Wind Lane

I decided to post about what games mean to me. Not an original topic, but it’s my blog so **** off if you don’t like it. No one’s forcing you to be here.

First off, I’m not much of a gamer. Sure, I’ve got some highly respected ones like Heroscape, Descent, and Last Night on Earth, but I’ve also got some that get panned by people like Apples to Apples, Fluxx, and Monopoly. I’m also not much of a gamer because I just don’t get the segmentation. You have war gamers, video gamers, pc gamers, ameritrash gamers and euro gamers. I just look for stuff I enjoy and don’t really pay attention to the faction it fits in beyond that.

One of my favorite games of all time is just a card game, cribbage. My grandfather taught the game to me and he taught me well enough that people don’t like playing against me anymore. This sucks.

But I was playing Marvel: Ultimate Alliance and trying to figure out why I was so bored with the game when I hadn’t even gotten out of...

Insomnia is the inability to fall asleep when one wants to even when feeling tired.

Sleep Apnea is when the airway restricts breathing during sleep cutting off oxygen for a minimum of ten seconds straight. These events have to occur more than five times in an hour for it to be even mild sleep apnea.

Crappy Job is when you despise your work for any number of reasons. Typical reasons would be low pay, antagonistic co-workers or boss, and/or work that is unfulfilling.

I have moderate insomnia (if I'm tired enough I can get past it), severe sleep apnea (I averaged something around 85 events per hour - that's a minimum of 14 minutes per hour I just wasn't breathing), and a crappy job (the pay is fine, but the work is as stifling as it can be and my co-worker uses me as a punching bag to relieve her stress).

So, when I finally fall asleep, it's not very good sleep even with the machine that's supposed to help with my apnea and then I have...