Part of the problem with the current situation is that it’s difficult to really get into a game for hours at a time. I mean, I spend most of the day working on excel spreadsheets and, come quitting time, the most enjoyable thing is to NOT sit in front of a computer. Yay! I get to make dinner! Yay! I get to do dishes! Yay! I get to go for a jog!
So even as I need entertainments to help keep morale high and help me relax and unwind, at the same time it’s very difficult to say “hurray! Now I get to sit down!” I mean, I sit down a lot at my job under normal conditions but I regularly have to have conversations with different people in different parts of the building, I have to go to meetings, and if I forgot my lunch, I have to go out to get something to eat. Now? Well, I change floors from time to time.
Which means that I no longer have that “whew, I was on my feet all day” feeling that makes sitting down in front of the television feel like a reward of sorts.
Going for a jog is now my reward of sorts.
Which basically means that I have less time spent playing games than I did when I was leaving the house regularly.
On top of that, when I do want to play a game, I want to play something familiar and comfortable… which means that I want to play Lords of Waterdeep or Slay the Spire or the Batman Arkham games and I know I’ve talked about them ad nauseum (they’re all really good, though).
So I find myself wanting to talk about a new game for you all (and I’m sure that next week’s post will be about Blood Bowl II), but this week? Man. The most fun game I played this week was “the Costco delivery arrived and THEY HAD PAPER TOWELS!”
And putting the paper towels away was really, really fun. So that’s my recommendation for you: put away some paper towels.
So… what are you playing?
(Featured image is “OXO Paper Towel Dispenser” by Sally Rumble. Used under creative commons license.)
I’m playing “Is it worth going out to the small local grocery and maybe getting exposed to The Virus on the off chance they would have some sweet potatoes (which are now the thing I want the most to eat in the world and the Wal-Mart pick up order I did this morning, they were the one thing that was out of stock)”
it’s not a fun game. 0/10, do not recommend.
(No, I’m not gonna call them and ask, I’m sure they’re slammed with too many worried people calling them about stuff)Report
Wear gloves, wear a mask, don’t talk to anybody but the checkout person, and get yourself a candy bar while you are there.Report
If you look at the produce section in the Kroger chain stores here, you would never know there was anything going on. Even the bananas are back to normal. Probably doesn’t hurt that Front Range Colorado is the regional hub for an enormous area. Kroger’s got like a bazillion square feet of warehousing. I know that they added a half-million square feet of refrigerator/freezer warehouse storage in Denver in the last couple of years. Sometimes I wonder if they’re not a logistics company that happens to operate retail groceries on the side.Report
Oh, man…so much this, Jay. I’m sitting in front of my sweet, sweet gaming PC all day and then it just feels…wrong…to sit right back down and start playing games.Report