Wally Nes’ Blog

Thank bog I don’t have one to a narcotic.
Having to deal with drug dealers, breaking laws and not to mention the mounting costs of such an addiction I am happy with the one I do have.

I miss my Computer.
My baby broke about a month ago and I’ve been without a computer ever since. Well, one of my own. I can use this one, I can use my housemate’s, I can use the one at the University  library and a number of different ones so I have my daily shot of internet, but I am incomplete.

Once I leave this place I am without internet, without computer, without my games, without my comics, without a quick search, without my movies, without my series, without my music and even without the reassuring hum of my laptop fan.

Initially it wasn’t so bad. Let’s face it, cleaning that kitchen was well overdue and I had needed to fix that bike for a long long time. But after a week I’d run out of chores, I just don’t keep that sloppy a house. So . . . . TV? Replace one addiction with an old one?
Nah, TV can’t hold me like it used to. There’s still some interesting things on it, but the concept of having to accommodate other people’s schedule for it is quite annoying. Seriously, there’s two and a half men on together with the Simpsons and then half an hour later there’s usually a dry spell. Also, it was an unpleasant reminder that I’m growing up, most of the time I’ve logged is on Discovery/National Geographic and other things which could be considered educational. I used to be more of an Itchy and Scratchy watcher.
Books. I have a lot of them, but not a lot I’ve not read yet. I have 2 at the moment, and I bought 1 of that last Saturday (I bought 2, but the other one is done already(420 pages)). And I don’t really want to buy new ones as I’m already full on books I will probably end up abandoning due to expatriation anyway.

All of that are just other time wasters though. I could start doing something useful . . .  But that’s just not something I want to do at night. I might look into a hobby, but after spending most of my day doing useful stuff at the university I’m not really in the mood to be “productive” after dinner.

So . . .  hobbies. I have climbing. That should keep me off the street for 2 nights a week. There’s the D&D group, but that’s really only once every fortnight.

Being social then, I had pushed my social obligations to the back burner while I finished all the schoolwork I had to, but that’s over now. . . My social life has picked up, but it seems some friends just picked up their lives and kept living it while I was shut up like that. How dare they.

Long walks outside? It’s March. In Holland. It rains. A lot.

Besides . . . I don’t really want to be actually busy full time anyway. Being productive after dinner isn’t desirable, but neither is being all active and social 7 days a week.

My computer covers things nicely I’d say. It always there when you need it/something falls through, doesn’t mind if you leave for something more pressing, provides light entertainment that isn’t too taxing and plays exactly the music/tv-show/movie you want to watch when you want to watch/listen to it.

So . . . . I have an addiction, but a socially acceptable one (seeing how in the western world it is hard to go without for a great many people) and I want it back. I don’t really want to stop, I miss my baby. Lets face it, the other options aren’t that much more attractive and they sure as hell require more energy. Besides, how will I plan my social rendezvous without google calendar.

No, I will get my computer back and lose myself to its sweet highs, drown myself in its intoxicating virtual waters, float in the ether and plug back into this addiction.

Though I’m gonna cut down on my WoW a bit I think.

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If you are going through hell, keep going

- Winston Churchill

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