Just a reminder: Please be careful with your email. I have been getting more crap email lately pretending to be legitimate websites saying “You need to login now or your account will be deactivated!” They’ve gotten better at their english, so it’s not as much as a dead giveaway as it used to be. Don’t click on the links in these emails. Hover over the link and, in most email programs or browsers, you’ll see where the link leads, usually at the bottom of the screen. For example, if you get an email from Chase telling you to click here to go to the site and enter your user name and password to log in, and you hover over the link and it takes you to blog.stokehouse.com.au, don’t go there! Like the monkey near downed power lines! Even if the link has the name of that company in the domain, still, don’t trust it if it’s not www.company.com. For example, the one I got from “Best Buy” today leads you to click.emailinfo2.bestbuy.com/somereallylongnumber. Some emails are sneaky enough now where, when you hover over the link, a little “tool tip” type window pops up that says the real name of the site. Don’t pay attention to that. Look at the real link (if displayed as mentioned above). If you wonder if it might be real, just go to the site itself, not anything you click in the email.

I’m just getting sick of all this crap going around.

And now, to make this post more light and fluffy, check out this awesome one that I got the other day.

From Cox.Communication:

we wish to inform you that we are shutting down all unused addresses in our
site you will have to update your account so that we will know that it’s
a present active account to complete your account, you must reply to this
email Immediately and enter your account informations below”

1.) Email:
2.) Password:
3.) Date of birth:

Account owner that refuses to maintain his or her account will
loose account. permanently from our site.Warning !!!
Email user that refuses to maintain his/her account we have the account
deactivated permanently.

And this one. Anyone want a job? I don’t even have a resume on “Carrier” builder. 😛

Subject: CareerBuilder – Job offer ID #268150794937

Hey,

This letter was addressed to you upon studying your personal information on Carrier builder.

Our enterprise was grounded in 1983 when its cofounders caught the eventuality of guaranteeing drastically diverse advice and hands-on backing to companies coming across problems in operational and financial field – events involving action, real results and objectivity.

Orienting in either world tax planning or local laws navigation, our tax experts are able to cope with main undertakings.

Expectants with the following requirements can address to our firm:
– Organizational experience that gives a chance of coping with different things in a fast-growing medium without making errors
– Skills in structuring and immediate information access. Microsoft office skills
– Aptitude to function within tight schedule

Your duties:
– Managing and checking discharges from the consumers on our behalf
– Getting weekly and monthly reports ready
– Being under senior management guide

Payment: Base payment of 2,100 in parallel with 5 percent fee for every closed deal.
Organization will also take all banking and other work related charges.
Vacant place at the present moment is: Financial assistant
Please send us your personal information, skills and experience via email .

If you ever get something like the email below, don’t fall for it! I know most of you are smart enough to know better….but it has to be said.

I was working with someone today to try to get their compromised email back. They didn’t lose it by filling out something like this, because they know better.

But check out how sleek these scumbags are. After getting the account back, I linked it to their mobile phone number for some added security. Not long after, they received this email. Sneaky! Needless to say, it’s not really from bellsouth. It’s actually from someone using a random verizon.net email.

There’s a reason they say they’ll never ask you for this kind of information. My comments in red.

——————————–
From: Bellsouth Customer Care
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 1:25 PM
To: undisclosed recipients:
Subject: Dear Bellsouth Account User!!!

Dear Bellsouth Account User,

Your e-mail needs to be updated with our released F-Secure Internet Security 2012 new version of a better resource webmail spam and viruses (No way I read this does it even make sense!). If you have not upgraded your account, click reply and fill in the columns below to send it back so we can update our database account immediately.

Failure to update will process your Bellsouth account being temporarily blocked or suspended from our network (again with the crappy engrish) and may not be able to receive or send e-mail due to the update.

Fill the column below:

USERNAME:
PASSWORD:
Phone:

We apologize for the inconvenience, we are here to make it look better webmail in 2012. huh?

