The Magical Hanukkahtime Section Variety Hour is an eight-day festival of light reading. BC Magazine's sports editor spreads his Gentile love in every other section but his own. And because it's Hanukkah, the gifts of are substandard quality: in this case, it's an article. Today: BC Gaming.

We've had some fun this Hanukkah. Oh sure, we didn't exactly celebrate the holiday or discuss Jewish history and customs in any fashion, but the fun had wasn't purely coincidental, was it? Actually, don't answer that. Either way you reply, I have an anti-Semitic rebuttal just waiting in the wings for you.

But if you're of the mind that the fun was directly linked to Hanukkah, don't fret. There are still ways to have fun beyond Hebrew tradition. For example, sports are a great way to ... wait ... [double-checks color scheme and logo of this page]

Video games are a great way to ease the tension of a day filled with incessant phone ringing, crying babies, and indigestion from lunch. And that's just the guy in the next cubicle over. An hour of games, whatever they are — console, online Flash, one-man handpuppet wrestling — can do wonders.

So if an hour is good, four hours is better. And 16 is absolutely sublime. I say 16 hours because we must afford eight hours in the day for a combination of sleeping and pooping.

The 16 hours may not be actually spent in front of the screen pushing buttons, but it's the imaginative mind of gamers that needs to take the helm and drive the day:

7:30 a.m. - 8 a.m.
WAS: Morning routine
CHANGE TO: Just hit the Start button and skip the intro.

8 - 8:30 a.m.
WAS: The morning commute.
CHANGE TO: This is where a Gran Turismo-style track would seamlessly fit in, but I can't endorse any kind of actual reckless driving. Wait, you live in Florida? That's nowhere near me! Go nuts.