With Santa season looming I have this mixed bag of excitement and dread. This has led to comfort gaming. Comfort gaming is that magical time where you play a game with no goals, no princesses to save, no aliens to defeat, no checkpoints, and no storylines to follow.
My comfort game is Minecraft. I will spend hours on end, ignoring the entire world while I collect cobblestone, turn sand into glass, and build structures that have no concept of gravity or physics. The simple and slightly OCD nature of Minecraft is very relaxing, but also extremely time consuming and distracting. My non-fiction reading has dropped to nil this past week. I'd like to blame at least a little bit of that on family that is visiting from out of town, but no, it's all Minecraft.
Next week will be a monster. A new library branch opens, and that means a busy week for the IT department. And just as we recover from that, then Thanksgiving happens, my hours increase, and there is a good chance I'll be shut down for the rest of the year.
My gut says this is time to take a break, but maybe this is a great time to use reading as my comfort. That makes a lot more sense that building a 47-story-high castle with indoor lavaflows and patrolling Snow Golems. Maybe I need to set an aggressive goal to keep me honest? How about 5 straight days of reading 20 pages? Then next weekend I can build to my heart's content and maybe recreate Middle Earth in cube form like I've always wanted to do.
My comfort game is Minecraft. I will spend hours on end, ignoring the entire world while I collect cobblestone, turn sand into glass, and build structures that have no concept of gravity or physics. The simple and slightly OCD nature of Minecraft is very relaxing, but also extremely time consuming and distracting. My non-fiction reading has dropped to nil this past week. I'd like to blame at least a little bit of that on family that is visiting from out of town, but no, it's all Minecraft.
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| I's 5:00 somewhere in Minecraft. |
Next week will be a monster. A new library branch opens, and that means a busy week for the IT department. And just as we recover from that, then Thanksgiving happens, my hours increase, and there is a good chance I'll be shut down for the rest of the year.
My gut says this is time to take a break, but maybe this is a great time to use reading as my comfort. That makes a lot more sense that building a 47-story-high castle with indoor lavaflows and patrolling Snow Golems. Maybe I need to set an aggressive goal to keep me honest? How about 5 straight days of reading 20 pages? Then next weekend I can build to my heart's content and maybe recreate Middle Earth in cube form like I've always wanted to do.
