When I was a kid, I used to get lost in books. I'd come home from school and read books. Books about WW1, books about flying, books of fantasy like Anne McAffre or Larry Niven, or Tolkien. Those fantasies as a kid of flying jets at sea or living on a tropical island all came true for me. I became a helo pilot/mechanic on the tuna boats and lived in Samoa, Kauai, Panama. One day in my early 30's I decided that traveling and flying and living the jet life was not good for finding a wife, so I decided to go to school get something other than a high school diploma. I spent 7 years in school. Now I'm too old to marry and start a family, so I come home from work and fire up the machine and get lost in a new kind of fantasy with Poser, Bryce, EIU, Metasequoia, Photoshop... and yes, occasionally oils and graphite. The grass is always greener somewhere else and sometimes I wish I was just a janitor with a wife and a bunch of rug rats. If you're getting addicted, then best I can say is close the book, shut down the computer, and take the kids out for a walk in the park.