The Bird

Wow , again its been awhile. Since i last posted Hoyle closed down and steal is one of the few refuges for the wordox Hoylers. One of these players , one CeanGlace aka Coinsup aka foreverforwards aka cornholio etc Has managed to irk the hell out of me a few times in just a few days. See below.

He attempted to tell my how to run the wordsteal league during an onslaught of private messages , on the same day i had to have my 15 yr old Brittany Spaniel put to sleep, he insulted my favorite bird, the Crow and generally got on my nerves every chance he had. Well Cean , there is my other favorite bird, just for you , enjoy!!!

Now on to better things, i want to welcome redberry and omega as td's for the league. Redberry has been a td and admin for steal league and wayne aka omega has td experience as well. Also i want to welcome Lainy to the td team . If you have kept up with this blog you know that she is the Iron TD with over 2800 tourneys hosted and i appreciate her coming on to help.

Thanks to all the tds on the staff for your time and especially thanks to Nats for taking on the job of TD manager :-)

Thats it for now more to come since its gonna rain all week

cya at the tables

Not Paying?

if you want your tourney / laddergame fix and dont want to pay.... come to wordsteal.com's ladder room Wed Apr 1 , join the league and we will help ya get the games in.

www.myleague.com/wordsteal is the leagues addy. Need help activating email or yahoo me , perrin1967@yahoo.com

We have 4 or 5 tourneys set, more coming and players waiting to ladder anything that moves lol

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Pay to play

Im just curious to know who plans on paying to play wordox at hoyle? If you have time drop me a yahoo note or email me or leave a comment here on pay to play. Thanks and cya at the tables

good word

i was playing buzzylizzie yesterday and she played the word musths . Great play , i looked it up and here is the def

n. An annual period of heightened aggressiveness and sexual activity in male elephants, during which violent frenzies occur.

cool word hope u can all use it.

The Chores

Springlike weather is starting to come in here in Southern Illinois and this means my world takes a radical change. Home from work i go out and start sawing up tree limbs and stacking them. We use them for our firebowl and for cooking on our little BBQ pit. Cleaning up the boat and canoe this week. My first planned canoe trip is gonna be to Rim Rock Pounds Hollow lake in the Shawnee National Forest during the first week of April. I have never been to that park and cant wait.
Just finished reading As Summers Die by Winston Groom who also wrote the Forrset Gump Books. Excellent read . Also finished a book by Mercedes Lackey called Firebird which was based on a russian folk tale and i enjoyed it too.
Thats it for now

Cya at the tables

Check this out

The following was posted in reference to a news article about a home invasion and robbery in tyhe Clarksville Tennesee newspaper today , i loved it and totally agree !!!

There comes a time....in every man’s life when he stops bustin' knuckles and starts bustin'caps and usually it's when he becomes too old to take a whoopin'.

I don't carry a gun to kill people. I carry a gun to keep from being killed.

I don't carry a gun to scare people. I carry a gun because sometimes this world can be a scary place.

I don't carry a gun because I'm paranoid. I carry a gun because there are real threats in the world.

I don't carry a gun because I'm evil. I carrya gun because I have lived long enough to see the evil in the world.

I don't carry a gun because I hate the government.I carry a gun because I understand the limitations of government.

I don't carry a gun because I'm angry. I carry a gun so that I don't haveto spend the rest of my life hating myself for failing to be prepared.

I don't carry a gun because I want to shoot someone. I carry a gun becauseI want to die at a ripe old age in my bed, and not on a sidewalk somewhereTomorrow afternoon.

I don't carry a gun because I'm a cowboy. I carry a gun because, when I die and go to heaven, I want to be a cowboy.

I don't carry a gun to make me feel like a man. I carry a gun because men know how to take care of themselves and the ones they love.

I don't carry a gun because I feel inadequate. I carry a gun because unarmed and facing three armed thugs, I am inadequate.

I don't carry a gun because I love it. I carry a gun because I love life and the people who make it meaningful to me.

Police Protection is an oxymoron. Free citizens must protect themselves.

Police do not protect you from crime, they usually just investigate the crime after it happens and then call someone in to clean up the mess. Personally, I carry a gun because I'm too young to die and too old to take A whoopin'.

I dont know who the author is but to whoever wrote it amen brother!!!

pay to play?

Cases wants money now to keep Hoyle up and running. I cant see paying them to run the site unless they agree to update things which i seriously doubt is going to happen. I would rather donate to Mark Byers for wordsteal , the graphics may not be as good but the dictionary we use and other features like the no pinks bar make it worthwhile in my opinion. Im paying cases 20 bucks a year now to maintain the crappy redesign they pushed thru and seeing the results of that doesnt make a good outlook for hoyle updates . We will see what happens next month.
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CJ

Saturday my little girl will be six years old. When we found out my wife was pregnant i remember telling Bluberry first and she was just starting a contest in wordsteal league where people had to guess a secret she knew and it just happened that a player named Tava was pregnant. Must have been something in the water that year because several people i knew had babies on the way. Seems like last week lol.

CJ is one smart kid and im not bragging, she will be ready to play wordox online and kick ass at it as soon as i let her loose. She already does ok against the cd and watches my games all the time. Watch out in just a few more years :-)

So anyway Happy Birthday to my baby!!!!

Getting old sucks

Been having eye problems. Blurry vision , dry eyes feel like someone is poking finger in eye etc. Went to dr and he says scar tissue in eyelids causing my problems. Im not getting a good coating of tears on corneas when i blink. Getting hit in the head when you are young really does catch up to ya lol. He put in protective contacts and we hope he can correct the cornea damage he is seeing. He said try to not spend as much time in front of pc straining to see for a few weeks while this treatment is goin on. If it doesnt work i will have to go to a specialist in Louisville Kentucky.
In the meantime i wont play as much.
Cya at the tables not quite as often....

