Total War

It's war - war, I tell you - WAR!  The Video Game Desk felt it wasn't being given it's fair share of time, so last night, without permission from the other desks, they downloaded the latest Assassin's Creed game, Odyssey, and have been playing it all day today, not letting any of the other desks get any time in at all. After all those months of struggling through the basically dysfunctional Fallout 76 and it's pointless and endless searches for consumable loot, it's refreshing to play a real game again with interesting characters, an actual storyline, and no annoying glitches. 

But meanwhile, while the download was, well, downloading last night, the TV Desk was binge watching the Amazon series Transparent. So far, it's a wonderful show, a wise and empathic story centering around a late-60s man coming to terms with his transgender identity.  But now, the Games Desk and the TV Desk are fighting over who gets to command the evening's time - will be watching Season 2 of Transparent tonight or trying to reach Level 10 of Odyssey?  We're surprised they let us free long enough to post this update, but since it doesn't favor either one over the other, we suppose we're able to get away with doing this.

For it's part, the Music Desk has been listening almost non-stop to the new album by the gothic folk-punk band DBUK, Songs Nine Through Sixteen.  DBUK (it apparently stands for "Denver Broncos UK") will be playing The Earl on Wednesday, April 3, a date to which we're looking forward, if the other desks will let us out for the night.

Meanwhile, on top of all this, the Reading Desk has been catching up on back issues of The New Yorker and after reading one particular short story by T. Coraghessan Boyle earlier last week, started reading his novel World's End.  So now, when we're not playing Odyssey or bingeing on Transparent, we've been reading World's End while listening to Songs Nine Through Sixteen.  

It's not like we're not entertained, and all of these different pursuits somehow oddly fit together, although on another level, they couldn't be more different.  We're just concerned that with all this competition for time, the Work Desk won't be allowed to leave home on Monday morning.  We need to remind the other more frivolous desks that it's the Work Desk that pays the bills for all the other desk's interests.