As my good friend, Rob, would say....

"F_ck the f_cking f_ckers!"

LOL

I shouldn't be, but I remain awake at....4:30am? Still working. Yuk.

Well, what should have been a pleasant Sunday morning was marred by the arrival of one of Wallingford's finest. Not knocking them at all, I was born and raised around our thin blue line and this particular guy seemed like a straight shooter. All the same, it was not fun for the whole family to go into high tension for a short time..... was Shelley in an accident? Did something happen on Nana's side of the family? Are they really pushing THIS hard for donations to the PBA this year? etc etc... As it turns out, some schmucks in the next neighborhood are having a bit of a feud. The bad part is that someone figured out that we had a wireless router in the house for shelley's laptop and (most likely) used it to send text messages to phones via AIM from inside our network so it tracked back to our Comcast IP address. The jerks. It figures.... Rob and I spend all this time and money putting together the firewall and network to keep people from doing exactly this by coming into our network from the internet. And then to have someone just hop on via the wireless and undo it all.... A) I feel violated, B) I feel humiliated, C) I want to find this (apparently high-school aged punk) and ... shall we say... convince him of his wrongdoing?

Dirty little schmuck. On the plus side... if they got in via the wireless, then they are likely in a nearby house, though it could possibly have been done from a car. Who knows? In any case, now we're living with the fear of the FBI raiding our house and removing all of our tens of thousands of dollars worth of hardware while we are left with no outlet for trading and income. Let me tell you, I'll flip it that happens.

On the plus side? We're all innocent, so no matter what happens to our computers we'll be bourne out as not being involved. But it's the in-between time that will suck. Not fun. I think we're actually going to add our names to the complaint with the police against whoever is doing this because they have A) besmudged our name, B) threatened our security (the threats I read which were passed across from the officer sounded like a depression case like the kid in the vampire show last night - stalking these people in the next neighborhood and threatening to "swiss cheese" their house??), and C) possibly threatened the security of our business and trading accounts, etc.

God help the little buggar when the cops or feds or whoever find him. And you just know it's some shut-in ill-adjusted punk thinking they're ahead of the curve. Hope it all catches up to them!