Jackie asked me today how my writing’s going.

My reply: “You bought me City of Heroes for Christmas; that’s how it’s been going.”

Her: “What do you mean?”

Me: “I mean I haven’t put away laundry since Christmas.”

I’ve been touting the coolness and wonder that is CoH for the last couple weeks, so let me even the playing field for those of you who feel tempted by my recent rave reviews.

The top 10 list of things I (at least temporarily) forgot to do since installing City of Heroes.

1. Send in the Mortgage payment.

(Honestly, I could stop there, couldn’t I?)

2. Take care of stuff for a co-worker’s birthday.

3. Take prescribed medicine.

4. Sleep.

5. Check e-mail. For two days.

6. Blog. Anything.

7. Caulk the tub.

8. Go to the gym.

9. Write

10. Eat.

Things I just decided not to do at some point while playing City of Heroes.

1. Sleep. (Repeat offense)

2. Put away laundry.

3. Go to the gym. Or move from my desk. At all.

4. Watch a “do not miss” tv episode.

5. Walk the dogs.

You're not helping any nascent consideration of COHing here, man.

Full disclosure. I'll happily be thanked for hours of enjoyable game time by anyone who picks it up, but I want the bad out there too, so I don't face cries of "I didn't know!"

I haven't been THAT bad, but... well, I've been close on and off over the last few months.

It is a pretty damned good game experience, no doubt about it. You have to love a game that includes holiday-themed world events. (Snowball fight, anyone?)

Just please don't ask me how many hours I have into my main character. I told Doyce and it caused some sort of aneurism.

Also, part of this list is just acknowledging it to myself. I used to lose a lot of time on muds and mushes, and part of the problem there was that I didn't admit that I was really spending that much time, or that I was missing anything or pushing anything else aside.

Today, I've done laundry, walked the dogs, fixed Jackie's computer, worked on my bathroom. It's a list of 'what not to let happen again.'

Now I feel like I should log in tonight and add up the aggregate hours I've played across the eight characters on my main server.

Well, I'll admit I'm a loser. Though, I've been very good about "you will not play WoW until you've either gone to Curves or worked out on the eliptical"

Time played on my main only 15 days 5 hours 41 minutes.