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My son read about a web site that has some free flash games and he tried them out last night. The one that caught his attention was a game about zombies. Ever since he watched “I Am Legend” with Will Smith he has been fascinated by zombies. The game he tried is called boxhead 2. It was fast and easy and since it was free, he thought it was fun for a change.

Another game on the same site is called age of war, which claims to have won recognition as “Flash Game of the Year.” The game designer is from Israel, so I am sure they think of war and military tactics in a very different way from the way kids in the U.S. or other mostly peaceful countries might think of it.

Both games have a series of user comments by kids, which are annoying to me as an adult but he laughs at some of the things that are written by the kids. As Admin has deleted a lot of the comments, but most seemed to be either “good game” or “this game sucks” types of comments – all typical of preteen and teenage boys.

Both of the games are part of a site called YouSayToo, which is a way people can sign up blogs and write short posts for payment. The post covered a wide variety of subject and are mostly opinions or a recap of current events. I have not looked into their method of ablogging for money but it does seem to be a popular site.

It has been years since I have sat down at a round table and shuffled a deck of real playing cards. We used to play all kinds of card games, both with family members and friends, as a social activity. As kids we played Hearts, Canasta and a variety of solitaire games at home with whatever assortment of parents, brothers or sisters we could talk into filling 4 seats at the table.

Then, when we first got married, we played Hearts with the neighbors or pinochle with the in-laws. They also liked to play a variation of the game Pitch that they called, “Set Back.” It was fast and easy to learn and you could have a few drinks and laugh the entire game. Other games tend to be more serious and slow paced, and drinking can cost you a loss and hard feelings from your partner if you get careless.

Lately I have been playing Spades online. I do like that game. It was easy for me to learn, as I am a very good Hearts player. I would like to play Spades with real cards, but have not been able to find three other people who claim to know the game.

When driving on the interstate with my grandson, we play a little game to help pass the time. We count the trucks and keep score depending upon the color of the truck. Only the 18 wheelers count, and they have to be on the interstate or a bridge in motion. If they are parked, they don’t count.

The most popular truck color white – I bet 50% of all trucks are white. So we don’t allow the white ones to count in our little game. Usually my grandson likes to pick red and I’ll pick either blue or black. It is surprising how many trucks are one of those three colors, but there are also a lot of green trucks.

The game only lasts until we get off on the exit ramp and can no longer see the interstate. Sometimes it is only for about 10 minutes, and we can easily spot at least 7 or 8 trucks of his color choice and mine, and sometimes the game ends in a tie.

The rain has canceled our plans for a high school football game, so we decided to go to Redbox and rent a movie for the night. The new releases include the adventure movie called, “Prince of Persia.” It is a movie loosely based on a video game for the Playstation and Wii. I’ve tried to play the game and it is a little frustrating to figure out all the tasks or missions. But maybe the movie will be good.

The last game that was made into a movie that I watched was Hitman, which was an excellent movie. I hope this movie does the game justice.