Found this puzzle on a Facebook page. According to the instruction on his page, you look at this puzzle and try to find three words. The first three words that you find describe your personality.
One of the best things about computers and the internet is the variety of games that can be played – both solitaire, against a computer robot or against other people in real time. The different types of games available are for all skill levels, from preschoolers to Bridge Masters.
I remember the very first game I played on a computer. It was a puzzle, adventure game. You had to type in each move as DOS code. You started out in t forest and you had to type in each move, going north or south, up or down, etc. It was totally addicting and everyone at work would try for weeks to solve the puzzle and beat the game.
Then we got a new computer that was pre-loaded with solitaire. The secretaries at work and anyone with a private office would spend hours at their desk playing Canfield, often caught by their supervisor and getting in trouble for playing games when they were supposed to be working. There was a lot of uproar among the ranks about feeling entitled to “take a break” and play a game or two on the company’s computer.
Now the computers allow us to get online and play thousands of games, often against real people from all over the world. It is amazing to be living and playing in the digital age.
Hard to believe that summer vacation is over for all the kids around here. A lot of school systems went back to school last week and the rest of them are returning this week coming up. So, I appreciate the warm weather, the sunshine, and the chance to go to the lake and swim or just chill out with a good book.
I like the people watching at the lake, too. The kids are running around, swimming and splashing, playing games and having fun. There is nothing like the laughter of a little kid to put a smile on your face.
Played a Spades game tonight and the opponents were killing us. My partner had a lot of difficulties with bidding. When the score got to a 300 point spread because my partner kept overbidding and getting us set, he left the game. He gets penalized for leaving before the game was over, but that left me with the challenge of finding a partner to replace him with a really bad point deficit. I decided to partner a Bot instead, and by golly, we ended up winning the game!
Just goes to show, never give up.
One of the extras that we noticed when shopping for our new home was that this house had a basketball hoop installed in the backyard, at the bottom of the driveway. In the back of the house was a large rectangle of level surface, which made me think that we could actually have some quality guy time shooting hoops back there. It was one of those emotional things that sell the house – putting the idea in someone’s head that appeals to them emotionally.
Of course, after we bought it and moved in, we quickly realized that the aggregate surface made bouncing a basketball almost impossible. We would have to pay for Basketball Court Resurfacing if we were serious about shooting hoops at home.
Of course, the home in the nicer neighborhoods, like Brentwood and Bellevue, have swimming pools and tennis courts in their backyards. One of their routine maintenance problems is Tennis Court Resurfacing and pool cleaning.
It’s not just the McMansion owners who have to deal with Tennis Court Resurfacing, there are plenty of country clubs, schools and apartment complexes who offer tennis as a recreational activity. When your sport requires a smooth surface for bouncing a ball, you can’t afford to have pits and patches that misdirect the ball’s bounce.