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After publishing yesterday's blog post here, I soon logged into Facebook and discovered that I had missed a video call from my wife who is over in Thailand visiting her mother.

I returned the call ─ it was after 8:00 p.m. last evening here in Surrey, B.C. where I live, and so over in Thailand it was after 10:00 a.m. late this morning.

She took the call, and I found that she was having a meal with her mother. Upon enquiring, I learned that two security cameras have now been installed downstairs so that her mother can be monitored ─ the old girl now lives alone in the family home, and the family has worries concerning her well-being.

The house has an upstairs, but my wife reported that her mother no longer risks ascending the steep stairs to go there. Her bedroom used to be upstairs, but she now sleeps downstairs.

I was unable to have the call finished without having to share a "Hello!" with the mother who doesn't speak English. Of course, I don't speak Thai, so there is no blame to her.

My wife's time away must be coming to a close, for she's been gone over a month.

She concerned me with the revelation that she is uncertain about her ability to return to work at her friend's Thai restaurant back here in Canada, for her arms and back are still bothering her. Usually, she said, she heals up from whatever ills she has here, whenever she goes back to her family home in Thailand.

We cannot do without her working income, and she has no other employment skills for us to fall back on. So this is doubly concerning for me.

The call was over well before my younger brother arrived home from wherever he was drinking.

Probably because he and I are working our way through The Walking Dead's season nine, he held it together last evening and resisted passing out, so I had to sit up into the midnight hour operating our T9 Android 8.1 TV Box.

There is no denying that the series is fascinating; I was to have two cans of the strong (8% alcohol) beer that I keep in stock as we worked through episodes eight through 10.

I had a most difficult time of it getting myself up overnight to tackle the day's content assignment at the new post I have in development at one of my six hosted websites.

In fact, I had to force myself to get up at 4:30 a.m. ─ much later than has been my recent norm.

My eldest stepson rose well ahead of 6:00 a.m. to ready himself for his workday. His younger brother has a later shift, and didn't leave home until the approach of 11:00 a.m. while my brother and I were watching a movie.

I wasn't back into bed until around 7:30 a.m., and I remained there until I later checked the time and saw it to be around 9:50 a.m.

Conscience compelled me to get up so as to spare my younger brother having to watch any further basic cable programming on our T.V. ─ I am the only one who understands how to operate the Android TV Box.

I had a movie in mind for this morning: Good Time. It was definitely interesting, but the electronic musical soundtrack was a failure ─ it never seemed to suit what was happening onscreen. Also, it made the movie seem more amateurish ─ in other words, as the film's main purpose was for entering into film festivals.

No one acting in the movie was known to me except Jennifer Jason Leigh. Rather interestingly, she played the girlfriend of the main loser character, even though the actress has 25 years on the actor.

She looked good, though!

My brother sought some rest after the movie even though it was only about 11:45 a.m., but I learned afterward that he had an early-afternoon dental appointment.

I didn't seek a nap at the same time ─ I maybe should have.

While my brother was indisposed, I had some exercise with my 43½-pound dumbbell. And I fared no worse than normal despite being unsure that I would be able to do well ─ I am suffering from the stress of yesterday's very late afternoon / early evening's four-mile round trip hike to the government liquor store for two dozen cans of the strong beer I favour.

I haven't made that haul in over two months, and it was quite punishing.

It was likely also involved in why I had such a difficult time getting up overnight to work on that website post.

I had my day's first meal after the exercise, and by then my brother was back out of his bedroom and readying himself to head away for the afternoon.

Before he left, I made a point of mentioning that ─ had our mother still been alive ─ today would have been her 103rd birthday. He claimed to be mindful of the date.

The day had been rather sunny. I went out into the backyard and ─ at 1:47 p.m. ─ began just over 40 minutes slouched into a deck- or lawn-chair while garbed in just cutoffs, and all the while facing into the Sun.

Toward the end, I may have experienced as many as three minutes of cloud obscuration, but otherwise the Sun was brilliant and very warm.

Alas, I returned into the house and expended time and vitality here in idleness at my computer instead of seeking a nap I needed by then. As thus when I finally did break away and get my rest, I had robbed myself of valuable time that could have been used constructively.

Early this morning when I was checking my E-mails for the first time since last night before bed, I found the following item in my spam folder.

It was from someone identifying as "Suranto," was titled "Your reputation is crashed," and arrived at 3:18 a.m.:

Hello, friend!

This is important information for you!

