After two weeks without a broadband connection, I didn’t have much of a chance to work on articles or update the site. But I did think a fair bit about leisure and videogames.

While I didn’t actually play any videogames while driving across the great expanse of the American Northwest, I didn’t actually want to. I suppose the relaxing leisure of vacation was enough to carry my mind away from the joys of the joystick.

Still, there on the side of the road, a common sign—GAME CROSSING.

It reminded me that people are game about games. It also made me wonder just how hard it would be to come up with a notion of games that includes Pac-Man and stalking around talk grass with a rifle and taste for deer meat.

While on hiatus, I did manage a couple of ruminations on games and leisure for the Denver Post. Those missives are available online:

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