Fraud alert

Fraud alert: Troy got an email calling itself a fraud alert from our bank. Pop quiz: see if you can spot his mistake. He called the number and the Indian lady asked for his credit card number.  He told her to look it up by his name. She wanted his address and Social Security number. He said he would call back later and hung up. 

     Answer: call the customer service number on the credit card, not the number on the email. The same goes for email links: instead of clicking on a link in an email, go to your browser and look up the web page of the bank.  The email was legit, by the way. 

It's a little late but here's my Christmas present from Troy. 

It's a gingerbread mold made of cast iron. Winston asked why it was nailed down, but it's just really heavy. 

Tristan is powering through treasure Island in Spanish.  He has a test tomorrow. He gives us an hourly update. "They hired the crew for the ship! They set sail! They got to the island! They had the first battle! They found Ben Gunn!"

But some of it is not completely clear.  Did Squire Trelawney get killed? How about Dr. Livesy? Tristan did not believe me that it was written in 1886 and people still read it.