You're right - this forum is indeed a curse! The very fact that I am sitting here typing this response at 2:26 on a Wednesday afternoon is proof that it is sucking up valuable time.
It has also killed off a good chunk of the main blog's page views so far, while spawning a much larger new viewing habit. Blog views dropped from 13,000 down to perhaps 9,000 per day, while the forum is up to 36,000 page views in two days. And that's with just a tiny percentage of blog readers signing up so far!
Ahh, the internet.
My local weather looks pretty good tomorrow, I'm going to set a goal of having a no computer/no phone day and see what happens.