I would like to know how many other players there are out there who are in the habit of drinking a few beers as they play their turns and who they are! This might provide me with another edge in my own game play and help to beef up my win-loss record.
I will admit, however, that I've grown fond of munching a bowl of corn chips as I play my own turns. So fond, in fact, that when my wife hears me crinkling around in the kitchen opening the chip bag, that she says, "Oh! You must be getting ready to play another turn!" These days she has also learned to keep an emergency bag of chips on hand in case I should run out and create another terrible scene about it! Also, I've become so addicted to this practice that I now regularly turn my keyboard upside down and shake out the crumbs, especially after a particularly lengthly turn! No one told me that I would develope such bad habits when I joined this club, but I figure that if I'm doing things like this, there must be others out there equally hooked.
Come on, now, be truthful! Any smokers out there who cannot get through a turn without a cigarette or cigar? I used to be a puffer in my day (not anymore now, though) and I know how calming a good smoke could be from time to time in tense situations. How many of you have experienced a computer failure from the overheating effects of smoke tar being laid down on your processor's heat sink, or have to clean your monitor screen(s) once a month?
How about those of you who hate to be interrupted during a turn, or who completely tune out everything else as you are taking your move? Has your wife or significant other ever disgustingly looked at you afterwards and accusingly stated, "You haven't hear a thing I said at all, have you?" How many of you have the luxury of a mancave to pursue your battles?
How many of you have disabled the realtime display clock on your computer so that you won't be reminded of how much time you're actually spending on these games?
How many of you, in a particularly critical turn, push back from your computer and begin pacing back and forth in deep thought before sitting back down? How many of you mentally pace back and forth for a day or two or more before answering your opponent's turn? How many of you display such worried countenances from time to time as to elicit the concerned question from your wife, "Is it really THAT BAD this time?!"
Has you boss at work ever asked you why you called him "General?"
Finally, how many of you lay your head down upon your pillow at night and actually think about what you're going to do on your next turn(s) and/or replay some of your moves in your head? After all, your wife or significant other, although they may suspect as much, can't get inside your head to see what you're actually thinking, so it's a fairly safe time to do it! And, if I may be so forthright in my questioning, how many of you have actually snuck back to your computer in the wee hours of the morning at least once and done a move without anyone in your family being the wiser, just because you were afraid that the solution you were dreaming about and which woke you up might be lost if you continued sleeping?
I'm going to go out into the back yard now and get some badly needed gardening done!
_________________ General Jos. C. Meyer, ACWGC Union Army Chief of Staff Commander, Army of the Shenandoah Commander, Army of the Tennessee (2011-2014 UA CoA/GinC)
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