G R O W Y O U R W I N G S

Apple released their new Applications store which I'd been awaiting for like...a year.  This weekend I updated my Touch software to get the $9.99 software update that enables Touch's to run the applications.

Then I played with three cool applications:

• Platinum Suduko (cuz yeah I guess few can resist Suduko)
• Remote - which is this really cool free app that lets you use your Touch or iPhone to remotely control iTunes or Apple TV.  (I know only an Apple geek would appreciate this.  But it's cool man!)

And then what kept me up until 1am. 

Anyone who knows me knows that I really, really, really don't like games. 

Of any kind. 

No really I don't. 

Never have. 

Even as a small child. 

I don't find them exciting.  They make me sad because SOMEONE always LOSES!  If I win, I feel bad about the other person(s).  And if I lose, then I feel like I need to spend time and energy so I can master the darn thing.  And?  I think it's all a callousel(sp?) waste of time.

When I was an older teenager, my family got their first computer--yup it was an Apple II back in the dark ages of home computing.  There were no graphics (or very little)--it was all word inputs. 

I found there was a type of game I enjoyed on the Apple II.  It was an "adventure" game where the computer described in words where you were and what your objective was and then you told the computer to go north, south, west, east OR pick up this or that, etc.

It was not timed.  There were no scores.  It was just interesting.

That was my speed. 

Computer games generally lost me after Pong and *MAYBE* Pac-man.

But this frigging game I downloaded last night!  I freaking love it.

It's called Trism and it's not that different from Bejeweled  but I like it so much better.  Perhaps because it's so pattern and visually oriented that I'm just naturally enthralled by it.  Before I knew it it was 1 am.  And guess what?  The first damn thing I did this morning after waking at 5:30 am--was to play 2 damn games!  I'm trying REAL hard not to pick the thing up because I really have to get back to work this afternoon.

Here's a picture of the Trism game from some website online: