I’d Like To Say Goodbye To My Free Time . . .

The weekend was full of quality overtime spent finishing some writing projects, and it's probably a good thing that they're done now. My wife gave me an Xbox 360 for my birthday (wisely withholding games until the weekend was done), and now I can see GTA IV and the Orange Box (my first two selections) eating up the formerly productive home time.

For a good long time, there wasn't a modern console in our general living area - there's an old Genesis moldering in the closet, and I occasionally fire up a PS1 to remember the good old days of the Pittsburgh Steelers under Kordell Stewart (such magical times - the mental equivalent of suffering a Theismann injury), but I know what kind of time drain I face when I'm around these things. I can probably justify it a bit as research into video game music, but that's a hollow reason. It's just time to accept a bunch of wasted time.

I wonder if my wife know she may never be able to use the big TV again?