I've found myself with a need to keep my mind busy.  I must have something running through it at all times, and it's preferable that something be light or fun or entertaining.  I haven't been able to build up the courage to sit myself down at the drafting desk and draw, or do any writing on the RPG, and I am deathly afraid of painting right now.  So I've gotten into my videogames and movies and such more recently. 

This has also gotten me to buy something I normally wouldn't have: a collectible card game.  And not just any CCG.  The fucking World of Warcraft CCG. 

Or, I'm sorry, the TCG.  Because Wizards of the Coast trademarked the phrase "collectible card game" back in '98 or so, so it's a "trading card game". 

The game is fun, oddly enough.  Each player is a hero, with both race and class abilities.  You assemble weapons, armor and items for your hero, send him on quests, find allies to adventure with, and of course beat the everloving tar out of the other adventurers.  'Cause this is PVP play motherfucker. 

I tend to approach CCGs in a way many people do the board game thing.  I like to get enough cards so that I can assemble two or three good play decks.  Then, whenever I'm bored and there's someone else around I can just pick up the game and get a couple of rounds in.  And there is actually an option to pick up Raid decks, which are pre-built raids that players team up on and attack together.  So basically, one player is the DM with his dungeon, the other players all take up their heroes and buddies and go smash some monsters.  Smart. 

Now I find myself with the need to do two things, both of which will make me a big loser. 

1. Buy more cards.  Because I'm trying to make a really great Troll Hunter deck and I need some of them Ravenous Strike cards, son.

2. Start playing WoW again.  Because now I want to make up a Troll Hunter and adventure in video game la-la-land. 

Can we plan for some kind of intervention about... let's say a month from now?