Getting My Fix From Somewhere Else

I just don't know what it is, but I just can't stop playing computer games. A few years ago, I purchased a computer game, Mah Jong Medley from Game House. My goal was to play and solve (i.e. win) each of the puzzle configurations. Things were going along at a good clip until I played the "Night Vision" configuration. I swear I tried to clear those tiles for YEARS! I'm not kidding, either. Then one day, I went to play my game, and my dear husband had decided that "all" my games (I think I had about 3 or 4) were taking up too much space, so he deleted them, and for some reason, I could not reload them on either computer even though I had paid for them. At any rate, I have to admit that I was rather lost without my addiction. I had to find a solution that didn't cost anything and didn't take up space on the computer. It took me awhile, but I discovered the Publisher's Clearing House games site. There are lots of games there--several Mah Jong ones, card games, arcades, sports, you name it and it is probably there. The only drawback, for me is that you have to endure the endless loops of 20 second ads between games. Anyway, I have been playing Maj Jongg Dimensions as well as a couple card games, and that seems to be satisfying my addiction. It is strange how those little games keep calling you back! If you want to play a few (not all of them are great, by the way) go to www.pchgames.com and see if you can kill an hour or two uh three, uh some time!

Publishers Clearing House Contest

I keep getting e-mails from Publishers Clearing House about how I could be the next winner of $5000.00 per week for the rest of my life. Or, I could be the next $10,000,000 winner! Publishers Clearing House has sure come a long way from the olden days when I was a kid. Do you remember when your mom would get the Publishers Clearing House packet in the mail? It had tiny pictures of the magazines you could order, and then you would be entered into the contest for whatever amount of money was a huge amount back then. It all seemed so exciting. Not too long ago, it seems to me they would award their big prize during the Super Bowl. Now, I can enter the PCH Lotto, and PCH Search & Win, PCH Scratch Cards in addition to the standard $10,000,000 prize. You can even win by watching video clips of the Publishers Clearing House Prize Patrol (you know, the gray haired guy, Dave Sayer, in the van). I guess people really do win the prizes. If I won, we live so far out that the Prize Patrol probably wouldn't be able to find us, and none of our neighbors are ever home, so there would be very little drama surrounding the prize delivery. Even so, I wouldn't mind winning a prize from PCH. If I won, I would be able to move back home and send my kids to college without any money worries. Ahhh. If only!