I’m on day two of my vacation, sitting in the hotel at dinnertime after seeing Niagara Falls today. I’m all about being outside, natural beauty, family time, etc., but as I’m enjoying a beer while the kids clean up after swimming, I’m totally jonesing for WAR or TF2.
I’m not pathetic. I wasn’t thinking about dwarven engineer gun turrets while I was on the Maid of the Mist this morning. I wasn’t thinking about strategies for rune priests in RvR while we were exploring the tunnels behind the falls. I interact with my family, I talk about things other than games, I didn’t smuggle single-player games on my laptop to play every spare minute. But when I put my feet up after a long day of fun, I want to be doing it at my desk with games in front of me.
I have to confess that when my wife wanted to take a nap and the kids wanted to go to the pool, I offered to level up my daughter’s Pokemon on her DS while she was swimming 🙂 Really, I’m not pathetic. I can quit any time I want to. It’s just that we picked up the free Deoxys from the Gamestop before we rolled out of town on vacation, ya know? It’d be a shame to let it sit at 50 until vacation is over, wouldn’t it?
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Shh… there, there. It’ll be alright.
You sound like me.
I look forward to the down-time when I can play a game but I won’t volunteer that info to my family lest they think I don’t enjoy their company or something.
On the contrary, I enjoy spending time with them more than anything else. I never will cut short an activity with the family to play a game.
Now, when the kids are in bed and the wife is watching one of her shows on TV, I will start to yearn for some virtual entertainment, and try to find a way to manuveur to the computer. She often gives me grief about it because she considers “watching TV together” as spending quality time with her….