We had a bit of a dump of snow for the last couple days. Finally broke out an hour ago to see about the elec­trical stuff. I gather we took the big hit for our area 70cm in total I gather. That’s a goodly amount of snow. I shoveled the drive­way three time work­ing under the expect­a­tion that that would save the lar­ger later shovel. For the record, that did not work. Should have done one big dig. With a good wind, what I took out of the drive­way chasm, was depos­ited back within a short time. Only so much could have piled so def­in­itely moved more than I had to. Here’s some Pics. (Click for a slightly lar­ger version)

I star­ted col­lect­ing those won­der­ful Nigerian let­ters and emails soli­cit­ing your co-operation to smuggle huge amounts of money out of the coun­try. I thought that maybe the col­lec­tion might provide an oppor­tun­ity for ana­lysis and craft­ing some sort of paper. Over the past few years the stor­ies have got­ten more and more com­plex. A couple years ago there was even a spoof site that fash­ioned itself as a Nigerian col­lege for these get-rich-quick spam­mers. There have been count­less news stor­ies about hard luck cases that have fallen for these scams and ended up bilked in the pro­cess. I seem to recall that there was even people trav­el­ing to vari­ous air­ports to actu­ally meet their ‘busi­ness asso­ci­ates.’ The point is, the fact that these things are a scam would seem to be a sim­il­arly wide­spread under­stand­ing. yet people seem to still be led by their greed into los­ing more and more money to these schemes. And then news today that a county treas­urer in Michigan not only man­aged to lose $72K of his own money, but also man­aged to embezzle a fur­ther $1.2M of his county funds. Will it never end?