Pantsed, shuttered

Yesterday I pulled my clothes out of my backpack for the gym.  Socks, check, small towel, check, two t-shirts, check, shorts……. shorts?  WTF somehow I managed to forget my shorts.  Shit.  Well my initial thought was “oh well, I guess no gym today”  Then my buddy suggested I just go in my work pants.  Yea, why not?  If it’s good enough form my dead lifting inmate buddy JB, it’s good enough for me.

So I slapped on a t-shirt and my sneakers and strolled into the gym, trying to not bring attention to the fact that I was wearing khaki colored Lands End pants.  I got through the workout without noticing anybody pointing and snickering.  Wearing long pants made for a more sweaty than normal session.  I managed to remember shorts today.

Last night Ali was at spinning.  Over the past four years, this scenario would almost always translate into me sitting down and playing some WoW until she got home.  Well over the past month or two my time and interest in WoW has diminished dramatically.  In comparison to the height of my WoW fascination, my play time nowadays is a small fraction of what it was.  I often will go several days without logging into the game at all and when I am in the game I often find myself thinking there is other stuff I could be / should be doing. 

I’m not sure if my withdrawal from the game will lead to me abandoning it altogether or not.  I also can’t verbalize exactly what started to turn the tide for me.  I know that the cut back started when Ali was last up in PA.  Ever since then my time in the game has steadily decreased.

One of the things I have filled some of that time with is watching the massive backlog of movies I have in my archive.  Last night I watched Shutter Island since it was one of those Shawn only movies due to it’s creepy, potentially scary content which Ali generally avoids.  It’s too bad for her, she missed  bizarre, complex, masterpiece. 

 Leonardo DiCaprio is a fantastic actor.  Much like Brad Pitt, I never have seen him in a role that I didn’t think he excelled at.  The movie at it’s core is very, very dark but fascinating at the same time.  I can’t say much because I certainly don’t want to give anything away.  I highly recommend it though.  Even though it’s a dark film it still gets a bright and shiny A in my book.

Less WoW also has resulted in the backlog on Men’s Health magazines on my dresser finally getting cleared out.  I just finished the May 2009 edition last night.  All that is left to read is the latest Dan Brown book which I plan to tackle during our trip out west.