It’s been a long day. Longer than it actually was, as strange as that may sound. Having a four day weekend was good in ways… but also very, very bad. I have managed to shift my sleeping schedule by several hours, and I think I paid for it today.

In short, my biological clock is screwed.

Hopefully getting to sleep before 1am tonight will be the first step in the right direction in that regard. Honestly, I’m tempted to stay up and play with things here… do some work on a theme for my blog and work on some other finishing touches…

But that whole being responsible thing always kicks me in the ass. Work comes first.

I have, at least, managed to do a couple things tonight. On the blog front, I’ve added a little sidebar snippet that will show what books I’m currently reading. It still needs some formatting help, but I’m just glad to have a little something there for now. At the moment, I’ve started The Wayfarer Redemption by Sara Douglas. I’m not that far into it yet… I’m hoping this weekend will give me some extended time with it and put me well into my first book completed for my 1001 Day Project. There are already some fond memories associated with this book, so I’m actually quite excited about digging into it. There’s another book as well that I’d like a chance to start over and read all the way through, that being Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. Soon I’ll go through and do a proper list of books and authors I want to read in the coming months.

I expect it to be a long list.

Also tonight, Shawn and I held in impromptu game night, and played our first couple of rounds of the Pirates Constructible Strategy Game. We had an absolute blast. I’m a sucker for these types of games. I was an avid fan of Magic: The Gathering before the rule changes with every minor edition drove me nuts. There was a small club of us in School that would gather together when we had the chance to compare cards and play eachother. I loved it because my parents thought the game was purely the work of satan. I had to hide my cards or they would confiscate them. After High School, I had somewhat lost interest in the game and gave all my cards to my little brother. He’s at least doubled my collection, if not tripled. And I’ve discovered some of those original cards I gave him are worth quite a bit of money. I didn’t have very many first edition cards, but I did have a few.

Anyway, Pirates strikes that same compulsion in me… that desire to assemble every ship possible. And I mean… how cool is that? You actually construct pirate ships. It’s like a dream from when I was a kid. Add to that the fact that the game actually has some very deep strategy to it, with the ability to ram opposing ships, and even tow derelict ships.

I think I’m hooked. Now I just need to show some restraint and avoid buying boxes of booster packs.

I’m not compulsive. Really.