Good Book

Ijust finished reading the book Flags of Our Fathers by by James Bradley. Yes i know its a movie but i always liked books better. For people who have a grand vision of war and want to rush to send kids off to fight, they should read this. Some i doubt will absorb the facts in the book , but even so i recommend it to all.
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awesome attitude

Nats put this in the wordsteal league newsletter and i liked it and wanted to put it here too.

Here Debbers explains what inspired her to become a T.D...

For nearly a year and a half now I have enjoyed the fun and mostly the friendship of those of you on the Wordsteal site in the Ladder Room. You have been patient with me no matter how long it took me to learn how to play. You have encouraged me no matter how frustrated or depressed I got about my abilities. You have been there for me when I have sad times and good news I needed to share with someone. You have donated more Ladder Bux to me then I can count because I've never been able to earn enough to support my own entry fees.
You have done all this for me without ever asking anything in return. So I decided it was time for me to do something for all of you who have done so much for me. That is why I decided to become a TD. To try to give back a little something to all of you. I hope that as new members join and receive all the gifts this group has to give, that they will also take their turns in becoming a TD at the right time so we can all enjoy this together for years to come. Thank you all for what you do and enjoy the tourneys that I will set for you.

Great attitude and i wish more had the same ty Debbers for supporting the league as a player and as a staff member.
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good weekend

My Steelers won a record 6th SuperBowl!!! BooYa @ all the critics :P including my wife who went for the Cardinals. The payoff on that bet will be just toooo sweeeet. Also for MMA followers , Georges St Pierre beat the crap out of B.J.Penn in UFC action. Mixed Martial Arts is quickly becoming mainstream , the UFC did more pay per view sales than pro wrestling and boxing 2 years running. Real warriors those guys are, check them out if you love a good fight.

Thats it for the moment cya at the tables

Maybe things will work out

hoyle forums


To the Cases Ladder Hoyle Online Community, All parties involved in finding a solution to maintain the online site have been working together very hard these past few weeks. We’re on a good path but not quite there. To give ourselves the time needed to create a good long term plan, we’re giving ourselves the month of February to work through the details. So, please play on. We’ll keep everyone posted as we move things forward. Thank you With thanks A-la-Viv, OpManagerCase's Ladder

maybe things will turn out okay for everyone we can only hope.

I removed the last post. I get mad and say things without thinking about them. I promised myself i would quit using this blog to fight with people and i got pissed off and broke that promise. I will try a bit harder to keep my temper in check. Any future references to any league problems will be removed here. Got something to say we can keep it private or leave it unsaid.

for those that dont know

Important Announcement from Encore
Encore, the publishers of Hoyle software, have asked us to post the following information.The Hoyle team at Encore understands there is substantial discussion about the future of the Hoyle online gaming website managed by Cases Ladder. Please know that we are currently and urgently investigating the situation.We will post more information as soon as we are able; in the meantime, we appreciate your patience.Thank you for your continued dedication to the Hoyle brand.----------------------------------------RhondaCustomer Support StaffCase's Ladder, Inc.http://www.casesladder.com/

Hopefully this may mean that hoyle stays open and the hoyle leagues can one and all stay where they are. It may not happen but we can all hope

something for everyone

One of my favorites

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” Theodore Roosevelt

geez

Man oh man ..... I have seen other people say it and im coming to believe they are right, 2009 isnt all that fine. Wordsteal crashed yesterday, Mark Beyers remains incommunicado so nfc when it will be back. Hoyle wordox will be closed at the end of the month, nfc if it will be saved at the last minute or die and never return. On that note wordsteal being one guys private site it could go poof at any second for good, maybe already has.

I am exploring the options out there , debating a return to the Everquest worlds or Warcraft or something. Online scrabble, literati and the rest arent that attractive to me. If anyone has ideas gimme a shout.
Maybe cya at the tables???

Sneaks TD pages and graphic arts website

Ok tds admins and people that need graphic arts work done please check out my friend sneako's website @ http://www.lsdesignworks.com/ you can contact her for custom work if you dont see what you like in the gallery. She does some good stuff so cruise on thru and check it out!!

The Week in Wordland

Ok lets take a look at BIG 3 action this week......

Wordsteal league ... #1 kes #2 oxtailsoup #3 Natsssss # 4 bronzelonna #5 musso234 . The # 1 spot changed hands a few times between myself and oxtail thru laddermatches and tourney games and next week looks to be just as interesting as we battle for league supremacy. In other league news Sneakypete is stepping down as admin , she will be focusing more on her TD pages website which i will feature in a post to come. We will miss her on the Admin team but she will still be around to play.

WE league ...#1 Zeppelin # 2 kes- # 3 DrKate #4 McSalad1 #5 duncansmama ... No matches between #1 and # 2 after wednesday.... before then i dont know. I cant get the search function to work on the new myleague pages. any suggestions on that???

FSW ladder #1 Natsssss #2 BrianSmallacombe #3 MCsalad1 #4 OldShep56 #5 kes- Nats' recent title defenses against Brian and MCsalad were succesful this week but im sure they along with many others will be looking to pull her off of the throne lol in the next week.

Thats it for weeks recap cya at the tables.....

FSW wordoxers home

My good friends at FSW ladder have a website to check out , scroll down for tips hints words links etc, i think its managed by Orsey and here is the link http://wordoxers.com/home.html so head on over and surf at wordoxers home

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