Summer smells and mostly unrelated stuff

Lauren mowed the lawn today, so as I sit at my computer I am enjoying the smell of fresh mow-y-ness. It's a definitive scent of summer, much like the smell of lighter fluid (for charcoal grills) or Ruffles potato chips. Our aunt Bev always has Ruffles chips at BBQ parties... it's a (cherished) childhood memory.

Something about me:
I still use Windows Notepad. A lot. It even has a quick launch button on my keyboard at work. Perfect for taking notes while listening to voicemail messages.

Been playing a whole lot of iPhone games recently. The guys of the AppSlappy podcast were talking about I Dig It in the latest episode and I thought to myself, "Gee, that sounds just like a Flash game I used to play called Motherlode". And sure enough, it is the same game... except with better graphics, sound, options. And also, iPhone. Can't get enough of that.

Bed Bugs is also very fun. While gameplay is fairly simple (squish the bad guys, leave the good ones alone), it rapidly gets challenging trying to keep them all straight, and figuring out how to dispose of each bad guy. Some require a simple squish, others need to be tapped in unison, others still need to be tapped at the right moment or they will do more harm than good.

Bought myself a new keyboard/mouse combo this week and am enjoying it very much. The stock keyboard that came with my PC (last August) was simply not doing it for me anymore. We fall out of love with computer peripherals sometimes, and we have to move on. So it goes.

For you to check out:
These super-colorful salt production ponds in San Francisco are really groovy.