Waiting for the warm

It's below freezing this morning but the wind has stopped so the cold front has passed and it will start to warm. This afternoon will be a lot nicer. I no longer too much like the cold but the cold and wind together do not at all describe my happy space. So I'm glad to see that go for a while.

Dana pointed out that three years ago yesterday was when we had our snow.



You will note that the Smart car is in the garage.  Not sure why Dana's car is out but I'm sure it had something to do with crap accumulation where she normally parks.  

I'm happy with looking at the pictures of the snow.  It proves how old I am that I'd just as soon skip a repeat.  I've got pictures.  That's fine.

When I was 20ish years old I was living in Maine.  There could never be enough snow.  I'd lived two years in Massachusetts and was on my fifth year in Maine when it snowed enough one day that I trudged the half a mile to my shoe factory job in snow up to my thighs.  No one was there.  The factory was closed and I'm not sure I even got credit for the effort.  I didn't care other than the loss of a day's wages. 

A couple of years before when I was living in the dorm at college I went out by myself into a blizzard.  The dorm backed up to a secondary growth forest with a trackless rail bed running through it.  The area was part of the early Maine deforestation that supplied wood to the houses further south.  It  belonged to the school and was undeveloped.  No lights.  No people.  Nothing but trees.  And me.  And multiple feet of snow.  The sound and, really, existence of the world disappeared and there was nothing but the cold white flakes that seemed so alive.  In retrospect it was one of the many times that I was way too close to no longer being alive.  But I knew where I was and never thought that I might get lost.  And I didn't.  Not in the sense that I couldn't find my way back.  But I definitely got lost from the world for a while.

That happened frequently in Maine and seldom since.  

Might have been successfully phished

[Amazon] We’ve noticed that there has been a significant price drop on one of your recent orders. According to Amazon's policy, you can apply for a price difference refund within 48 hours. For more details, please log in at https://t.co/nqnnAOo3uz?AE=65216mou
0111-511771DBF0F274802

The link would not work on my PC but did work on my phone so I logged into Amazon using the link.  The login was exactly as I would have expected.  Log in followed by multifactor authentication.  Then another verification of my card ending in 2174.  The previous sign in process lulled me to sleep and I entered all of my card info.  And it went to the Amazon site where there is no indication at all of a price drop on anything.  I do have an outstanding order but can not find anything on Amazon indicating a price drop.

I reported the info to Amazon.  And locked my credit card.  And will likely report it as fraud later today.  Which means I have to go through all the crap of changing everything and using a back up account while I wait for a new card.  It is more of an annoyance than anything else.  Fortunately Chase has a toggle switch to lock a card so nothing will happen.  I'll monitor for a while and see if I get any indication from Amazon.

All the years I've railed against people who fall for such.  

If it is a phish it is really sophisticated. It somehow used the Amazon login system complete with multifactor authentication and then scraped my cc card number afterward.  If that is what happened.  

We'll see.