A True Gamer | Tu 12/13

I woke up with a painful and swollen knee just in time for stand-up, so I decided to work remotely. Thankfully there were some tornado warnings, which led my team to do the same, so I had an excuse.

The day has been slow: just playing games and not even eating like I'm a child or something. While playing I realized that fragging never gets old. It's only aided by the rest of the game: teammates, heads to click on that move and fight back, and less toxicity than a PvP game. Now it's past 5 but Nonso wanted to do this deployment and I'm sitting in for it, just when I got myself to prep food.

I've been hearing talking and music from outside my balcony for the whole day and realized that it's because of people working on the entrance of the building. Then for some reason I thought of mom and dad saying that blue collar work is for the lazy, which they said to motivate me to work hard in school and I now realize is completely false. If anything it's harder than white collar work and more likely to be left to the uneducated or poor rather than the lazy. I also noticed how terrible of a judgement of character a statement like that is, thinking that people who do blue collar work are less as people.

It's 6 PM and we're still here for the deployment and I've been trying to stay busy with tasks while I still have to be at the computer. While looking at my email inbox, I realized that I still have that gift card from Tech Elevator for referring Adrian and saw that I can redeem it for a Taco Bell gift card. This escalated into me realizing that a box ordered online can both be customized with solid options and only costs $5, which may make it the best box ever. I stared at the pictures of the food for what felt like an hour, but eventually I relented, warming up a frozen pizza I got for emergency meals like now and opting to save the gift card for a truly dire moment.

This call has also made me realize how I hope I don't have to sit in for deployments often, becasue I miss having free time. I guess all day until this point was my free time, but later I could be forced into one when I already have real work to do.

The call ended around dinner time, right after the pizza finished. I devoured 2/3 of it along with a quick salad, which was surprisingly easy to make: Gigi's leftover lettuce, spinach, tomato, then the ingredients for a dressing from my Nicoise salad recipe. After that I lied on the couch out of reflex and sent myself into the shadow realm, napping from about 8:30 to 11:30 PM. At this point I think I'll try to lift early tomorrow morning, but I'm also tempted to play games.

I did the unspeakable and got on Ascension when it was nearly empty. This is the true sign of someone down bad. Thinking on it, maybe enjoying games just satisfies the id too: we satisfy our competitiveness and need to be mentally stimulated, but we sit around to do it and don't even get exercise like in something physical.

Now that I think about it, something like volleyball mostly uses the brain instead of the muscles, so maybe nothing is actually that good for you. This argument brings up that quote about Haikyuu and how time spent having fun isn't wasted, but I suppose there is a line to walk carefully.