This Ain't No Foolin' Around ...
Currently Reading: Waste and Want by Susan Strasser
#5 - Uninstall 'Full Tilt Poker'
I don't even play Texas hold'em that much (or that well, and not for real money!). Full Tilt Poker is actually a stand-in for another online game I play more frequently but don't want to admit what it is. It's not something cool like Second Life or a horrendously addictive time-suck like WoW. Just a sports simulator, sort of.
Anyway, I'm pledging to cut down to twice a week. I had thought about a) eliminating the game completely and b) putting it higher on the list of time-savers. But the point of this experiment is to make changes gradually, build on success, and create new habits (write, write, write!)
As I thought about giving up all this stuff, I thought I'd need a little fix to hang onto for a while. So I put this one further down the list. And cold turkey isn't going to fly (get it? turkey? fly?). Remember: "All work and no play makes Johnny a dull boy".
If I fall off the wagon I will out the game-which-shall-not-be-named.
Progress so far: Really, really good, except for e-mail. What can I say, I'm weak.
posted by Todd Wheeler at 5/22/2007 12:05:00 AM
4 Comments:
Wow, you ain't foolin' around. Giving up video games, big step. I still have some games on my laptop, but I don't think I've fired them up for several months now. I have to admit that I have shopped for games (I like RPGs), but really, $50 for a game that's 5 years old, I don't think so. At least here my cheapness is my savior.
I hear you, Steve. If my computer weren't 8 years old, I'd be in big trouble. There are some really, really cool online games out there, a lot of them free as well. Right now they won't run on my desktop.
I'm sooo glad I packed away the Age of Empires expansion stuff. May it stay lost in the moving boxes.
Wow, LBB. That game looks complicated. Then again, any RPG with more depth than Risk is beyond me.
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