Arctangential

I haven’t done a book update in a while. I’m reading a lot faster than I thought I would; even if I don’t read one single page more this month, I’m projecting that I’ll be over 31,000 pages by the end of the year, which is 16,000 pages more than my 50 book goal and 1,000 pages more than my 100 book goal. The number of books I’ve read so far is kind of low, but that’s because I’ve been working through this Hugh Cook series and all of those books are well more than the 300 page average I’ve set for myself. I’m planning on reading a bunch of really short books after I’m done with this series, to bring my page average back down. I’m massively over thinking this.

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I got some really high-quality spam today. Check this out:

From: “adam jamil”
Subject: Mr SOMEONE YOU CALL YOUR FRIEND, WANTS YOU DEAD.

I felt very sorry and bad for you, that your life is going to end like this if you don’t comply. I was paid to eliminate you and I have to do it within 10 days.

Someone you call your friend wants you dead by all means, and the person have spent a lot of money on this, the person also came to us and told us that he wants you dead and he provided us your names, photograph and other necessary information we needed about you. If you are in doubt with this I will send you your name and where you are residing in my next mail.

Meanwhile, I have sent my boys to track you down and they have carried out the necessary investigation needed for the operation, but I ordered them to stop for a while and not to strike immediately because I just felt something good and sympathetic about

Now do you want to LIVE OR DIE? It is up to you. Get back to me now if you are ready to enter deal with me, I mean life trade, who knows, and I might just spear your life, $8,000 is all you need to spend. You will first of all pay $3,500 then I will send the tape of the person that want you dead to you and when the tape gets to you, you will pay the remaining $4,500. If you are not ready for my help, then I will have no choice but to carry on the assignment after all I have already being paid before now.

Warning: do not think of contacting the police or even tell anyone because I will extend it to any member of your family since you are aware that somebody want you dead, and the person knows some members of your family as well.

For your own good I will advise you not to go out on.

I’ve finally gotten around to uploading the pictures I took over the past few months. I don’t know why it takes me so long to get them up; it’s really only about a minute or two of work per picture, what with color correction, rotation, cropping, writing a description and setting a geotag. I really should just take the half hour and do it right after each photography outing, but it somehow never quite happens. Anyways.

I uploaded a few new pictures to my “at home” set, including some weird candy and some Korean items that I found upon moving into my new apartment:

http://flickr.com/photos/skrewtape/sets/72157600900104620/

I uploaded a bunch of new pictures to my Seattle Zoo set:

http://flickr.com/photos/skrewtape/sets/72157600901180609/

And I went to find some local roadside attractions, pictures of which I put in my “Around Town” set:

http://flickr.com/photos/skrewtape/sets/72157600929873009/

That is all.