Warcraft

So ... been playing World of Warcraft more than I should. And it struck me ... again ... that leveling up your character in WoW is false accomplishment. Not that WoW is bad, mind you, and there's nothing wrong with playing it. What I'm talking about is how easy it is to allow that accomplishment to take the place of accomplishing real life goals.

And it is a time sink. WoW is designed to encourage to you play just 30 more minutes, to finish that dungeon, or complete that quest, and then you can stop, except each quest branch out to other quests (they call them quest trees) and other locations and so on and so on. Eventually you've spent your entire night on leveling up your mage/warrior/paladin/priest/warlock/shaman/etc..

Can't do that. Moderation in all things, as one of the Apostles said. (Which one? Paul? I think it was Paul.)

Anyway, here's last week.

1. Went to lunch Wednesday with a friend.
2. Met with another friend for lunch on Thursday and discussed his book of devotions that he's thinking about writing.
3. Worked on formatting the anthology for the writers group. Sigh. It's going to be a lot more work than I had anticipated. Should have remembered that any project will expand to fill up any time it can. Well, I'll help this once, and someone else can do it next time. That's at least one thing I've got going for me: I don't usually make the same mistake twice. (No, I find new ones. They're more fun.)
4. Watched and enjoyed the Super Bowl commercials yesterday. Even enjoyed Madonna's halftime show. Oh, the game was good, too.
5. Walked three times at the gym and rode my exercise bike two times at home.
6. Kept up with all the regular chores, despite not having a working dryer. Went over a friend's house to use hers. A repairman is supposed to come tomorrow afternoon.
7. Caught up on my personal blog until Friday. Now I'm behind again. Sigh. Will catch up again tonight and tomorrow.
8. Sent my resume to a couple of places.
9. Did not write. Not on Murder by the Mile. I accept the lashes and will do better this week.

Speaking of this week, I plan to:

1. Walk four times this week and ride the recumbent bike twice.
2. Write a single dang word on MBTM. Or more. But at least one.
3. Work on the February newsletter.
4. Keep up on the household chores.
5. Read two books.
6. Follow up on my resumes.
7. Catch up my personal blog.
8. Finish the first proof of the anthology. Have to have that done by Saturday morning. The writers group meets then.
9. Continue to battle the black dog with sunshine, Vitamin D, funny sitcoms, old movies, exercise, and anything else that helps.

And that's what I have to share. Talk to y'all later.