Last night we all got reset early and I was just about to go to bed when I wound up in a chat with a fed leader from another fed.  Laila was on her way to the dentist so she was not on line and if I would have been just about a minute faster I would have been asleep but instead I wound up staying up until midnight trying to iron out some issues that people have with one of our members.  I am getting so sick of having to deal with people in this game.

Someone gets hit and then everyone gets upset and tries to assign blame or come up with some conspiracy theory.  The fact of the matter is, if you are not going to attend to empire don’t whine and cry when you suffer losses.

There are people in the game that follow a strategy.  They know who has a history of coming out unattended.  They know what stacks the person has and they know when the best time to hit the empire is based on live op posters in the fed. 

It only takes one hit to set you up and then one hit to bring you down when you are unattended.  The first attack does two things.  It destroys the OP and messes up the defenders stacks.  The hits after that are just taking everything they can get from you.  Some people in our alliance and we all know who they are, always have some empire that they have scouted and are ready to attack.  Some folks have probably got a week worth of targets already scouted.

People that have a history of coming out unattended therefore are probably targeted by players in other feds and all.  After all, are we the only folks that do that? 

Now I am having to try and put to rest accusations and stuff about fed members and frankly I am getting tired of the whole mess.  If you are not going to attend to your empire and you get hit it is your fault.  It is not a conspiracy of people passing information in the chats.  It is not poor OP.  It is frankly people just scouted who was coming out unattended or who was out without OP and they got hit.

As far as a new fedmate getting hit by his old fed by historias and put in forced VM, I would say that is between him and the past fed.  The fed he came from has a history of doing former members dirty.  He left, they were mad, and he got screwed.  What do you expect from those players there?

I am sure that Sam and Joe are beginning to feel the same way Laila and I do right now.  We are tired of spending our time trying to take care of peoples egos, acting like an idiot in the chat, or not having enough resources to support themselves.  We spend a ton of time in this game and instead of being enjoyable it is becoming a burden.  Now I am getting hit with conspiracy theories and the like on top of all the other BS. 

I am beginning to get to the point where I don’t even want to sign onto my yahoo because the chats will start opening with someone else’s little problem or demand.

I think my daughter Judy did the right thing when she went VM.  She told me, “Dad, I just can’t deal with it anymore.”  I am beginning to feel the same way.  Tonight when I get home I am going to talk to Laila and I think we both may take a long VM.  We will see.

Anyway, I will not continue to lose sleep over this game.  I will reset early, post and log out of the chat to prevent having to stay up past my bedtime in the future.  Either that or I will just go into VM.

This morning I was a little upset.  When I got on the freeway onramp it was backed up a quarter of a mile.  Why, because some lady either broke down or parked on the onramp.  She did not have her emergency flashers on or anything, but was just sitting there.  She made no attempt to get the car off to the side of the road.  Anyway, I still made it to work on time, and I hope that someone showed up to get her car out of the middle of the road so others would be able to get to work.

Also I was watching the news this morning and they were saying that the buses and trolley are free today to try and get more people to ride them.  I think it is a good idea if it were more efficient.  The nearest bus stop to my house is about 2 miles away and while I am not sure of how often it comes I do know how long it takes to get to work. 

Currently by car it takes me about 10 to 20 minutes to get to work depending on traffic.  If I were to take the bus to the trolley station it would be a 2 mile walk to the bus stop, a 30 minute ride to the trolley station and then I would have to wait up to 10 minutes for the trolley.  I would have to of course stand on the bus and the trolley while they were in motion because they are pretty full with people going to school and all.  The trolley ride would be about 10 minutes to get to the base.  When I get off the trolley near the base I would have another 2 or three miles to walk to get to work.  So this is just not feasible for me.

With the money the taxpayers have paid into mass transportation you would think they could do a better job.  Japan has a good model for mass transportation.  Perhaps if they studied the Japanese they could come up with something that would work here.

Well I guess that is about it for today.  It is time to get back to work.