Okay, here is the problem.  I can’t blog for playing on Pogo.  My sister-in-law tuned me in to this, and I will never forgive her.  If you are one of the three people on earth who haven’t heard of Pogo, here’s how it works.  You log on and play games.  You can create an avatar and play as them or you can just play.  You can buy a membership and it has certain rewards, or you can just play for free. 

At first I played for free, and then I found out that if you get a membership you win double the amount if you hit a jackpot.  Of course I signed up toot sweet.  I have never even come close to winning the jackpot.  I won a scooter and some other crap for my avatar, but nothing good.  I probably never will either.  I don’t use my membership the same way my non vag sister does.  She gets on it and chats with friends from across the country.  I get on it and play games. 

My first goal was to reach one million points.  Done.  I have nothing to show for it except one million points and a lot of time wasted playing games.  Now don’t get me wrong.  I enjoyed the games.  I look forward to each Wednesday when new games are posted that (if won) reward your completion of the task with a badge.  The thing with Wednesdays is this…two new challenges are released and you win the badge for finishing a challenge.  I always do this.  I can’t do anything else until I win the damned badges.  I mean that quite literally.  I usually finish both challenges on Wednesday.  I don’t clean.  I don’t do laundry.  I don’t pee.  I just complete my challenges.  Now before you go off thinking that I am just really competitive by nature, let me say that I don’t strive for top scores.  It doesn’t matter.  The thing that is important to  me is getting what is coming to me.  I win a badge…I want a badge.  I don’t need the albums that they want you to pay for to put your badges in.  I just want the damn badge.  Don’t get me wrong, I would absolutely love to win some money.  I’m not an idiot.  However, I don’t expect to win the money.  I expect to win the badge.  It’s not competition…it’s OCD.  I am obsessive about completing the challenges.  Don’t talk to me while I am pursuing a badge.  Don’t ask me to help you with a problem…you just think you have problems.  For God’s sake, don’t expect me to get up off my ass and do something else.  I don’t suffer fools lightly.  If you really expect things to get done on a Wednesday, you better just do them yourself.  I have a mission, and I will not fail.

I occasionally chat with the folks playing some game I’m trying to win a badge for  (I sound kind of like a girl scout.  Don’t I?)  More often than not I eaves drop on some poor unfortunate soul who is chatting their life away with someone they may or may not know.  Sure sometimes when they address Cheesypeasy421 as mom, I can tell they know one another.  Which brings me to a whole different thing.   The userid’s these people come up with.  Mine is shelby and my house number.  The people who know me can probably figure out who I am by that userid.  However what does that say about windysuzi, willowchina, and pontiacprowess?  At least mine is repeatable in public without having people snicker.  I never use an id that is too sweetie-sweetie, or dirty…and believe me I could have.  boppysbaby would make one vomit in one’s mouth a little, and gr8lay is probably taken so I just did the best I could.  At least if my daughter wants to log in with my id I don’t have to tell her my id is cootchscratcher5.

So if you don’t hear from me for awhile, I’m probably not dead.  I am probably wasting time trying to win a useless badge on Pogo.  I am at my computer, but I am not functioning as a human.  I am an automaton who mindlessly presses keys in hopes of winning a prize only I can see and will never ever improve my community or society in general.  I am not saying this to be pitied.  After all, I do have more than one million points to my credit.  I am saying this so you will understand why I am erratic.  Hi, my name is Sloopy and I have an addiction.  I play computer games…a lot.  There is probably a 12 step program for me but I won’t go.  I’m too busy trying to get my Johnny Jump Up’s Junior Gymnast badge.  Who can make time to attend meetings with that kind of pressure?  Besides…no one reads this crap anyway!!

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