Nigerian scams and a tired baby

Hmm, which to start with first. I'll keep you waiting on the Nigerian scam.

First up, the time change. Usually I love "falling back." It seems like you get an extra hour of sleep, which is awesome. However, someone forgot to tell Lauren about that. This is the first time we've gone through a time change that's really affected her. She's aware enough now to know when it's time to get up and when it's time to go to bed. For the last few months you could set a clock to her nighttime sleep pattern: in bed at 7pm, out of bed at 7am. While 7am is still kinda early, especially on the weekends, we didn't really think we should complain since it was 12 continuous hours of sleep, something that seemed impossible about a year ago. Then the time change comes. Now we can't get her to stay awake until 7pm, and she's up at 6am. I suppose we should have started easing her into the change a few days ahead of it, but nobody told me that. None of my books, no websites, not the news, nothing. Argh. So, Chris is having fun trying to make her stay in bed until 7am, and I'm having fun trying to keep her awake until 7pm.

Last night it was actually pretty funny. Apparently when she gets really tired she likes to run laps around our kitchen. Then every once in a while she'll stop and just stare off into space, rubbing her head. It's like stopping makes the tired start. So then she's off running again. She also found it pretty entertaining to dig in Chris' belly button. Chris didn't appreciate it so much.

On to the Nigerian scam. You may have read about these, offically known as advance fee frauds. In a nutshell, you get an email from some guy in Nigeria, Sierra Leone, etc. offering to give you a portion of his fortune for helping him move it to an offshore account. What really ends up happening is you have to send money to some scammer and you never get the fortune. I had always heard about these and couldn't believe people actually fell for them. There are even people who have a hobby of messing with the scammers and getting them to do really crazy things. Turnabout's fair play, I guess. Well, one showed up in my junk mail box today. Woo hoo! I've officially been targeted. Sorry, Brooks Fung, you'll get no money from me. What scares me is that these freaks now have my email. Oh well, I guess they'll just deleted along with all the offers for Viagra I get.