Things that go on in my life that cannot be catagorized somewhere else, sort of a catch-all
Iain Torrance, chaplain to Her Majesty the Queen and president of Princeton Theological Seminary, gave the sermon at UPC today and it was simply marvelous. What a great speaker. He’s also hip too! He recounted how on his way to Rome last week, he listened to Julius Caesar on his iPod, which he purchased from iTunes.
Annie, Devan, and Liz had their graduation party today, I just got back from that. It was nice, obviously not as cool as our graduation party last year, but I am a little biased. Staples and I are going to go the 5 o’clock service, stop by at The Edge, and then come back and watch Family Guy and American Dad.
It was really only a matter of time before we had a party at the Staples. So that’s where I am right now. We were going to light some fireworks, but it was raining and nobody really wanted to stand in the rain. So now we’re watching a repeat of SNL. SOOO very funny.
TheBS went to church tonight to watch Andrew Boyd, et al. “graduate” at Senior Honor Night. It was awesome and a little sad. Darren affirmed Boyd, but we all stood behind him as he did so. Darren later wrote:
Hey guys – Towne called me a little while ago and said that seeing all of TheBS standing up on stage sending out love for Boyd was the highlight of the night for him. Friendship like this is a rare thing…you guys are a blessing, and truly blessed to have each other – God is good!
We love you Boyd!
Duane added:
“Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel”
”This above all: to thine ownself be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
Hamlet, Act 1 Scene 3
William Shakespeare
Hamlet
Congratulations Boyd. It has truly been a pleasure.
Got back from sailing just now. Peter’s dad, Paul, took us out. It was pretty awesome.
Flicker Photo Set
Brunch with the BS was awesome. Andy brought his wife, Julia, because he thought that Andrew Boyd was going to bring his girlfriend, Rose. Unfortunately, Rose had to work this morning, so she couldn’t come. Despite that minor set back, it was still great to see Darren, Andy, Julia, and Boyd; whom none I had seen since getting back until now. We’re off to Peter’s houseboat now for the 5th consecutive day of boating.
Our old TV crapped out the other day. Kind of sucky really. We now only have one TV in the house. ACK!
In any event, Dad, Brian, and myself looked at TV’s over at Costco and BestBuy. Nothing doin’. I’ve given Dad a couple leads on some stuff on Craigslist. Really a great site. Definitely work checking out if you have the chance.
I got up extra early this morning (8:30 am) so I could go over and help Duane out. Comcast managed to screw his device drivers up pretty bad. I did what I could and when I left, his Internet was working. No saying what happened to it after I left. I also was able to get him to use Firefox. So chalk up another convert for Ferg.
Just got off the phone with my good friend Dr. James Francis. Everything is well and he seems eager to send me my millions. I gave him the bogus MTC# from the bogus Western Union form I made. When filling out the form, I realized I missed a few things. Hopefully Dr. Franics isn’t to keen on his fake document detection skills.
Thanks to a comment on MakeYouGoHmm, I was able to setup Audacity to record the entire conversation. Which you can listen to here. The connection fades in and out and I would suspect that it’s a fault of the network connection or maybe Dr. Francis is using a cell phone.
If you don’t care to listen to the audio, here’s the run down: I was sick, now I’m beter. I’ve done what you asked. My Money Transfer Control Number is 3752969653. I’ll have an email tomorrow by 2pm? Excellent. Talk with you later. Thank you too, my brother.
I’ll check my email at 2pm tomorrow, or really today I guess.
I suspect that there will be an issue with the Western Union transfer. In which case I will show him my receipt. This will be the fun part because it will pit my skills against his desire to get my money.
Stay tuned…the fun is just about to begin!
I had to put off my fun with the Nigerian. However, school is now out and I’m going to finish out this prank. During the interim, Dr. James Francis called me a few times. I pretended to be someone else and said that “John” was out. Today, I sent him the following email:
Dr. Francis,
Sorry it has taken so long. Shortly after my contact with you, I became serious ill. Knowing the sensitivity of this matter, I opted to wait rather than risk having my fortune fall into the wrong hands. Today is the first day that I have been allowed out of bed and the first thing I did was go down to Western Union and make a payment. They emailed me a receipt which I’ve attached. Let me know what I need to do next. I will try calling you later tonight if I am awake.
– John
We’ll see where this goes!