Good Morning, AllaK's - 3/27/07Follow

Good morning, happy campers.

Didn't play last night. I instead ordered subs from this great place near me (Nando's...freakin' awesome steaks and pizza) and popped in Howl's Moving Castle to watch with the wife and kids. Instant review: Some slick animation sequences and a fun story that is just slightly marred by an awkwardly abrupt ending.

Because I have no activity to report, I'll ask a question of the class. For those of you who, like, me are unfortunate enough to have spouses who not only do not play MMOs but go so far as to hate them outright; how do you keep them placated and out of your hair when you are trying to play? Additionally, what do you do to find the play time that you feel you need to maintain your level of in-game effectiveness while not crossing that "BLARGH! YOU'RE ALWAYS ON THE COMPUTER!!!1!1!!one!!1!!eleven!!1!" line?

I'm sort of lucky in that there are several television shows that my wife watches that she knows I do not like, so most of my play time comes while she is watching these shows (mostly $primetime_crime_drama or $primetime_medical_drama). I also make sure to take breaks of 2 to 3 days at a time between playing streaks, though sometimes I neglect to and cross over into "You've been on the computer every day!" territory.

How was your evening?

Stugein, you have ask a very touchy question in my house... How much is to much and what is just right. At first my wife was very happy and did not complain because I was in the process of going cold turkey on smoking. Now that it has been 9 months, she is complaining or making smarta.. comments a few times a month. But I have cut back and found out if I come home and work with the kids on homework or other activities until after dinner. I can get on about 7 to 10 PM without a problem. Friday and Saturday I can play from 7 to whenever, just as long a I am up by 0800 the next morning to cook breakfast and be ready to help with whatever she has planned for the day. Most folks would say this is a good thing, including me. But the trouble is due to my 10 and 4 year old have become hooked on the game. (SIDE NOTE: You should see my 4 year old go on the island. This weekend she took on 5 spiders with her lvl 6 ranger and did not die and without any help {way to go girl}!! BTW she does have the best, equip, Adept/Master spells, etc..) In my mind this is a good thing that 2 of my kids enjoy the same game as their dad. But the problem is they call me over to help with an issue and I get so involved with them I forget what I needed to do and ouch, the problems start!! I do know that I am not in to hot of water, since she bought me a set of USB headphones/microphone for our anniversary, so I can get on team speak for Saturday raid... :-)

My hubby and I both play so I'm sorry I can be of no help to you on you question to the class.

my wife hates the computer and the time I spend on it to play games. The only compromise is I wait till she has gone to bed to get on, so I only get to play a couple of hours at night during the week, on the weekend I will get 4 or more but like someone else said I have to be ready to go in the morning with whatever she has planned.