Relative Something

Some things go right, some things go wrong. We have got a lot going on at the moment, and amidst all that is going on, two things you never welcome in the best of times, have picked this most complicated time for us, to appear in our lives. Hospitalization and email hacking.

Cyndie is busy trying to manage the last critical steps of getting our lives packed for the move, and suddenly one of her relatives is unexpectedly needing hospitalization. Cyndie is repeatedly being called upon to fulfill her role as guardian and advocate.  In the middle of dealing with that, yesterday, her email account was hacked, and who knows what personal information compromised.

It is getting difficult to discern which way is up around here.

In addition to all of that, Cyndie has also agreed to take on new employment, and will start as soon as we get to our new home. There isn’t much in the way of spare time showing up for her. I’m thinking it sounds a lot like her last year in Boston. Maybe that experience was a training run for the challenges she finds herself facing now. As stressful as it all is, she seems equipped to deal with it. Still, that doesn’t make it any less unpleasant.

We did have one thing go right yesterday, which Cyndie deserves credit for. Wednesday afternoon, we had packed the back of my car with all of the 25-plus years accumulation of household hazardous waste we uncovered in the basement and garage. My plan was to multitask and take advantage of the Wednesday evening hours at the County drop-off site. That plan failed as our first task of the evening ran us past the closing time.

Cyndie then volunteered to drive it over during the daytime on Thursday, while I was at work. I had warned her that they might not accept everything, as we had neglected to do any research and just put it all in the car. I discovered that we exceeded our allotment of a year’s-worth of allowable 5-gallon cans. Somehow, she worked her magic and convinced the staff on hand to take every last item out of the car for her and sent her on her way, free and clear.

That is a major item off our to-do list.

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…All of you can add this little tidbit to your “do-not-ever-do” lists: Never, ever fall for the phishing trick where you click a link in an email because it appears to have come from someone you know well, and it requires you to log into your email account to see what they sent you. **IT IS A TRICK!** Plain and simple, don’t ever fall for a request to enter your account name, email address, or user name, and a password, when it is inside an email, or the result of a link in an email you receive. Resist the urge. Just don’t do it.