Pogo Club

I joined the club. Sigh! I really tried not to join but I couldn't help myself. I love playing Pogo games. They're free...if you don't mind the frequent intermission breaks with all the ads blinking at you for what seems an endless 30 seconds. Pogo Club is a recent addition to the Pogo scene. I first became aware of it when a few people showed up in the chat room area with funny emblems in front of their "names". Where did those neato emblems come from? Pogo Club? What's that? You paid how much for an emblem? But you can play for free. Why would you give them money for this? NO ADS! Private MEMBERS ONLY rooms? IF YOU WIN THE JACKPOT (please note that I've never known anyone who as actually won these jackpots) MEMBERS GET PAID DOUBLE THE AMOUNT? And to top things of you can win BADGES? BADGES!!!!!! PREMIUM BADGES!!!!! OK. I was won over when they mentioned the no more ad feature. I sat and stewed with those ads since I started playing in January. I do not want a free coffee pot. I do not want to go to online casinos and blow my children's inheritance away in one single night. ( I'd rather go to Vegas for that. ) I held out for about a month, after learning about Pogo Club. I read everyone's comments in the chatrooms. Most would comment that they would never pay to play....and then I'd see the telltale emblem show up before their names. OK. I agreed to try it for one year....and I got 14 days for free. Never mention free stuff to me. I get all warm and squishy. I am now a member of the Pogo Club.

I mentioned PREMIUM BADGES. For the cost of being a member of Pogo Club, you too can become a BADGE ZOMBIE. Every week or so members compete to earn their Challenge Badges. Yes, I too am a BADGE ZOMBIE. I used to only play Video Poker and on an odd day Solitaire games. Now I've been drawn into Dice Derby (sad to say I never earned that badge...the game made me dizzy), Greenback Bayou (I like frogs but really, all those flies. I did earn my badge though), Squelchies (kind of like Diamond Mine but Under the Sea), Pop Fu (Balloons? Again kind of like Diamond Mine but with this weird oriental cactus guy), Word Whomp Whackdown (this one I may go back to....QUICK UNSCRAMBLE THE LETTERS AND MAKE WORD BEFORE YOUR TIME RUNS OUT! And then you have to get to go down into a hole to get that big carrot for a chance for the JACKPOT.), and Jungle Gin (I like this one too but I always feel bad when I win against a real person instead of the computer. I'd rather play the computer...that way I don't have to be a good sport about losing.)

This week I earned badges in Jungle Gin and Solitaire. I may never play Solitaire again. I had to win 50 games of Solitaire in one week to earn my badge this week. My husband, as he watched me play, described my fervor as that of a pigeon madly punching that red button in hopes of getting a seed. I madly punch and click the button on my mouse so I can earn that next badge. I have become a BADGE ZOMBIE. Personally, I'm beginning to wonder if it's all a government conspiracy. I think the government has paid Pogo to study how long people will actually spend at their computers, mindlessly playing the most ridiculous games...and just to earn a PREMIUM BADGE. This actually could be a NASA study. The people who spend the most time at their computers will be rounded up, placed on the new space shuttle and sent to a galaxy far far away. We'd all be busily playing Pogo-type games on the long journey, kind of like gerbils on an exercise wheel. I've spent hours and hours on my computer. I think my eyesight is being affected. I know my brain is gone. When they send me off into space, know that "it is a far far better thing that I do than I have ever done before". I wonder what next week's Badge Challenge will be?

Today's Little Bit of Trivia

The left bank of a river is the left side as you look downstream. Watch me as my mind slowly sails downstream. Please note whether or not you are standing on the left bank as you watch me slowly lose my mind.