We were not in Spain, but we WERE in Texas. Hola!

If you were one of the lucky ones to get the spam email from Bonika about our “so called” emergency in Spain, let me assure you we were never in Spain and never in an emergency.

In spite of rumors to the contrary;

• We were not attending Osama Ben Laden’s memorial service in Madrid


• We were not sharpening swords of the matadors in Toledo.


• We were not eating paella and lounging on the nude beaches in Barcelona.


• We will accept dollars not euros for purchases.


• Our bank account was not hacked, but it did cause some banking errors on our part due to the havoc.


• And no, Jay, we did not bring you back any souvineers of Spanish Senoritas.
  

Yahoo was hacked and our entire contact list from our Yahoo email was stolen and inbox messages. Even our signature message was changed as well as our password. Then our entire email list was spammed about a bogus emergency in Spain. the hackers didn't even tell where to send the euros to to rescue us and changed the phone number on our email to some poor unsuspecting lady here in Atlanta who was also concerned about our welfare.

It created a lot of havoc for Mystie who fended off phone calls of our friends and family wanting to know how to exchange dollars for euros and rescue us. No business information was compromised or stolen although email addresses were taken. Sorry if you get extra spam, now. Yahoo is to blame.

However, we were in Dallas Texas for the Wolff sharpening seminar. We ran into two of our sharpeners out their. Robert L. came by in his new decked out van. ( I uploaded the photos to the van slideshow). Robert enjoyed his first full year sharpening last year. Even though he only works four days per week, he said he made more money than he did in any year he worked as an auto mechanic. I asked him if it was more fun, too and he laughingly agreed. “Oh, yeah!” he said.

We also saw Liza and Daniel from Plano. Those of you at last year’s Sharpeners Jam may remember them. They invited us to their home to meet their parents. Daniel has expanded into to knife sharpening as well as shears doing beautiful work right on his Scimech Flathone. He is sharpening for a sushi chef with rave reviews from both his stylist clients and his new restaurant clients. Daniel helped us out by posting our hacking dilemma on our facebook wall for us throughout the day today as we traveled home.

Both Daniel and Liza as well as Robert will be traveling to our Sharpeners Jam this year. I would love to bottle their enthusiasm into a spray and package that along with new machines when we sell them. If you are a sharpener or thinking of getting into the sharpening business, be sure and check out our Sharpeners Jam coming up in July at www.sharpenersjam.com

On another positive note. We drove through Tuscaloosa and were reassured our favorite restaurant, DreamLand Barbeque and their exquisite perfect ribs survived the tornadoes. Also, we talked to retired sharpener Ted Powell of Guin, AL (near Tuscaloosa) and were reassured that he was safe as well. He said he heard the tornado noises but just assumed it was Gene’s snoring from Atlanta that was making all the racket. He was unaware tornadoes were just ½ mile from his home until 24 hours later.