Did I stay up late again when I promised I would hit the hay on time tonight. I decided, "just one song" of Guitar Hero since I never play when the kids are awake.

Well, one hour later, here I am. I'm very disappointed with my own behavior, acting like an adolescent.

As a matter of perspective, we just picked the game (Aerosmith edition) up today.

story of my life, michael. i feel you. i prefer to think of my late-night jags as necessary self-care; it helps me not feel bad about it in the morning.

But it's not self care - I get less sleep, and less exercise the following day. And my wrist is quite sore and it's not even *that* kind of self-care.

I guess I should never say "just one".

I do this with books. I'll get something new and start it as I am going to bed. I'll promise myself "just one more chapter." Then BOOM, it is 2 am and they just figured out who done it. It's totally worth it. Sleep? Who needs sleep!

I feel you. I'm this way with the American Idol game. I can't stop once I start - until my voice starts going out. It is just so fun, even when you suck at singing.

I'm like this with Offsprung. And now Facebook, dammit.

I hear you loud and clear. As soon as I hit "return" I'm off to play Lego Indy when I know I should be sleeping.

Books and Offsprung do a job on me - especially when PF is travelling.

I'm expecting the same tonight - you people all wrote WAY too much in the last week while I was on vacation!

The job is doing it to me right now. Oh and lurking on OS.
I've been up past mid-night for the last 4 nights...and up at 6.
I gave The Sufer a kiss this morning and says you're getting too cranky. You need sleep. If HE is saying that then man I must be a bitch in heels this week...

Yeah, between this site and Discovery Science channel, I end up staying up at least an hour later than I should. And I've also been getting into cage fighting, which is wrong, but just so damn addictive. I avoid owning a video game for this reason. Thank goodness the kids are too young to need one.
I was actually very proud of myself for not watching "just one show" last night, even though I got home at 2:30am.

Spouse and I do this a lot. Reading, Rock Band, movies, Top Chef, Lego Indy Star Wars, these are all things we sit up doing when we should be sleeping. It's just that so little time is left over between work, pet care, child care, house care, etc to have any free time adult fun. It's hard to be smart and prioritize sleep over it.

JM, we missed you! I was wondering where the heck you were. Time for another cocktail party now that you're back :)

wouldnt it be nice to figure out how to exist on less sleep so you can have more fun doing useless things like Guitar Hero, Rock band, video editing .... oh I could go on and on.

just seems like right before bed is the only time that I can get to do those things.

Heh! I arrived at work 1/2 hour late today because I didn't hear my alarm go off. Because I was up past midnight reading. Again. Like I have been every night this week.

I get so sucked in. I know I should just close the book and go to sleep, but I love them. Books! I love them!

I also do that with books. They're my downfall.

Or sometimes if my friends who live abroad are online, and we can chat. Because I hardly ever get to talk to them.

But mostly books.

I'd like to aspire to be more like Julia, but I'm more like Heburb. I have an assortment of bizarre tech projects that probably do nobody any good but to satisfy my own curiosity.

Do I really need to retrofit an old computer (and when I say old, I mean 1990s) with one bad sector with linux? Probably not.