My computer has been restarted with *"Important Updates"* to Windoze... and I should be good to go for another 17 hours... before the *next* Important Update is sure to be announced.

Poor ole' Microsoft. Since they can't keep selling us additional copies of Windoze — after all, we only have *so many* computers — they have to keep *"updating"* so they can keep that nice sales curve eternally pointing upwards!

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In the meantime, my virus software has scanned my system and let me know that everything is clean and clear *EXCEPT* for the one red flag that I am *not subscribed to their "web browsing safety system" for just an additional $39 a month!* 

Once again, everything is working *just fine,* but they still need to find a way to *sell* something more because otherwise — *horrors* — we won't meet our 8% target sales growth next year!

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Another piece of virus scanning junk *(that snuck its way in, piggybacked on some Adobe product)* has thrown up two *"critical errors:"* One, that I am not subscribed to their *"live updates"* (for $35 a year) and two, that I don't have their *"paid version"* installed.

I don't have your *paid* version because your work arrived as *"stealthware"* on top of a iece of *legitimate* software... and you're only there by grace of the fact that I have been too lazy and overwhelmed to uninstall and *then* remove all infiltration into my registry files... without also crashing my system in other ways. 

Maybe I'm just dumb as a plank, but why do you need to *"GROW?"* You're already doing well, making plenty of profit, and everyone has what they need. Why not just be happy with *"doing well, making plenty of profit, and everyone having what they need?"*

Meanwhile, one of my more hysterical Facebook friends sent me yet another fear laden end-of-the-world message with a patently fake UN resolution for a  *"New World Order"* that will take everyone's *"rights"* away. 

She's totally free to believe whatever she wants... that's *not* what I have an *"issue"* with... it's the fact that this same meme has circulated and been debunked as *"Alt. Right Fearmongering"* with no factual basis... *for several years.* Where did people's ability to exercise due diligence and *fact check* before running off at the mouth go?

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It made me ponder and pause the distinct possibility that some people simply *enjoy* the adrenaline fix that goes with the state of *"Being Afraid Of Something."*

And this entire brain dump came about purely because I sat down in my office to add an entry to my personal *dream journal.* 

Yes, I keep a dream journal. It was a habit I got into when I was in therapy in the mid-1990s... and somehow I never got back *out* of the habit. 

Last night, I dreamed we were under an alien invasion, and they were *"taking us over"* via a virus embedded primarily in the root code of Amazon's "Alexa" service.

I even observed someone watching a program on an *"infected"* device, and suddenly it was like a small fog/cloud of light slowly drifted from the screen into that person's eyes... and they had become "invaded." 

For a moment, the person had something like a *"Dual Consciousness"* and she looked at me and said *"No, they don't want to DESTROY everything, they just want to USE it. Death and destruction are such primitive HUMAN ideas!"*

Should I start a Conspiracy Theory Hoax? Sounds like an interesting story... and some interesting and novel *"fodder"* for the *"Fear Soup"* out there!

Of course, the dream was *far* more complex and involved than that... but it *did* make me pause to wonder just *WHY* so many people evidently find it... *Entertaining? Funny? What?* to make other people feel afraid and unsafe. 

How the *HELL* would that make the world a better place? 

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***Inner Cynic's voice:*** *Oh, that's right. You're angry because your parents dropped you on your head as a child. You don't WANT the world to become a better place.*

OK, so I'm going to end this flow-of-consciousness diatribe now... this entry was rather cathartic and reminds me a *lot* of how I used to blog, 15-20 years ago.

Thanks for reading, and have a great day!

***How about you? How did YOUR day start? Have you ever kept a dream journal? Do you fact check your memes and stories before sending them to others? Comments, feedback and other interaction is invited and welcomed! Because — after all — SOCIAL content is about interacting, right? Leave a comment — share your experiences — be part of the conversation!***

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