Diablo II came down to $40 at Fry’s so I finally joined the legions of happy questing zombies. But first I did my laundry and fed the cat. I think “time sink” is probably an understatement. For those of you who don’t know how Diablo works, I apologize for the following digression. After many hours of slogging through fields and dungeons I went to sleep and had a dream that I was on a quest with 4 other people. We had to find a stamp and put it on an envelope in someone’s office and then get out of town before the police caught up with us. The stamp and the envelope part worked great, except for the yapping dogs, but leaving town was tricky. I had to bribe a police officer with 147 pieces of gold in order to steal a Corvette. But when I got to the car, it wouldn’t fit in my inventory. So I opened my pack and apparently I had managed to store several pieces of furniture in there, a lovely antique dresser, a plant stand, an old telephone, etc. I had to do lots of shuffling to get the car to fit in there and lost precious time. Then I wasn’t able to drive the car very well because my driving skill level was so low I kept running into things. Eventually I made it onto the road out of town — and remembered that I should probably go back and get my companions. I think I was so exasperated that I left them to fend for themselves.