Sick Day

Yesterday I admitted to having the dumbest addiction ever and issued a challenge to myself to go one week without playing an online flash game. Today I called into work because I’m sick.



Shit.



I’ve got nothing but time and a laptop today. I’m not about to spring up and do a bunch of housework or run errands. The wife’s got a bunch of work to do with the website and writing and the boy’s got school so I can’t bother them with my ramblings. What the hell am I supposed to do with myself today that doesn’t involve online games?



Stare at pictures of sloths for a while

Lookit him eat that leaf.

Lookit him eat that leaf.

Sloths are awesome. That’s just a fact. Every few weeks I’ll just google image search “sloths” and think about how cool it’d be just to hang out with a sloth. Everybody wants to meet a sloth. Anybody who doesn’t probably doesn’t have a soul. Just look at what meeting a sloth did to Veronica Mars –




Watch Shitty Knock Off Movies on Netflix instant.

Compare to price of Kung Fu Panda!

Compare to price of Kung Fu Panda!





Same active ingredient as Transformers!

Same active ingredient as Transformers!

There was even a sequel to Transmorphers. It’s also on Netflix. No lie.



Get My Car’s Oil Changed
I don’t really feel like getting up and going out but this is an errand that needs to be done and doesn’t require anything of me other than to drive to Jiffy Lube and hang out in the little waiting room. While I’m there I can start an impromptu 12 step meeting with whoever’s in the waiting room with me. We’ve already got the shitty coffee, folding chairs and depressing atmosphere. I’m sure whoever else will be there probably has some shit they want to get off their chest, too. Once they hear about how lame my addiction is they’ll probably have no problem admitting they huff paint or strangle hookers or whatever.



Or I could just nap. I think I might nap.

Resolution Mondays: Confession.

Hi. My name is Bill and I have the lamest addiction ever.



It’s not a cool addiction like drugs or sex. It’s not sad or relatable like food or porn. It’ not even sad-but-interesting like the stuff you see on that “My Strange Addiction” show –

Just a man having sex with a car.  Nothing weird about that.  Wait... that's totally weird.

Just a man having sex with a car. Nothing weird about that. Wait… that’s totally weird.

My addiction is online video games.



Not even ones that other people get addicted to like World of Warcraft. I’m addicted to playing those stupid in-browser flash games on sites like kongregate and armor games. Simple little shooter and tower defense games that most people play for five minutes but I end up playing for hours.



When I made that one of my resolutions I knew I was spending a little too much of my free time dicking around on these sites but I guess I never thought I’d have any trouble quitting. Since January I’ve had some easy success and some stumbles with all my resolutions but this is the only one where I flat out have not made any progress at all.


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Shit. Let’s see if I can do a week with no flash games and we’ll go from there. I went a week without biting my fingernails, let’s see if I can go a week without playing Gemcraft as well. Then I can get back to using the internet for it’s intended purpose. Pornography and social networking.



…or I could write and spend time with my family I guess.