View From the Bushes

I knew that at some point I'd pick up World of Warcraft and get addicted, and last night all I did was play World of Warcraft, so it appears I was correct. But it's interesting how it happened. My wife was gone for the evening and I had the kids, who immediately started bugging me to play the game. But I was strong and I decided to at least wait until after dinner. Once that was done I figured, well I'm watching the kids, it's not like I'm going to get anything done anyway, and my boys like watching me so much; the plan being to play until they went to bed. Well once they went to bed, I thought well, I'll just take care of some of the boring things I've been putting off, then it was I'll just play until my wife gets home, then it was well my wife wants to hang out after her long day, and I can do that more easily when I'm playing a game than when I'm writing, next thing I know it's 12:30...

While I was playing with the kids I decided to watch American Idol. I'm not much of a fan of the show when it's actually about choosing the winner, but the first few episodes where they have all the hopelessly deluded people is comedy gold. Also, it's one of those shows that doesn't require you to pay a lot of attention so you can do something else, like play World of Warcraft for example.

The story of last evening does have a somewhat happy ending. I woke up this morning at 6:00 and managed to hammer out all of the writing I had planned to do last night, so I actually didn't fall behind, yet. Though with only six hours of sleep last night, I'm not sure how productive today is going to be. Your link for the day is The Fantastic Four trailer. Frankly, it's something of a disappointment. My initial reaction to it is that they are far more interested in special effects than story.

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero
Ross