Yet again, I have sustained injury due to the prolific use of my BlackBerry and moderate addiction to Twitter. As detailed in an earlier post, I had a slight slip-up while composing a tweet on some stairs that resulted in a bitch of a sprained ankle. You would think I’d have limped away with some kind of lesson learned and perhaps seared into my gray matter á la Pavlovian response. Nope.

Last night, fresh of the subway, a bit drunk and walking the home stretch to my building, I whipped out my trusted BlackBerry and let my thumbs start tapping away a tweet, all without breaking stride. Head down and absorbed in the glow of the screen, I walked head-first into a steel pole. Nice, right?

I struck the pole with a fair amount of momentum, though whether it be by virtue of the alcohol in my system or the fact that I have a rather hard head, I didn’t really feel much pain, nor did I knock my ass out cold.

Unfortunately, there were a fair amount of witnesses, but I managed to quickly recover and continue as if I had not just completely pulled a “dumb drunk walking” moment. The whole episode was a matter of seconds.

However, this morning my forehead has been graced with quite a nicely-sized and tender lump. I’m sure that in 24-48 hours it will be gone, but until then, it serves as a reminder of the dangers of tweeting while walking in even a mild state of inebriation. At some point (I swear), there will come a time where I will have learned my lessons concerning BlackBerries and perambulation.

I’m completely loving and am addicted to the BlackBerry Pearl I bought last week. It’s my first time owning a BlackBerry and it’s a welcome upgrade as the phone I had previously was circa 2002 (the whole shopping for new phones really pisses me off, and the old phone did still work, technically). After a few learning humps and some tweaking to get things functioning properly, everything works perfectly. I receive email (I have my gmail account hooked up to it) just about instantly. I can log into Gtalk and all the other major IM services; I’ve got Google Maps, which is amazing on mobile, since it basically functions as free GPS; internet—you name it.

I now have an understanding and appreciation for why these things are nicknamed “CrackBerries”.