Presents For My Late Mom

My mom, Mary, died in 1998, she was a heavy smoker and her left lung completely gave up.

When I was working I usually gave presents to my Mom on the holidays.

I colored in this picture when I was a little kid using crayons.

One present I gave her probably on Christmas was a peacock light.

She always had it on top of her
grand piano. Yes, she did know how to play the piano.


I also use the peacock as my profile picture of my old sadsack67 twitter, however there were back then too many people with the username of sadsack67, so I decided to use stanleyinparis.

This bunny candle holder I thought at first I gave it to her on Mother's day, but the more I 
thought about it, it was actually on a Easter Sunday.

This is what my mom gave me including the artificial flowers.

I used to like the comedy 'Cheers' back then from 1983 to 1993. I now use it to keep my spare pens and pencils.


                                   Why do I use the word present(s) instead of gift(s)? So, I would not offend any German people, gift in the German language and pronounce the same means poison and not presents.

                       That's all for now  

Scams are on the increase.

Scams are on the increase, but most of these scams can be prevented by simply not answering the phone of numbers you do not know,they may leave a message or voice mail but ignore those also.

Watch out for medicare scams, they call saying that they're from social security and yet they will ask for your social security number. Wouldn't they already know your social security number?

New medicare cards are being mailed out without social security numbers but another number that is unique only to you but it takes time and they will never call,unless you call them first.


There is also a "Can you hear me ?" scam. Never say "Yes"  they will record your 'yes' and apply it to another recording such as "You want me to charge this to your credit card ?" which is followed of course with your recorded 'yes'. 

No legit company will call you unexpectedly, unless you called them first and are expecting their call.

Another thing a person can do is to Google the number, when a dialogue box  pops up saying "Google couldn't match any documents" then you know that number is fake. Beware tough business numbers can be 'spoof' on caller I.D.

Never press any buttons even to opt out it'll prove to them they have a real number. I followed this advice and I am down to only five scam calls a week.

In any case follow this rule: I CALL YOU, YOU DON'T CALL ME