Some months ago I hacked your system and got full access to your profile

On day of hack your acc has password: nfw12000

So, you can change the pass, yes.. Or already changed... But my malicious code

intercepts it every time.

How I made it:

In the software of the router, through which you went online, was a vulnerability. I

used it...

If you interested you can read about it: CVE-2019-1666 - a vulnerability in the

web-based management interface of the Cisco routers.

I just hacked this router and placed my trojan on it.

When you went online, my virus was installed on the OS of your system.

After that, I made a full backup of your computer (I have all your address book, history

of viewing sites, all files, phone numbers and addresses of all your contacts).

A month ago, I wanted to lock your system and ask for a not big amount of btc to

unlock.

But I looked at the web-history that you regularly visit, and I was shocked by what I saw!!!

I'm talk you about web-history for adults.

I want to say - you are a BIG pervert. Your fantasy is shifted far away from the

normal course!

And I got an idea....

I made a screenshot of the adult web-page where you have fun (do you understand what it

is about, huh?).

After that, I made a screenshot of your joys (using the camera of your PC) and

glued them together.

Turned out amazing! You are so spectacular!

I'm know that you would not like to show these screenshots to your friends,

relatives or colleagues.

I think $708 is a very, very small amount for your secret.

Besides, I have been spying on you for so long, having spent a lot of time!

Pay ONLY in bitcoins!

My btc wallet: 1DoGrV5vXwgcvXcCbSxhgx9St2mWTPeRAz

You do not know how to use bitcoins?

Enter a query in any search engine: "how to replenish btc wallet".

It's extremely easy

For this payment I give you two days (48 hours).

As soon as this mail is opened, the timer will work.

After payment, my soft and dirty screenshots with your enjoys will be self-destruct

automatically.

If I do not receive from you the specified amount, then your device will be locked,

and all your contacts will receive a screenshots with your "enjoys".

I hope you understand your situation.

- Do not try to find and destroy my trojan! (All your data, files and screenshots is

already uploaded to a remote server)

- Do not try to contact me (you yourself will see that this is impossible, the

sender address is automatically generated)

- Various security services will not help you; formatting a disk or destroying a

device will not help, since your data is already on a remote server.

P.S. You are not my single victim. so, I guarantee you that I will not disturb you

again after payment!

This is the word of honor hacker

Do not hold evil! I just good do my job.

Good luck.

Do people fall for this drivel?

Well, even if I had been exposing myself while engaged in lewd pornographic behaviour, and there were actual screenshots of my "joys" and "enjoys", I doubt that I would have put even slight credence into this threat.

The sender says that the E-mail address the message was shown as being sent from (i.e., suranto@umy.ac.id) is spoofed and thus not legitimate, so I don't mind posting it here.

But the recipient of the message is listed as lucasfultz@comcast.net ─ in other words, my E-mail is not there, so it was not aimed specifically at me. Obviously, my address was just one of what was likely a vast collection of blind carbon copied (Bcc) addresses that this crook hopes will result in at least a few profitable bites.

Well, this fish ain't nibbling.

Anyway, folks, if this freak really had all the personal data he claims he does, then he not only would have E-mailed me directly ─ listing my E-mail address exclusively as the recipient; but he would have been able to salute me by name instead of anonymously as "friend."

Finally, if he did have some juicy screenshots of me involved while lost in my unholy "joys" and "enjoys", he would have included an example. I sure would have if I was blackmailing someone.

Let's change the subject ─ wind turbines!

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I haven't a doubt that these things have a deathly effect upon many people, despite what the government and vested "authorities" claim to the contrary.

The same whitewash is going on that is used to push smart metres onto everyone.

We're all getting poisoned from so many different directions, by so many different things, it's amazing that we're not all sterile and dying.

I just wish that I could live on some alternate world that was still Eden-like. We're destroying ours.

I want to bring this post to a close with three photos that were taken on February 25, 2018 when a niece of my wife got married ─ the photos were likely taken in the city of Udon Thani.

The beautiful bride and her groom are in the centre in each of the three photos. And at the far left, I recognize the reddish-haired woman my wife has always referred to as being my wife's "sister-cousin." Also, the blurry chap at the far right who is wearing glasses is a nephew of my wife ─ and a cousin of the bride:

In addition, I think that the two people in those two photos above who are standing between the groom and my wife's nephew may be the bride's father (and thus my wife's brother-in-law) and even my wife herself!

That would also be her at the right border of this final photo:

The elderly seated lady whose head appears at the bottom of that last photo is my wife's mother ─ the bride's grandmother.