Everyone with jobs probably hates me already.

July 14, 2003

I don’t mean to brag, but I just squandered an entire day. I wouldn’t call it wasted, but I certainly frittered it away doing almost nothing. Last night I started the download of a free trial of an online role-playing game that I really have no intention of buying and paying to play, but this way I get 15 days to try it out and play it. Anyhow, I have a special connection with this game, I feel. My freshmen year of college, when I was stuck at school for fall break all by myself, I played the beta test of the first version of the game. All week long. Day and night. There were days I totally missed because I was so engrossed in the game. Well the one I downloaded last night was the sequel to the game, and the same thing happened. I started playing around 11 AM, and I pretty much played straight through until after 5. Around 3:30, I realized I hadn’t had any lunch, so I grabbed a bowl of cereal and ate it as I played. After I ate dinner at 5:30, I went back in and played until 8 PM. I had played through “La Femme Nikita” that I normally watch every weekday (and which is my usual exercise time), played through “Married With Children” that I watch as I get ready for dinner, and then I played through “Friends” and “Seinfeld” that I normally watch while I eat. Well, around 8 when I was slain by a monster that poisoned me, I figured that about 8 hours of play was enough for the day.

So now I’m watching “Law and Order” after a shower. I actually did go and exercise after all, although I got a better one than had I done it this afternoon during”La Femme Nikita.” It was too hot to take a walk or jog this afternoon, so taking a mile and a half job and finishing up with a mile and a half walk at 8 PM was the perfect temperature.

Tomorrow I plan on actually going out and getting things accomplished. I have two packages to mail, and then I’m going downtown to have coffee with a friend from one of my Corvallis choirs who I haven’t seen in ages. After that, the sky’s the limit.

And speaking of which, maybe I’ll wait for the endorphins to stop pumping through my body after my jog/walk (and my hair to dry) and then I’ll go finish that quest I was doing when I got killed. I have to finish that one within an alotted amount of time or I lose the reward. It doesn’t sound like much of an incentive to go shut my brain down again for awhile, but hey, I’m hooked. When I get to the end of the 15 day trial, I’ll probably just uninstall the game unless I come across something really spectacular in the next two weeks.

OK, back to TV. Night, everyone.

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