Board Games At Work, Part 2

Sushi GoEarly last year, I tried to start a weekly board game night at work with a few coworkers. There was a lot of interest from many coworkers, which led me to believe that this idea had a chance. Once work was over, the plan was to stick around and and play a few games in the lunch room. The first night was great, but it quickly dissolved due to lack of attendance. While I would have loved to have played more board games with my coworkers, it was clear that this wasn’t going to work out as envisioned.

Today, gaming is happening at the office again. This time, it’s different.

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Video Games and Sick Days

As a kid, sick days used to be the best thing ever when it came to my video game playing time. To me, every minute I wasn’t in school was a minute I could spend playing video games. Instead of taking the road to recovery through sleep and chicken noodle soup, I played video games all day long. Maybe then I shouldn’t have been surprised that a fever would knock me out of commission for a good week.

As an adult, though I do game every now and then when I’m sick, it’s definitely not the same as it used to be.

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