Must be my lucky day!

WOO-HOO!!!!!!!!

Or.... NOT!

What kind of an idiot do these people think I am, anyway?

POWERBALL ONLINE LOTTERY
INTERNATIONAL HEADQRTS
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM.

Dear Winner,
This is to notify you that your email address has been
selected in our end of year online email lottery program
conducted November 1st,2007 and was attached to ticket number
32-111-790-88 with Serial number 5390/06 drew the lucky number
: 33 and have won you £200,000.00 here in our Corporate headquarters
in United Kingdom.
You are to immediately submit a confirmation email immediately to
email addresses below :

E-MAIL: net2enquiries@yahoo.com

The following details below are required to clarification.
1. First & Last Name
2. Contact Address
3. Tel Numbers
4. Age
5. Sex
6. Occupation
7. Country of residence

Congratulations.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Maureen Whyte
Online Co-ordinator
PBL Online lottery Promotion



Besides, what would I do with £200,000.00?

In case you were wondering, that's $403,962.88 in good ol' US Dollars.

Or 45,758,894.76 Japanese Yen.

Or 1,611,459.41 Israeli New Shekels

Or 2,245,528.64 Egyptian Pounds

Or 71,238,853.15 Hungarian Forints

Or 9,976,671.14 Russian Rubles

Or 4,376,331.82 Mexican Pesos

Or 279,907.90 Euros

You get the idea...

Unexpected, this was...

I have a long list of blogs over there on my sidebar that I visit often, some admittedly more than others. One particular blog I linked to a while ago and had been reading occasionally but had never left a comment. That is most unusual for me. Usually I'll leave a comment that at minimum lets the blog owner know I've been there. (Commenters are good and always welcome.) Yesterday I did leave a few comments on that blog. What was different was that that person responded back, not by leaving another comment, as is usually the case, but by actually sending me an honest to goodness email.

Amazing, isn't it?

I was shocked! Pleased but shocked. Definitely.

As it turned out, we exchanged a few more emails last night and chatted on Yahoo Instant Messenger for about an hour or so this morning.

And I'm looking forward to more pleasant conversations in the days to come. I hope you are too.

So I just wanted to say thank you. You helped put a nice finishing touch to my day yesterday and brightened my morning considerably. But I must confess, when I logged into YIM this morning I was hoping you'd be there but had little expectation of it. I figured that you, like most people, would be unavailable during the work day for personal chats for obvious reasons. Glad am I that I was wrong.

And thanks for another great conversation tonight.