Is the world coming to an end??? Seriously I think we are in the end part of the world.. On the day they started to have the great "gun control" debate there were more idiots out shooting people and taking kids hostage than ... Well let's just say on a day you are trying to make a point of guns being safe you don't want a bunch of low IQ nutjobs doing what they are doing.. We talked about the little boy being taken hostage this morning at breakfast and mom starts to breakdown.. I think it would be different if we didn't have a little guy about that age.. I was telling mom about that commercial where the little boy is in a classroom via a robot type of thing and when I saw this commercial I thought, this is the way things will be eventually and probably not to far in the future.. I know my niece has her twins and after the shooting at Newtown last month she said she won't send her girls to school and her dad said they will be social retards but I don't think it would be that way.. The day is coming when the education delivery system will have to be revamped.. Kids are in school 8 hours a day and back in my day it was no big deal, but now it seems like they really have a tough time getting along for that amount of time.. Getting an education online might be the alternative.. Imagine getting your education from different sources.. Not being stuck with the local school but instead being able to get a course from a school in another state.. Maybe even another country.. I was talking to mom about this yesterday and the town where she grew up was a mountain town and we visited there a few years ago and the principal was talking to the audience about how they are changing the way they educate because of the size and location of the school.. They are a very small school but are needed to remain where they are because in the winter it would be very unsafe to take the kids to the town on the other side of the pass because of snow slides.. They are becoming cutting edge and are being visited by other schools around the country now, and that is what I think will be the way schools will be in the not too distant future..
I played the hand held Monopoly game yesterday.. This game is very easy to win but also has the challenge to it I like in Monopoly.. So the game starts off like every game.. I have the properties in mind that I know I can win with, but as this game unfolds those properties are soon quickly bought up by the other players.. I watch to see who has them and can I trade for them.. My first trip around the board I get a lite blue, a violet, a red, the electric company and then on the high end property I get Park place.. the dreaded Park Place.. While most people love the most expensive properties I go for the mid price properties.. But today things will be different, and here is how things played out.. during the next few laps around the board I would get the second utility giving me the monopoly there, thank you.. However these don't give much on the rent as they are roll of the dice type of collection.. I get a railroad which the smartest thing you can do is grab at least one railroad to prevent a full monopoly ownership of these.. They can wreck your day early in the game.. The Boardwalk property gets bought up and as the game unfolds the fear of a trade happening that makes me be on the outside looking in isn't appealing to me.. So I see the player with Boardwalk and decide to try to get the property with a full property exclusive trade.. I do a bold move, I serve up the trade that most likely will be the first attempt to get what I want.. I offer the utilities monopoly for Boardwalk knowing full well that it might be needing to have the railroad thrown in there.. To my amazement the computer opponent agreed to the trade... Stunned to say the least but a monopoly for a single property.. Guess I looked like the fool for offering a monopoly like this.. Then the tough part started, building houses.. Two hundred dollars a pop.. And me knowing that these properties rarely get landed on, seemed like a bad idea to build on them but they were all I had and nobody else had a monopoly to build on so get with it.. It took several turns to build up, I had to pass go to get enough money to build a single house, but gradually I hit the two houses on both properties and I had one of the other players land on me.. Getting a good chunk of change got the houses built to the four house level, the final.. I rarely build to hotel because of the expense of the street repairs card on both chance and community chest.. But they both had been hit early in the game and I wasn't sure where the cards might be in the stacks.. As the players went around the board and kept missing my nicely upgraded properties I saw the money coming into the game and one player in particular had so much money.. Over $2000 and I could literally hear the money as the person skipped on over my property.. That's it, I'm building to hotels, and the reason why was simple.. I wanted to get the persons property without having to pay to unmortgage it.. In the computer games if the opponent can't come up with rent without mortgaging the properties they are given right across without hawking the properties.. So.. Long story short (too late) I got two pf the opponents properties and with all this the idea is to build on those properties and make it impossible for the opponent to catch their breath.. But I wanted to try something different.. In every game with the other properties I would do that, knowing that if the person gets a head up and builds houses the game can change.. But in this game I had the properties, and the forth "person" wasn't in a position to get properties to build on.. I had all the properties and while I have made the opponent trade and build before, this time I wouldn't do that.. I wanted to see if you could win with Park Place and Boardwalk exclusively built to hotel.. Two landings on Park Place was all it took.. Two times around the board.. I was stunned. I've never won with those properties before..
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I played the hand held Monopoly game yesterday.. This game is very easy to win but also has the challenge to it I like in Monopoly.. So the game starts off like every game.. I have the properties in mind that I know I can win with, but as this game unfolds those properties are soon quickly bought up by the other players.. I watch to see who has them and can I trade for them.. My first trip around the board I get a lite blue, a violet, a red, the electric company and then on the high end property I get Park place.. the dreaded Park Place.. While most people love the most expensive properties I go for the mid price properties.. But today things will be different, and here is how things played out.. during the next few laps around the board I would get the second utility giving me the monopoly there, thank you.. However these don't give much on the rent as they are roll of the dice type of collection.. I get a railroad which the smartest thing you can do is grab at least one railroad to prevent a full monopoly ownership of these.. They can wreck your day early in the game.. The Boardwalk property gets bought up and as the game unfolds the fear of a trade happening that makes me be on the outside looking in isn't appealing to me.. So I see the player with Boardwalk and decide to try to get the property with a full property exclusive trade.. I do a bold move, I serve up the trade that most likely will be the first attempt to get what I want.. I offer the utilities monopoly for Boardwalk knowing full well that it might be needing to have the railroad thrown in there.. To my amazement the computer opponent agreed to the trade... Stunned to say the least but a monopoly for a single property.. Guess I looked like the fool for offering a monopoly like this.. Then the tough part started, building houses.. Two hundred dollars a pop.. And me knowing that these properties rarely get landed on, seemed like a bad idea to build on them but they were all I had and nobody else had a monopoly to build on so get with it.. It took several turns to build up, I had to pass go to get enough money to build a single house, but gradually I hit the two houses on both properties and I had one of the other players land on me.. Getting a good chunk of change got the houses built to the four house level, the final.. I rarely build to hotel because of the expense of the street repairs card on both chance and community chest.. But they both had been hit early in the game and I wasn't sure where the cards might be in the stacks.. As the players went around the board and kept missing my nicely upgraded properties I saw the money coming into the game and one player in particular had so much money.. Over $2000 and I could literally hear the money as the person skipped on over my property.. That's it, I'm building to hotels, and the reason why was simple.. I wanted to get the persons property without having to pay to unmortgage it.. In the computer games if the opponent can't come up with rent without mortgaging the properties they are given right across without hawking the properties.. So.. Long story short (too late) I got two pf the opponents properties and with all this the idea is to build on those properties and make it impossible for the opponent to catch their breath.. But I wanted to try something different.. In every game with the other properties I would do that, knowing that if the person gets a head up and builds houses the game can change.. But in this game I had the properties, and the forth "person" wasn't in a position to get properties to build on.. I had all the properties and while I have made the opponent trade and build before, this time I wouldn't do that.. I wanted to see if you could win with Park Place and Boardwalk exclusively built to hotel.. Two landings on Park Place was all it took.. Two times around the board.. I was stunned. I've never won with those properties before..
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