Skip to main content

Another Friday Night

    Hey, everyone. I stayed at home today. I played songs on the keyboard for about an hour and a half this morning, which is unusual for me. Carley and I sang along and it was a lot of fun. Then she fixed me a big breakfast of bacon, eggs, toast and jelly. Then, in the afternoon, came the really thrilling part in which we sat on the porch together. What we do is scoot our chairs together and she uses one ear-bud and I use the other.(Of  her I-Pod). I drank several beers and listened to old tunes. For some reason I was in the mood for songs that rock out pretty good.
    I was listening to Joan Jett singing I Love Rock and Roll and I thought that she was turning the gender tables a little bit and watching the young dude at the juke box, like Chuck Berry talking about Go Little Queenie. Good for her, and speaking for myself as a 17 year old guy, I would have welcomed her attentions. Ha, ha.
    My day was not totally boring, however. I played a game called Dinosaur Assassin Pro. Now, should I be thumbing through the want ads and see an advertisement for an extermination job, I'll have a career. The above-mentioned game is fun. You are a serious man, with a serious job. You are in one of several locales and are tasked with killing wildlife. Lest P.E.T.A. get riled, let me assure you that I never kill dinos in real life. In fact I don't hunt, although I do enjoy the woods and love to track.
    There is a free version of the game and I'd recommend you try it. The full version is a modest price, $1.99 in the coin of the realm. There were times yesterday that the controls were dodgy but I just got an update that seemed to help. It's funny, the saber-toothed tiger has been on me like white on rice. The reason I think that odd is because of my little confrontation with the mountain lion at the green retreat. See my book called Scary Beast.
    I guess the talk of I-Pad gaming for the week has been The Drowning.
The web has been full of reviews but I would like to share a few thoughts. As you can see, the graphics are exceptional. That, plus the fact that it is a free download makes this a no-brainer to try. You have your choice of control schemes. I tried my usual left thumb -move- around and right thumb- shoot. Then I switched to the new system for this game. You tap on the target with two fingers and your bullet will go exactly between the two fingers. (On the screen, thank God.) I think that it works well and you can hit what you aim for.
     What are you aiming for? I'm glad you asked. It seems that a huge oil leak has caused a plague of sorts and humans have turned into the most repulsive zombies. In fact, the in-game currency, of sorts, is 'black'. It appears to be raw crude. As you fight zombies you accumulate 'black' and parlay it into car parts, guns and the like. If you take the appropriate parts to a certain chick, she will build stuff, like a car, so that you can go to different areas, with fresh zombies to kill. (At one point, one of the crude fellows was hurling globs of solidified oil at me. What a dastardly person he was!) By the way. A strategy. When the zombonies surround you and are chomping on your scrawny buns, tap on a remote part of the screen. You will run there. Just as you reach that spot hit the turn-around button in the center of the screen. Now you will have the creatures at your front, rather than attacking your blind side. Coolness. No charge for this wisdom. I usually sit in a cave, high in the Andes, and dispense wisdom like this. Long white beard, a loincloth and the whole enchilada.
    Of course, there are in-apps because, hey, the game is free. I haven't played it enough to get a feel of how needful it will be to buy a lot of stuff with real cash, so you'll have to try it for yourself.
     Well, I feel like writing some more but it is late and I am expecting to have some cool dreams tonight. Maybe about fighting zombies or hunting dinosaurs. Maybe about Joan Jett and a jukebox. Either way, it's a win-win situation. I bid you sweet dreams, from the front porch of life,
I'm CE Wills.

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The White Chicken Mystery

    The other night I happened to come home very late. It was the middle of the night and I was driving up a steep mountain road. Near the top I saw something white in my headlights. It was standing in the other lane, standing very still. It was a large white chicken. It was probably a rooster because I thought I could see his comb as I whizzed by at my customary pace. He never moved a muscle. This is weird, don't you think?      After a couple of days to consider this phenomenon, I have come up with some plausible answers for his bizarre behavior. 1. He was conflicted whether or not he should cross the road. 2. He was feeling cocky and decided to play chicken with the traffic. 3.He was being hen-pecked at home and had decided to end it all. 4. Someone had egged him on to do it. 5. He had just watched the movie Fantastic Four and decided to try to stop a truck the way that Ben Grimm did on the bridge. 6. He had driven himself crazy wondering if ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Batman Lives In Washington, DC

    Hey, everyone. I just read an interesting article on Washington Post.Com by Mike Rosenwald. It was titled Who Is the Route 29 Batman? This is a true story about a guy that the cops pulled over. The guy was driving a black Lamborghini with Batman plates. There were yellow Batman symbols on the doors. They had a video from the police car that showed him being pulled over. He was wearing a Bat-suit which he said cost him $5000. His gig is that he visits sick children in area hospitals and hands out Bat-Toys and Bat-books to cheer the kids up.     His name is Lenny B. Robinson and he says that the 'B' stands for Batman. He is perfectly sane and is just a good dude trying to make a difference. He is a self-made millionaire and is currently having a duplicate of the Batmobile custom-made at a cost of $250,000.    It was a hoot, watching the cops having their pictures made with the Bat Guy. Someone asked him where Robin was and he said that the boy won...
Post a Comment
Read more

Cake Is Better Than Swords

Hey, everyone. On Thanksgiving, we had a get-together here at The Author's Green Retreat. One lady brought a cake which I wanted to show you. It had the look of a Roman Coliseum about it. Inside it was just as decadent...and fun, as ancient Rome. When I cut it open, homemade marshmallow cream began to ooze out in several spots, running over the chocolate cake and peanut butter icing. It is best served warm so the cream is fluid. Very tasty. The same lady, and her children, are people who have played a lot of Skyrim. They gave me some pointers on the game because I am having problems with it. They taught me how to fast travel, and a ton of other things, but the main thing was the armor and clothing problem. This is a little embarrassing, but let me explain. Okay. For several weeks when I played, I would enter towns and everyone I met would comment on my nakedness. I would select a tunic and shoes, whatever, go back around people and they would say something about it. I guess I w...
Post a Comment
Read more