March 30, 2009 at 9:48 am
· Filed under Video games
I will start by saying normally I do not like games like this, I prefer the action base games. I have found this game enjoyable. The graphics are great and the battles are just right as your character grows if you can figure out your mistake while in the battle normally you can change and still win the boss battles.
The store is about a young boy who father is a hero and dad ends up giving his life for his son and the king son harry. Harry is the next to the thrown but mama dearest has a favorite child and does wrong by the kings eldest son. Eventually a evil monster takes mama dearest place and uses the new king as a tool. After Harry and your hero are in slavery for a while and save some guards sister, you are sent back to the main land and end up in a temple. This is where the sister leaves your party and it becomes just you and harry.
In the game mostly your companions who help you are monsters you defeat in battle. The problem here so far all the monster who are apart of your party all start at level 1 this isn’t good but it isn’t bad, you can send some of your monster to a monster garden and they are kept there safe. I do not recall if any of them are leveling up, but the animals in your wagon will level up. When you get back on land and done with the temple and you go to the town north. Make it night and go and talk to the wagon seller on the northwest corner of the city. This part of the game took me forever to figure out, you do get told to come back at night in this town.
One thing that could have been improve is more clear direction in the game as to where to go, sometimes this isn’t clear so it hard to get the story line to go. It would be good if the battle where you get back saber, that your character would feel familiar about the cat, so you’d now the cat can’t be killed. The cat however does give some hints. It’s good to always keep Bianca’s bow tie on you, because this is what you will need once you find saber. Then you get your kitty back and he becomes friendly. Poor guy who sent you in after your cat. Talk about trust issues.
The graphics are great, the homes look neat like Wilmington NC real estate. The grass and trees like good too, and the mountains look like mountains. Some of the most pretty places so far in the game was the elfin home, and the ocean area.
Overall I think this game is great, and is fun. This game is good for probably preteen up. So far I have not noticed any language or other distrubing things.
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March 16, 2009 at 7:19 am
· Filed under Customer Service
My hubby should have got me some turkey jerky when he got his beef jerky. I finally found some in Target in WI, don’t ask me what town it was. Dad had told us he forgot his heart med to stop a heart attack. We stopped at a grocery store outside about 1 hour away from the cities in Minneapolis. No luck their, we made it to the target about half way down to granny who live in Illinios. I am glad Target makes it easy to get presecriptions for meds forgotten at home.
The staff their where not friendly in the store but the pharmacy did great. We got their right when they where closing and they still took care of my Father in Law. This made me very happy. the pharmastist told us they love their jobs there and wanted to make sure all their customer where taken care off. This is a great attitude to have and probably will keep many of their customers happy. Dad heart meds are on hold from the maker because of the FDA, not sure why, because they were not affected by the recall, so we had to get a name brand med. Even on Dad’s insurance it cost more then 5.00$
I wonder where Machu Picchu travelwill take me.
I was able to find turkey jerky there too, and was very happy about that.
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March 15, 2009 at 10:35 pm
· Filed under Misc. Products
I would like to think the person who came up with the idea of Jet dry. It’s interesting how a liquid like this can cause dishes to come out of the dishwasher cleaner then if it has no jet dry. Just odd. The other day I ran a load in the Dish washer, I been using cascade lemon scented liquid formula because the other been causing me to feel sick. Last night hubby was emptying the dishwasher out for me, and told me they felt yicky are you sure you washed them. Yep I sure did. I asked him is it out of jet dry. Hubby didn’t have any clue what I was talking about, and I had to go and look. Sure enough we where out of jet dry.
