update on the dallas police

i'm trying hard...i believe in chief kunkle, i'm a native of tarrant county...but kunkle, please work fast.

i finally tracked down the person "assigned" to my report of identity theft. keep in mind, this report was filed on the 23rd of January. with no word from anyone since filing, i searched on my own. i finally found her today...got voicemail and left a message at 10am this morning. i was telling my assigned officer on the voicemail that i found this person-thief's name, address, and email...can anyone guess the response?

NONE. what's new? either this crime isn't as rampant as people think, or this officer and her entire division need some help. either way, someone has my personal information and no one wants to help me find them. if i didn't do my job, i'd get fired. where is my officer now? what do you think?

identity theft

who are these people at the dallas police department? i hope that kunkle can do something to turn this around. because right now, they suck in my eyes.

a month ago, i got a call explaining to me that someone was trying to get credit from dell...with my information. we closed the opened account, i contacted the credit agencies and the police...which was an ordeal. it took over ten phone calls to 9-1-1 of all things, just to get to the point of leaving a message. three days after i left a message, someone called to take my report and told me an investigator would be contacting me shortly. never happened.

this weekend i have received some information with the thief's name, address, and email as the "ship to" and me as the "bill to." i have been trying to contact the police to have someone take her in for investigation, with no success. no one seems to be able to help. i have now contacted the district attorney's office. hopefully they can help. in the meantime, this woman is out there, using my info and stealing my identity.

i write this not only to warn you, but to inform you. identity theft is the fastest growing crime in america, yet i can't get anyone to simply jump in a squad car and go question this woman. i have her information in front of me right now!! grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. if any of you out there have any suggestions on something else i can do, please email me. katy_link@yahoo.com.

entertainment, napoleon style

loved this movie

asher and caroline, two of my seven nieces and nephews...doesn't asher kind of look like david letterman?? 

is anyone else worried? 

the many moods of the tuna 

new york, this is one heck of a view

back from manhattan

i got back from new york yesterday, and may i just say, the more i go to that fascinating place, the more deeply in love i fall. it's like one of those great movies or books that the more times you watch/read it, the greater it seems.

the trip was great, and oh yeah, the conference was good too. i stayed across from ground zero at the millenium hilton. may i say, i give this one high marks. nice place, incredible view...52" plasmas in EVERY room. mckenzie got to take in all the sites, as well as adorn her very own mini-"I heart NY" t-shirt. i bought it at the build-a-bear-store, which i must say, took me back to childhood. jay and i visited with all his friends from college, most of whom are still in new york. i visited with shonnie, who we all know is one of my top five people of all time...i'm sure she'd say #1, but then again, she's hard to beat. ;) jay, a friend of mine, erica, and i went to balthazaar in soho. this was my second visit to this fine establishment, it is sensational. saw matt dillon there, drooled a little, had a steak, drooled some more...you see where this is going. but it was a good time.

i also had the pleasure of making a little impromtu speech at the top of the financial districts' tallest building (or so i was told...post 9-11, at least). it was just a little, short "success story" type deal, but i must say, it feels neat-o being young, in the middle of the business world's heartbeat, looking around at hundreds of collegues and high level JPMC execs, not to mention an AMAZING view (it was all windows) and thinking, just five years ago i was in a classroom in waco, texas at baylor university...sleeping. strange how it all works out. but i smiled to myself as i walked back to my seat, with the empire state building to my back, thinking, this really is pretty cool. and definitely worth a few years in waco, a few big o's, and a few naps in castellaw.