Insects vs Robots – Nothing

I’ve got this week off from work, one of those times when you can just take a couple of vacation days and net a much longer time off. Consequently I did a whole lot of nothing today. The usual sort of laundry, errands, kind of nothing, but I didn’t do anything more substantial like plant those bulbs or exercise. I always feel like I should do more when I take time off from work and am just hanging around the house, but I also manage to convince myself that I need the time to just veg and relax.

My son is home for Thanksgiving and he recently got a VR headset. He wanted me to try it and while I really had no interest, I felt like I could humor him and put it on. That was kind of trippy. One game he had me play was some little alien puff balls whose space ship comes crashing through the ceiling and you have to try to hit them with lasers. The other was a lightsaber game that reminded me a little of that Japanese game show, Hole in the Wall as you had to dodge things coming at you and swat away these boxes with your lightsaber at the same time.

I wonder if the headset has some kind of tropical beach scene so you could just put it on and feel like you were actually away on vacation. Kind of Star Trek holodeck style. Now if they could just work out that Star Trek transporter…