Somebody left me a weird message on Blog Catalog saying they had visited my site and clicked on my ads. What Ads?! I don’t have any ads on my site. That picture of a pill is meant to be a joke. I don’t think the person even visited my site because if they did they would notice no ads unlike the millions of other blogs out there that are cluttered with them. It is a little bit depressing to think people are leaving me comments about my blog without actually having visited it.
This past month I only posted once because it is hard to compose a blog post when you are feeling wooly minded from the lack of sleep due to insomnia. I just started getting back into a normal sleep pattern and then wham the time change occurs which kind of threw me off. Thank goodness it is cold out which makes it easier to sleep at night the only downside is I want to eat more during the day!
During this month of insomnia, I played Facebook games heavily. I noticed after a while of playing them I started getting very annoyed with some of the games. A lot of the games hamper a user’s progression by demanding they have so many friends playing or pay real money to advance past a certain point in the game. I neither have the money nor can I beg enough friends to join me in playing some of these games. First they get you hooked on a game than they throw road blocks in your way by stipulating you have to have so many friends playing the game before you can expand your lot, complete certain quests or win in fights.
The only way around this is to pay real money to buy more fictional friends or an expansion on your lot. I think the friend’s stipulation should be thrown out and the paying of real money should be for only really cool looking cosmetic items that enhance your characters looks or place or an item with an extra special ability. Having to fork over money or cajole enough friends into playing should not be integral in playing the game to the end. I just deleted some games because I hit a dead end. I couldn’t go any further because I didn’t have enough friends and I don’t have money to be forking over for fictional friends and virtual real estate. Maybe it is just as well since I have already sunk too much time and effort into playing them when I could be doing more productive things with my time.
It doesn’t look like I will be getting the H1N1 vaccine any time soon. With there being less then 10 million vaccines on hand so far and approximately 33 million people in the whole country to vaccinate the odds don’t look good that everybody will be vaccinated in time for it to be effective this flu season. Initially it was said there was enough on hand to vaccinate everyone but then the government changed their tune real quick when they realized they didn’t have enough vaccine on hand. This was after flu clinics for the vulnerable were announced to the general public and the media scared people into wanting to get it. Now you got healthy adults pushing in front of the very young and the frail to get their shot first even though they are not in the high risk group. Even worse the clinics are relying on the honour system that people will tell the truth about their health status which is probably not going to happen very often especially when the vaccine is in short supply but high in demand.
It seems every day this H1N1 vaccination spectacle gets worse. The government goofed up big time. Anybody who has the stamina to stand out in the cold pouring rain for five hours to get their flu shot is probably not in the high risk category to begin with. I think the vaccination of the high risk groups could have been handled better than this. It is ridicules to expect people with poor health to stand in line for five hours in the cold pouring rain. Have some heart people! Could you stand for that length of time if you were using your walker or feeling ill to begin with?
Ug! The past 4 nights I have been waking up in the middle of the night and having trouble falling back to sleep. By the time I do fall back to sleep, it is time to get up! I blame my sleep problems on the weather. One night the temperature dips down to 10 celsius the next night it 16 celsius. The temperature is yo-yoing up and down. One day it is hot and I can wear shorts and the next day it is cold like it was the end of October instead of the end of September. I just wish the temperature would stay cold. My poor body can’t get used to the fluctuating temperature. When I am trying to sleep I am either too warm or too cold. The covers go on and the covers go off. Flip the pillow over to the cool side and five minutes later flip it again. My brain is so tired from the lack of sleep writing this post is a chore.
This video is hilarious and fits right in with the times. While there is nothing funny about being poor it is hilarious to put a funny spin on upper class snobbery. Imagine if poor people were as snobby as some rich people.
