For those who care...

twitch

over there

Anxiety forms concerning the scarcity of dreams
Burning knowledge of what awaits
Sets one on edge, keeps him awake,
Anything now to not hear the screams

Souls lost from love's light
not yet gone and never forgotten
linger and torment the one
betrodden,
beriddled by guilt over
so much blood spilt

Truth vs Want

The Greater Good is delivered and reviewed in the sanctity of dreams, revealed in visions, some may say delusions, but those who would are those who are threatened, or perceive an immediacy of threat -- they are the status quo, and therefore the "obvious" targets beyond which the truth is hidden and only precision of mind and celerity of action can bring it forth.

Truth does not obfuscate. We are being trained not to see it.

"Those that hunt for the truth are destined to find it." I disagree, Nigel. They are less likely to find it -- "it" being the complete, unabashed, unabridged, unadulterated truth. Oh, of course they'll always find something; I bring to light a recent experience of hunting for car keys and finding change enough for bus fare. What I found will still get me somewhere, but it wasn't what I was looking for. What truth-seekers find is all-too-often the merest fragment of truth surrounded by enough candy-coated plausibility to make it seem whole, and therefore fool the seeker into settling for a couple of doubloons and a rusty cutlass when there's an overflowing chest of riches mere feet away.

Just beware that the treasure-hole being dug doesn't turn out to be a grave. Shore up the walls of the tunnel, or else come prepared for your funeral.

You can't con a con

On 1/14/07, Mrs. Harley Cowell wrote:

The National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369
www.lottery.co.uk
http://lottery.co.uk/res/

Dear Lucky Winner,

We are pleased to notify you the draw (999) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,
Online Sweepstakes International Lottery Program held on Wednesday 3
January 2007.

Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
a pool of over 25,000 names of distinguished professionals drawn from
Europe, America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Middle-East, parts of
Africa, and North & South America as part of our international promotions
programme conducted annually to encourage prospective overseas entries.
We hope with part of your prize awards, you will take part in our
subsequent lottery jackpots.

The result of our computer draw (#978) selected your name and email
address attached to e-ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number
5368/02 drew the lucky numbers: 04, 06, 30, 36, 43, 44, (20 Bonus Ball),
which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e. match 5
plus bonus. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of
£1,200,000 (ONE MILLION AND TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS STERLING) in
cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.This is from a total cash prize of
£7,200,000 GBP shared amongst the first Six (6) lucky winners in this
category i.e. Match 5 plus bonus.

Your prize award has been insured in your name and is ready for claims.
To begin your claims therefore, you are advised to expeditiously
contact our licensed and accredited claim agent for Overseas Lottery Winners
within a period of 21 days (date of this email inclusive) for the
processing of your winning and remittance to your designated bank account
after all statutory obligations have been satisfactorily dispensed with.

This promotion takes place weekly. Please note that your lucky winning
number falls within our European booklet representative office in
Europe as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your £1,200,000
(ONE MILLION AND TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS STERLING) would be released
to you by any of our payment offices in Europe.

Please be informed that claims not processed within the stipulated
period may be forfeited to the pool without further notice.

Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate
the release of your funds as soon as you contact him. You may wish to
establish contact via e-mail with the particulars presented below citing
the batch and reference numbers to this letter between the hours of
8.00am - 9.30pm on Monday through Sunday.

UK NATIONAL LOTTERY CLAIMS APPLICATION FORM--(Prize Winning Receipt)
========================================================================================

[FULL NAME
OFWINNER]............................................................

[CURRENTADDRESS]...........................................
....................

[COUNTRY/REGION].............
..................................................

[STATE/PROVINCE]................................................................

[AGE]
................................................................................

[SEX]...........................................................................

[MARTIAL
STATUS]................................................................

[OCCUPATION]..
.................................................................

[CURRENT
EMAIL].................................................................

[TEL/FAX].......................................................................

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ENTRY WINNING INFORMATION
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[ENTRY TICKET NUMBER]..................................

[DRAW DATE]......................................................

CLAIMANTSIGNATORY DECLARATION
===================================================================================

I,.....................................................HEREBY DECLARE
THAT I HAVE NEVER RECIEVED ANY SETTLEMENT FROM THE NATIONAL LOTTERY
PROMOTION WINNING NOR HAVE ANY MEMBER OF MY FAMILY FILED CLAIMS ON MY
BEHALF TO THE NATIONAL LOTTERY ORGANISATION. I, THEREFORE ASK THE UK
NATIONAL LOTTERY COMPANY TO ACT ON MY BEHALF IN THE PROCESSING AND THE
TRANSFER OF MY PRIZE AS INSTRUCTED BY ME.
====================================================================================

Overseas Claims Unit
United Kingdom Lottery Fiduciary
Contact Person: Dr. Samuel Bevan
Email: uknlclaimsagent01@yahoo.com
Tel: +44-701-421-8344
+44-701-421-8319
+44-701-421-8316

Our winners are assured of the utmost standards of confidentiality, and
press anonymity until the end of proceedings, and beyond where they so
desire. Be further advised to maintain the strictest level of
confidentiality until the end of proceedings to guard against problems
associated with fraudulent claims. This is part of our precautionary measure to
avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Yours Faithfully,
Mrs. Harley Cowell,
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY Program.

RyeGuy Says:


#1: I'm not a distinguished professional. I'm unemployed.

#2: Any idiot with half a brain goes to the National Lottery website, and finds out that one cannot play the lottery w/o a sterling bank account or trusted friend in the UK, of which I have neither.

#3: If your "claims agent" was part of the UK National lottery, wouldn't he be using an email account that ended with "@lottery.co.uk", or another European account, and not "@yahoo.com"? pretty rookie mistake there, bub.

#4: One cannot win a lottery if one has not entered. Dur....

"What time is it? January? What the hell?"

So what's happened in the last year? Too much, and not enough. The only thing that really matters right now is what's happened in the last week-ish, mainly, packing up everything and moving. I'd found a place to stay, sweet rent, nice location, nice place.... but no job. And it turns out that I have to wait until Monday to find one, because the people I need to talk to get regular teacher's holidays, even though they're administration. Ah well, that just gives me an extra week to veg and get acclimated (seriously, it was +5 yesterday. ridiculous.) Anyways, this pretty much wraps up the one "blog" entry I do per year. So... here. Let's balance this out...