I didn't mean to get that tremendously high score on Bejeweled Blitz. In the weekly scores, I consistently run second to my friend Lori B., so usually I'm just trying to beat her score. But this time, by some freak of nature or coincidence, I scored just a tad over 500,000. Wow.

Which made me very happy for about a day. And then I realized two things. One, I would likely never match that score again, and, two, for the rest of the week, the person who I would be trying to beat every time I...