Ronnie Sherard

This mission is a BLAST!

This past weekend was a pretty good one! We headed down to Kansas City on Friday to spend some time with my aunt and grandma. Then, on Saturday, I took my son to the Nationwide race, where we met up with family. Before the race, we took in FanWalk, which was a lot less crowded than it was on Sunday. The race didn’t really heat up until the end when Joey Logano passed Kyle Busch late to take the checkered flag.

On Sunday, some coworkers picked us up at my grandma’s and we headed to the track. We took in the FanWalk area before driver introductions and Taylor actually got his hat signed by Rick Hendrick! The race was pretty good, with a lot of lead changes. Tony Stewart had an awesome pit stop on the last series of stops and never looked back! Too bad Jimmie didn’t win, but he was competitive for most of the race. Too bad we have to watch the rest of the chase on television!

Photos From the Races

It’s been nine years since I last saw the Blue Angels perform. Wow! What a show! The flying was just amazing. The air show was really good this year! I just can’t wait to see what’s in store for next year!

The Blue Angels – 2009 Offutt AFB Air Show, Bellevue, Nebraska

I’m getting pretty excited about this weekend. The Blue Angels are coming to town and this year looks to be a great show! The weather is supposed to be great too, with highs in the 70s. I just wish I didn’t have to work a booth on Sunday, but that should be a good time too. I’ll be selling Famous Dave’s to raise money for our booster club. I should have some pictures up Saturday or Sunday night!

July 14th marks the end of an era. My wife and I will have fulfilled our two year obligation to “more bars than anywhere” and are planning to make the move to Verizon. I’m not sure exactly when we’ll make the move, as AT&T doesn’t prorate their service. Yesterday began our next billing cycle. How convenient. Regardless, I’m tired of the RAZR and the signal drops I constantly get. More of our friends are on Verizon, so it seems like a smart move. On top of that, we will get more for our money than with AT&T. We’re looking at getting LG phones, the enV 3 and enV Touch. I can’t wait to make the switch!

From the 2009 Offutt Air Force Base fireworks display:

Just demonstrating the AV-8B takeoff and landing. Sweet plane!

I haven’t really used craigslist much, but thought I would try selling my iPod on there. Hello phishermen! Here are the phishing email addresses I have received from my craigslist posting:

Christian Woods (christian.woods58@yahoo.com>)
“Am buying it for my pastor’s wedding gift and i know it will make a very good gift for him.Please provide me with your paypal email address or your full names and address so i can send you a money order,this is because am out of town.if you still have it available.Hoping to hear from you soon.” – Reported as phishing

Mark Whittemoore (marmoore1@gmail.com)
“Thanks for your response, I will like to buy this for my son schooling in Nigeria as Birthday Gift,Please I will like you to withdraw the advert on net cause i am buying from you now…i will be paying you $100 for shipping through GLOBAL EXPRESS MAIL (EMS) and i will be making the payment through my PayPal account get me your name and PayPal account,looking forward to hearing from you soon. Thanks” – Reported as phishing

joy sweet (joysweet95@gmail.com)
“Hello
Thank for your reply? Am very interested in buying your item and i will like to buy this item now reason is that i want to buy it for my son and i will be offer you $450 for the item so i will provide you $100 for the shipping cost so provide me your paypal email so that i can make the payment. Thank” – Reported as phishing

naomi lopez (lopeznaomi75@yahoo.com)
“Hello,
thanks for the reply,I’m just interested in the ipod, just wanted to get your attention. I’d love to buy the ipod as a perfect gift for my fiancee. He just got transferred to one of our international offices (chevron) oversea and i will like it to be delivered to him because I am currently out of town doing a little work for the company. I’ll be paying through pay pal because it is efficient and i believe $80 will be enough to take care of shipment fees and other expense incurred, so kindly get back to me with your confirm paypal account id, so i can go ahead to effect the payment.” – Reported as phishing

Mrs jane chatter (janechatter7@sify.com)
“Thanks for your response, I would have come to pick it up myself but am out of town at the moment, am buying the item as a birthday gift for my neice who is in west africa she works with the W.H.O there, i will like you to help me deliver it to her before her birthday, and will be adding $120 for shipment expenses through postal service (USPS).Payment will be through paypal,just send me paypal money request to (janechatter@gmail.com) so i can make payment immediately and if you dont have an account go to paypal website and sign up, its free.

Mrs Jane” – Reported as phishing

I then received an email this morning from “PayPal” saying I needed to ship to Nigeria and would be paid once the tracking information was confirmed. It came from “service@paypal.com” (paypalwebpayment@mail2Consultant.com) and was immediately forwarded to PayPal as a spoofed email. Here is a small section of the header:


Sender: marmoore1@gmail.com
Received: by 10.216.52.196 with SMTP id e46mr2033202wec.124.1246267032930;
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:17:12 -0700 (PDT)
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:17:12 +0100
Message-ID: <614c28400906290217j41e0e486udba005ae9646754d@mail.gmail.com>
Subject: SHIPPING VERIFICATION IS NEEDED *** CONFIRMED FROM PAYPAL
From: "service@paypal"

Notice anything?

Needless to say, I don’t think I will be using craigslist anymore….

I seldom wear my uniform when traveling. Typically, I just wear something comfortable. However, when we flew back from St. Louis this past week after a conference, we didn’t have time to change. While in the airport, I was shocked with how many people came up to us, thanked us, and asked us what we did in the military. One woman even came up and gave us a hug! It really made me feel like there are a lot of people out there who appreciate us, the men and women of the United States Armed Forces!