CE Wills

    It's not unusual for me to seek out a few freebies in the app store on a typical weekend. I'll play them and if there is a good one at a reasonable price, I'll buy it. I downloaded about 6 or 7 over the course of the weekend and have played several of them extensively. 1. Captain America, Sentinel of Liberty, lite. A fair amount of fun. The full version is on sale for 99 cents this weekend but I recommend you get the lite version and try it before you buy. I enjoyed throwing my shield at the Hydra soldiers. 2. Mad Wheels. This is a good game. I got the free version and came back and bought the full version for 99 cents. I feel like, once I bought it, that I am entitled to mention that it appears to have a small number of levels. True, I haven't played all the way through, but if it only has 7 levels as it appears, that is not really enough for the paid version. Sorry, but that's how I see it. However, I will say that it is very fun. You race against several o...

    Hey, everyone. I had a nice day today. Slept in, lounged around reading Pulse news on the Padster. Played about 20 songs on the keyboard. Carley and I sang a few. I was using a music book called Anthology Of Rock Songs. Some nice person really did a good job breaking those songs down so that they are fun and easy to play, although still quite representative of the original. It's quite fun going from one generation of songs to another as you flip the pages.      Have you ever noticed how many songs there are that the title does nothing to help you remember the song? Like I was playing a song by Toto today called Africa. He sings about the rains down in A..fri..ca. No problem, the title and the words are mutually efficient in bringing back a memory so you can buy it without saying, "You know that song called Berkely Blues but it's really about Africa?"     Books and movies are the same way. So many titles seem to have nothing to do...

   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 p...

    Hey, everyone. Someone asked me the other day if I would upload a picture of myself. So, dutifully, I looked up my most recent photo and uploaded it. However, I feel that I should give you a few pertinent facts about this picture. 1. This is a black and white, which indicates it was probably taken during the 50's. 2. This was the last time I smiled. 3. Since this was taken I have learned a new language. English. 4. My abs look about the same as they did then, thanks to my exhaustive regimen of beer, pizza and playing video games. 5. I don't play with my toes anymore. 6. I am still devoted to one woman; it's just a different woman. 7. My hair style is similar now to what it was then. The amount of hair available is similar. 8. I have a few more teeth. 9. My knowledge level has increased but has also subsequently decreased since this picture was taken.     From the author's green retreat, I'm CE Wills.

     Hey everyone. Once upon a time I worked at a chemical plant that was about a mile from a big river.There was a big tank of acid on the site and groundhogs had burrowed under the tank, which is not uncommon. The river was East of the tank and the sun set, of course, to the West. I worked evening shift and usually found a way to stroll around outside, just a bit, at sunset. Most evenings in the summer, the groundhog would come out to enjoy the sunset. The oddity was, he always faced the river, which was out of sight, rather than the sunset. I've always been a keen student of nature and animals and the weird behavior of this groundhog has bothered me for years. I mean, he would sit and watch out across the fields in the direction of the river. He cared nothing for the beautiful sunsets to the West. He wouldn't move for several minutes at a time, sitting statue-like on his hindquarters with his forefeet in the air.      Did I detect a wistfulnes...

Hey, everyone. I've had an I-Pad for more than a year now and I've had an I-Pad 2 since the day they came out. Over that time I have seen a steady increase in the quality of games. They have been especially good on the Deuce (I-Pad 2), as they look better and play more smoothly. 9 mm by Gameloft is one of the best games available for I-Pad. There is plenty of action, a bit of thinking, a good storyline and above all else, it is an FPS (First Person Shooter) with a capital S. You have a choice of impressive weapons, limited only by your degree of ruthlessness in wresting them from the dead hands of drug dealers, human traffickers and people who curse a lot. Before I forget, I would like to thank Gameloft especially for the EASY mode which enables poor players to make decent progress and not grow discouraged. There are odd little niches in the game where you are riding on top of a tractor trailer. You are dodging low-hanging signs and shooting at a fugitive who is fleein...

Hey, everyone. First, let me say that I am having trouble again with the blogger function called New Editor and have found it necessary to revert to Old Editor. This probably meshes better with my age. That's a joke. For this reason you will not see chapter indents until this is resolved. Also, the post I produced called South Bound Train had a problem crop up with the photo. I just deleted the picture. We went out to eat today and everywhere we went, people seemed to be having trouble with their air conditioning. The south and a lot of other regions are really having a heat wave, here in the good ole U.S. of A. I went to Books-A-Million while we were in civilization. I was hoping to buy some books at a reasonable price. There were several books I wanted, but didn't buy. One of them was $15 for a paperback. Yeah, you heard me right. I priced them as e-books Friday night and I've noticed that publishers have started their campaign of Gradualism on that front. They have ja...