Skip to main content

Where Have You Gone, Mrs. Robinson?

    Hey, everyone. Its been cold here at the green retreat. Lows have been around 12 degrees and highs around 25. We had another light snow also.
    This morning I was playing the keyboard and enjoying my coffee. I played some songs by the Bee-Gees and Neil Diamond. The Bee-Gees have been a terrific group for a lot of years. Did you know that they have had a top ten hit in 5 separate decades? That's pretty amazing in the fickle world of musical tastes. I love their old song called To Love Somebody. I also like Stayin' Alive, I Started A Joke and a bunch of others. Then I started playing some Simon and Garfunkel and talked my wife into a duet. We did Homeward Bound, Still Crazy After All These Years, Sound Of Silence and I Am A Rock. It was fun. Hey, do you ever hear a song and instantly get a picture in your mind? When I played Scarborough Fair I could see Ben Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) driving his red car up to see Elaine Robinson. I"m talking about the scene from The Graduate. It was a great movie. Have you seen the sequel? Its called Rumor Has It with Jennifer Anniston and Kevin Costner. Its pretty good. The granddaughter of Mrs. Robinson gets involved with Ben. Pretty weird to watch, as an older person who saw the original as a teenager.
     Hey, I finally killed a T-rex in my Carnivore game. I'll probably get the big head now and start my own safari business. Ha, ha.
    Today I was driving to work and saw an unexpected sight. I was driving down the mountain and saw a hawk, fluttering around on the edge of the road in a pine thicket. He was acting weird and must have been injured. I suppose he was struck by a car. He was a very light chocolate color. Sometimes when I see a natural sight of this sort I realize how fortunate I am to live in the sticks. There are thousands, perhaps millions of folks who will never have the opportunity to see a hawk in a similar setting. I understand that any life has the good and the bad. Time is running out on me as far as seeing things like the Mona Lisa or the African jungles. For myself, I think I'd be a poorer man if I couldn't get out in the woods. Just a few moments in the forest and I can feel myself start to relax. The chains start falling away.
    Well, a big weekend approaches and I hope to see The Tourist with Johnny Depp. I'll try to post a review later this weekend.
    Speaking of movies, if Sylvester Stallone happens to read this I have a message. Please buy The Dan Tattoo and make a movie out of it. I'll give you a good deal. I know you like the underdog! The book even talks about that statue of you as Rocky Balboa that stands in front of The Spectrum in Philadelphia. Love Ya, man.
    From the author's green retreat I'm CE Wills.

Labels

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Game Review: NFS, Hot Pursuit

    This game was one which I refused to download for a while, even though it was on sale for 99 cents. I thought that it looked boring and narrow. Boy, was I wrong! This game totally kicks butt. It is one of those rare games that will actually give you an adrenaline rush. It is that intense. The developers, EA Games, have recently updated the app to include two main avenues of play. You can either be the cops or the racers who are trying to evade the cops. As a racer you have to deal with cops trying to hit you and make you crash, cops buzzing you with helicopters, oncoming traffic, tack strips spread across the road and roadblocks. In the cop mode you are a cop and you are trying to stop a reckless racer by any means, fair or foul. As a racer you can use nitrous oxide for increased speed, overdrive capability and oil slicks. You also can jam the cops communication with a jamming unit. Like almost all games these days, it gets harder as you go along. I prefer my games to...
Post a Comment
Read more

Four Free Games

     Hey, everyone. If free games makes the start of a new week a little better, we're in luck. Check these out on your friendly, neighborhood app store. 1) Cowboys vs. Aliens vs. Ninjas- This is a dual stick shooter, much like Mini-Gore . You are an old-west cowboy with a vast array of weapons (earned gradually). You have to move and shoot, avoiding death, as you battle Ninjas and aliens. Some aliens are quite large. Some enemies are big Sumo Wrestlers. There are sword-wielding ninjas and these aliens that yield a mini-nuclear explosion when killed. When your enemies die they leave behind little stacks of money, or skulls. You collect these items because of a strange hobby of trophy grabbing for your macabre collection. Just kidding, the items can be spent or used as the game progresses. This is a good game and I played it for a while last night. 2) The Heist - A puzzle game with a twist. As you try to open a bank vault, you must face a series of different puz...
Post a Comment
Read more

Bottle On The Doorknob

      Hey, everyone. I took a day of vacation today and really enjoyed it. We went out and bought some flowers. Flowers don't do well up here as a rule so we buy some and have a couple of big pots of assorted flowers on the deck for the summer. This year we are going to set the pots out in the yard a bit. The reason for this is the moisture and dirt in the pots seems to attract ants, scorpions and perhaps gnats. Bloody drag, what?     This weekend there seemed to be a bad odor in the house in the area of the master bedroom and the master bath. We could not isolate what the problem was. We did a number of things, including pouring vinegar and baking soda down the drains, which boils them out in rather spectacular fashion. Put a handful small amount of baking soda down them first, then pour vinegar down them. Very cool.     We finally deduced that a mouse had crawled up between the floor and sub-floor underneath the jacuzzi, after ...
Post a Comment
Read more