Those would be the times that you go on a don’t-feel-good runner for a few days and no matter how much you sleep or try to find a clear thought to steer through the day, it just isn’t going to happen. That’s where I am right now. I can’t wake up. Nothing in the way of food or drink sounds inviting. UGH!

Onward and downward is how it feels from here. I’ve been here before. I hate it. In a few days I should be back to semi-normal and able to keep a clear thought and pinpoint a goal…just not right now. I have no idea if it’s a BP thing or a too-many-carbs thing. If whiskey would cure it, I’d drink some.

Oh well.

Let’s skip to some news published by PaddyPower.com as they advise customers of a historical data breach. Their words:

– No financial information or customer passwords accessed in hacking incident
– Full investigation shows no evidence customers’ accounts adversely impacted
– Incident restricted to a number of customers who held an account in 2010, no impact on customers who opened accounts after this time

Color me dumb here but I can’t help but wonder when a company — any company — posts a notice of a security breach figures that it wasn’t really a big deal, even though customer names, email addresses, phone contact numbers, usernames, addresses and more were snagged. They then go on to say that credit or debit card details are still safe…blah, blah, blah.

The incident at Paddy left them contacting 649,055 customers that were affected by the breach. How could one little teensy bit of priviledged information stolen not affect their customers?

I hate businesses that just blow you off with the attitude that they got hacked but you should just go back to eating bonbons and drinking champagne because it has nothing to do with your information or account. And why do they always say they did a “forensic investigation?” My thought is they took a couple of wetnaps and wiped down the computer monitor to make sure they read the information correctly and tossed out the word forensic to make the investigation sound like they took a magnifying glass and a lice comb to all the bits and bytes involved.

Nope, this isn’t a Paddy Power dig or barb…just sayin…

There were a number of big companies that were affected by the Heartbleed Bug earlier this year and BetaBeat believes it still affects 97 percent of the world’s top corporations. I received notices from a number of companies that have my information when the bug hit. Do I feel safe and secure? No! I’m paranoid, remember? Everyone is out to get me.

Look closely and you can see a bug on this Hollyhock – it was close to three inches long…I say was because I hope it’s dead now. I hate bugs.

P-S-S-S-T! Look really close and you can see two of them.

Laters.