I keep hearing on the news how the economy is “in a recovery” now from the recession. Well, that’s just great. Except I don’t see it. If we were in a recovery, one would think that would mean that jobs would be starting to show up again. But they aren’t. In fact, come April, here where I live, a factory is closing down, throwing another 1500 people at least into the finding employment game. So if someone would be so kind as to point me in the direction of this recovery, I would be ever so grateful.

Did some shopping yesterday because I got paid and I needed stuff. Got the required milk, hamburger, mushroom soup, and gas in the car. Then had fun shopping for yarn (couldn’t get what I needed of course), jewelry stuff (BEADS!!!! FINDINGS!!!! YAY!!!), and had dinner at a Mongolian BBQ/Chinese Buffet. The food was good, but my hiatal hernia was acting up, so I ended up….shall we say….losing it?? It sucked because you know, spending $10 per person (just me and BFL) for dinner and then not being able to keep it isn’t exactly the greatest thing in the world. So I ended up with some McDonald’s later on.
I also picked up dog treats (Panda’s precious Wag’n Wraps) and sodas for us to drink over the weekend.

I was supposed to go to a birthday party tonight, but I wasn’t feeling well at all, so I ended up staying home. I haven’t felt well since the Chinese place last night – but we don’t think it’s food poisoning since BFL and I ate the same things and she’s fine. Just my stomach being a jerk again.

Anyways, I’m off to do a few things, play a couple of games, and then go to bed.

Ok, I logged into one of my Yahoo! IDs (Yes, I have more than one, don’t ask me why, I don’t know) and I had received several offline messages. All of them were what Yahoo! calls “SPIM” or SPAM for IM. So I carefully blocked each sender and reported them for sending the “SPIM” messages. The only thing Yahoo! did was simply send me an email back telling me how to block them from my Yahoo! Messenger.

Exactly what good does it do me to report these people for sending “SPIM” messages if all Yahoo! is going to do is send me an email telling me how to block the person. The email I got actually said that the best thing to do was simply close the conversation window (or delete the email if an email) and forget about it. What. The. Fuck? Excuse me? I reported this person for violating the TOS for Yahoo! Messenger AND Yahoo! Mail so that you could tell me to close the IM/Email and forget about it?

This is almost as bad as the time I was trying to sign up for Yahoo! Music’s Launchcast Plus radio. That time I got several emails from several people asking me for information I had already included in the original inquiry into the issue. Then they sent it engineering saying it was an engineering issue. Yahoo! never did get back to me about that one! However, I DID find out from a friend of mine that my IP address was coming up as me being in Mexico, not the US. So that ended up explaining that issue – because the Launchcast Plus was only available to listeners in the US. The thing I couldn’t figure out, and neither could my ISP, was why my IP address came up as from Mexico.

In any case, I am seriously believing it when people call Yahoo! “YaHELL!” instead!

I just found this when I was trying to find out what was going on with one of my Pogo To Go games. I couldn’t add my tokens to my account and was given a strange message stating I had earned too many tokens. I used to play games all day on Pogo and never had that happen before so I checked their Official Rules page and found this:

In order to discourage and deter misconduct in connection with Game play and drawings on Pogo, Pogo places limits on the total number of tokens players can earn in a given time period. These limits apply both online and in Pogo To Go Games.

The rules page is filled with quite a bit of information and this is hidden near the bottom of the document. However, I find it odd that they do not state what the actual limit on the token earnings is. As I said before – I don’t recall ever having played a game and NOT gotten my tokens for it before. I am wondering when this went into effect as I only recently started playing Pogo again.

Any other Pogo gamers out there? If so, did you know about this???

Of wires. *sigh* You see, we have a lot of stuff that hooks up to other stuff. A router with eternet cables coming off it. A GameCube with wires going from it to the TV. A PlayStation with wires going from it to the TV. Various electrical cords as well running here and there. And in the middle of it is me – the woman who can tangle any wire within seconds of touching it. It has gotten to the point that a friend of mine’s husband suggested we get a split loom to put the wires in so that I can’t tangle them up anymore.

To be perfectly honest, I think I’d still manage to tangle them, but that’s entirely beside the point. I’m just that way. LOL

Ok, I know that if I look outside, there is snow on the ground. And I know that it’s 31° outside right now. And there’s ice covering EVERYTHING because we’re having a small ice storm right now. But inside you wouldn’t know it. Both BFL’s and my allergies are kicking up big time and we have no idea of why. I would have thought we were getting colds, but we don’t feel crappy, we just can’t seem to keep our noses from either running or being plugged up. Ugh!

You know, it’s pretty bad when you’re looking for allergy relief in the middle of winter! Of course, I know that indoor allergies such as dust & pet dander don’t really have seasons, so I suppose it could be that. But still. I’m kind of sick of the whole thing.

Just found out that a local packing plant is closing down. At least 1500 jobs are going to be lost, and that doesn’t count for the truck drivers and management – just the factory workers. You know, the economy will not get better if things like this continue to happen. It’s bad enough that we had a huge unemployment rate here – now come April another 1500-2000 people will be out there with the rest of us looking for jobs. Here’s to hoping I can find a job before then!