Empty road outside our flat. There’s never only 1 car on it.
Empty road outside our flat. There’s never only 1 car on it.
This piece on why millennials are bad at hobbies is interesting, particular about how much harder it is to pick up new things as you get older.
There's a world outside. And I know, 'cos I've heard talk In my sweetest dream, I would go out for a walk. Not Ready Yet - The Eels
Fell over these lyrics again, it was always a favourite song but now, stuck inside as we are (day 11!), they have taken on a new meaning.
I did pay for Day One , the journaling app, but honestly, I never stick with it.
So, I have a glut of posts titled Day One. Which is me starting out, again. Me, starting over, because that’s ok. Even if I forget it a lot and have a tendency to beat myself up over things - particularly losing my patience.
Today is Day One again.
We are in the lucky position of having 2 small children while being stuck inside. So there’s posts floating round of, ‘things you can do with your children’ and now, ‘things you can do to be entertained and healthy’. The struggle is, for us the how to do both those things, with the added difficulty of the kids being the age they are.
I’d sit on the sofa and watch tv but anything I want to watch isn’t appropriate and trying to exercise/meditate/work/read/study/write is difficult when the other parent is struggling with the kids again.
So our free time is nap time and when they go to bed and invariably during those times neither of us has the energy to do much.
Enhance.
Clack, clack, clack. Feels like we’re on a rollercoaster but stuck on the first long ascent.
Wife went to get exit permits for the kids today but it was closed, so will have to wait till Monday. Lots of nervous talk amongst friends about whether to leave or stay. Just read that UK is starting to withdraw some Embassy and Consulate staff too.
How I’m doing. Two graphs on Day 10 to show effects of staying at home because of the Coronavirus.
Started preparing some things for students next week, since school is closed, and it was nice to be doing something finally! At least it distracts me from worrying about the virus situation. The problem is going to be fitting in working around them.
Occurred to me as I was chatting to a friend, the longest one of us has been out of the flat in the last 7 days is 90mins. Which was when I went to the supermarket.
Since we ‘trapped’ at home at the moment, I made this for my wife and I. A voucher for some free time. With having two, and the ages they are. It’s all hands on deck most of the time. Which we are finding stressful, coupled with the stress of worrying about the situation.
My vote don’t count - Aimed at America but plenty of takeaways for others too, about the importance of voting. As a Brit there’s plenty of things about America that worry me. Yet, there’s still so many things that are amazing. Hopeful we’ll get to visit this summer though.
It’s an interesting thought, I read on an email called Digitally Well, that I now pretty much lurk on the internet. How that wasn’t true before Twitter and Facebook when forums and smaller sites were a think. I don’t know what changed. Did I just get old?
I read this story on Reddit a long time ago. It’s the story of a man getting help with his tire. A nice, reminder that there is good in the world. Anyway, someone made a video of it- today you, tomorrow me . #Onions
Day 5 of trying to not leave the flat in China. Still a constant battle to keep the kids entertained and find a little time for ourselves too. Though, it seems like supermarkets have veg now (they didn’t), which is something.
With the Coronavirus, the foundation I work for has shut their schools in mainland China. We were due to go back to work on the 3rd but now will go back on the 17th. We’re planning to not go if we can help it but it means we’re ‘trapped’ at home…
When they lead with the you looking sheepish…
In the last 5 minutes, I’ve read that Flickr are raising their prices, I don’t know what to do with all those photos, and that Sonos is ending updates for some of their old stuff. Sonos doesn’t effect me, yet but will eventually.
Today in the spirit of, ‘if I want to want my children and students a to be willing to try then I must also try’, I got up on the stage with other teachers and did a dance routine in front of the whole. Went as expected, but I did it.
Anyone else not able to imagine being in any other job? (Regardless of how you feel about your job.)
Throwing stuff in the bin always makes me nervous. Especially fast food restaurants when I’m tipping stuff off the tray. Am I throwing my car keys in the bin?!
E likes to get me to draw something and then she colours it in. She works on her drawing and I work on my sketching skills. Win win. Here she needed the picture I used to make sure she got the colours right.
Reasons to be cheerful is a site that tries to do what it says, highlighting some of the reasons to be optimistic in today’s world. Today they have an article titled Is It Okay to Copy China? And it highlights some of the things I think about a lot living here.
Found the photo I was thinking of the separate devices/things I used to carry around in 2008.Camera, iPod, phone, wallet and book. I even wrote that my phone was capable of all 3, which it was but not in the way my iPhone is.
L was complaining about her iPhone 8 camera yesterday. Which is more of a complaint that it isn’t a newer iPhone.
It makes me reminisce about my first phone camera, I think. Sony W800i, and the photos you could take. Also, about how having a separate camera. I kinda miss that.