wickedwords

I really am becoming one of those people who only talks about one subject, aren't I? How about I mix it up a little? Perhaps I should mention games I'm playing and what I am watching on TV.

My son got me hooked on farm town, castle age, and mythmonger, all on facebook. I spend hours on my farm, hoeing and planting crops, then selling them to buy stuff. I'm having a lot of mindless fun with it, and just started in yoville which is sims light. Castle Age and Mythmonger are turn-based games, so I don't have to think too hard about them either.

I'm also playing monopoly city streets, and just built up to the one billion dollar mark, woo-hoo! The game is rife with cheaters, and its performance is dog slow. Still, I loved monopoly as a kid, and playing it makes me happy.

For TV, I'm watching a raft (and I mean a raft) of cop-related TV. Bones is the only one I'd call a procedural, with all the gross and mucky stuff of the actual investigation. I'd fallen in love with the characters over the summer, as Ev seemed to watch it the three-times-a-day that it showed on one of the channels, and I got hooked on it as well.

The Mentalist is a more light hearted cop show, with a neat streak of darkness and not-quite-ethical stuff that vaguely reminds me of SGA. The lead is adorable and pocket-sized, angst-ridden and driven. He is as charming as people expected John Sheppard to be, and no where near as ethical. I pair him up with Cho (aka Cho Friday), a former gang member turned by-the-book-cop that somehow keeps letting Patrick talk him into doing things that aren't completely up front, and always seems to have his back.

NCIS is one I am loving for the fantasy element. Okay, it's a military fantasy element, but it's still a fantasy! There is no way it's a real cop show; it's one where everyone has become level 75, so they're just goofing around, but it's done within the context of the backstories they have created for everyone. (And I think calling Tim the sidekick never gets old.) Oh, maybe some of the actors are phoning it in on occasion, but it's still a family.

NCIS: LA meanwhile, is not a family. It's a buddy-cop show, and as long as I have LL Cool J smiling on my screen and Sam and G being buddies together, I am a very happy woman. Seriously, I know there are other characters -- the boss for one, the newbie for another, the girl, the geek and the profiler -- but they aren't living for me yet the way that Sam and G did the moment they showed up on-screen. Again, lots of fantasy mixed in with this -- it's more, uhm, starsky-and-hutch meet wild wild west -- with all their toys, I keep thinking they should be battling "the tornado" or something, rather than terrorists.

Guess I've been watching SciFi for too long, huh?

Anyway, so that's what I've been up to outside of work and stuff: tv and mindless computer games.