Tag: game
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Assassin
When I was about thirteen I walked home from school in a very dirty area. There were hundreds of bottles on the ground. I played D&D a lot at the time and so made up a game based on the levels for a player character assassin. Every bottle I broke I gave myself 100 experience…
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Does the Furnace Need to Be ON?
It’s that time of year in Wisconsin that the windows can still be open during the day to have cool fresh air circulate through the house. But the nights are getting too cold to leave them open. So I play a little game at night after I close the windows where I try to guess…
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A Game of Cat and Mouse
I have heard and even used the phrase “A Game of Cat and Mouse” most of my life. I had a vague idea of what it meant most of that time. But part of my impression came from the Cartoons of Tom and Jerry. Jerry Mouse always won. He usually didn’t end up dead at…