It’s always a little awkward hoping on a bus where you don’t know people and basically saying, “So, I guess for the next couple months we live together, huh?”. It’s never quite as bad as I think it’s going to be but that apprehension is always there when I start a tour. And it was here tonight, for about ten minutes.

Because of the bus situations, it started out being just Bebo, his guitar player Gabe and I on the bus for the first four hours or so. I had met Bebo briefly in the past but never really talked to him and had never met Gabe. Within ten minutes or so, I think any awkwardness was buried beneath a string of nerdy computer talk, P.C. vs. Mac talk, and iPhone apps. After the iPhone app talk started a ‘game off’ ensued in which the three of us sat in silence, with our thumbs silently tapping our phones and an occasional shout of “dang it” or “I got 57 that time”.

The game is a game called Dactyl, where you simply tap on the bombs that turn red and keep doing that until you can’t anymore. If you miss one, it blows up and you lose. Pretty simple, but pretty addicting. I’m no good at it. In fact I never got more than around 250. Gabe on the other hand, sat quietly tapping away on his phone and then set his phone down on the table with a final score of 1,117. I was done after that.

That was the first part of the tour. Pretty exciting so far huh? I just realized it’s almost two in the morning and I’m officially on East Coast time now so it’s almost three. That should be fun in the morning.

Any game you are addicted to right now? Computer, phone or otherwise? Anything we can start another ‘game off’ with tomorrow?