Blog Number 93

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

As I begin this blog, bath duty is looming.  Since our guests left it is back to the normal every other day bath duty (sigh).

The wife and I have an ongoing contest on one of our favorite computer games, Mahjongg.  The game that comes with Ubuntu lets you pick different tile sets and also different tile layouts.  Each layout has a different degree of difficulty.  If you don't see a match you can ask for a hint.  Also, if you have no legal moves left, you can have the computer shuffle the tiles around.  The whole point is to clear the board in as little time as possible.  You get penalized by adding time to your clock for the hints and the shuffles.  If you clear the board and have one of the best times, you get to enter your name on the "Best Times" list.

Now, you would think that if you read this list you would simply see either my wife's or my name and then the time.  Our list is more of a taunting / bragging list.  Here are the current entries...

1. TAKE THAT BABY!!!! - 2m 58s
2. Me me me - 3m 11s
3. me - 3m 20s
4. Yes, The Man Did It! - 3m 24s
5. The Woman Did It! - 3m 26s
6. almost! - 3m 26s

Now I am sad to say that only #4 is mine.  All the others are times the wife has put up.  In my defense, she plays about 10 games for every 1 that I play.  I have not yet attempted to hack the high score log and manually enter lower scores.  I am sure it can be done.  I know this only because I envision the programmer who wrote the game probably had a wife like mine.  I imagine their scores look like this...

1. You call yourself a programmer? - 1m 45s
2. So, you created this game and yet I can beat you - 1m 57s
3. Ho hum, another low time - 2m 12s
4. Honey, I got this time blindfolded - 2m 14s

So I guess it could be worse.  I have a feeling though if I drop out of the top 10, Mahjongg will mysteriously disappear from the games list on our computer.

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon