I really really really wish the person who came up with Windows 8 would be stuck for a year in a hole with no internet

So I just spent an hour, a whole hour and then some, of my morning trying to do a very simple thing.

I want to be able to play free cell, solitaire and other standard Windows games on my new netbook/tablet with out needing to be connected to the internet.

Oh, you can have lots of free access to these games, but I have as of yet figured out how to actually play them with out being able to connect to the internet.  Apparently there are ways.  The interwebs geeks give lots of tips.  I can’t get any of them to work.

I was planning on going out the Farm today.  Leif shut down the internet to save money while he’s on his winter snowbird tour south, which means there’s not a whole hell of a lot to do out there while I’m doing laundry besides read.  But I’m not much in a mood for reading, I woke up with a screaming headache, so I thought I’ll try one more time to load games to my netbook.

Now my headache is worse for the frustration, and I still have no games to show for it.

Damn Windows 8.