Board not bored
So at last the eye is pretty much not hurting all the time – huzzah and so tomorrow is back to work. In the meantime it has been just over a month away from work, personally I am a bit annoyed it has been quite this long, but then in it is hardly my fault (see previous post).
The only thing that needed some pondering was what on earth to do with myself, codeine helps as it means I am either asleep or too stoned to do much anyway, but even so I have been awake a fair amount of the time. The first week was not a problem as I really was out of things due to the anaesthetic and then onto the codeine, after that it was just onto the codeine and the last week nothing at all for pain relief.
I hate day time TV, I really cannot stand it so TV was not really an option, though I will admit watching the Olympics in the early hours of the morning (yay for Amy Williams) some days in bursts, usually when I woke up where the codeine had worn off and it was too soon to throw more down my neck.
I have read something like eight books (no I am not going list them due to brain failure) so that has brought the to be read heap down just a little bit (yes it is that big). I have watched a couple of films but have not been in the mood to watch any and I have a fair amount recorded. A few audiobooks have been dozed rather than listened to, I still find the best way to listen to audiobooks is either when I am driving or ironing (ironing has not been an option though).
I don’t really like computer games very much and tend to get easily bored by them, besides I spend enough time in front of a screen at work that generally it is one of the last things that I want to do to entertain myself at home.
So other than reading and sleeping what have I been doing? Playing boardgames on the whole. Some rummaging round the internet in the previous few months has found plenty of games designed for either solitaire or cooperative (and so you double up) play certainly more than I was aware of, in fact I was very suprised at the quantity of different games out there as they are not the sort of games that you find in your local toy store. So I have been rolling dice, shuffling cards, taking over the world as Alexander in a wargame, winning and losing as Rommel, fighting monsters from other worlds in Arkham Horror and generally taking over the dining table. SirusKittenzilla has been on hand to irritate the hell out of mehelp by knocking bits over over and generally obliterating positions carefully set up. I am still to fully play the Battle of Britain game bought by a friend as a get well present, but that is down to the board being made of thick coated paper where the fold creases make it difficult to lay flat, this isn’t a fault in the game it is just the way that wargames are to keep costs down, so until I acquire a large 34×22″ clip frame it will have to wait. But this does give me something to look forward to and it isn’t as if I haven’t had other games to entertain me.