Type R Bentley (Forza Motorsport)

I borrowed my brother’s Xbox to entertain both me and Alex (3-year-old son) last night.  I let him play “Cars” and I patiently waited for him to go to bed so I can play “Forza” - by falling alseep on the floor - genius!  After vigorously playing my campaign mode, acquiring three new cars, levelling to 10, and decaling the mess out of two cars I realized that I should not be going to bed some time after 3:30am.  I have too many things to do, in the morning, and video games is NOT one of them.  I must have played a straight 4-5 hour session and didn’t realize it.  Sure my fingers hurt, but it wasn’t an indication that I’ve been playing too long… just that I needed to not put so much pressure on the buttons. ;)

Well; a couple thoughts went through my head and one of them was I may be getting too old for video games (currently 29 years old).  My life is laced with responsibilities and it’s hard for me to switch up routines.  For example, my wife said, “Yah, it looks like you have time to play video games in the morning, on the weekends.”  What!?  On the weekends - that sounds like I’m in school or something.  But she may be right.  I work a full-time job (that’s very stressful), I run an Internet consulting company and I have two small kids.  That’s enough to take up ALL my time.

Stress Level

Plus I realized that I was still a little stressed after playing because of the amount of concentration I need to run the courses.  For my stress-level I need get-along games like World of Warcraft to play and not intense-driven games.  I’ll find a balance…isn’t that what stress-level is all about, finding the balance!?

So; that brings me to my other thought and it’s me getting into the gaming industry.  The plan was to start making my attempts once my wife went back to work.  It’s too risky to switch careers now, but I thought if my life just isn’t going in that direction anymore.  Hmm, me without video games - what a concept!?  I’ll just wait it out and see what unfolds.

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