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Yesterday was pretty eventful.

There was the exchange of the iPod Touch, of course. But other than that...

First off, I had what can only be described as a good night at work. It was dead slow and I'm ahead of my assignments, so I took a few hours to make a new tiny book for Lorna and Josh. I really enjoy these moments when free time and excess energy converge, it makes me very happy to take advantage of them to make little books for Lorna. Today I added Josh to my tiny, specific audience because I had plans to meet with him when I got off work. It turns out there's a typo in the book (arrg!), so I suppose everyone should look forward to the much improved upcoming second edition.

Breakfast with Josh was excellent. I drove up to his neighborhood and we went to a diner on Broadway. After initially sitting in a tiny, cramped booth in the back with what Josh described as (I think) "surprisingly unyielding seats"), we scored an excellent position in the front window of the diner. Good light, better seats, more space and Josh could point his lemur-like gaze at all the passing people on the street. I think he hypnotized them. Josh ordered corn beef hash, something I always assume is a stunt people perform in order to show off (I'm impressed!), and I got a really excellent egg sandwich with gigantic strips of bacon that extended past the edges like tentacles. And we got fries that also turned out to be pretty much perfect.

Oh, and I drank a lot of coffee. Which is interesting, because I had already had a lot of coffee at work. And, unusually, I had some coffee before going to work. Josh observed that I was "punchier than usual." I think we can all imagine why.

When I eventually got home, Lorna was awake and we had some time to hang out together. One thing we wound up talking about was how we actually feel about this iPod Touch thinger, something that's clearly pertinent material for this blog.

There is at least one game that Lorna is actively interested in playing. She explained that she had put off buying this game for the DS because she knew we would be getting an iOS device at some point and she figured she'd try it on the new platform.

That's kind of amazing to me. In talking about these things, something that we discovered is that I'm not really very interested in any of this software. I mean, I haven't seen any iOS game that I actually wanted to play. It's true that I have played a handful of what is generally regarded as the best iOS games on other platforms (hilariously, usually Flash) but there hasn't been any game that made me think I should acquire an iOS device specifically in order to play it.

Which is pretty significant. Acquisition of stuff (hardware or software via legitimate or ...less legitimate means) isn't something that I've ever let stand in my way when I've wanted to play a game. Well, other than in the case of Panzer Dragoon Saga. Copies of that game cost about a gazillion dollars used when I was interested in it, which was at a time when the shadier means of acquiring software were still pretty difficult to access.

So there isn't really any particular game on this thing that I'm particularly motivated to play first, or anything. I think that what I'm going to do is poke away at the stuff that's already on the device (lucky us for getting one used!) and see how that goes. We're going to figure out how to find the game that Lorna wants to play and she'll probably check out the Carcassonne and, I think, Luc Bernard's Mecho Wars (because after Days of Ruin we'd both like to see a good installment of Advance Wars, even if someone else tries to do it, and I'd like to see Mr. Bernard actually succeed at making a game).

Other than that heaping pile of material, I'm going to start paying better attention to app releases and reviews. I realize that we're behind a generation and down a grade on this platform, but hopefully there will be something that will actually get me fired up.

Next up -- something about an actual piece of software. Oh boy!