Crabby Blogging Lady

Ugh.

When I had children, I promised myself– NO PETS. Pets are cute and cuddly… some of the time. The other time, they are expensive, annoying, sick, and high maintenance. Pets interfere with vacation time (what nutty person is going to want to babysit 3 dogs, 3 cats, and a bird???). Pets get sick and you have NO IDEA what to do except throw them in the super-expensive arms of vets, who (so it seems) care not for your child’s numerous tears but only to keep the assembly line of pet care chugging along. And worst of all, pets are just a PAIN. Especially when spring rolls around.

It’s spring. All the pets are going BANANAS. They sense the change in weather, and want to be outdoors. They beg, they bark, they pout, they scratch, they make trouble. As I type, my dogs are barking their heads off at every fresh air draft they smell…. and the cat is tormenting me by threatening to claw my bird unless I let her out. But these are INDOOR PETS. Which means they have indoor brains. The moment they step outside, the dunderheads will bolt for the busy street and meet their deaths (or the expensive vet). I just want to bolt the doors and close up the interior plantation shutters and stop the craziness!

WHY oh WHY did I ever get pets??? Was I nuts????

!!!!!!

Just read a Kim Komando article about *the latest* on the massive Epsilon data breach. I could scream, I tell you.

This data breach reported by a company by the name of Epsilon keeps getting more and more interesting. Epsilon handled the email marketing campaigns for major companies like Chase, Best Buy, Target and others. More than 2,500 companies use Epsilon to manage their client email lists.

If you bought anything from any of these companies or registered your email address with them, your name and email address could have been compromised. Millions of people have been affected.

Until recently, the main result of this breach was increased spam. Some people also received basic phishing email from online swindlers. That isn’t very surprising.

Now, Epsilon says if you registered your name and email address at a GlaxoSmithKline Website for certain prescription and nonprescription drugs, watch out. The bad guys have your name, email address, and they also know what drugs you might be taking.

OK, I don’t do the Glaxo thing. But the PRINCIPLE of the issue is what enrages me!!!! These people need to get their act together, have a major Mega Meeting web video conferencing meeting and make some heads roll! There is NO EXCUSE for the constant theft of OUR information. It’s making me so sick I could puke.

Worst of all, we– the little guys– are powerless. Powerless. Totally unAmerican this is. GAH

I’ve often wondered about this. In conversations with other blogger friends, they have wondered this, too. Why don’t good, meaty blog posts get more comments than trite, goofy humor or nasty sarcastic posts? Why?

I have visited some blogs that have overwhelmingly good posts, about good things, such as testimonies of God’s intervention or mercy. Other posts are historical or incredibly informative or helpful. Yet, all the blogger I know make mention if the fact that these posts receive little or no comments! Yet posts about their pets or silly topics or the ill effects of testosterone pill or whatever get comments. How can this be?

I don’t presume to know an answer, but I wonder if this may be related to television news. Negative news always gets better ratings than positive news. I remember– many years ago– some TV station tried a new show called “Good News.” They vowed to broadcast only good news (usually local stuff). I think the show lasted MAYBE a season, if that. The ratings were very low.

I think “good news” is rather boring. Not that I like negative news. But when it comes to news, I like to know what’s going on the world. However, bad news is very different from negative news. The major media does not simply broadcast bad news– they broadcast incessant streams of negative news.

I’d also like to see the news have follow up stories– yes, there’s bad news out there, but in many cases, people overcome. I think there should be more stuff on that.

What do you think? Do you notice that people seem to prefer and comment on dumb or negative posts rather then informative and enriching stories?

Poor President Obama. He misses “being anonymous.”

Doesn’t it just make ya wanna cry? Aw!!

Heck, PBO, we ALL miss being anonymous. How about ditching the National ID card, Google’s Eye in the Sky, Echelon, and government spies lurking in Facebook and Twitter, huh? ‘Cuz I sure miss being anonymous, too.

Overheard on Twitter tonight:

… there will be another season of Jersey Shore… but the U.S. government… that’s up in the air.”

Oh honey, from your lips to God’s ears!

I’m SO SICK of the blah blah blah about government shut down, hearing how seniors will starve, how it’s all the Republicans’ fault, etc etc etc.

Watching the news is rather frustrating right now. Not that I do it very often. But it’s so depressing. And life is too busy to dwell on all the massive negativity they are dumping on us. I just wish these clowns would quit their selfish bickering and retire, ykwim???

Yesterday I realized that it’s always “something.” The media always gives every adult generation something to really worry about. Bay of Pigs, nuclear war, Breshnev, Ghadafi, whatever. There’s never any peace from them, did ya notice?

WELL ANYWAY I say we hold a little revolt of our own. What if they held a war and nobody came, huh? What if we all decided just to stop worrying and BE HAPPY and CONTENTED? Me, I just want to run my business in peace, I want to order my office supply stuff and make my customers happy without every government official poking and prodding and interfering and scaring me into thinking it’s all gonna come down on my head.

I say BOO.

Go ahead and shut down, then. Don’t let the screen door hit ya on the way out, sonny!