There goes my free time

Over the past couple of months I have been playing World of Warcraft and having a good time with it. I spent a decent amount of my free with on the game but I think it was a good balance between TV, sleeping and WoW. Last week I bought Galactic Civilizations 2, which is a game in the same vein as Master of Orion or Civilization. Basically you start out with your faction/race/group of similarly clothed people and scheme to take over the world/galaxy/the container that you live in.

This is somewhat of a problem. The first night I had the game I was up until 3am playing just 'one more turn'. So now I have a MMOG (massively multiplayer online game,) which people have such strong addictions to that it has caused deaths, divorces, and the tears of small children; and I have a turn-based conquest game that also have been known to eat away entire years of lives (most noticable offenders in the past are Master of Orion I/II and Civilization I/II.) The only thing of certainty that has come out of all of this is the fact that I've been getting a lot less sleep than I am used to.

I'm not really sure what I'm going to do about this. But while we're talking about it, let me just say that Galactic Civilizations 2 is a fun game, if you're in the market for a way to burn your free time. The learning curve is steep becuase the game has a horrible user interface but the game itself is quite fun. Two of my friends have also bought the game and we discuss our successes and failures as we go along, as well as trading game play tips which are obfuscated by the aforementioned interface. So if you buy the game, drop me a line, we can trade tips for a more perfect genocide. :)