Funkadeliexpialidoshus..

Two days of being in  a deep funk was just about enough for me.. I don't know why I was in that way these past few days.. I have a set time when I know that is coming and usually that is March.. You would think it would be earlier in the year like January or February but usually it is March.. I was in continuation today, the funk was deep again but I was at the park and not feeling the best and I reached back and picked up the handheld Monopoly game and went at it.. Played a game in a little over an hour and a half.. Blazing speed and was disappointed again that the computer couldn't get a trade done with itself as I got the properties that I usually win with, developed them gradually and got my finances set to the point where like the last time when the others landed on my well developed properties they were in trouble.. Normally I avoid building to hotels because of the street repairs card in chance and community chest, but with the four houses I got nailed by the first card with four houses it cost $300 and as i listened to the tally of what it would cost with the houses or hotels the price would be $300 either way with three hotels or twelve houses.. So I went ahead and built to hotels on each property.. Then I nail the other street repairs card and it was more expensive and I knew it would be but I also thought the odds of getting both cards in the same game were very unlikely.. But I nailed them both.. Thankfully I had the money for the repairs and as the game continued I was able to clean everyone out without having to unmortgage every property.. Like the last game I played where the other "players" nailed my property and hit bankruptcy, the game today was the same and having the properties at the hotel mark helped clean them out and the fact that they were mid range on the expense I was able to develop quickly.. There wasn't very much money in the game, and just like the Boardwalk/Park place game I only developed the three properties and as I acquired the other properties I decided not to develop those because no others had a monopoly to build on.. There was no rush to build anything else because there wasn't a chance of anything being built.. In games from years past I would have built more houses and such to make the odds of being hit greater.. Also, one of the main reasons I would build to houses only was to make the building count smaller.. In the handheld and the computer game you have to build the houses first then the hotels.. I've played the board game where I developed to hotels without building houses first.. Taking say $1500 and paying for the hotels and not building houses first.. I think it is a rule that you build houses first.. Here's the reason why you build houses first, there are only so many houses in the game and once the houses are all used up there are no more to build and so you can't build to hotels.. If you have the houses on other properties you can knock them down and build elsewhere, say if you have houses on the cheapie light blue and move them to the green to build to hotels then rebuild after you achieve that.. Or build to four houses and corner the market to keep the opponent from building any houses at all.. or very few.. It's what I try to do to keep the other players from getting to where they can compete very well..  Not very nice but, it's business.. Sort of..

Badge Henry