I get the blue stuff, and boy it good. I am not sure how it works but it works to make the dishes seem cleaner and less grettt. The bottles are very small I wish they would make them in the larger bottle but then again, I only file it every mouth or so. My kitchen is actually clean right now, I deserve a vacation maybe I should look at Machu Picchu travel
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March 15, 2009 at 10:26 pm
· Filed under Review/Opinions
Blame the User, Yes Blame me because it was my error. I know a lot of people complain about Vista, but you know I think a lot of it is the user fault. I got a new last weekend, still haven’t wrote about so here it is. My laptop is Toshiba Satellite Pro L305D, I like this one a lot too. Now here my biggest complaint, there is away to much stuff loaded on the desktop and way to much stuff in the start up of the computer, it doesn’t need all that stuff on the computer at the start. This is my biggest complaint nice to know it is easy. The second complaint is it took me forever to get on line tonight at my Uncle house because of my user error. He told me Vista is nothing but headaches, and all computer people he talks to say the samething. Okay I have heard a lot of complaints and been told by several to wait till the new operating system comes out, but I needed a new computer for college, and I couldn’t wait another 6 months for a computer. My old Laptop Toshiba also is close to 4 years old and was running out of memory to handle some of my school work. Not worth it having a computer so slow on simulation that it’s next to impossible to complete a simulation that should only take 1/2 hour.
So off we went to get me a new laptop with Vista because I am not going to spend another 200 for XP no thank you, Ive been using Vista for about a year on my desk top and have had troubles, so I figured get it on the laptop.
So lets see the laptop is great it’s 15.4 inch screen works nice and looks good. It has a built in Cam, okay this isn’t a very good cam, sorry but just don’t like the way any of the pictures look I have taken. It runs nice and fast, the start up of the computer is still alittle slow because I need to stop allowing some programs to run during start up. It runs quickly, I haven’t tried playing a movie yet on it but I will try soon. I have downloaded or watch a couple of things on UTUBE and it worked fairly well.
The keyboard has taken me a little time to get used to, I like it because the keys are a little bigger and easier to find with your hands. Now they have put the delete button in the top right corner of the computer, control and ESC are still in the same place.
The laptop came with a 60 day trial of Microsoft Office Pro, okay I am a home user why do I need Publisher. Maybe I might need it for class I hope I do not regret getting raid of it, but then again it is easy enough to reinstall programs.
The hard drive is 250, internet connection is 802.11b/g wireless. It only took about 25 minutes to make the rescue disk. I am very happy with my computer. So lets see I do not hate Vista, I don’t love it but it’s not hard to use if your used to it.
I do not mind it being in my laptop. I would reccomend this computer to any college student or person who does a lot of traveling. It travels well because it small but not so small it’s hard to see. Maybe I should look at some travel insurance quotes.
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March 11, 2009 at 8:32 am
· Filed under Movies
I have to say I am one of those who hated it, so did my husband. To be honest we were very disappointed in this movie and Marvel Works. My husband and I walked out within a hour of the movie, which is not good odds. My husband and I wanted to see it, now we regret it. When we told the staff at the threater we didn’t like it at all, they said it’s one of those were people either hate it or love it.
I think my hubby and I had more trouble with the language then anything else. As with every movie we don’t like their are some good parts, what those are I am not sure. This movie was set in the cold war, and I guess Nixon was supposed to have many more terms then allowed to any president, so most of the furniture looked from that time.There was some violent part but I think for the most they handled it okay for the most.
I wouldn’t recommend this as a good family movie, because of the language and voilence in it. I would say under 17 shouldn’t be watching it with out a parent.
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March 9, 2009 at 10:00 am
· Filed under Food & Drink
Last night on our way home form the casino, we decided Umbria pizza was the place to go for lunch. Dad had won again, but I treated. Hubby and I both had the same type of Pizza, we had the turkey with sun dried tomatoes. Dad had a pepperoni pizza. We got there right before they closed, but they still took care of use which was very nice of them. It takes dad and hubby a while to eat, me not so long, I eat to fast for my own good sometimes.
He did a good job at taking our order, and I let the young man know not to let dad’s pizza touch mine at all. Pepperoni is pork products, so that could cause me a bad allergic reaction. He understood it right away, and said he wouldn’t. I am fairly sure they where careful not to let dad get to close to mine. Dad pizza looked good, personally I would rather see the pepperoni under the cheese but it was on top, it still looked good.
The turkey with sundried tomatoes was good too, the turkey is lunch meat, nicely cut not to thick and not to thin. The pizza was yummy, to say the least. I really enjoyed it. The restuarant was clean and nice. The biggest problem there was they ran out of CO2 for the pop machine but they sale bottles of pop, so I got rootbeer along with dad and hubby got coke.