Bellsouth Customer Care! We really care! Look, the exclamation point proves it!
Case Number: 7650087 Property
Account Security
©2012 Bellsouth All Right Reserved. Just the right is reserved? Not the left?
Seriously people. Try harder, at least.

…but I’ll spare you from any April Fool’s Day jokes or pranks. There will be none of that from me! Hm. 😉

I can’t believe it’s been over a month since this thing was updated! Ok, yes I can. There was Mardi Gras, and St. Patrick’s Day, and St. Joseph’s Day….the parades kept going 2 weeks after Mardi Gras was over. Gotta love it!

Rose and I had a great time hanging out during Mardi Gras with our families. Sure the weather sucked for Endymion, but we partied anyway, that’s to Gwen and Dennis, my parents’ neighbors, and Martin Insurance, as well as Johnny and Abbey Sanchez, and our Bikeus friends, who even made it on the news for having a party even tho there was no parade. You can watch that here. And Sunday we got a good spot for Bacchus and Endymion even though we didn’t get out there til about 3pm, so that was most excellent as well.

You can read more about Mardi Gras Day and the Krewe of Bikeus 2011 here. Be sure to go to the pictures page and click on 2011. You can find more of our mardi gras pictures in our photobucket.

Rose was supposed to leave on Wednesday, but because of weather delays she would’ve missed her connecting flight, so she got to stay an extra day. Woohoo! So instead of flying out of Gulfport, she flew out of Baton Rouge. 😛

Of course that weekend I went to both the Irish Channel parade on Saturday and the Metairie Road parade on Sunday, and even made the Irish-Italian parade the following Sunday. Then I crashed. 🙂

This past Wednesday, I worked with Carrollton Station and The Susan Cowsill Band for a scene on Treme.

So, what i ended up doing was basically about 20 minutes of work, setting up the stage, getting susan’s guitar set up, and telling the guys doing the actual mixing what to give them as far as monitors goes. Which, basically, was pretty limited.

We used our stands, mics, and cables. Ran them into Treme’s snake, which went directly into their board. They gave me one channel to send to all the monitors, which meant everyone had all the same stuff in their monitors. Then they sent their “main mix” back to our main board, which we played through the house, for their boom mic, which you’ll see in the pictures on photobucket, to pick up.

Other than that, it was a bunch of shoots of just believe it, then dialogue with steve and lucia, (apparently “annie” had written a song and susan wants annie to play it but it wasn’t “ready yet”) and so they go into crescent city snow. Which was always cut right during the line “singing joanie at the Carrollton Station.” not sure why.

Anyway, there were extras there as an audience, but not very many for most of the shoots, b/c the camera track was set up even with where the wall ends to go over to that side corner, so whatever could fit in front of that, including a very bobble-headed Paul, was the crowd. There was that camera and one hand-held, which shot mostly from the carrollton side, and a handful of times from the monitor board side, and once or twice from behind the monitor board. Then they later did a longer-range shot, so they brought in more “crowd,” and tiffany the bartender got to be a “waitress,” carrying burgers around. We didn’t get to see those shots cuz of where the cameras were.

The band consisted of susan, russ, mary, jack craft on keyboard, sam craft on violin, steve earle on acoustic, and lucia micarelli on violin. Yes, a 7-piece.

When dressing the set in the morning, they had originally put amber twinkle lights all over the place (b/c “every bar in new orleans has amber twinkle lights” in treme), but later changed them to blue b/c it looks better blue. they also put a clip light on the monitor board. i was up there when they did it, and the guy doing it said, yeah, this guy’s important, he gets a clip light….but wait (grabs another one and puts it on)… he’s REALLY important. he gets TWO clip lights.” knowing “that guy” was basically gonna be me, and without him knowing that, i said, “aw c’mon, nobody’s THAT important.” “oh no. this guy is.” 🙂

Tim, who is a “decorator” on treme, who got me the job with chess, whose main job is to decorate but also to un-decorate…take all the 2011 out…said that they had been filming a bunch of “bounce” scenes, and even when they go to the most ghetto of places, they still use their systems, b/c they want it to be “real.”

