Identity theft

Right, so I forgot to mention the weird news. Someone charged a bunch of stuff to our Mastercard. It's almost $1000 of unauthorized charges. However, M/C won't hold us responsible for it so we're cool. I mean, it was all stuff that was obviously not us because the service address would be different from ours: MCI and AT&T phone services, Dallas Utilities and Dish One service. Also stuff that it would be simple (I would think) to ascertain who was really using the services. We had 2 emotions about the theft: annoyance, for the obvious reasons, and kind of a gnawing sadness, that someone's utility bill had gotten high enough that they had to pull a stunt like this to pay it.

We think we know how someone got our card number (and apparently the security code on the back) but we're not going say exactly where. It suffices to say that we'll think twice before eating at a drive-in establishment where they walk into the building with your credit card. Or we'll bring cash.