Earlier today, I played a game of Life, the board game by Milton Bradley. Life is very complicated these days. They have added squares onto the board and set up different choices that weren't there before, and they added all kinds of rules that weren't there before and new scenarios. So, since I hadn't played the game in longer than I can remember, I not only had to read the rules to refresh what I used to know but forgot, but I had to learn all the new stuff, too. Life just wasn't that complicated when I was a child. I remember when I was a kid, you'd start a game and just sail through Life, everything was printed clearly on the square you landed on and there weren't cryptic things you had to do with cards and gambling. When I was a kid, Life was straightforward, all the answers were right there, all the instructions fit on one little sheet.
But I played it, and it was new and different, very different from the simple Life I knew and loved as a child. The thing is, it was still very fun. Even though it was more complicated and much more to it than there used to be, I came out a success. I was a doctor, had no children, and retired a millionaire. It's actually the first time I can remember actually winning the game of Life.
I just had a very amusing (to me) mental image of a mash-up between Lord Of The Rings and Silence Of The Lambs. Gollum, as Buffalo Bill, leaning over the pit, looking panicked, it pans down to the girl holding Precious, the dog. Gollum says, "It puts The Precious in the b (Read More)
I am in desperate need of the catharsis one experiences upon slitting someone's throat with a razor-sharp blade followed by the joy and elation obtained from watching the life drift from their eyes turning them to dead, glassy orbs as I am filled with the energy that used t (Read More)
I rushed out of work at 5pm
Plopped my ass in my car again
Welcome to the land of lazyness,
hey, gotta get my rest in.
Started up the car
headed home for my free time
Look at the street and I see a really bad sign.
Traffic looks so crazy
Everybody's in my way, s (Read More)
I envy a person who can hear their alarm go off, turn it off, and get up out of bed, ready to start the day. I live by the snooze button. It is my best friend in the morning. Well, it and my coffee. I'd marry it if congress would hurry up and pass that bill legalizing m (Read More)
So, my car's wrecked, I told ya that. The bumper was precariously attached. It began to become unattached. I'll fix it with some Gorilla Glue just as soon as the snow is gone and the temperature is more moderate. For now, I removed it and placed it on my porch. So the (Read More)
The last few weeks have been kind of hectic and draining. Last Wednesday I wrecked my car. Hit a patch of ice, slid off the road, down a hill, into a pole. I wasn't hurt. The car was. I spent nearly a week with my brother-in-law trying to fix it. Had to replace the ra (Read More)
Depressed. And I'm quite tired of being depressed. There's no reason for me to be depressed. No logical reason, anyway. I'm insane, that's obvious. I have great friends. What's left of my family, my sister, brother, nephews and niece, et al, are wonderful. I'm w (Read More)
