{"id":7982,"date":"2011-07-28T23:14:47","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T23:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=7982"},"modified":"2017-06-02T12:20:48","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T12:20:48","slug":"thursday-28th-july-2011-maybe-it-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=7982","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 28th July 2011 &#8211; MAYBE IT WAS &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 the shock of being up and out of bed by 08:00 this morning that did it \u2013 I dunno \u2013 but I didn\u2019t last long this evening, that\u2019s for sure.<\/p>\n<p>And I don\u2019t know why I was up before the alarm went off but anyway, so I was.<\/p>\n<p>The morning I spent working on my website and in the afternoon I went on the internet and did a huge pile of housekeeping, getting all kinds of stuff ready for my trip to Canada, sending out piles of reminders and the like. But the most important part was actually closing down my electricity account in Brussels. On the phone, as you might expect with it being Belgium, no-one was interested. \u201cCan\u2019t be bothered\u201d is the phrase. But eventually I worked out how to do it on the internet and after much steam and heat, it\u2019s now concluded. Mind you, there is a delay of 6 weeks in bringing things up to date, so I\u2019m told. Only to be expected, I suppose.<\/p>\n<p>But there is something quite sinister about something else. There\u2019s a site on line where you can obtain phone numbers in different countries and have all the calls transferred to another number of your choice. And so I registered a really good Halifax, Nova Scotia, number with them.<\/p>\n<p>And then I had an e-mail \u2026.<br \/>\n<em>Due to some discrepancies on your account 418767, our automated alerting system has placed it on hold. I am very sorry for any inconvenience this interruption in calls may cause. Customer Service will review your account soon, but you can act now and speed up this process.<\/p>\n<p>For fastest return to active service, please email us a high quality image of both the front and back of the credit card used on this account and your government issued ID. Please also email an high quality image of the government issued ID of the credit card holder if the credit card holder is different than the account holder.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2026 and do you know \u2013 I suppose they even get people who do this too. Anyway it\u2019s an American company and the FBI have a decent cybercrime unit and so I made a report to them.<\/p>\n<p>I was still working in the evening too. I\u2019ve bought a big, well, enormous chest of drawers in the IKEA sale the other day and now that\u2019s up here, built, installed and filled with clothes.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no wonder that I crashed out early on.<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-7982 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='7982' data-nonce='c7c379d531' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-7982 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-7982 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='7982' data-nonce='c7c379d531' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-7982 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-7982 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 the shock of being up and out of bed by 08:00 this morning that did it \u2013 I dunno \u2013 but I didn\u2019t last long this evening, that\u2019s for sure. And I don\u2019t know why I was up before the alarm went off but anyway, so I was. The morning I spent working on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4507,1616,258],"tags":[1673,199,1624,1302,2482,1665,2560,5565,5316,206,5599,5366,5314,1949],"class_list":["post-7982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-les-guis","tag-belgium-2","tag-brussels-2","tag-canada-2","tag-crash-out","tag-early-start","tag-electricity-issues","tag-eric-hall","tag-france","tag-halifax","tag-httpwww-erichall-eu","tag-ikea","tag-les-guis","tag-nova-scotia","tag-telephone-scam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7983,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7982\/revisions\/7983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}