Civilization 5 Is Dangerous

A few days ago I downloaded the Civilization 5 demo on steam and I have been waiting to try it out.  I finally got the chance last night.  I have never played any of the games in the Civilization series before, but I had heard a little bit about them.  I booted up the demo and starting founding my cities.  It took me a while to figure out the controls and what I was supposed to do.  After about 30 minutes, I was really into the game.  I couldn't believe that 2 hours had passed by the time the trail was over.  The taste  I got of Civ 5 left me wanting more, but I know I will have to restrain myself for one good reason:  Civilization 5 will take up all of the free time you have!  2 hours into my game I was still producing extremely weak units and hadn't evolved my technologies much at all!  I couldn't even defeat one enemy!  I would march 5 squads of my best units up to their front gates and try to attack, but the city would lob volleys of arrows at me and tear me to pieces.  I have heard from others that a full game can last 8-10 hours easily.  Unfortunately I just don't have that kind of time to spare at the moment.  I will have to wait until the semester is over and when it does, I hope I remember to pick up this game.

First Entry Ever

So I'm not sure how often I will post entries.  I started this to practice my DOM traversal of RSS feeds.  I'm going to grab this feed and post it to my site www.mikeklem.com.