it aint steal but.....

hi everyone,

there is an alternate place to play wordox..... it isnt the crappy cafe version but its not as good as steal either....if you want to try it here is the link http://www.gametwist.com/ . It uses the sowpods dictionary.

cya there

Social Networking

I appreciate the invites to join hoverspot , facebook , myspace and all that but i just dont have time to mess with those sites. If you wanna talk to me im available on yahoo messenger , perrin1967 is the id. All that aside.... if anyone has Mark Byers on any of those sites please for the love of everything holy i beg you to nudge him and ask him to pretty please reset the wordsteal game. Captain Scurvy on the hoyle CD is already a pain in the ass, im tired of playing him and the rest of the CD characters . So any help on this i willl owe whoever one. :-)

amazing words

I played a person using the name N81.... game rating 1208 , win-loss record 233-919. This person led the game off with the word echinate , then played words like splith, cycas and serotiny. Fucking amazing words.... pulled them out at the end of the timer every turn but still those words were botworthy. There were more but my mind is still spinning from seeing a player with that rating and record using those words. Good thing i have strategy lol.

Summer was here with a vengeance this past 2 weeks with mid 90's temps , ugh. Hard to concentrate on getting things done in that kind of heat. Thank God for the town's pools. And the bikini clad chewywagons there :D

cya all at the tables

Leagues 2 Year Anniversary

2 Years, wow!!!! When i started the league i wasnt sure it would last but dedicated players and staff continue to make Wordsteal League a fun place to play. As we enter our third year we hope to line up a few sponsors here and there to allow us to offer more and better prizes. If anyone who reads this has any ideas please pass them on. And thanks everyone that plays or helps with the league , you people kick ass!!!!

Now one little rant.... my schedule lately hasnt allowed me much playing time but every now and then when i come on and there isnt a tourney i go into rated and try to play the bot. All well and good but.... and its a big hairy butt..... who are these same few assholes that come in to watch? Its not just my games they watch either. Its annoying as hell when some jerk comes in to salivate ( and who knows what else) on the table while im playing and trying to relax. Get a fucking life you dildoes ....

Thats all

cya at the tables

updates n stuff

Again its been awhile since i bothered to post, sorry but its just that time of year. Yardwork after i get home from regular work so that i dont have to do it on the weekends (usually). Weekends im fishing ,camping , canoeing, spending time with my wife and daughter away from the house.



I recently had to have one of my dogs put to sleep because she had cancer and a few weeks after that we added two new pups to the family. one is a beagle and the other is a maltese. Getting them trained the way we want takes up a slice of time as well. If you want to see pics of them you will have to get the next wordsteal league newsletter.

Along with all of that i try to keep up with a few tv shows ... Rescue Me , CSI , The Ultimate Fighter and Monk. RescueMe has been kinda boring up until the last episode which i enjoyed.

Books..... My wife recently watched the vampire movie Twilight and then got the 4 books in the set. I have read the first three and while the general storyline ideas are ok the books are cheesy and pretty much suck lol. I have a copy of The Green Mile i am about to start on, i hope its good. I also read The DragonRiders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey and it wasnt bad at all.

Regular readers know i love the sport of mixed martial arts and follow it closely. In Illinois and the midwest we have a number of fighters and lots of amateur shows. I am 42 years old now and i want to climb in a cage on an amateur show and fight at least once before i hit 45. I have started a slow training process of an hour a day walking and jogging in the morning and an hour of either weightlifting , swimming or light punching bag training in the evenings. I have been doing this for about 6 weeks and im starting to feel really good. I hope to step it up soon at a school near here that focuses on jujitsu and grappling. We also have a TaeKwonDo instructor in town that will work out with me and he has a lot to teach. My wife thinks im fucking crazy but she has always had that opinion. For those interested , if i do fight it will be in the 205 lb lightheavyweight class.

On to the league, we have the 2 year anniversary coming up in june with right now close to 65,000 matches played. Holy Shit!!! i never thought it would go so well. Also i want to welcome all the hoyle players from FSW and Doublecross that have joined. I hope you enjoy the newer dictionary and the league. I know you miss the hoyle graphics but maybe you will learn to love steal like we do.

Thats all for the moment , i will try n post again real soon, tc and cya at the tables

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

cya at the tables

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.
Cya at the tables

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.
Cya at the tables

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.
cya at the tables

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