I never was too involved with video games, yet here I sit playing one. Final Fantasy XI. I must say it is very addictive, like ciggrarettes after a stressful day. I haven't seriously played a game since the sega and original nintendo days. Ahh the comfort of side scroll. After my parents divorced we really couldn't afford video games and I got lost when 3-d games took over. 'Ack!' i told myself, 'Why do i keep walking into that wall?? Man i miss side scroll,' that and i was too damn lazy to learn any button combos and just randomly pushed buttons hopeing that i wouldn't die. Most of the time that was a sound stratagy. I won a few games against hard-core gamers that way. But ultimately I ended up merely watching other people play the games like a movie and help solve riddles in games like silent hill. I had tried to watch people play the Final Fantasy games, and while they were beautiful and had great plots, i got bored in the interimm when the player would spend hours it seemed in the menu screen. So when i actually started to play FFXI Online, i was pleasantly suprised to find that you didn't merely spend all your time in menu screens and actually *gasp* played and interacted. and there were no tricky button combos to learn. So now i find myself, a passive gamer at best. Vying for play time between all the other gamers that have characters in the game on Sean's account. Yes, i do believe I am throughly addicted. On a totally different note, after trying like hell to get off work tomorrow, i am throughly twarted and have to go in, meaning i will miss the window of oppertunity to see some friends i haven't seen in a long while while they happen to be in town. And now since everyone knows i want tomorrow off, I simply can't just fake sick. Damn it all to the darkest nether regions. Grrr. Ok.. done venting. On a happier note, i got transfered to the intermediate security buliding as of the 1st of july and i'll be working the morning shift 6am-2:30pm. Yey haveing the evening off!! Still the same crappy days off but at least i now have my evenings back.