Things are sort of in a slump here - my part of Germany is still in lockdown, with the first little bits of restriction getting loosened up. However, things feel like they did for a few weeks now, and even though time flies by in some way, I'm sort of starting to suffer under the limited input. Even though I have wonderful company in the Most Patient Husband and the little cat, and we're in the incredibly lucky situation of not having to worry about money yet, and having a garden, the lockdown does take its toll in some way.
There's no fairs, no face-to-face meetings with friends, no relaxed chatting with others in real life, no sitting having a coffee in our favourite café, no bouldering. There's also the knowledge that most of this will have to go on for a while still, and it does start to get to me by now. We're trying to make the best out of the situation, and there's nice stuff happening in the garden, there's video boardgaming, we're trying out different kinds of strength training to come back to the boulder wall as well-prepared as possible, and trying to see the good things happening as much as possible. Nevertheless, our lives have been disrupted by the lockdown for long enough now to feel annoying and tedious, more than it being a sudden crisis. Also, even with social media, telephone, and video chatting, a lot of our social life has gone into hiatus, and it does have an impact.
Theoretically, I now have lots of time to work on the to-do-list and on older projects, to finish them off, or to start new ones. I have to admit, though, that nothing spectacular has happened in that area. A chunk of my time these days is getting used to keep up on the news; there's been some more leisure time, too, since the Most Patient Husband had time off during the last two weeks, and I did prefer to join him for longer breakfasts and a nice cup of coffee in the afternoon instead of working at maximum efficiency. The latter has suffered a little anyways, from a stint of sleeping not so well combined with a bit of general meh due to the situation. I'm quite determined to remedy both problems, and there's already been good progress on the sleep part (even though the little cat has steadfastly refused to join me when I took a nap).
So. Since we're probably all stuck in similar situations, I think it might be a good idea to stir things up a bit and to give me (and hopefully you too) something else to think about. Hence I've decided it is time again to do an Ask me Anything - so please feel free to ask me stuff in the comments. Anything.* Go be creative!
I'll answer stuff in form of blog posts - a collected one, if answers are short, or single blog posts if I am getting verbose about a topic.
*In case something feels too personal, I will let you know, but knowing the readers of this blog, I do suspect that won't happen.