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Gesundheit! Bond, Boogers And Books

   Hey, everyone. Cool Mushroom, huh? This was growing under my deck and it looks like a granny's hair that has been out in the Kansas wind all day. There is a bit of yellow streaks in the fuzz also.
   New games came out on the app store today and I bought one. This is certainly not unusual but I rarely buy a puzzle game. Gesundheit! is a cute game with some odd characters. Most notably there is a little pig with allergies. He sneezes and blows snot around. This has been sort of an issue in his life, as one can imagine. It has cost him a few friends. It has hindered his love life. On the positive side of the ledger, it saves him from a monster. This monster has been terrorizing the community. The monster has some baggage, though. He likes to eat boogers. I know, gross. It is with difficulty that I can write about this. Feel free to quit reading at this point.
     As the little green pig with the sniffles tries to negotiate mazes, the monster pretends to sleep. When the pig gets close to him the monster eats the little guy. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to discharge mucus to an area, wait until the monster is engaged in his addictive and disgusting habit, then scurry past him. (I am not making this up). There are times when you can snare the monster in a trap.
     This game is 99 cents for the i-phone version and $1.99 for the HD. It is not my type of game, since there is nothing to shoot and no explosions. I have to admit that it is as cute as a puppy. Kids will love it, as long as you give them some parental guidance on the dietary habits of monsters. The puzzles are hard, by the way. There are 40 levels and they start getting hard about level 2 for a poor player like myself. For 99 cents, I can't complain. On the app store they rate it 5 stars out of 5. I won't rate it because I simply don't like games of this nature. If you do, you will like it.
     Plants vs. Zombies, one of the truly great games of all time, has recently come out with an update that includes some new mini-games. If you haven't tried this excellent game, you should get it. It is truly special and has zero booger-eating monsters.
    Cowboys vs. Aliens, the new movie with Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig, came out today. The critics seem to like it, which is not always a good sign. Oops! I guess I have to stop bad-mouthing the critics now, since I (sort of) am a critic myself. I might go see this movie tomorrow but I doubt it.
      I am now reading the third book in the Jack Reacher series, written by Lee Child. I have read the first two books and found them quite good but this one is exceptional thus far. The title is Trip Wire and it involves a truly horrific and evil villain whose machinations are destroying many lives. He is killing folks and taking over corporations. Kidnapping, assault and murder are his hobbies. Jack Reacher gets involved because a friend of his military days is involved. More germane to the tale is the fact that his friend's daughter is a long lost love. You might want to invest a few of your hard-earned shekels on this one. Fortunately, you can read any book of the series without adhering to a particular order. I'll do a full review when I finish it.
     I downloaded the free sample of a book by Jeffrey Deaver the other evening and I like it. This is a book about the British spy, James Bond. Bond is possibly my favorite character of all fiction and Deaver does a good job with him. I plan on buying the book. I would have bought the hardcover last weekend but it was still a bit pricey. I suppose that I will just pop over to I-Books and grab it. Which leads us to yet another topic.
   Amazon, Kobo and Barnes and Noble have complied with Apple's ultimatum concerning their apps for I-Pad. They no longer feature the ability to buy books on those apps. All this means is that you have to open your browser; most I-Pad users probably use Safari. You go to Amazon, buy your book. Then, the next time you open your Amazon App on the I-Pad, the book will appear when you hit the sync button. A few weeks ago, I wrote a pretty good article on this. If you would like to read it, look to your right and click the post titled Showdown Of the Ebook Gunslingers.
     The rambling has gone on long enough. I hope you have a great weekend. If you don't, please don't blame me. I can't stand the pressure.   
   From the author's green retreat, I'm CE Wills.
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