I never really considered myself a hardcore gamer. About 4.5 years ago, my co-workers game me a 10 trial on WoW. I played it obsessively for 3 years, but never

I never really considered myself a hardcore gamer. About 4.5 years ago, my co-workers game me a 10 trial on WoW. I played it obsessively for 3 years, but never to the point of end-game raiding, because I never wanted to commit to actually making arrangements to play a video game. I quit for the Summer as a well-received birthday gift to my wife, and then started up again in the Winter, when it's much less convenient to do something outdoorsy in the evening. Before WoW, I spent alot of time being social on the internet, maintained 2 blogs, wrote a bunch of plugins for various blogging platforms. This I don't really miss. I do miss reading in the evenings, but after interacting with text all day, it is very difficult to read for more than an hour in the evening. Now I play a few evenings a week for a couple of hours. I generally spend my days intensively developing software, so I don't feel like I am being unproductive gaming in the evenings. In May, I, with the rest of my regional office, was let go, and I decided to learn iOS development and am developing an app for the iPad during "normal working hours."