Kindle as a gateway drug..?

[uvula_fr_b4]

My Kindle Fire has led me to do a couple of things that I never thought I would.

1. I downloaded and played, far more than I thought I would, a game: Kairsoft's Pocket League Story, wherein you manage a football (soccer) team, peopled by icky-cute munchkins, to hopefully that championship season. I haven't finished my first play-through yet -- each game lasts eight years -- but I've derived more goofy enjoyment from it than I'd ever thought possible. (Honestly, I only downloaded and installed it to test it to see if my wife would like it; since she beat the first two versions of Roller Coaster Tycoon a ways back, and since she also was an assistant soccer coach for elementary schoolers in an earlier phase of her life, I figured that this would be a natural for her. Yet there I went, spending over a couple of hours at a pop playing it, running my Kindle's battery down to nothing, barely eliciting more than an indifferent grunt or two from her when I tried to tell her about it or have her look at the screen. I've got so many friggin' players on my team that it looks like a chorus line every time they board the bus to go to a match, and I can't quite figure out how to change my roster so that some of the fancy-pants players I've signed actually, y'know, play some matches; but I haven't gotten sick of it yet.
   
   
2. I finally took the plunge and started a Twitter account a little less than a month ago. (For anyone who hasn't found enough mindless, useless, time-wasting crap on Teh Internets, my Twitter handle is "@uvula_fr_b4" -- the same as my LJ handle.) Tweeting and checking your Twitter feed is perfect for the Kindle (or whatever other tablet you may have), and I'm finding that I'm actually keeping abreast of news and pop culture headlines more regularly by checking my feed on my Kindle. I have to say, Twitter's "saved" my LJ from getting cluttered up with more smallish-sized posts; I'm waiting for my virtual gag reflex to set in, and for me to flee Twitter like a radioactive camel corpse, but for now, it's a bit of all right. I'm still a conscientious objector as far as Facebook is concerned, though.