I'm hooked.  Totally addicted.  I confess.  Since I purchased an iPod Touch, I have become one of the millions of "digital zombies" out there everywhere--head slumped forward, both hands clutching a small device, thumbs moving frantically over the device... you've seen 'em, they're everywhere.  Totally immersed in whataever they're doing.  I hear most of them are texting, but I'm not.  At least not yet.  I'm hooked on the games at the moment.  And the music.  And the police radio.  And e-mail.  And everything else, except texting.  I have neglected my website, my photo albums (I still have plenty of Arizona Trip photos to go through and post), and I'm getting behind on my chores at home.  The fish in the aquarium are starting to look at me funny, as if to say, "Hey, man, we're swimmin' in poop here, ya know! What's the deal?"

The game I've become the most addicted to, righty now at least, is called "Flight Control".  Simple game, and I remember playing another one exactly like it on one of my old Atari computers way back when.  It's an air traffic controller game.  You're viewing a map from above and you're the air traffic controller for the area.  You need to guide each plane and helicopter to their appropriate destinations as they enter and exit your area, hopefully avoiding an air disaster along the way.  This game also takes this a step further by adding an optional multiplayer mode.  If you play multiplayer, each person is in charge of their own adjacent air space, and each will have to direct aircraft to their own runways as well as passing them off to the other player's air space.  The game ends instantly when two aircraft collide.  Gee, I wonder why, it's only a small mistake... Anyway, I don't know if it's because I played it years ago and I'm thrilled to be reliving a part of my childhood, or what, I just gotta keep playing to try to get a little bit further and get a higher rank.

That aside though, I'm finding the overall usefulness of the Touch to be awesome.  I can see how the iPhone would be even that much MORE useful, since you have a connection pretty much everywhere instead of just wifi, and there's a bunch more you can do with it, but I just can't afford the extra monthly cost yet.  The Touch is a great compromise though, having many of the same features without the monthly commitment.  Maybe down the road a bit...like when my current cellular contract expires.

So there ya go.  A blog entry.  Took care of that problem, didn't I?  Now back to my airplanes...