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    Hey, everyone. This is an old logging road that crosses my property. In my book entitled Karina's Journal, Miller gets attacked by a mountain lion at a place inspired by this locale. Just over that little crest there is where my wife and I had the showdown with a real mountain lion. Trust me, I'd rather write about them than face them. Every time I walk by the area, I think about the aggressive kitty. I find it interesting that I wrote the story before we knew there were any mountain lions within 1000 miles of here. Wild, huh?
    I did almost nothing today. I had lots of stuff I needed to do. That's okay, I'll try to get a bunch done tomorrow.
     We have a game on our I-Pads called Fragger and it's a good game. We bought the game and tonight my wife had just beat a level and got this commercial urging her to download a game. She's played Fragger for a year, I guess. How is it that greed talks people into this kind of thing? If you irritate your customers, what have you accomplished? If Apple allows this sort of practice to continue it's going to cost them some money. Speaking of money, I understand that Apple's app store now has about 500,000 apps on it. Yeah, there's an app for that, whatever 'that' is.
     Since I mentioned I-Pad games, let me go ahead and tell you about a dumb move I made. I've been playing Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12 quite a bit and I really like it. I bought it on sale for 99 cents and it's on sale this weekend also. Well, I was having a bad night and got in a hurry and really butchered a round of golf. I just wanted out of it and I couldn't find anywhere on the game just to quit. How's that for realism? They insist you do the honorable and mature thing and finish the round, I suppose. Can't disappoint the fans, right? To be clever I just deleted the game and downloaded it again, hoping to start fresh. Ha, ha. I really started fresh. I lost all my built-up handicap, power and accuracy. Now I'm like a rookie on the tour. Very discouraging. Next thing you know they'll include penalizing myself for an unintentional movement of the ball.
     Anyone from Taiwan that just bought your I-Pad 2? I understand that the device went on sale today at that locale. Welcome to the blog.
    I'd like to thank a German web site called Padgames.de for giving my blog a link on their site. I really appreciate it, guys.
    Do you believe how fast the e-book thing is exploding? Amazon now says that they are selling more e-books than paper books. I was looking at my author page on Amazon and noticed that people who bought my books also liked books by Lee Child. So, I downloaded a few samples of his novels and plan to check them out. I really need some different writers. When a guy catches himself reading the same books over and over it is probably because he has been disappointed a lot. When you pay good money for books and they are unreadable that is a major drag. That's a great thing about the free sample scenario for e-books. Try before you buy. Now you can try bunches of writers and pick out a few new people without being ripped off. Of course, I've been married to the same woman for nearly 4 decades so I guess that when I find a really good author I really stick with them. It must be in my nature to adhere to tried and proven people, and things.
    Hey, that bit of home-spun philosophy reminds me of something I heard. I heard this guy say, " The outside of a person's house looks just like the inside of their soul". Gee, I guess I'll go to bed so I can get up and clean up my yard.
      From the author's green retreat, I'm CE Wills.

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