Top Tens

I had a lovely intro written for this, about how this list would change by the beginning of next week... but then Ian mentioned that he'd written similar, so I deleted mine. So here's a list of my 10 favourite things in the categories (except plays where there are only 6 that I consider favourites and Poems which I have got rid of as a category as I'd rather not talk about my 10 favourite pieces of verse).

( Proceed to the nonsense )

Suffice it to say that whittling the books and films down to ten (eleven as far as films were concerned) was very hard, but 10 favourite songs? Wow! That was an effort... I have a thousand favourite songs... how to choose ten? But I did it... and that's that. Enjoy this odd insight into my tastes (or lack thereof).

Offline Anarchy

This seems to be a time for me to look at the things in my life that are wrong and to try and put them right. One of the things that I've been looking at and thinking about is my participation in my online game of choice: Anarchy Online.

How much particiaption in these games is too much? Certainly when I was playing virtually full time, that was too much. Spending six hours playing and two working volunteer support per day was life-sapping. Sure I enjoyed the time spent playing, but how much else did I let slide? How much damage occurred to me and to my social life through the medium of a game? The answer is, I don't know. What I do know is that when I came out the other side of the addiction (for it was certainly nothing different), I realised that I'd missed the other things in my life. That was, however, six months ago.

Since then, I have been wary of my AO consumption. Things seem to have been better of late, and I've not been online (with the exception of showing the new features to seuleange for about 30 minutes) since christmas. Until today. I popped on for a couple of hours today, and had a lovely time. I think that I'm free of my need for it. I have resolved that there will be no day-long sessions, that I will moderate my AO play to a few hours at a time, and that I will do at least 8 hours of other stuff in any given day that I play. However, as I am a weak willed foo, I need some sort of carrot/stick to make this work. If anyone has any suggestions as to exactly what form of carrot and precisely what sort of stick, then feel free to throw ideas at me here.