Missive #585

From celebrated author Agustina Bazterrica, this collection of nineteen brutal, darkly funny short stories takes into our deepest fears and through our most disturbing fantasies. Through stories about violence, alienation, and dystopia, Bazterrica’s vision of the human experience emerges in complex, unexpected ways—often unsettling, sometimes thrilling, and always profound. In “Roberto,” a girl claims to have a rabbit between her legs.These stories are not a dark as the the two novels by her that I have read. But they are strange or maybe weird is a more apt description. They are all very short short stories with the ebook being only 115 pages. An entertaining read which may not be liked by everyone but you might give it a try. A woman’s neighbor jumps to his death in “A Light, Swift, and Monstrous Sound,” and in “Candy Pink,” a woman fails to contend with a difficult breakup in five easy steps.
Written in Bazterrica’s signature clever, vivid style, these stories question love, friendship, family relationships, and unspeakable desires. — Book promo @ goodreads.com

Went to Bisbee Breakfast Club for breakfast yesterday morning and then to Safeway. Just another usual shopping day. Although I did add a stop at the laundry and got that done.

I have been fighting a lot of Spam that is using Omaha Steak, Tractor Supply, AAA, State Farm , Costco & Ace Hardware as the come on in their phising tries. This has been going on for over a month with 5-10 of the emails every day. Some of the titles are the same but the email addresses are all different so my attempt to filter them out has been a bust. I’m now trying Box Trapper. BoxTrapper protects your inbox from spam by requiring ALL email senders not on your Whitelist reply to a verification email before you can receive their mail. This might slow down my replies until I get your email address Whitelisted. Or it may also be a bust – we will see.

I had is enabled for a short time yesterday and could see that it was ‘trapping’ some of the usual suspects but did not seem to be working for emails that I wanted to receive. I had one sender whitelisted but was not receiving any email from that sender. Then later in the day I had an email that was trapped which had come from the pemmican vendor. I was able to see it in the queue and by clicking on “Whitelist and Deliver” I added it as a whitelisted address and the message was delivered to my inbox. IT WORKS! I manually added another address to the Whitelist and asked the sender to email me and it worked just fine. I found later that I did not need to manually add to the whitelist, if I send someone an email that address gets whitelisted automatically. IT WORKS!
I hope the phishers don’t find a way around it. Nothing trapped so far today but no Spam in my inbox either.