Pilly is a great place to walk around. I just walked from my hotel to the historic district and it is a great walk. The only issue is that my lower back is killing me! Every step I take, it hurts more and more….
It is definately a sign that I need to lose weight….too much stomach is just killing my back!
Well day 2 and I am still having a great time!!!

Today is the day that we travel to Philly.  Thankfully my parents live in NJ, so we crashed at their house before the big voyage.  I woke up at 7 am and want to leave, to avoid some traffic….but today is the first day in a long time that my wife wants to sleep and I don’t….

Oh well…time to travel  

No posts today, nothing to see…. 

I am going to my Aunt-in-law today to celebrate and then going to Philadelphia to celebrate my year anniversary.  Posts are going to be light for that time period….

And the next game on the review block is……SKYSCRAPER DEFENCE!!!!

http://www.ugoplayer.com/games/skyscraperdefense.html

So the concept of this game is to keep the space shps and their fire away from your tower.  You click your mouse over the item like a million times and the thing dies.  There is 9 levels to this game, but I only made it to level 6. 

The game itself has pretty cool graphics and gets you going for awhile.  It starts off slow and you are like, awesome, he is giving me time to get used to the controls.  You start to jive into this game and eradicate all the space ships…You are thinking damn this is a fun game.  Then you go to level 2.  The speed never increases and nothing changes.  Then level 3.  Then level 4.  To make it worse, there is a counter for how long you have played.  After about 15 minutes, I am going damnit…I am waiting time here…it is telling me how much time I have wasted on this game…

For a shooter game, the graphics are good.  It is around a 7 or 8.  The gameplay is good, except that it gets boring fast.  It is a 7 for the first 5 minutes and then decreases drastically.  I also don’t see much replay value in this game as well.  That is a 2.  I can see some people falling in love with this game…but just not me

And the next game on the review block is…… SMOKIN BARRELS!!!!  As always, here is your link.

http://www.addictinggames.com/smokinbarrels.html

 This game is about becoming the best dueler you can ever be in life.  Your goal to is win at all the duels…the end

With that said, the game starts off by picking out a gun and bullets.  You want to pick out the free gun and a mid-range bullet.  The more expensive the bullet, the more damage you do.  Also, be very careful in the beginning because if you lose too many battles, you lose all of your money.  If you didn’t get a chance to invest in the mini-games, it is game over!

The gameplay is rather fun and interesting.  You move your mouse to the “safe area” on the screen and wait for the target to come up.  If you make it to the target and click on it first, you win and the opponent takes damage.  If the computer gets there first, you take damage.  Whoever’s health gets to 0 first, loses.  If you lose, you need to buy health to play again. 

There are also 4 minigames that the game has.  Invest in either the knife game or the gun game.  The knife game is cheaper but takes longer to make money.  The gun game is frustrating but if you get the hang of it, you can make some extra cash quickly.  The cow racing game and the dice game involve spending your money to make money, so they are not good minigames.  They do get addicting through.  You also need to buy the pants, hat, and gloves in order to play the last level of people.

As you advance in levels, you should purchase the higher grades of guns.  This game is very straight forward and fun to play.  I recommend it.  With that said, I will tell you how to cheat at it.  If you do not want to know, do not read further

When you put your mouse in the safe zone, hold down the left mouse button.  You can than move your cursor to where you think the target will be.  When the target appears, let go of the mouse and then left click on it.  You can now beat everyone up! 

GOOD LUCK!

So as I stated before, I had a marathon of moving really big tvs around.  To finish the task off, I moved the last TV to my home office.  I get someone to help me and we get it to the office.  As I am clearing thing away, I feel a pinch in my back.  I knew that this sensation was not going to be good….

We finish getting the TV in place and my pinch became a low burning sensation.  I figured I should sit down for a minute.  Well now the only way to keep my low burning sensation, is to sit back on the chair and have it almost completely reclined.  When I move, my low burning sensation becomes a bit of fires wanting to melt the living flesh off my back.  This is not fun.

I thought I was going to die when I setup my computer on the stand.  The stand is in a slightly awkward spot on my desk so I need to move myself around in order to place the laptop on the stand….not fun!

I should take a picture on how I have to type without incident of pain.  I am fully reclined with my keyboard stand as far out as possible and really high up.  My fingers can barely touch the keys but it is totally worth it without pain. 

I think I may need advil or something to help.  So much pain and so little amount of time!

My company is being rather silly with big displays.  I had setup a 42″ plasma display in Office B and they were unhappy with it.  I just went to Office Z (not in my jurisdiction) and picked up a 37″ LCD display to test out in Office B.  Office B is happy with the LCD display, but I need to return it to the Z office.  I would then need to take down the LCD display and give it back to Z office.  Then B office gets a new display and I need to set that up again…

Do these people not realize how heavy this shit is??!?!?!

Also, it seems that an office in the Cape Cod area wants the original plasma for their office as well…

The insanity never ends!

And ladies and gentlemen, here is the next game to be on the review block!  3D LOGIC 2!!!!

http://www.addictinggames.com/3dlogic2.html

 This game throws you right into the puzzles.  It is a cube and your job is to connect the colors in order to pass the level.  If all colors are connected, you win!

The game has been done before, but this game is addicting as hell.  The downside is once you know how to resolve the puzzle, you win and does not lead to much replay value.  Back in 2005, the game Hyperframe came around and was the original of this type of game.  3d Logic was a cheap ripoff.   While Hyperframe had no changes done to it, we now have 3d Logic 2! 

If you get completely stuck, the fine people of jayisgames.com has a nice picture of each level of how to beat the game.  While I could painstakingly do the same thing as them, they already did all the work for me

Ahh the power of the Internet.

http://3d.logic.2.walkthrough.fizzlebot.com/

And the next game on the review block is Click Maze 2!!!! As always, here is a direct link for ease of play.

http://www.addictinggames.com/clickmaze2.html

This game has a very simple concept.  You start at the beginning.  You need to get to the end.  Do not die.  Simple and elegant right?  Well lets get to the knitty gritty.

 The aim of the game is to guide the small red pill through the maze avoiding all the black walls and obstacles in order to reach the large red pill in as few clicks as possible.  You click on the Click start button to start the game and start a clicking

Scoring basics

There are 3 scores available, and they are worked out like this at the end of each level and added to your total score…

Level Completion Score + Level Par Bonus Score X Level

Lives remaining bonus = Total Score

Sound simple so far right?  Yup…so far so good

Now that we know how to play, playing this game is a treat.  It is what a flash game should be. Simple graphics and high replay value.  Like all games, the more complicated the graphics, the less fun the game is.  Now there are some rare gems out there, but this formula is mostly true.  It is refreshing to see a game to stick with the basics and make something that I would want to play over and over again.  I recommend Maze Click 2 for all to play!

I am really big into routines.  I get myself into a routine and nothing can stop me.  I continue on the same routine without failure until one day, something changes and then I cannot get back into my routine.  This always disappoints me, but not the reason for the posting. 

In the mornings, I have been going to this gas station to buy a 22 once cup of coffee.  It is great because it only costs a dollar.  So anyways, as I get onto 84 this morning, I notice something that will forever be burned into my memory. 

The coffee falls and spills all over the place!  The worst part about it was I did not take a single sip yet!  An unopened cup of coffee just took a swan dive in my car!  The most tragic part of all is I can’t buy a new cup of coffee until my hour car drive is over.

The positive side to the whole drive is my car smelled of the delicious aroma of coffee the entire trip.  This smell is the only thing that stopped me from ramming into two cars and mowing down a couple of people.  At least this week is going to be a short week!