Let me show you this.
This is the end screen from a silly online Tetris-type game I play. It’s a daily game where you get one go at it and you either win or lose, and then that’s it for the next 24 hours. I’ve been playing it in idle moments for ages now.
Last year I got a win streak of 80 days before I got distracted and missed a day. Then I kept trying to get my numbers back up, trying to hit that 80 day streak and beat it, and kept failing.
On Friday 9 May this year I got sent back to the start again, and thought it was time I got serious about it. I set a daily reminder on my phone so I wouldn’t forget. Thanks to my reminder, every day since then I’ve remembered to play it, and I got closer and closer to beating that magic 80 day streak.
On Sunday night I was having trouble with a website on my phone so I went into the settings and cleared my browser cache. It deleted my browsing history and my cookies.
On Monday morning I went to play my silly online Tetris game, and when I finished, I got the screen you see above.
Monday 28 July would have been day 80. But I’d deleted my cookies. That meant it was day 1.
I’ll get you, 80 day streak. I’ll see you on Wednesday 15 October. It’s a date.
8 comments on “79 days”
I read this and I knew where it was going yet it was still painful to read. You have my condolences.
Thanks mate. I also had to log in to all my other websites again, though that wasn’t quite so painful.
As long as you’ve got your login pipes then it’s not so bad, it’s when you forget your login pipes that everything falls apart. Part of my phone remembers some pipes but the others I have to write down like an old man. There’s too much to remember. I am but one man.
My login pipes aren’t so bad. My phone knows most of those. But this game is unloginnable (technical term). One fragile cookie stands between me and disaster.
That must be one big cookie. Is the kind of fragility that would crumble if you looked at it the wrong way? No chance of shimmying past?
I wouldn’t risk a shimmy nearby, especially in a house with loose floorboards. That’s asking for trouble.
Does your house have loose floorboards? You need to start jabing them into the floor. Jabe them like there’s no tomorrow.
It’s got a few loose floorboards, but the main issue is the loose stairs. I’m afraid that if I start jabing them they’ll just fall apart.