I get quite a bit of spam. Unfortunately, it’s a part of having an online business. I go with the flow. My junk filter gets quite a bit of it and periodically I’ll delete what’s sitting in my junk folder to permanently get rid of it.

I’m on a committee for a business association I belong to. I get quite a bit of e-mails for that and with it comes a high volume of spam (again, it’s a readily available e-mail address on the web and the search engines love to grab it for those pesky fools who like to irritate my life with the CRAP they think I need so bad). I get the usual “male enhancement” offers and the regular I have a billion dollars I want to give you e-mails. Lately, through this association, I’ve been getting a lot of “you gotta buy this stock” e-mails. Whatever. They get deleted too. The problem with them is that they put these stupid subject lines on the messages. Completely unrelated to the topic which really irritates me.

Well, today was the kicker. Here’s the topic I got today:

25 US troops die in Iraq Saturday Fresh news

You may be thinking yeah, OK, whatever. But, let me tell you about my morning.

My cousin, whom I love dearly, has been stationed in Iraq just outside Baghdad (I think) since October. The group he’s with has been having some problems, they’ve lost quite a few lives. This morning, for whatever reason, I felt a horrible sense of fear for him and spent quite a bit of time in prayer for his safety and comfort for his family and the families of the guys with him. I can’t tell you why I felt so much fear but I did. My mind has been preoccupied with him and his safety. I was just getting focused on my day without this weight on me for him when I saw this e-mail.

OK, I’m PISSED. The crap, I mean spam, they sent is trying to sell me something but there’s no where for me to go buy it. (Not that I want to buy it but I’m so pissed right now I wanted to see what they were trying to sell….NOTHING.) The link in the e-mail isn’t even an active working link.

So, this message is for all those freaking spammers out there. GET A LIFE and leave mine ALONE!!!! I have a few other things I’d like to say to them but I won’t because they probably wouldn’t even realize this message is for them. (And I might offend my mom LOL.)

Till later…