Thread:Alumni72/@comment-34478085-20181005221414/@comment-35065776-20181006023929

Hi, Jodi -

Yeah, years ago I learned to never be around technology when I was in a really bad mood - almost got me fired from my first full-time job, but my boss was understanding and helped me control my temper.

Well, about a week ago I was having an argument with my wife and was holding my phone at the time - normally I'd just toss it noisily onto my desk, hoping to make her think it was broken (never works) but this time for some ididotic reason I threw it against the wall. Mainly because, deep down inside, I AM an idiot. It sat there in 3 parts, phone, battery and back cover, for the rest of the day and the next morning I picked the parts up, put it together, and for some reason expected it to work like always. Needless to say my expectations were diminished somewhat when all I got from the display was a few streaks of light along the top and left edges of the screen - if you've ever seen a broken laptop screen you'll know what I mean. Worst of all, I couldn't even access the onboard memory to copy off whatever photos I had on it ( there weren't many, if any - I had been doinig that regularly and had just done so about a week before) - I had damaged it that badly so connecting it to my PC with the USB cable wouldn't work.

Fortunately for me while I hadn't had MY phone insured (I'm the only person in my family without an iPhone) so we had gotten a group plan with my daughter's phone - so I was covered for a replacement. In the meantime, in one of AT&T's promotional schemes a few years ago we had gotten a mini-tablet, which was never used for anything - so I installed the game on that device (also an Android) and had them move my main account to it - it's noticeably slower than my phone, but the display is more than 2x the size and that really helps my eyes, which could get really tired playing the game. (I also discovered that most rooms have more to them around the border that you  just don't see on a smaller device) - with the Garden tha treally helps because sometimes I had trouble tapping on items right along the border without triggering the pause function or risking losing time when I tapped multiple times.

Anyway, I've been working on advancing my character a few levels as fast as I can to create a real separation from the 'old' account, and have been toying with different name alterations in order to reflect the fact that the 'new' account is the one to pay attention to. I don't know how successful I've been, at least for people not on the wiki, but I'm sure the message will get to them eventually as one of me advances and one of me stagnates. :)

Thanks for asking - my apologies for treating you to one of my world-famous ultra-long posts (when I've been around here long enough it will become expected, if not anticipated, that anything I write will be much longer than anything has a right to be. :-)