{"id":1953,"date":"2012-03-10T00:07:20","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T15:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2012-03-10\/1953"},"modified":"2012-03-10T00:07:20","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T15:07:20","slug":"life-can-be-tough-bath-ipad-spitballs-and-quality-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2012-03-10\/1953","title":{"rendered":"Life Can Be Tough: Bath, iPad, Spitballs, and Quality Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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I complain sometimes about how stressful my plugin development<\/a>\ncan get, and the time surrounding a major<\/span> plugin event<\/a> like\nwe've had this week all the more so, but I shouldn't<\/span> complain. I found<\/span> myself in somewhat of an absurdly happy situation today, and thought that life\nwasn't all that bad. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n

I was enjoying a long, leisurely soak in my deep Japanese bath, up to my\nneck in steaming hot water, playing a game<\/span> on my iPad against my boy who\nwas using my iPhone in the living room, as we voice-chatted and shot\nspitballs and rubber-bands at each other.<\/p>\n\n

Using technology to its fullest!<\/p>\n\n

\n“Air Wings” in Action<\/span>\npaper airplane firing pencil rockets\n<\/div>\n\n\n

We were playing\n\n Air Wings™<\/a>,\n\na very<\/span> fun game where you fly paper airplanes and shoot spitballs, rubber\nbands, darts, pencils, etc. at your opponent. You can play<\/span> against people all over\nthe world, but I just<\/span> wanted to play with Anthony. I'm not much<\/span> of a game<\/span>\nplayer, but the thought of being able to spend that kind of “quality time”\nprompted me to finally turn on Apple's “Game Center”, to enable the\nmulti-player mode of the game, and I'm not disappointed. It's a wonderful<\/span>\nway to waste time, even though Anthony beats me soundly 9 out of 10 times.<\/p>\n\n

Even better, I splurged<\/span> the $2.97 total for all three expansion packs (different planes and locations), which make the game\nmuch more fun. Highly recommended.<\/p>\n\n

Even though I was in the hot steamy bath, my iPad was safely tucked away in a Loksak<\/a>,\nwhich I learned<\/span> about via a comment<\/span> on this old post<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

It was a wonderful evening, though it would be better if I could<\/span> stop crashing my paper airplane in to the walls...<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I complain sometimes about how stressful my plugin development can get, and the time surrounding a major plugin event like we've had this week all the more so, but I shouldn't complain. I found myself in somewhat of an absurdly happy situation today, and thought that life wasn't all that bad. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>

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