Thursday, October 30th, 2008
WOW If you think I'm really excited, your wrong. If you thought of the online roll playing game....I already want to hurt you. j/k

We have two accounts for this game in our home, which makes that second computer we bought completely necessary! The sales pitch went something like this: "You know, (insert name here) has a few accounts. He has one for himself, one for his wife, and another for their son. They spend time together playing, and that is their FAMILY TIME."

The other day I was on the phone with a friend of mine. A kindred soul. A non-player in an overzelous player's world. She's started playing, due to the presssures of her husband. All the wives are doing it! They get matching hair cuts and run instances together! I have a couple of characters myself, due to the pressures of my two youngest sons. Such low levels, I've been told they're embaressments to the log-in screen :(

So, now my friend is all excited, and getting into the whole game......and calling (dear God, we're going to hell in a handbasket) to SET UP A PLAYDATE BETWEEN OUR CHARACTERS! That's bad enough, but it gets much worse. My two youngest sons chase me down to the ONLY place in the house I can hear anyone on the other end of the phoneline. They refuse to leave until I promise and SIGN A CONTRACT IN BLOOD, that I will play this game at least one hour every week, to level up, and join a group with them.

Is this normal nowdays? I remember playing outside my house under some kind of bright yellow orb in the sky. I remember actually doing stuff myself, instead of watching my avitar do them?!?!