Today, for the second time:

• my work laptop hard drive pre-failed
• someone used my main gmail address as their email address for a FB account
• someone used my main gmail address as their backup address for a gmail account

WHAT THE FUCK, WORLD?

I still don't have a work laptop, and committed to some work docs nonetheless that I'm not even kicked off on (oops, will do before EOD), and I have locked other me out of the FB account so I could post on the wall.

Gmail other me, I just dissociated the email addresses. But why are people doing that so often? Is there a scam behind this?

My husband's gmail account gets bill pay notifications for some credit union account. As far as I can tell, no compromising information is being sent, but I've already called the credit union once. Have the emails stopped? No.

I think I've got a little worlds colliding, barely, thing going on again. I think shrift's move is what is also causing my neighbor's design firm location in Chicago to relocate (and thus meaning that their showroom in DC won't move until spring.)

Also, my first floor floors are clean. And work did NOT go as planned. As of 7 pm, the system has 'misplaced' all data prior to 7 years ago. It's there, we can find it, the code just can't. And it is something that *can't* be tested for due to lack of resources. Same song & dance.

Tomorrow shall be interesting.

My day today: Run to the grocery store to get milk before picking up Charlie at 8:30; lots of playtime with Charlie; catch up on some TV, long nap, hammock time, more TV and more playtime with the animals, and soon, pizza and wine.

Tomorrow is going to be more of the same, too, but plus cake.

Nice!

I get a ton of emails for other people who give my address to vendors -- most recently, Jordan H. ordered some commemorative coins.

My email address is firstnamelastname@gmail.com. I use firstname.lastname, but this is two people who've signed up to FB without the period, and two firstnamelastnameXX@gmail.com that have used me as the alternate email address. Props to google for not letting me into the email addies anymore--they did let me in a year or two ago, into itaitaita, when the Filipino hacker (kid, I hope) was using it for something.

I bet this shit never happens to Moji.

I get email to my firstnamelastname without the period between, and it's clearly for some chick in Chicago. Which I really don't get. Does that mean she gets some of mine?

I hope she likes fanfic.

Maybe *one* of you is related to...that Jamaican whose name I won't mention because it's personally identifiable Amy information.

I get email to my firstnamelastname without the period between, and it's clearly for some chick in Chicago. Which I really don't get. Does that mean she gets some of mine?

The way gmail goes, the period doesn't count. Ronald.McDonald@gmail.com is the same as r.on.ald.mc.dona.ld@gmail.com. So she might be using amyayourlastname@gmail.com or something one letter off. Whereas you are amyyourlastname@gmail.com.

In gmail, I think the dot doesn't mean anything? Like, firstnamelastname is the same address as firstname.lastname?