the U.S. at this time. My hospital bill is THB 67,800 (about $2100) which is not alot of money considering I was in ICU on a ventilator for 3 days and have had multiple tests (CTs, MRI, EEG, etc.)
The problem for me is that I don't have any money because I just started working again and my paycheck was just enough for me to pay off my bills and have about THB 3000 left over (About $100.)

You might be thinking that because I've mentioned the money so much, I might be asking for money, but I'm not. (SECRET: The Consulate General wants me to ask for money but I will not this time!) Remember, I believe the Lord's grace is sufficient for me. I believe that the US Embassy will help me get back to Oregon. I also believe this happened for a reason and it will all end well. You know me and know that I am a strong, positive and happy person and trust and love the Lord, but it is hard for me right now to keep that optomistic feeling. I came to Thailand to make a difference and now I feel I didn't reach my goal.

Right now I need prayer for myself and I need prayer for my family's strength to deal with this and I need prayer for the Embassy staff that they can smoothly get me on a plane and back to the states. Please also pray that when I do get home, I am able to get the right treatment for my condition and also be able to find the right Respiratory Therapy job that not only provides for me but glorifies the Lord.

I hope you recieve this well.
Blessings and love always,
-Verno

I first posted about by brother in Thailand here last November. After that posting I sent my brother $2,000 dollars via the Embassy in Thailand. I posted again about him here & here. Now he's at it again, e-mailing around 60 of his closest friends & family for money.

You might think I've got a cold heart about this, but I have good reason to believe he's full of shit. Unfortunately, there is no way to convince my mother that he's scamming people,(including her) because she's a religious wacko herself, & falls for all this God crap.

In a way, I suppose my mother's being paid back for shoving religion down all of our throats while we were growing up. How ironic that it's the religious one that's giving her hell.
:)

It's been an interesting ride.

Did you what this was as soon as you looked at? At first i thought it was some kind of alien monster getting it's jaws pried open. Gross!
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Like a lot of bloggers I've been acquainted with for 3-4-5-years, my blogging experience is winding down... I don't put nearly the time & effort into it as I used to. I assume other people that finally give it up are basically the same. They find new interests that take precedence over the time & effort it takes to keep up with blogging. I've probably gone as far as possible with the blogging experience, myself. But even though I get bored with it sometimes I still get up first thing in the morning with my tea & check up on my links. I used to think I had to comment on every blog that I linked to but I've even let that habit go.
I promise if I do decide to quit I won't just disappear. If I decide to quit blogging I'll at least say good-by to everyone.
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I've gotten some pretty stupid fake letters in my spam, but, this has got to be the worst try at writing a letter in English that I've gotten so far:
(he did know how to use spell check , none of the words are misspelled)

BEQUEST,PLEASE RESPOND!!!


On behalf of the Trustees and Executor of the estate of Late Engr.Jochen Kruger.
I once again
try to notify you as my earlier letter were returned undelivered. I wish to
notify you that late
Engr. Jochen Kruger made you a beneficiary to his WILL.

He left the sum of Thirty Million,One Hundred Thousand Dollars (USD$30,
100.000.00) to you in
the Codicil and last testament to his WILL. This may sound strange and
unbelievable to you,
but it is real and true. Being a widely traveled man, he must have been in
contact with you in
the past or simply you were nominated to him by one of his numerous friends
abroad who
wished you good. Engr. Jochen Kruger until his death was a member of the
Helicopter Society and the Institute of Electronic
& Electrical Engineers. Please if I reach you as I am hopeful, endeavor to get
back to me as
soon as possible to enable me conclude my job.

You are advice to contact me with my personal email:Await your prompt response.

Yours in Service,

BARRISTER MARCUS ANDREEN ESQ.

PRINCIPAL PARTNERS: Barrister Aidan Walsh? Markus Wolfgang, Mr. John Marvey
Esq.,
Mr. Jerry Smith Esq

*SHEESH*!