Catch-19

Hi, my name is Tim.

Hi Tim!

And I’m a City of Heroes addict.

Memorial day weekend the MMO City of Heroes offered free play for a weekend to subscribers who had quit. I took them up on that offer. I shouldn’t have.

A year and a half ago I quit playing CoH. I didn’t quit because it was ruining my life, though it was certainly a shitty influence. I quit because it got boring. You see, I’m not really an addictive personality. It’s fairly easy for me to quit vices that are destructive. In the Army I drank every night, and got drunk most night. Weekends were a blur on a regular basis. But the day I left my drinking dropped to about one drink a week, right where it is today. I quit smoking on the first try and I’ve never had another cigarette since. Quitting CoH was the same. I just stopped.

Then they offered me this free weekend with promises of all this new content and I took them up on it and got hooked. So for almost two weeks I’ve been playing that damn game every day for hours and hours. Not sleeping and not working out and not cooking etc.

So I just quit again.

The truth is it’s not a big deal, but at least it explains some of why I’ve not been posting and not been tweeting. So I’ll be around a lot more.