One thing I enjoy about Umbria’s pizza is they have some very nice painting no need for led lighting to attract their customers because the pictures are nice to look at.
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March 2, 2009 at 10:41 am
· Filed under Restuarant
Last night hubby, dad and I went to Baker Square to eat on our way home from casino. Dad had won fairly nicely, and I won a little. Normally Baker Square is good and we don’t have trouble there with food or anything. They normally have great customer service too and they did have good customer service. When we got in we saw they had a new pie oh yummy, it was Andy’s mint pie.
I decided I would go with the Soup and 1/2 sandwich pie shop special. My hubby choice the chicken Parmesan, dad had his french toast. We each got a slice of pie.
I got my soup and sandwich. I think the cook didn’t pay any attention to the salad, because it was very limp and had brown on it. Yuck, I wouldn’t even serve that at home so I told the waitress. I was nice about it, boy she was loud with the cooks back there. Can I have some lettuce with out Brown on it, and something about not serving that. Maybe the cook needs a good pair of eyeglasses, because it was easy to spot on the lettuce. The soup was very good and my favorite part of the meal was my pie. I only ate half of it, and kept the other half for later today.
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March 1, 2009 at 3:04 pm
· Filed under Customer Service, Misc. Products, Review/Opinions
My husband and I went back to Skechers this weekend, he wanted a pair of shoes after trying them on. Okay if anyone wants to give me some gift cards I can tell you what I like, Skechers they are the only shoes I will get. I think my husband might have just made himself that way too, it’s all he could talk about on Saturday morning before service was, how he couldn’t wait for his new shoes.
His shoes were old and uncomfortable and he has trouble with his arches, so he wasn’t able to find a pair of boots he also wanted so I got my second pair of shoes yesterday too. He got some nice looking goldish ones and I got the pair which is all white with a little bit of pink. 81/2 my size must be popular because the pair I really wanted wasn’t in stock, so I still with this. I did find another pair I want and I think when dad needs shoes I will take him there and he can get his and I can get the other pair I wanted.
I will say this week their customer service wasn’t great but it wasn’t bad. I would give them an above average but not great. They always have that buy one get the other for half price so hubby and I shared the cost of the shoes in half. Now I am scared to wear my white shoes because they will get dirty quickly and nothing worst then dirty white.
I found a pair of shoes I think would be great for dance at church so maybe I will invest they are good and tight and light weight and might help my food feel better in dance. Lately my arches have been a little tender on some of the steps.
I will give Skechers they are the best shoes I have ever owned and last the longest. They are worth the 65 or more bucks for them.
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March 1, 2009 at 2:49 pm
· Filed under Customer Service, Restuarant
Dad was telling me the other day that he wanted some french toast from that one restaurant. He said he wanted to walk over there and get some, well I don’t mind taking him to Perkins for his french toast. Dad and mom must have ate out a lot because he seems to want to a lot, sometimes it’s easier when I have cleaned most of the morning or done homework most of the day and simply do not feel like cooking or doing much of anything. So Friday night I got paid form another job I work a little bit and decided it would be nice to take dad out for dinner on Friday, since hubby and I wouldn’t be eating together.
So we went in to Perkins by use on Normandale and 98th St. in Bloomington MN. There was a little wait but I wasn’t surprised because we went during dinner rush. I had the chicken pot pie and dad had his senior citizens french toast. Dad wanted hot coco but didn’t want to order it because he couldn’t have more then one cup, and I told him. You can have coco maybe our waiter will be really nice. The waiter said he would give dad another one as long as he told no one. That was very nice of him, I didn’t expect him to do that but he did a good job with dad who is 86 yr old. I appreciate when wait staff treat dad well, and have respect and kindness toward him. This Perkins has always had great customer service since day one and I have never had a problem with their service yet.
My chicken pot pie had caved in a little before they brought it to me but boy was it yummy. Dad was happy with his french toast and I was happy with the overall service over there. If it was just hubby and I we might have decided to simply hike over there. We are closer to it then any Manhattan jobs.
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