If you're looking for brillig tonight, I'm stepping in for her as she takes a well-deserved vacation. Major, major props go out to BeninSC for keeping this place together over the past several days!
As many of you know from my diary-length comment last night, I was robbed yesterday. No violence, no harm done--the guy just ripped my phone off of me and ran away. Thankfully, I was able to early-upgrade to the iPhone 5, which I was planning on doing in a few months anyway, and get most of my vital content restored to my phone. So no major damage done. In fact, I almost feel as if I owe the thief some gratitude, because I love this phone.
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For the past couple of months, I've had an addiction. Now, I've been addicted to iPhone games before. God bless everybody who put up with my Angry Birds phase (I still have the Angry Birds underwear to show for it), which I went through long after the game first became popular. But a couple of months ago, against everybody's advice, I played Candy Crush for the first time. It slowly took over my daily routine. Soon, I was finding patterns in real life. I was spending money on extra moves. I was having dreams about combining chocolate bombs and blasting away jellies. I can relate to this video, as I'm sure many here can:
My addiction was such that, as soon as I got home with my new iPhone last night, the very first app I re-downloaded was--you guessed it--Candy Crush.
I excitedly clicked on the app, ready to pick up where I left off. Oh, how silly of me. Because I soon discovered, to my utter horror, that all of my progress--the fruit of all of my blood, sweat, and tears--was wiped out. Back to Level 1 I went.
I may be addicted, but I'm not nearly motivated enough to go through all of those levels again. So, I guess this is my cold-turkey break from Candy Crush.
So thank you, Mr. Thief. Because of you, I have a shiny new phone that doesn't freeze whenever I use it and am no longer controlled by Candy Crush. By the way, I hope you're enjoying your outdated, locked, disabled, erased iPhone that freezes every ten minutes. I'm sure you're gonna make a killing off of it. Smooches.
TOP COMMENTS
August 20, 2013
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From The Marti:
I have to nominate this gem by Front Toward Enemy.
From leu2500:
Just Another Vet had a very well-thought out comment in today's RKBA diary.
From LinSea:
I would like to nominate this comment by justiceputnam.
From BeninSC:
Flagged by raina, this two comment thread by arizonablue and remembrance is a special one! arizonablue's is here, remembrance's right below, here! What special people belong in this community!
I am nominating another arizonablue comment from last night's Top Comments diary, in which azblue provided fine additional detail to the diary, which I was not able to research. It is support like this that gives Daily Kos its soul. Thank you, azblue!
From your humble diarist:
This laptop makes it extremely difficult to go comment-digging. Sorry, I got nuthin'.
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August 19, 2013
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