CE Wills

     Hey, everyone. My wife and I, like millions of people, enjoy feeding birds. You can make or buy a feeder, sprinkle in some bird seed, or fruit, or bread crumbs and watch as birds come to snack. Some are attracted to the crowd of other birds, as their nature is to follow a leader. On a cold winter day, the birds stand out against the snow and you can get some cool photos of colorful plumage to show your friends. I know folks who have photos blown up and decorate their homes with these pictures. Others may blog about the richly colored cardinals or even participate in the scientific studies of migratory habits.     Heck, you don't even have to have a feeder. Just sprinkle food on the ground. Of course, ants and other undesirables might invite themselves to supper. Squirrels are the worst interlopers. I have seen these voracious rascals chew through a plastic bucket to get at the bird seed inside. Sort of like a hacker. Ha, ha. They will walk a support wire and hang upside dow

    Hey, everyone. A new high or low for marketing, depending on your point of view. I stopped at a Shell station today to fill my tank. Imagine my surprise when I watched a monitor while pumping my petrol. Yes, there was a commercial playing on the screen, from Toyota. Things are completely out of hand with this stuff. Heck, for several years there have been news clippings and ads placed over urinals in rest rooms at restaurants. I started to say 'high-end restaurants' but the oddness of it put me off, so I admirably refrained.     In my lifetime, gas stations have gone from full service to no service and now watch commercials while you pump your own. Gee, what a great plan.       Not long ago I heard they were playing commercials on the glass windows of  certain trains, so that you would hear them as you rested your head against the window. From the author's green retreat, I'm CE Wills.

     Hey, everyone. It is a rainy day at the green retreat. After taking a walk, I decided to play some games, specifically the Shadow of Mordor. If by chance you have missed this game, you really should consider buying it. I believe it is the best game I've ever played, and by a good margin. The best thing about it is that you really don't get stuck. Sure, it may take many trials and failures to beat certain parts, missions and the like. But, you can just go and explore or find artifacts or fight Orlucks. This is huge and rare, to my mind. Like one game I'm playing, I'm stuck trying to kill a robot. Until I kill him, I can do nothing else. That is being stuck and causes acute gamer frustration. (AGF) Another game I am playing requires that I slide under a bar, which is causing AGF.       It is not often that I think about Willie Nelson while playing games on my P.C. I did today, though. It happened like this. I have entered a stage of Mordor