It's a regular rollercoaster

The Red Sox are back in first place in the ALEast by a full game over the Yankees.

The Red Sox are up in Toronto to start a three game series against the last place Blue Jays and the Yankees are in Houston to start a three game series against the first place Astros.

My hope are high that by the Fourth of July, the Red Sox will have a three game lead over the Yankees in the ALEast.

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I'm watching the doppler and there is a major line of storms heading my way.

While I drag my generator out of the garage so I can make sure I don't miss the Red Sox game, you can visit these links:

• Key line in this story: "She also said the marijuana found on scene was hers."



• Key line in this story: "Mom, Dad, there's a bear in my room."



• Michael Prince Myers isn't the brightest member of our species.



• Turns out this headline does not mean what I thought it meant.



• Only in Florida.

Turns out the ransomware is not ransomware

Researchers have discovered that the latest ransomware attack was never designed to be recovered. It was designed to destroy. They are saying that all of the data that was allegedly encrypted is instead simply gone.

Sucks to be those people.

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The Red Sox lost last night and the Yankees won so once again they are in a tie for first place.

They are simply not hitting the ball. And if they don't hit the ball, they don't step on home plate. If they don't step on home plate, they don't win.

I'm going to watch tonights game and I really hope they win.

While I do that, you can click on these:

• Key entry from our favorite police log: "5:14 p.m. A small wiener dog tried, but failed, to attack a group of Kalispell chickens."



• Oh Canada.



• Only in Florida.

Let's talk ransomware.

If you haven't heard by now, there is another computer attack going on. It's a thing called ransomware which is a word that, if you pay attention, you will see contains the word "ransom".

This is the second significant wave of this particular type of attack. The first one was a few months ago and it was called "wannacry".

Wannacry was an amateur attempt to hold computers hostage and collect a ransom. It failed because the author was vain and included code that had the computer call out to a server on the internet so he (or she) could tell how many victims they had.

The solution was to shutdown access to the server and the ransomware package failed.

This one is different. It simply infects the computer, encrypts all the data and tells the user, "Hey! I got your stuff and if you want it back you have to send $300 in Bitcoin to this address."

This is bad for two reasons. The first being that most people effected by this don't have $300 in Bitcoin and the second being that the address given no longer exists so even if you do have $300 to give them, they can't get it anymore because the email address has been shut down.

Here's what I want you all to remember:

SamsClub, CVS, Walmart, Amazon, etc... aren't going to send you an email saying, "Thank you [email address] from [popular merchant]. Click here for a $50.00 gift certificate!"

There is no $50.00 gift certificate, only a bad thing from a bad person trying to get your money or personal information. Don't click on it.

Oh, and one other thing, if you are using Kaspersky as your anti-virus protection, you should probably delete it and find a new anti-virus provider.

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Bill Belichick and his girlfriend recently did a magazine interview with Nantucket Magazine and there were some pictures taken.

Here's the best comment I've seen about those pictures:

You gotta admit, that's kinda funny.

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The Red Sox are in first place by one game. Let's hope they stay in first place.

While I yell encouraging words at them via my special coaching TV, you can visit these links:

• This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs.



• Only in Florida.

They want him gone

I listen to the Boston sports radio when I'm in my car and to a man, they are all saying John Farrell has lost control of the team and it's time for him to go.

I'm not going to disagree with them but you still gotta remember that they are in first place. It's kinda touch justifying the termination of a manager when the team is in first.

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Work continues to go well, I'm still wearing sox and I'm still tired.

I'm hoping the tired thing goes away eventually.

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The Red Sox are without their manager tonight because he went and got himself suspended. They are also starting about an hour late because of rain. That means I probably won't make it through six innings.

While I do that, you can visit these links:

• What is an 80 year old woman doing next to a planes engines?



• Here's a guy who has his priorities straight.



• Only in Florida.

My first day of work...

All-in-all, it was a pretty damned good day. I like the people I'm working with, the work environment is nice and overall employee / employer relationship is good.

The having to wear socks thing wasn't all that great....

I put in a full day and I'm tired but I suspect I'll be back into the swing of things in about a week.

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I'm going to settle in and watch the rest of the baseball game.

Here are a few links for you to visit:

• Key line in this story: "...he expresses his apologies."



• Floridians are expanding their range.



• A headline you will only see in Canada: "Don't take selfies with the moose."