Out for a stroll in the sun with Lyra and the eldest. Ice cream, some chips and a drink. Was very pleasant.
Out for a stroll in the sun with Lyra and the eldest. Ice cream, some chips and a drink. Was very pleasant.
Shout out to Elise for the back cover art.
Another sunny day and e-learning is on hold for a virtual sports day (kids encouraged to log a range of activities at home). I have a little more free time and trying to spend it not working. Playing hide and seek with the youngest and I’m definitely too big to hide in the bath.
New rules today for our city are that anyone coming from overseas into China has to go to a hotel for at least 24hours to be tested. Previously it was just coming from high-risk areas. Potentially longer hotel stays if someone on the flight tests positive.
Was reading this discussion Metafilter about fun social activities that don’t involve leaving the house. Anyone else considered anything, got any ideas?
There is food in there, it’s not just dish of chillis.
Tea and sun 🌞
Played Fibbage with some friends in Australia over video chat. It was fun! I find making the effort to initiate calls or videos difficult even with close friends.
Apple Music normally puts similar music in my Favourites Mix but this week it’s given me Slipknot, Tool, Black Sabbath and also Pink, Sia and the Spice Girls.
Question: I mostly use my Macbook at home but if I bought a extra monitor - would it work with a Nintendo Switch too?
It’s funny - now self-distancing/isolation/quarantine has hit the Western world there’s more discussion I can read about it. Like people discussing what to do with their kids or what they can do to organize games or online adult stuff. And I don’t know how I feel about all that.
This one was hard work trying to decide what to put in it. It’s been a tough few days but I wanted to finish it.
Mum and dad took us out of school for 8 months when I was 9. They were both teachers and we did an hour a day. We came back ahead not behind.
And that worries me.
Some kids are definitely benefiting from being out of school so long and some kids are really not.
Anyone else manage to keep things in check as long as you need to be. Then when you don’t need to be, your body goes… NOPE.
I feel like that today. Someone came to help out at home and I feel more out of it than I have the 7 other weeks we’ve been self-isolating.
Feeling a little better for going outside for milk tea and dumplings. First time eating out in a while.
Day 52. Lyra and I have never been bored with 2 small children but today has been hard because I just want to sit and mope. And I can’t. And that’s really hard.
It’s strange. Now that things are getting worse in the West there’s lots more for me to read about it. Like this article on Kottke about social distancing. Here in China we had no choice.
I’m sweating, my mouth burns and my nose is running. Sick? No, just Lyra wanted hot pot for dinner.
I think that one of the hardest bits of the self-isolation is, since we’ve been with the kids pretty much 24/7 for 7 wks now, neither us gets time to just ‘reset’ or ‘fully relax’. That’s why I feel like I’m always on the verge of running out of patience.
Health check to get into the shopping centre.
Friday 13th was day 50 for us. Tomorrow we’re planning to all go out in the car for the first time since it started. We’re now able to do that. Just as the situation elsewhere seems like it’s just starting.
E and I went out of the compound today. First time I’ve been out in 4 weeks. Which sounds crazy when I say it out loud but here it’s the new normal. We walked up to the shops who took our temperatures before went in. Supermarket was pretty busy though. Restaurants are half-open, you can only take away.
Self-isolation vol:4. What’s on you mind?
One of the singer finalists on Chinese tv is doing the show from his flat!
Morning routine. Coffee and kettlebells.
