To those members of the C&S; Clan (you know who you are) reading this blog :

The staff of Dahlbergcentral has just received word of its official assignment that must be completed prior to your own completion of personal assignment number 1. Said assignment the first is forthcoming as quickly as humanly possible, given the high demands of parenting, lawyering, associating, and general leisuring.

That is all.

When DSW announced several months ago that the store’s computers had been hacked and customer information was stolen, I was miffed that none of the reports (including the initial official press release) named the stores affected. The subsequent release named all 108 stores, but by the time they posted that, the news had died down and I had all but forgotten about the debacle.

Until I got THE LETTER.

DSW sent me a friendly little note last night to inform me that, indeed, my credit card numbers were among those stolen in the massive data heist. Not only did they get my Discover Card–the number that I’ve had so long that I know all its information by heart, including the secret number on the back–AND my debit card.

Fortunately, I do keep a close eye on transactions that post to both accounts, and I call whenever I see something I don’t recognize. Nothing has shown up yet. But still, the fact that someone else out there might be able to buy my numbers and then use them at will was enough to drive me to cancel both numbers immediately.

So now I go through the hassle of figuring out where I need to change the numbers (online bills, etc.). Maybe I should invest in one of those fingerprint credit cards after all.