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    Hey, everyone. It's a foggy, drizzling rain, sort of night here at the green retreat. It's quite warm for mid December, at 52 degrees. It's a good night to sit at home and play games on the I-Pad. Gee, speaking of games...
    My wife downloaded a couple of free puzzle games today. The first one is called The Seventh Day. She beat 30 levels of it and played it for several hours, I think. High praise from the 'High Priestess of Puzzling'. I tease, but she is pretty darn good at puzzles. I'd tell you about this game but she is in bed and I think it looks freaky. The tutorial tells me that the goal is to fill in the blank boxes with the correct colors. For instance, if you have a green #3, you should fill in 3 of the blank boxes with symbols which are green. The symbols appear to be ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. (Believe it or not, I actually get readers from Egypt, along with 91 other countries.)
    The other freebie she got today is called Blockwick. I know she likes it and that she beat 15 levels of it. But, it doesn't seem to have a tutorial and I can't be seen playing it, because it would ruin my reputation as a shooter.
    Ah, yes. The shooter. I've been playing a lot of Modern Combat 3, Fallen Nation. I've already done a review of this game but I'd like to revisit it for a few moments. If you haven't bought this bad boy yet, you should consider it. It is a healthy $6.99 but it is excellent. I rate it as 5 stars out of 5. I think that I am on the final level now and have just now figured out that I have been earning game cash. I could have used this cash to 'buy', for free, stuff like armor and more potent ammo. Be careful that you don't spend real cash. Look in the top right of the screen and you'll see your play cash displayed next to an icon that resembles a paper clip.  Anyway, you can play the game all the way through with the weapons and ammo you take from the dead bodies of your adversaries.
     Right now I am on an enemy aircraft carrier in the Bering Sea. My team and I are merrily planting explosives and shooting it out with legions of unfortunate seaman. Wow, glad I spelled that correctly.
    It was cool. We did a H.A.L.O. thing to get on board. We jumped out of a perfectly good airplane and, thanks to the miracle of parachutes, we came covertly aboard. I believe this is level 6, the last one. The game is plenty deep, though, and you won't feel like it was too short, I assure you. On one level, we had gone into Alaska to find and rescue some fellow soldiers who had been captured. After a brave battle in which your's truly dropped the hammer on a multitude of elite foes, we found one dude alive. We stole a pick-up truck and threw the injured soldier in the back of it. What followed was a high-speed chase with me in the back of this truck, shooting at enemy hard cases who were on 4-wheelers, armored personnel carriers and jeeps. It was intense, believe me. The only fly in the ointment was this guy that I went into combat with. He keeps yelling stuff like, "Cover, I need cover." Over and Over and over. I would be fighting for my life and sometimes dying and this dude would be wanting me to cover him. Carley laughed at me because I was grumbling about the guy like he was real. At one point she heard me saying something about, "I am about to teach this guy about 'Friendly Fire' ." She thinks that I am hilarious, the way I get into the role of my character. But this game is that good. She calls him my imaginary friend, by the way.
    For those of you who are regular readers, I managed to refrain from buying Batman last weekend. Cool, huh?
    Hey, for those of you who are new to I-Pad gaming, the app store freezes from December 22 through the 29. That is, you can buy and download games but the game developers can't put out new games or updates, nor can they change prices. So, it will be frantic as these developers try to position themselves with pricing and sales, as well as releases and updates. It is a lot of fun.
     Speaking of fun. The folks who put out Desert Zombie, Last Stand have issued another update which has resolved the issue with the game being saved at the level you were on when you quit. This is huge to any gamer and it is nice that these folks listen to their fans. This game is a keeper. $5.99 on the app store.
    Well, I have rambled on. I will say goodnight from the author's green retreat.
    I'm CE Wills.
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