This weekend is the BoyChild’s 8th Birthday.  Frankly I’m having a tough time wrapping my mind around that.  Eight.  Years.  Old.

Anyway.

We’re taking him to Six Flags over Texas for his birthday.  We drove down tonight.  I checked into the hotel.  I Walked back to my car.  My phone sent me a message.  My credit card company had detected some possible fraudulent activity on my account and wanted me to call to verify I’d authorized the charges.   Wow!  That would have been a quick catch if that was a fraudulent charge.

Earlier this week the husband was doing research on the internets about GPS systems for our car.    One of the store where he was searching, sent him a coupon for $20 off any GPS system they had.

THAT kind of spooked me.  I suppose it is possible that they just randomly sent out coupons for money off a GPS but that seems like too much of a coincidence to me.

So technology can be scary and sometimes it is pretty cool.