I spent the morning playing blitz chess on line since I declared it a hobby and felt honor bound to pursue it. It's more of an addiction than a hobby, including the requirement for use of that term that it have harmful effects, the most detrimental of which is that it wastes enormous amounts of time. Today, though, its effect is that I'm continually reminded of how easy it is to blunder despite the best of intentions, only I can't decide if this is something I need to remember or really just an excuse not to try things.