Video Gamers Unite

If your like me you enjoy a good Online match of Company of Heroes or Call of Duty when you get some free time to sit down and have a couple beers or your favorite cocktail. Do you guys remember Direct2Drive ? The digital distribution platform. Well back in January 2012 they were bought out by GameFly, an online videogame rental service. I have 18 digital downloads through Direct2Drive's service some $540.00 worth of game files. I had been using Direct2Drive since July 2006 and I've always happy with their service and never had to experienced a day with downed service. If your a gamer you know you may need to get a Activation key or re-download one of your games at any time. Wholly Cow, until a couple of weeks ago I could only access 4 or 5 of my 18 games and for the first 2 months or so I couldn't access any of my games. I've been so wanting to reinstall my copy of Dirt2 and put my Wheel to use again. Its so fun to drink and drive when your doing it from your desktop. I checked again today, and after seven months since the Gamefly, Direct2Drive  buy-out I still cant download five of my games. And I wont even mention that I lost my guide books due to the fact that Gamefly does not support Non-Game files such as the Prima Guides. So that brings me to this. I urge you, if your looking to pick up some digital downloads, do yourself a favor and check out this

Customer Services Scoreboard before you buy. Witch by the way I left two complaints on that they promptly removed, probably due to my leaving of my email address and asking other gamers to join me in a boycott. and a possible lawsuit for the stealing of digital files from their costumers. You May just want to steer clear from these Gamfly guys.

Concert in the Park

The Zion Park District hosts its Concert in the Park series at 7 p.m. every Thursday evening through Aug. 2 at the bandshell, located immediately adjacent to the Zion Leisure Center, 2400 Dowie Memorial Drive, Zion. … Read More

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We Had a pretty good time the weather was nice and we had lots of  fun ridding our bikes up to the park. The fountain next to the post office shoots water some 20' feet into the air so we stopped for a good soaking. Joey my nine yr. old had lots of fun playing with some of the other kids that were at the concert. while I got to enjoy some good old rock n roll classics.

Zion, IL 6-14-12 Joe and Joey Currier of Zion play and wrestle in the grass while listening to the band. The Zion Park District hosts a Concert in the Park series every summer and this Thursday the Transformation played. |Alyssa Schueneman~Sun-Times Media

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Fox Snake

Last week while going to the garage freezer I came across a small snake coiled up on the middle of the floor. Not sure exactly what kind of snake it was I scooped it up in a small bucket and brought it in the house to show it to joey my nine 1/2 yr old son. We promptly put it into our small habitat we put together a few months ago after finding an Eastern ribbon snake on a walk behind our house.

Making the habitat.

Joey was happy to see the little snake, See the habitat has only had a frog in it for a few weeks since I let the Ribbon escape while cleaning the cage. Its kinda funny actually.  It got out of its cage a few weeks earlier, sneaking its way into a small hole next to the radiator and was lost for like two weeks. Then one day while moving a piece of plastic in the back yard sure enough there he was.
The second time it got out it jumped out the second floor window into a flower bed by the time I got outside it was gone.
Well now its gone again so its nice to have a new critter. After our research we have narrowed it down to An Eastern Fox or a Gopher snake. We are leaning toward the Fox because of its mimic of the Massasauga Rattlesnakes tail rattle when I first came in contact with it in the garage.

The Ribbon snake.

Anyway it seems to be doing fine, it goes in the water just like the Ribbon Snake did. We might get a couple more goldfish for the tank, and see if it goes for them like the Ribbon did, theres a 1.7 gallon water tank for the frog and fish.