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?
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:39 PM
At least it’s not WOW.
June 24th, 2008 at 11:38 AM
I also got my husband an XBOX 360. I should have known after years of watching him play GTA games on the PS2 that this was a bad idea, but he just wanted it so badly and the PS2 died. I do have to beg to watch TV and usually resort to reminding him he can play after I go to bed. Damn you XBOX!
June 24th, 2008 at 11:39 AM
Wait, is this the real reason you guys couldn’t make it on Sunday…hmmm…I see how things are beating up hoes and taking your money back instead of playing Cranium and eating homemade custard with us.
June 24th, 2008 at 11:49 AM
As for the big tv-you will have to go to the bathroom sometime! So long as we can dvr the Flight of the Conchords and all the HBO/IFC/Sundance documentaries/grindhouse/Iconoclast (maybe some of the green series) I’ll be okay. Or maybe this means we need to invest in a cable ready flat screen for the kitchen or guest bedroom?
June 24th, 2008 at 12:09 PM
@ Clif – Shhhhh, they’ll hear you!
@ Beetqueen – Nope, I had to purchase the games myself after my weekend writing orgy. I just played it for the first time last night. Like I would have missed custard if I had the option . . .
@ my loving, dear, extraordinary wife – I can hold it.
June 24th, 2008 at 12:45 PM
Thanks, but I’m not getting you a big boy potty training toilet, cause I can already see where the whole “I can hold it theory” is going.
June 25th, 2008 at 11:27 AM
Maybe it’ll be like the Simspons and Ryan will invent a toilet recliner…