I have a few groups on Facebook. Most of them are full of people that I have known for a lot of years. Because of that sometimes conversations start to lack a little, so someone will throw in a random conversation starter. One of my groups last night had:
Where were you living 10 years ago? Who were you living with? Where were you working?
Pretty easy answer: I was in Frostburg, MD; living with my freshman year roommate, Jackie and I was a student.
Columbia/Baltimore sort of feels like Frostburg the past week or so given the sub zero temperatures and the :snicker: “blizzard”.
That was back in the day where most people still had dial up/AOL, Facebook was only for college students (in fact, I think 2005 is when Frostburg finally was accepted onto Facebook and I created mine, awwwww) and MySpace Top 8 was the most important thing ever.
Of course we remember our top friend, Tom:
Poor Tom. I can’t remember whatever happened to him.
But, at the time, MySpace was the best thing ever. You could customize your profile, friends could leave you comments and there were pictures and all kinds of randomness.
There were also games. Most of which were just random and mindnumbing. There was one game I remember playing a lot, I can’t remember if it was sophomore or junior year of college but I played it all the time. And it was just as mindnumbing but still addicting. It was called Jungle Fruit. It looked like this:
As you can see, it really wasn’t hard to play, but there was a little thought required if you wanted to pass each level. Devon and I used to “compete” against each other to see who could get higher scores and actually beat the game more often.
So the “ten years ago” question happened and somehow my brain went to my old MySpace account (which apparently still exists) and then me trying to remember what this game was called. Luckily my Google-fu is amazing so when I put in “monkey barrel number game” Jungle Fruit was the second hit. I immediately went to the App Store on my iPad and saw they had it as a free download. So what do I do? I totally just clicked the home button on my iPad and forgot about it.
No. I downloaded it. And went “OMG DEVON DO YOU REMEMBER THIS?!?!?!” He did some random sputtering and then did a manic search of Amazon to see if he could download it to his Kindle. And, of course, they also had it. Competition time again!!!
Yes, Devon and I have a bit of a competitive nature in our relationship. We always like to try and out do the other. It’s not a bad thing, especially when I win. We’re never mean about it.
We did, totally spend an hour last night trying to see who still had the speed and the ability to get a higher score. He won on speed, but I was the higher scorer. Which really means that I won. Because score beats time, every time.
But seriously, though. If you need something mind numbing, you should download it. It’s on App Store, Google Play and Amazon for Kindle. And can probably be found on other sites for download for PC use.
So if you’ll excuse me I’m going to go back to beating Devon. All high scores here, baby!!
