King of Portable devices.

I have an iPod, a Gameboy Advanced SP, my laptop, and a cell-phone. All of them get plugged in at night and join me on my commute. It's what keeps me sane:

Upon leaving the house, the outside world is denied with the power of the iPod. Once I finish my walk to the train station, I battle vampires, aliens, ghosts, or generic monsters on the GBA(SP), with or without iPod and adjoining background music depending on mood. On the train, I may or may not still retain the iPod (usually I do), and fire up ye olde laptop, either to reply to C&C; I've saved off the Refuge, or to generate more trash which will in turn generate more C&C. Once I get to the other train station I can either use the laptop (which will run out of battery before the shuttle arrives), or go back to the GBA, still using the iPod. On the shuttle, I typically read for 10-20 minutes before reaching Metro Tower. Ariving between 30 and 20 minutes early (my only alternative to arriving 5 minutes late), I go to the Slaveway and use the Sammich Scam to get my lunch.

The Sammich Scam is this nice trick you can pull with Slaveways, and they seem not to mind. First, you need a club card (preferably your own; you can get such things largely anonymously, and I have. The address/phone info on the card is optional, not required, and the card is free). Then, you go to the deli and order a sammich. Every seven sammiches nets you a free sammich. Mmm. Sammich. Anyway, the scam is this ... when you get the reciept that says, "x/7 for your nth free sammich", and it says "7/7"? That means the next time you order, you order a large sammich. It's only a sammich, but it's twice the size, and therefore, twice the price.

Except, this is your free sammich, so now you've gotten two free sammiches instead of just the one. Save one till the next day, lather, rinse, repeat~!

At lunch, I'll whip out ye olde laptop and sit on the 20th floor observation lounge listening to ESPN (which one of the other guys is always watching) and either whip out 1d3 pages of fic, or 1d3+2 pages of reply to C&C.;

Work ends, but the shuttle has stopped running when that happens so I walk back the 2.5-3 miles to the station (I gets me good exercise!) with ye olde iPod. Then I will (if the mood strikes me, and I want to run out of battery on the train) use the laptop or GBA(SP), since it's too dark to read (backlit, yo!). On the train, I use the lappy until I get back to Sunnyvale, unless I run out of battery again, in which case I read or GBA(SP).

Then, me an iPod walk home.

Mostly, I try to ignore the phone unless I need to know what time it is.

But that's a lot of portable devicery. Am I chained down by all my toys? I should bust my Visor out some day....