I know I need to take a break from a game when I start dreaming about nothing but it.

I received Axis & Allies for my birthday. My brother had the board game when we were teens but I never had an opportunity to play it because...well, none of my good friends then would play a strategic game like that. The PC version I bought 6 or so years ago was one of my favorite games to play when I wanted to take a break from Sim City (still my fav of all PC games). Alas, the old disc just doesn't get along w/ XP so I begged for a new game. Don't you know there's a new version out with "real-time strategy" aspects that the game didn't have previously - thanks to games like Civilization, I guess.

While wary about the changes the first few days of playing it, I've had some opportunities the past few days to play (mostly undisturbed) for a couple of hours at a time and have become very addicted. Last night as I fell asleep, as I dreamt, and as I struggled to wake up - all things seemed to be filtered through the real-time strategy portion of A&A. It's not as mind-numbing as Tetris was, but I think I might take a day off from the game. ;)

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Tears are filling my eyes right now...Calvin is making his first attempts at dancing The Robot. To top it off, he's doing it naked in the bathtub. About two weeks ago he discovered that he can bring groups of adults to laughter by doing silly dances and jumps at any opportunity to dance for an audience.

...yeah, apple doesn't fall far from the tree.