Crackdown & Gears leads to lack of sleep

Played my team's (ARTofWARx2) final ladder match for Gears of War last night. Looks like we are going to end up 3rd (maybe 4th, depending on games today), which is pretty damn good! Oh yeah, first team to reach 10 wins! Yeah yeah, I know, we also played the most games - all the credit goes to Doscon our team leader, he did an awesome job finding us at least a couple of matches a week!

The ladder ends after today, then we get to play a tourny with the top 8 teams. This should be interesting. I hope we get to play the teams ahead of us, as I am curious to see how we'd fare!

I think I logged 2.5 to 3 hours of Gears last night. After the ladder match I logged off and did the dishes - if I would have left it any longer, then I'd have an even bigger pile to deal with the next day! Plus I needed to get up and stretch out a bit before I sat back down to some Crackdown addiction!

I ended up doing Crack(down) until 1:30 in the AM! Ack! I got into one of those situations where I was saying to myself: "okay, once I get my Firearms skill to 4 stars, I'm logging out". Of course once that happened, I said the same thing about Strength... then explosions! And would you know it? As I was leveling my Explosion skill I pretty much wiped out all the enemies around a gang boss, so it was now, let's kill this boss before bed. *sigh* addictions suck... it's a lot of fun while playing, but the next day at work just sucks!

So, here I am, just ate some lunch, read up on all the forums I check out here, and decided I needed to write a journal to keep me awake! I'm already made my way through 2 extra-large coffees from Timmies* - and I'll be getting a third in a little bit.

*Timmies in this situation refers to a very popular Coffee chain in Canada called "Tim Hortons". I was not talking about getting coffee from young, annoying, punk-ass, parents should beat sense into Timmies we encounter online gaming! :)