A delayed BOW (Buffoon Of the Week) Award this week.  I was going to post it yesterday afternoon, but (this is a true story) just as I sat down to write the thing, a thunderstorm moved into the area and we lost power.  No computer.  No satellite, no internet.  Fortunately I hadn't actually started writing, so I didn't lose anything, but that's why ( Read more... )

So, for the second time in about three months one of our credit cards has been hacked.  Weird things about it:  First, it was the new credit card that we got after the last one was hacked.  (We have several cards, but this is the only one that seems to be giving us trouble.)  Second, the false charges put on the credit card last time were for about ( Read more... )

At the risk of sounding like a credit card commercial or public service announcement.....

We got a call yesterday from the fraud protection department at one of our credit card companies.  Seems they spotted some "unusual activity" on our card and wanted to check in to see if we'd been making some big purchases.  What kind of purchases?  A $2,400.00 ( Read more... )