Candy Canes And Multiplayer Pain

    Hey, everyone. I've had a busy day. We trekked out to a point of civilization. (Actually we drove, but it doesn't sound as cool.) Anyway, we went out to eat at a town about 60 miles away. I ate some Bourbon Street Chicken, among other things. I don't believe this particular chicken was ever on Bourbon Street but it tasted good nonetheless. It was spicy and tender. I had a salad with it which had all the usual stuff, plus boiled eggs and other things too numerous to mention. I had ranch dressing on it. I also ate potatoes, mac and cheese and a bowl of orange sherbert for dessert.
      I was curious to see if Black Friday was as crazy as anticipated. It wasn't that bad. I did ask a sales clerk if they had been busy and she said it had been crazy very early that morning. I had noticed on line that Wal-Mart was supposed to have X-Box 360 for $139 and Rage, the game, for X-Box, for $30. So I asked a guy at the store where they were. He laughed at my naivete. "Dude, those sold out about 5AM this morning."
    Didn't bother me because I didn't plan on buying that stuff anyway. I was just curious. We went over to the cinema and the parking lot was full to overflowing. Most of them were there to see the vampire movie, I guess. I didn't really see anything I wanted to watch on the marquis and neither did my wife, so we didn't go in. I understand that the Twilight flick has an intense scene which is causing a very few people to go into convulsions. Obviously this is no joking matter, but when Sharon Stone crossed her legs in that one movie with Michael Douglas, it made sweat pop out on my brow. Seriously, I guess the scene has a lot of flashing lights and stuff. In the vampire movie, I mean.
    Moving on. Hey, we went to one of those stores called Everything's a Dollar. The deal is this: everything in the store is cheap. Ha, ha. I like a change of pace in my food and I found some cool candy canes. I bought 3 flavors.
1) Blueberry
2) Mint Chocolate Gourmet
3) Strawberry & Cream. I particularly like this one because it is slavered with coconut shavings and has a sort of chewy center. I don't want to give the impression that I am self-indulgent but maybe I am.
      I went into Books-A-Million and walked around shaking my head at the high prices. The print business of books is eagerly wanting to destroy themselves by overpricing. Whatever. When the wolf is at the door, does the wise homeowner toss raw meat out the window?
     When we finally returned home it was still 54 degrees so I thought that I would grill some steaks. Carley had a package of pork ribs that she had boiled and soaked in barbecue sauce and she asked if I would grill them too. I did. We ate a petite meal of steak, ribs, french fries, rolls, and salad. I washed it down with some red wine. Then I ate an ice cream sandwich. (Nothing to do with computers). Sorry, a little tech joke. After all this I felt that it was imperative to take a nap, so I did. Then I arose and watched Baggage on TV. Finally, I decided to talk my wife into playing I-Pad games on multi-player. She is a puzzler and she doesn't play shooters, but she graciously consented to play. We played Modern Combat 3, Fallen Nation, and it was fun, but she liked Nova 2 better. We played the map pack I bought for two bucks which I described on the blog the other day. When we played on the floating platforms she was continually walking off the edge of cliffs because she is still learning to use the controls. I would sometimes see her down below me. She would be walking backward in her little red suit and it appeared almost like she was moon-walking, like Michael Jackson. I would laugh until she would sneak up behind me and blast me to Kingdom Come with this fearsome gun she picked up somewhere.
     She did even better when we switched over to the map which is on a beach. She had no cliffs to walk off in this segment and she found her bad-looking gun again. In short time she had sent me to sleep with the fishes, like Luca Brasi in the Godfather. But it was fun and I am a good loser, sometimes, just to fake people off until I can exact my revenge.
     So, I sit here, licking my wounds, and blogging, at the author's green retreat.
    I'm CE Wills.
P.S. I must confess that all this time I did not understand what they meant when they talked about playing multi-player on local wi-fi. I thought it was on-line in the sense that you would be playing against strangers, where you might be hacked or something. What it is, really, is simply that you are playing against your own family, at home, on the Wi-Fi network which you have set up to use with all your devices. I wish that I had understood this a long time ago. My purpose in declaring my ignorance about this is so that elderly people like myself will read this and understand the deal. Goodnight.