Thursday, January 17, 2013

Jan 17th

Let's see. What's been happening?

First thing, let me tell you about what happened  to Thom Jan 16th in the morning.
Thom rides his motorcycle most of the time into work, saves on gas a lot besides he likes the ride. Well, he stopped off at the gas station to get gas, then went to use the card for something else right away. A notice passed across the screen to contact the issuer of the card ASAP and then the card got locked. He called his bank. It seems that someone else used the card number for $95 of gas at that station and then also 2x's for $1 each at the station across the street. Thom had them make sure to verify and to keep it locked till he could get into a bank in person to fix what might be the problem. Found out that probably happened is someone used a faceplate over the gas pump face plate that read the number and all codes that go with it. So he got VERY lucky that they only got under $100 before it got locked. Now he has a new card coming and has to remember everything that he has attached to the card to change that when it comes in.
So now both of us have had our numbers stolen. Mine was about 15 yrs ago in FL and let me tell you that it is a lot more involved in fixing with everyone. People forget how much is connected to the cards until it's stolen.

On a better note Thom and I stayed on the Queen Mary ( http://www.queenmary.com/ ) the night of Jan 12th. They had a Steampunk Symposium ( http://www.hrmsteam.com/ ) over that weekend. We used to do lots of medieval, renaissance and pirate festivals so we had the basic costume pieces already. We did some shopping and aquired a few other pieces to fit in better. Good thing with costumes like this is they are never complete you can always change or add more. We saw several people that we have not seen in about 8 yrs or more and they are all from the FL. Funny really how small the world can be!

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