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Day 190: plane vs car

August 20, 2009 / / 0 Comments

At some point in the past few years, I became anti-air travel. I’m not vehemently against it. I’ll take a plane when going across the country.

But, if I’m taking a trip somewhere drivable, I almost always prefer to take a road trip. This wasn’t always the case. I used to dislike driving, or at least dislike it more than flying. Somewhere along the line, I started getting annoyed at the added time that went along with a flight.

I think it also has to do with control. I can’t control plane cancellations or inclement weather at airports. I can’t control the length of security lines and the speed at which they move. I can control how quickly I drive and when we leave in the car. If there’s traffic, I can control the route I take. In a literal way, on a road trip, I’m in the drivers seat.

Also, you can’t pull over in the middle of a flight to eat at an Arby’s.

Day 128: ds

June 19, 2009 / / 0 Comments

Everyone and their mother seems to have a DS nowadays. I bought a used DS back when they were fat, and then upgraded to a DS Lite on the day they released. I considered, ever briefly, upgrading again to a DSi, but the new feature set wasn’t compelling enough.

I also don’t play my DS as much as I used it. The height of my DS use was back in Pittsburgh, when I rode the bus to and from work each day. It offered me a goodly hour plus each day when I was doing nothing but sitting on a bus. If I had owned my iPhone then, I would have certainly listened to a lot more podcasts.

Instead, I played my DS a lot. Now that I carpool with Katie, there’s not much other time during the day for me to play. At home, I’d usually prefer to play on my consoles or PC, and there’s not much time at work to break out the DS. I end up playing every once in a while in bed or just randomly lying around, and on vacations/trips. It’s become only partially a portable game player, and it’s lost a bit of my recreational time to random iPhone games I’ve started playing (Flight Control, anyone?).

This got me wondering: tons of people have DSs (I’m pretty sure a hearty majority of everyone who works at EA owns at least one), but when do they play them? Do they face the dilemma that I do, where there isn’t really a good time during the day to play them? Do they take public transportation more? Do they just make time during the day?

Maybe just owning a DS is enough. Or, maybe, I just need to ride the bus aimlessly for an hour each day.

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