Frank Broughton Times

Normally to send and receive email from Yahoo via an POP application like Outlook or Thunderbird you must upgrade your yahoo email account to a premium account. Apparently yahoo is (unofficially) allowing pop access via their free mail in some situations.

Here are some ways to possibly access your free yahoo email account via Outlook, Thunderbird or other POP applications:

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The domain name registration business is loaded with scammers and at best dishonest “legal” companies. Often at the office I get a letter on a domain name I have registered that is going to expire with 6 months or so asking me to renew the domain. Of course this company is not the one I currently have the domain registered with. The letter has 6 paragraphs of “fine print” on the back. The prices they are charging and several time higher than from my regular reliable registrars (I use www.godaddy.com and www.namecheap.com and I am very happy with both companies.) The most recent letter wanted $30 per year for the renewal. It would only cost me $10.33 from godaddy.

Worse yet is companies like traderdomains.com. I have registered www.frankbroughton.us for some time now. Of course I would like to have www.frankbroughton.com but it was taken by another person. Recently that person let it expire and it became available for registration. I received the following email from traderdomains.com:

Our company specializes in acquiring expired domain names to help individuals and businesses protect their brand online. The domain name FRANKBROUGHTON.COM expired recently and we were able to secure it. We noticed that you own FRANKBROUGHTON.US and felt that you may be interested in acquiring the .COM version of your existing domain name. It is available for a one-time fee of only $49.00 USD.

I went to godaddy and registered it myself for $10.33.  A week before I received the same letter from another company that offered me frankbroughton.com for $97. Ya right!

If you have domain names registered be careful of these attempts to scam money out of you.

Password Stealing Malware Skyrocketing:
http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2250104/password-stealing-malware
Story from V3.co.uk

See my page on how to protect yourself from these threats:

http://www.av1611.us/spyware.html

Found this interesting “thing” munching away while on a short hike in the fields near my house.

Quick shot I took today while walking in the woods across from my house:

Click on image to view larger size.

“That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.” (1 Corinthians 2:5)

I just wrote this post on an excellent support group forum I found and made friends at HCVSupport – I thought I would share it with my blog readers:

Sorry all for abandoning you. I have really struggled with this TX and did not want to say anything about it for I had nothing good to say. BUT I thought about it and I do have much to be thankful for. First, being able to even get the treatment. Second, it is working – undetectable at week 4, 8 and 24 so far. Thankful that I have a great wife and family (8 kids) that have really helped me along the way so far. Thankful for my friends that give me the “space” I need at this time. Thankful for my boss at work (he is my pastor too as I work for a church) in being 100% totally understanding about my struggles with this tx. He spoke with some people he knew who did bad on the tx and who it failed for, so he knows. I have been to work only one day or so a week since being on treatment. I get much of my duties done from home on the computer.

Thankful I was able to get to Niagara Falls last week for two days with the family – see my blog post on the adventure:
http://frankbroughton.us/blog/archives/467

Tomorrow will be my 33rd injection, so only 15 weeks to go after that. After week 24 my hemoglobin was low (10.4) for too long so my doctor cut back the ribaviron. It went up (11.1) by the next month but not enough. He cut back the ribaviron once again. It went up to 11.6 but wants it up to at least 12.5. I get some blood work done tomorrow so we will see if the second cutback has worked.

My last day of the ribaviron will be on Christmas day. So looking forward to that. It has been a long road so far with some very bad days along the way and many sleepless nights. There are days when I feel lousy but I am able to pretend that I am not – the days when I cannot even pretend I feel good are killer.

Thank you to the numerous members here who sent me words of encouragement though PM’s! I just answered a bunch of them.

I will add here I too am thankful for all of you who have mentioned to me that you are praying for my treatment and health. I do appreciate it very much. A couple of my aunts have been a great encouragement to me to keep going. They both have had close family members on the same TX, so they know of the ordeal.

Christmas day! What a day that will be if the Lord wills! and then I would turn 50 on January 9! I think I just might shoot off some fireworks in celebration. A word of caution: I have not succeeded yet in this treatment there is a percentage chance the virus can come back – but God is good and He knows of my uprisings and downsitting, knows the amount hairs on my head (getting easier to count these days haha) so He is in charge of my life.