And aaron, who got me the union pay for chess, also does sound stuff for treme, so it was good to see him again.

Before they did the long-range shot, someone came up to me and asked if i worked there, and if i wanted to be an extra. i said well i’m already kinda doing something, and he asked don’t we have a bartender here, yes, and if she wanted to. So i brought him to tiffany, and that’s how she got set up with the waitress gig. So i asked him who i had to talk to about signing paperwork and getting paid and all that. He referred me to one person, who asked me what i was doing, and i said basically i’m with the band (b/c really, i didn’t know what to tell her, since this was only arranged the day before, over text, with russ), so she said talk to so and so, who eventually said talk to so and so, and then i found and asked russ, who said talk to so and so or so and so, so i found so and so number 2 first, talked to her, figured out that i was the band’s tech, then she talked to so and so number 1 that russ had been coordinating with all week, he said yes, then she gave me the paperwork to fill out, and russ got all their paperwork to fill out, and everything was set. Then they did the long range shot a couple of times and by 630 or so they started to pack up and go to their next location.

We all hung out at the bar waiting for bartender lillian to get it all set up so we could have a drink. because the drinks the extras had were non-alcoholic beers in real beer bottles… so by 730 or so eric bought us all (the band, minus steve and lucia, and plus jack’s fiance lindsey and sam’s girlfriend alexis, plus me) a drink.

The “kids” left soon after. russ, susan, mary and i went to basil leaf for dinner, where they ran into 2 couples that they knew, who didnt even come out for the shoot…random. Mary ordered a malbec, and susan told her that she’s “jim and franning.” lol. And susan called her mix of soy sauce and a ton of wasabi “pudding,” and i said it looked like the fairgrounds during jazz fest on a rainy day. yeah. it was like that.

Then i left, took the dogs out, and immediately crashed. fun day, but i couldnt make a career out of it.

Don’t worry. These next few weeks will have more blogs. I’m not gonna leave you hanging that long again. 😉

Why is it that people, mainly people in charge, tend to listen to the people who THINK they know what they’re talking about, instead of the people who actually do? Why is it that they’ll back up some random person instead of their own employee? Why is it that they’ll listen to a flat out lie, instead of cold hard facts, just because of the liar’s position in the archdiocese organization, even though they know that person’s been sketchy and contradictory and game-playing before, and that the employee, the person with the cold hard facts, the person who has actually done the research for a project, only has the church’s employer’s best interest in mind? And why is it, even after all this is aired out, facts explained, etc, that they will STILL waste money on doing something that is absolutely unnecessary?

Why? Because, in many instances, people suck. I promise, that if I’m even in a position of “power,” that I will never suck like this.

Need further example of idiots in power? Check this bs out.

Now, to balance out my negatoriousness, some positudinousness:

You should check out Donald Glover’s site (yes, that’s Troy from NBC’s Community), and, if you’re into hip hop, download his Culdesac album. It’s free, and lyrically awesome! But it does have language, so it’s not for the kids. 🙂

Now, a clip from Mardi Gras.

Finally, don’t forget that I’m walking for diabetes this Saturday! Click here to give my team money!! 🙂

Facebook world: This is Jeff posting.

So, even though i should be sleeping, and should’ve been for about 2 hours now, I accidentally fought through my tired and got my second wind. Regardless, I’m going to bed after this update.

While working on a soon-to-be launched re-vamped website for someone (hm, who could that be…), I found out more about the wonderful world of wordpress and plugins. So i decided to test it on roseandjeff.info. So now, not only do i get to test stuff that I may go live with on someone’s site, but I also get to get word of this blog out to more people…heh heh heh. Rose has the ability to post blogs here too, but I don’t know that she actually will. 😉

For now, whenever we (i) post a new blog, it should come up over in facebook. You can click the title link to go to the actual page. I think. What can I say, I’m testing.

It’s still a work in progress though. There’s all these other features that I’m trying to enable that I just haven’t gotten the hang of yet. So, we’ll see how that goes.

Goodnight!