Schools back in session

It's been a few weeks since I've been in here.  Some cool things like Talks Like a Pirate Day and Beaver Football have happened but mostly life has been swirling by.  I am tired.

Moving out of the 'ville and on with life

I admit to playing farmville - for a long time until it got a little too 'crazy'.  I tried Fishville and even took two days to sample Yoville (ugh).  Then I started Frontierville and realised (after about 26 levels...) what a gigantic time-suck these games were.  No better than playing 50 rounds of solitaire on your laptop or having a minesweeper contest with yourself, except the 'villes allow you to convince yourself that there are consequences to not playing every single day.  I always told myself that I just wanted to finish my current 'challenge' and then I would quit.  But damn those smart marketers over at Zynga, there was always another, slightly more intriguing, challenge that surely could be completed quickly....

Yesterday I deleted them all.  Just 'click' and months of planting, building, decorating and collecting were gone.  And, well, why the hell did it take me so long?!?!?!

Today I sat down to check my e-mail, check people-who-I-barely-remember updates on Facebook, and then, got off my ass and walked away from the computer!  Without the ridiculous frontier to manage, there was no reason to keep staring at the screen.  Whatever will I do with myself?  I guess I'll start with dishes....


(no wonder I played games - maybe I should start World of Warcraft or some MMPOG where I can really waste some time.....)

Techno-envy

Mike says I don't really 'use' my Droid.  It's true I don't spend a lot of time sampling apps and rearranging my screen environment.  I have it set up how I like it.  Every now and then he'll put a new app on my phone and I admit that I have really enjoyed and kept (and for some can't imagine living without) them.

On Sunday my phone screen died.  That's the problem with these new fancy touch-screen phones, if the screen dies it is just a hunk of plastic.  So we called tech support and they sent me out a new phone.  It arrived yesterday and was actually one step newer than my old phone - a Droid 2.  Before I even knew it had arrived Mike had switched phones to take the Droid 2 and give me his Droid, set up our respective phones and packaged my old broken phone for delivery.

When we knew this was an option I said of course he could have the newer phone, he loves gadgets far more than me.  But now his phone works better than mine, and I am jealous!

Oh well, at least I can get text messages again.  Bad news is that anything texted to me Sun-Tues noon was not received, so drop me a line - I'm not ignoring you!

t.