Computer games & clutter

I've re-discovered an old (guilty) pleasure from my law school days. It's the Yahoo game Literati (similar to Scrabble). It's a big time waster, but fun. (I'm playing right now while waiting for SL to arrive home.)

I have a tendency to get a bit addicted to computer games. I also find them to be a good stress reliever, so that may be part of it. There are several I cannot play without setting a timer for myself. Sad.

My sis & I were chatting on email today about the fact that we both have so much clutter we'd like to get rid of. (To be fair, she has more: partly because she is more sentimental, and partly because she owns a house, while I have always rented.) Yet here I sit playing on the computer when I could be spending some time de-cluttering. (sigh)

Weird weather here today; it was very warm, but overcast. SL says there is a 20% chance of rain tomorrow. When you live in a desert, even that small a chance of rain is something to get excited about. We haven't had any measurable rainfall yet this year where I live.

Tomorrow is my turn to spend the day presenting cases to the grand jury. (Each attorney in our office has to do it about once a quarter.) I don't mind doing it (usually), but it just means that I won't get much else done in the office tomorrow. Also, tomorrow a large group of employees from our office are taking a couple of hours off to lobby the powers-that-be for pay raises. Now I won't get to participate in that either. Ah well.

It should be an unexciting week. The biggest thing I have planned before the weekend is trying to plead out two of my least favorite cases. On Saturday SL & I are going to a major league baseball game. So that should be fun.