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Looking for Bad Guys at Fort Casey

We spent the day at Fort Casey on Whidbey Island, again with grandma and grandpa. Isaac and Levi absolutely loved the place. They each had flashlights and would go around looking for all the bad guys. The fort is really something to see and much of it is still open to the public. I remember playing capture the flag here once back in college. Insane.

The history behind the fort is very interesting even if a "real" shot was never fired on an enemy. There is obviously so much more underground that isn't available to the public to see. I would love to see how the fort was back in the early 1900s.

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Crabbing with Grandpa

Today we went to Grandpa and Gigi’s house near Kayak Point to go crabbing. I’ve never been crabbing before and neither have the boys. Grandpa has a unique method that proved to be very successful. I was in the canoe with the boys just offshore while Grandpa was wading in the water. We would spot the crab from the canoe then push them to more shallow water using the oars. Most often Grandpa and I would double team with our oars to bring a crab up into the canoe. After the first crab, I was hooked. We ended up catching around 25 sized crab and threw back 13 females. Later in the evening we feasted on the 12 crab we caught. The weather cooperated as well. I thought I was back in Souther California… minus the Dungeness crab. Another wonderful day on our Seattle vacation!

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Summertime in Seattle (part 2)

I'll keep this one short as we're trying to get out the door for either the Woodland Park Zoo or the Seattle Aquarium. The aquarium is our backup plan should it rain... which its doing right now. Now I'm seeing why everything is just so green up here, although yesterday we definitely had to sun-block up the kids.

The last couple days we've seen a ton of family, spent time at the beach and some parks, and continued our eating spree. The boys just loved the beach at Mukilteo as its so different than the beaches in San Diego. They really enjoyed all the rocks, shells and crab body parts, looking at the jellyfish in the water and climbing on the driftwood. It really is a great place to play. Emily kept having to tell the boys that we can't bring home the crab body parts with us as  cool as they were. Who wouldn't want to bring home crab legs, right?

Today we're upgrading Emily's parent's garbage DSL from Frontier to a respectable connection from Comcast Cable. Everyone here is excited to have working Internet again. I still can't believe the terrible connection they've had to live with for some time. $25/mo for 768k/128k connection, max. Yuk!!

Off for another day of adventure.

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I'm 99% slower than you

I can't believe the family I'm staying with is paying $25/mo for this crap service from Frontier. Look at these tests below... all done within 5 minutes of each other.
I called Frontier and they told me the area we are located in is being upgraded so we should expect intermittent connectivity for 30-45 days. Maybe they should expect intermittent payment as well. Even once the lines are updated, the max profile available is 3Mbps/768k for $30. Gimme a break!!!

I want to click on the rating option but I there isn't an option for ZERO stars.

BTW - They are moving over to Comcast 20/2 tomorrow... for the same price.

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Summertime in Seattle (part 1)

We're up in Seattle for a couple weeks visiting family and friends. I still can't get over how late the sunset is up here. I took the sunset photo from my father-in-law's place near Stanwood around 9:15pm. Just amazing (both the lateness and the view from his place). Getting the kids down to bed is not as easy here as it is in San Diego. Their bedtime in San Diego is around 7:30 and it's pretty dark by 8pm. So far, the kids have been going to bed after 9pm and it's still light out until 10. They are a bit confused!

At Grandmas and Grandpas, we've been eating our weight in raspberries. Grandma has a fantastic garden full of all sorts of treats... peas, berries, rhubarb (crisps!).

On Monday the Samms came up to visit. Isaac had been asking to see them since we stayed at their place last summer. They were awesome with all of the boys and wore them out! They even did a fencing demonstration for us.

Today we're off to Mukilteo for a bit.

Love vacation!

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How to use AT&T to Hijack Someone's Cell Number

I should find this shockingly disturbing however for some reason I’m not the least bit surprised. That “some reason” is because the people providing the means to jack someone’s cell number is none other than our friends at AT&T.

Think of someone you really hate … now hope they use AT&T so you can steal their mobile number, then lock their account. From this point on, we’ll refer to this person as “the sucker”.

All you need is a business account with AT&T. Sure, to get a business account you will need to give them your federal tax id number and undergo a credit check but that’s not really a big deal. Once you have an AT&T business account, you can take over the sucker’s personal AT&T number without their prior permission or knowledge. The only two pieces of information you will need to know is their mobile number and their name. Real tough to get I know.

How to do the deed:

1. Call AT&T’s business line (Assuming you can stomach calling AT&T in the first place)
2. Tell them you want to transfer a personal account/number to your business account
3. Give them the super secret information (the sucker’s name and mobile number)
4. Answer whatever questions they have about rate plans, etc.
5. That’s it! You’re done.

Now within a short period of time, the sucker’s mobile number will be transferred to your business account. AT&T will not make any attempt to verify this request with the sucker. Once the number is on your business account, you have full control over the sucker.

Sounds impossible, right? I’ve done this now with three different employees of ours over the past week. In my case, I told two of them what I was doing but I didn’t have to verify anything with AT&T. The third employee I simply forgot to tell him I was going to transfer his mobile number to our corporate account. When the transfer was done and I informed him, he was shocked and upset that it went through without his permission. I was as well. So I called AT&T business and they told me that business accounts do NOT require verification from the personal user to transfer the account.

INSANE!

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