By justloriSo, I have done the sleuthing, and it appears that WordPress may not be hosting a Bloganuary this year. This puzzles me, because I actually considered moving this blog from self-hosted to WP-hosted based on the teasers I was seeing for Bloganuary on the WP.com site in the fall.
I opened a helpticket with WP, so maybe they will tell me what the actual eff is going on, but for now, I am proceeding apace, just like this is the real prompt. Which I am very sure it is not, but at this point, I am just making my own Bloganuary fun.
Also, how are we abbreviating Bloganuary? Cause the obvious choice is just…no.
Anyway, here’s our a prompt—
Do you play in your daily life? What says “playtime” to you?
Yes, I play quite a bit in my daily life. Possibly more than I do any other single thing, actually.
I’m disabled, and I don’t work outside the house anymore, which means that—while on the one hand, my disability sucks beyond the telling of it, and I dream at least once a week that I can walk like a normal human—I have a fairly large chunk of time every day that can be devoted to some type of play. Usually, this takes the form of a board game, either played on the table, like God and Milton and Bradley intended, or played on a computer, either on Steam (Gloomhaven, FTW!) or Board Game Arena (so underrated!)
But play also means word games, which I play six of every day (Connections, Wordle, Symbol, Polygonle, FoxiMax and Waffle). It also means creating art, either by coloring in adult coloring books or by working on a Diamond Painting. It also might mean interacting with a game-like self-care app (like Finch, which I am a little obsessed with.) It also might mean solo app play, like games of Point Salad or Super Auto Pets.
And at least a couple times a month, I do some old-school D&D, although since my friends are scattered all over the US these days, we do host our games in Zoom.
So, yes. Games are life, and I make time every day for some playtime.
What about you? Are you a gamer?
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Now I can’t really add to this Piper as you surely know I am not a gamer, and all of those possible games you just mentioned just make my head spin, but I’ve always thought of “gamer” as a vid type of thing and not some traditional board which is a mistake. Though I know there are those that you can do on your own, online if need be and most suredly the only way we have them now, I know there is no real joy in them if not done with others and I understand wanting that for what can surely be a fun thing. I also know that, as I organize some stuff downstairs here, to try and do my best to not take over the other half of the basement of my sister’s place, and as I find some other spots for some of my Steve living clothes (there is only so much room in one single about 5 foot high bookcase with three shelves to lay your boxers and socks and T-shirts or in an old steamer trunk that a cat sleeps on in her bed or cat about’s on so you can never open the damn thing) that i saw my deluxe Scrabble box atop the wardrobe thingy, the one with some drawers and a big wide open space in the middle to just lay some clothes in that I haven’t used yet, not even after 6 months, the only piece of furniture that was here when I moved in. So some figg’rin’ then.
But I have been dragging this Scrabble with me everywhere I have gone, everywhere I have moved for, God knows, I don’t know how long. Maybe it is telling me something.
Good use of “apace” by the way.
Excuse my rambling that probably didn’t make complete sense by the way. I’ve been in that mood, or should i say, I’ve been MORE in that mood recently. I’ve never looked but if there is an online Scrabble that can be played online, you and your dude and maybe FL or Tom and Mark I could certainly be up for it.