Today was uneventful and for the most part, I was minimally productive. Yesterday, I was battling what I could best describe as an itchiness in my stomach. It lasted for much of the morning. I don't know what caused it, but thankfully, I did not experience that kind of discomfort today. Interestingly enough, I was no more productive today than I was yesterday. Maybe I'm just coasting along without a care in the world? I should care, but I don't. Today was okay though.
I ate a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for lunch. Grape jelly. Super crunchy peanut butter. Wheat bread, because I'm trying to eat healthy. Of course, those two bags of Funyuns probably didn't help, but those are so good. They're hard to resist. All told, lunch settled pretty well. No diarrhea or subsequent runny stool. Those tend to be the best meals, the ones that don't irritate or challenge the digestive system.
Tomorrow at work, the department is holding their/our annual employee retreat. Half of the department will be in attendance tomorrow, while the other half will go on Thursday. I'd prefer not to go at all. It's forced socialization. I can do it, but it takes a lot out of me, mentally. I don't like spending an obscene amount of time interacting with people, even people I happen to know very well. I'm still an introvert. I'd prefer to be at my desk, writing and otherwise ignoring people, as I am accustomed to. Tomorrow, I will hurled from my baseline and thrown into an uncomfortable space, where I'll have to talk to people. Talking to people sucks.
I guess if there was a positive that could come from tomorrow's festivities, it would be that I could potentially run into Carmen again. I haven't seen her since last year. I couldn't tell you what month I last her, but either way, I haven't seen her in quite some time, so maybe it's fair to say that we're overdue. I don't know if we'll spend the whole day together, but it will be nice to see her again. I know that for sure, it'll be a happy reunion, as tends to be the case when we see each other after many months have gone by.
Beyond the possibility of seeing Carmen, I don't think I have much to look forward to tomorrow, as far as that annual department retreat. As I said earlier, I'd sooner not even go, but this is a mandatory event and Morie would probably be pretty upset if I were to skip out on this. She knows a lot of people within the department and I am convinced that she'll have eyes on me, from afar. Maybe I'll need to be on my best behavior? I figure that I just need to not embarrass myself and I'll be all right. Interestingly, Morie will be attending this retreat on Thursday. We attended the 2025 retreat together, but for whatever the reason, we didn't bother to coordinate and plan to go together again in 2026. She'll be fine without me, just as I'll be fine without her. We'll reconvene on Friday, when we're both expected to be back in the office again.
GameFly sent me The Ghost of Yotei (PS5) last week. I installed the game, but I have yet to play it. Clearly, I'm in no hurry to get to it. There's actually a chance that I just end up keeping the game and buying it outright from GameFly, without even playing it first. I figure that the game reviewed well enough, so I know that I can spend my money on it confidently. This wouldn't be the first time where I've gotten a game rental from GameFly and I chose to keep the game without ever playing it. Call it risky. Call it stupid. I usually do my research well enough to where I go in confident most of the time whenever I buy a game. Ghost of Yotei is decent enough. I just might risk it and fork out the 50-some odd dollars for the game and not look back.
Gaming still remains slow. Now, I've reached a point where I'm just buying games from GameFly without even playing them first. It's a silly game to play, but it's one that I'm willing to play, so long as I have the money to do it.
The mundane life of this gamer moves forward.
Work. Eating sandwiches for lunch. Hoping and praying that I'm not stricken with diarrhea. Complaining about forced socialization and having to be around people. Buying games from GameFly without playing those games first.
It's not exciting, but it's the life I live.
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