High spring is in the air, and the weather is lovely. My oldest daughter is here with us for two weeks. And I’m still enjoying the job. Hillary Clinton is announcing her run for US Presidency. Ah, the liberal media is going to love her despite all of the shenanigans she’s been involved in. Personally, I think she’s wasting her time and millions of dollars. But shoot, I didn’t think Obama would win a second term, and he did.
1. Grand
Theft Auto V on PC: I’m not a fan of Rockstar. Despite that GTA debuted
on the PC I think Rockstar treats the PC crowd as chickens on a factory farm. I
have to admit, however, they went all out on this title for the PC. The
graphics, the interface, the storyline. Stupendous! It’s as if someone at
Rockstar said, “Okay, just wait until they see this!” I’ve only played it for a
week, but I’m in love. I find it hard to play a bad guy, even in a game that
makes it a virtue to be wicked. Yet, if feels so good being bad. Truly,
entering this game is stepping into another world.
2. World
of Tanks on PC: My friend Dillon Gard, once suggested this game to me.
I looked at the YouTube gameplay trailers of it and was not impressed. It just
looked like a close combat melee game played with tanks. I eventually
downloaded, dabbled in it and found it to be okay. It gathered dust in my
gaming library. Recently I’ve revisited it and now I’m hooked. I probably
shouldn’t play this with my addictive personality. I swear they must have a
team of psychologists on retainer because the pay wall mechanic in this game is
so wrong, but it works. Play for free and you get a standard account that
proffers minimal XP for battles fought. Upgrade to a premium account and
suddenly you’re earning real XP, but at what price? I paid ten bucks for 4 days
premium. And I paid twenty dollars for a tank that was a definite game changer,
but how long can I keep this up? Not to mention the fact that I’m not playing
anything else now, it’s only World of Tanks. I’ll eventually come
to my senses like I did with Blizzard’s Hearthstone, and get pissed off and
uninstall it.
3.
Tapestry of the Second Born by
Matthew A. Dickerson: This was shamelessly stolen from my review on www.shelfari.com, but it pretty much says it
like it is. “I was quite captivated by this first
novel written by a local author I know personally. It had all of the intrigue
of a Dan Brown novel and the pacing of a Michael Crichton book. Dickerson has a
gift for capturing human interaction so vividly through dialogue and diction ,
mannerisms, and body language. I was slightly confused at first because of so
much going on, but as the plot pulled me in and the characters' lives became
intertwined I held on for dear life. I look forward to Matthew Dickerson's next
work.”
4. Killing
Floor by Lee Child: I really enjoyed the recent Tom Cruise movie, Jack
Reacher. It was interesting to find
out Jack Reacher is a concurrent character in a 14 or so book series. I
discovered this first novel in which he’s introduced, and started reading it. And
I’m finding it damn hard to put down.
5. Vespa LX 50: I took my first long road
trip on my baby blue Vespa scooter. It was about a 100 mile round trip. The
manual claims a top speed of 39 mph. I hit 51 a few times. Not too shabby for a
50cc scooter. As of January, Indiana introduced new legislation pertaining to
motor scooters, which I think is total bullcrap. You can’t exceed a speed of 35
mph, and you can’t take a passenger, despite that my Vespa has passenger bars
and a footrest for a passenger. When does it stop? When does enough become
enough?
