Good news, Bad news

Yep, I am back with some good news and some bad news. I'm gonna start with the bad news, as I like to end on a high note. So, here goes.


Bad News- I can't shake the WoW addiction. Lord knows I wish I could. I hate paying $15 a month for a game, even if the fee is perfectly understandable and I love the game. I spend wayyyyy too much time playing it and not nearly enough time doing other things I want to do. Not only that, it's sucked my wife in as well, pretty much eating my free time since March of this year. I am fairly sure my /played is up around 32 days. That's an unconsciousable 768 hours. That's one full month in six months. That means that, in the past six months, there was a 1 in 6 chance that at any given time, I was playing WoW.....

You get the point.

The saving grace of the whole thing is probably the fact that it isn't like my life is suffering because of the addiction. My wife plays as well, so it isn't like it is me sitting at a computer by myself like some social outcast. I finished up my Associates Degree and aced my first two classes when I transferred in that time as well. Plus, I work full time AND pay all my bills. I just spend all my free time playing WoW. Which is partly why this blog hasn't seen me writing a lot.

Simply put, I've not played a lot of the most recent, good stuff. Outside of Bioshock (which I loved) I've not played a new game in quite awhile. While this wouldn't normally be a bad thing for most people, for me, it's devestating, especially with the litany of great games that somehow got all their release dates this fall. And with my WoW guild raiding now, I am not sure how I am going to get time to do this. However....

Good News- I bit the bullet and restarted my Gamefly account. Look, I can't not play Mass Effect, Assassin's Creed, The Orange Box, Super Mario Galaxy, etc., etc. I just can't. That's not who I am. I got needs, and I am not ponying up the dough to buy all those games without playing them. So, I am going back to Gamefly, hat in hand.

I've got about ten games lined up, and the one I got right away was Super Mario Galaxy. So, xpect to hear something from me on it before I go away for the Thanksgiving holiday.

Hopefully, this will allow me to start talking and writing more, and maybe even break that addiction, though with the recent rrelease of 2.3, I doubt it.

I am weak...