MahWrong

I've been cheating on 'World of Warcraft' with a Mahjong game I recently purchased, and  it's getting complicated! I tell myself Mahjong is just to fill in that 'idle time' when my Warcraft toon is flying from Point A to Point B, but I'm not fooling anybody.

It wasn't so bad when my toon reached the destination and stood there waiting for me to move it. The game notes that you are AFK (away from keyboard). Lots of players do that. If the phone or doorbell rings, or the cat barfs, of course you have to step away.

If you're away longer than that, your toon gets logged out. No big deal. You just have to click on them again and you're back in the game. That is, unless you're away for even longer. Then you have to log into the whole game again, password and all.

Then comes the time when your toon is in the thick of battle, and runs out of 'bad guys' to kill. Ordinarily one just waits. The 'bad guys' respawn in less than a minute, so you can have another shot at them. But that minute is just enough to click on a few more Mahjong tiles...

Those dratted Mahjong tiles keep matching, and the clock is ticking. I might break my old record! WoW can wait. Or can it? Mahjong ended with the 2 last tiles stacked on top of each other... a loss. Drat!

Back to World of Warcraft. I have to log in again, retype the password, and figure out what I was doing. My toon is dead, killed by the respawned 'bad guys.' The repairs to the damaged armor cost lots of in-game gold. I'll have to fight more battles to earn that gold back.

It's only a matter of time until I'm asking my in-game buddies to cover for me. They'll do it at first. We all help each other out. But eventually they'll notice that they're doing all the work, and I'm just pretending that I'm still on the team.

Meanwhile, there's my blog. It's impossible to find time for that while I juggle two games that don't know about each other. This daily deadline is unrealistic. It's not like anybody reads the blog anyway.

Looks like it's time to have a talk with Mahjong. She won't take it well. I already hinted to her that Warcraft and I were breaking up. It might get ugly.