Our RV Adventures

or, Look Before You Click.

As many of you have already noticed, and have let us know, Jan’s Facebook account has been ‘cloned’ again.

Note I said cloned, not ‘hacked’.

When this happens, no one has stolen your password or broken into your account. They just created a NEW Facebook account in your name, copied a couple of the photos and a few items of your profile data, and BAM! you’ve been cloned.

Then they scroll down your real page, noting the friends you’re corresponding with, and then send them bogus Friend Requests from the clone account.

Why do this, you might ask? You can learn more here – Facebook Account Cloning

So what can you do to stop this from happening to you?

Pretty much nothing. There is no way to stop this.

But you can help protect your friends, and your friends can help protect you.

If you get a Friend Request from someone you think you’re already friends with, check it out. Go to your Facebook profile page and click on Friends in the menu in the middle of the page. Here you can see a list of all your friends.

Unfortunately FB doesn’t list them in any logical order, so just look down through the list to see if you’re already friends with them. If you are, delete the Request and then mark it as SPAM. You can also report it as a Bogus account.

Now, how to protect yourselves against bogus Friend Requests that aren’t masquerading as personal Friends. Jan regularly gets Friend Requests from people we don’t know, so we then check two things.

First, after the person’s name it will show if you have any mutual friends. If not, that’s the first red flag.

Second, click on the person’s name. This will take you to their Profile. Now look and see if this is a real person. If it’s a bogus one, you will see a couple of photos and then nothing.

Here’s what Jan’s Cloned Page looks like.

Note there is nothing after the first two photos.

And here’s Jan’s real page.

Her real page has years of posts as you go down.

If it is bogus then you can report it.

Click on the three dots at the bottom of the cover photo of the bogus page.

Then click on Report, and then Report This Profile and Continue.

Next select They’re pretending to be me, or someone I know, and then Continue.

Then select Someone I know, unless it is a clone of your page and again Continue.

Then click Done and you’re done.

If everyone reports a bogus account as quickly as possible, they won’t last long.

So Report, Report, Report.

Let’s practice Safe Facebooking out there.

Kenedy doesn’t wait around to put their Christmas decorations up, getting them up promptly on November 1st.

As far as this afternoon, we went back to Bella Sera again, hoping it would trigger another last minute call from Todd, giving me a gate like when we were here last Saturday, but not such luck.

But the food was still delicious.

“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” – Mark Twain

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And Three Days to Go.

After a very quiet night, i.e., one truck left that come in on day shift and nothing else, I was home and in bed by 5:30am. So no cows, no excitement.

Getting up about 11:30 the first thing I did was to call the Karnes County National Band to see if our VISA check cards had come in. And they hadn’t.

Well, actually, based on the reaction, which was Huh?, I suspect they never got ordered. I had ask for them to be sent to the bank here, rather than the account address, our house in Friendswood, so we would get them quicker. They said they would call me when they come in. We’ll see how that works out.

I did use the bank’s Telephone Banking to confirm that our 1st SiteWatch pay check had in fact been direct deposited into our account, so that was nice.

Hoping our absentee ballots had finally come in, we headed for lunch, once again at Barth’s Restaurant. We’ve gotten hooked on their daily Lunch Buffet and are working our way through their menu.

Every day is different, with two meats, two or three veggies, soup, salad bar, and homemade bread.

Today was Fried Chicken, Roast Beef with Gravy, Creamed Red Potatoes, Corn, and Broccoli-Cheese Soup. Delicious, and with our $3 Senior Discount, it was only $6.50.

A really great deal.

So all we have left are Monday with Chicken Fried Steak and Chicken Fried Chicken, Wednesday with Chicken and Dumplings and Hamburger Steak, and Thursday with Fried Pork Chops and Meat Loaf.

Sounds like a plan. Only three days to go.

Leaving Barth’s, we next stopped off at the Lone Star Real Estate office to see if our ballots had come, but the office was closed for lunch, saying they would be back at 1:30. So we decided this would be a good time to check out the H.E.B. right down the road. Turns out to be a nice store, with maybe a little better selection than the local Wal-Mart.

Back at the office, we had about a 10 minute wait until they showed up, and our ballots were there so we’ll get them filled out and off with Priority Mail tomorrow.

Getting back to the rig I took a nap before heading off to the gate for the night. As it stands right now this is my last scheduled shift until I hear from Todd again. I’ve already been extended here for one night. A  few more would be nice.

Yesterday I cleaned the filters on both our Coleman AC units. The older, bedroom unit uses the old school foam filter that I hose off in the shower and re-install. And about once a year I replace the foam sheet with a new piece because it does deteriorate over time.

But the new Coleman Mach XV model that I installed last year uses a couple of these electrostatic filters.

They’re made of a metallized plastic mesh that attracts dust by electrostatic action caused by the airflow through the filter. This allows the filter to attract dust without restricting the airflow. And just a quick spray in the shower cleans them off.

Heading in to work this afternoon, I dropped off the rent check at the park office, so I guess we’re here for another month.

Thought for the Day:

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

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