Still Gaming After All These Years

So here I am with one year left before I turn half a century old. And what is foremost on my mind?

Finding time to play Sims 3 of course!!
One of The Hottest PC Games on the market!
It has been laying on my desk for over a week now and I still have not had time to play it! I don't want to start in on playing it yet because I know that this game is huge and playing it is not a one hour event. And I have a LOT of work to get done first.
Once I start playing I do KNOW that I will end up putting an entire day in on it before I know what has happened. That's the way it is with the Sims games. You get caught up in it's addicting God like features.
"If the wife and kids won't listen to you, you can always turn to the Sims to fulfill any control issues that you may have :)"

Hey, I guess if you can't go out and have fun as yourself then do it as a virtual character! It saves on gas and money. And at my age getting up and actually moving around is becoming more of a burden :-/

Perhaps I will be able to get a few hours in next weekend.......no...that is a holiday. Well then perhaps the next. One thing I do know is once I start, it may be a weekend before I come up for air.

You would think at my age I would't enjoy playing kids games. BAH!
These are no mere kids games I play. They can be quite a challenege when played on Brutal!
Playing these types of video games helps me to keep my mind young and sharp. You must focus and concentrate on just the game at the higher settings. There is no room for mistakes. On some games you will use every bit of your cunning and skill to defeat the game. But defeat it you will! No matter if it takes 1000 tries! No computer game is going to beat me!!

Being a programmer sometimes my brain will get cluttered with so many unanswered algorithms that I'll short circuit out where nothing gets done.
When this happens there is nothing better to clear out the garbage than to spend a couple of hours blasting the Nazis to pieces with my mortar teams in Company of Heroes or picking off orcs with my Elven Archers in Rise of the Witch King!
Yes, there is nothing better to clear the mind with than a little world domination!

Ok, I must get back to work so I can clutter my mind.

Here's to all of you Old Time Gamers!

Cheers,

Ken