Dude, I think u got hacked!

Well I suppose these things are inevitable... but today my email account was compromised, hacked if you will.  I noticed (at work) around 2pm today that I had sent myself a message from my Hotmail account.  Well, I thought, how nice of me... knowing something was wrong.  So, away I go to check it out.  While logging in, I get another email from a friend at work, with a subject of "Dude, I think u got hacked!"  Yes, you would be thinkin' right.  I get logged into Hotmail and there they are, 3 extra messages in the ole sent folder, systematically sending out a link (for Viagra) I think to 10 people at a time, in order from my Address Book.  How quaint.  Lucky for yer ole buddy cheer_dad that his work email has been among the recipients of my Address Book for years.  So, I was among the first to get it.  About 5 minutes after the first message went out, I get logged in and change the password and all my other security info.  It would appear that a bot was at work, rather than a human being.  But some of the other techno geeks at work and I tracked it back to an IP Address in Poland.  All I could think to say was, "I wonder how many of them it took..."  Okay, I saw the shot and had to take it.  Sorry if your ethnicity has just been trounced.  Go ahead make an Irish joke to spite me.  We shall rain down upon ye from the highlands and ye shall be smitten.  Okay, that's the best I can do on short notice.

For those of you who've followed my exploits on Facebook, you'd know that work has been a bit of a bear of late for me.  The boss out of town, me in class, and picking up a lot of slack.  I think I exhausted the keys on the Blackberry trying desperately to stay in touch with the office.  Now that things are starting to get back to normal, some of the lingering pieces of work to be done are beginning to frustrate me.  I'm not sure who knows it... I'm not sure who cares...  I'm hoping to catch a break anytime soon. 

Not much in the poker world for me lately.  Red did play last Friday at the Eagles in the charity tournament.  I stayed home with my son, for a night of XBox and such.  I guess we had a small cash game on Saturday.  I think I made $10 and got a helluva hangover to carry into the next day.  There is another of the monthly Eagles games this Friday night at 7pm.  I hope to make it to this one (hint RED) but there might be a basketball game to attend to.  As always the kids come first. 

Hope all is well with each of you.  Maybe when the dust starts to settle around here, I'll get back to a little regularity in the posting schedule around the NDPT Blog.  In the meantime, thanks for stopping by and holding out hope that I'll bang out a few lines.

Regards,

cheer_dad