Five Things Make a Post

[pedanther]

. I have now been working from home for a bit over three weeks. So far, I have stuck to dressing in work clothes on work days, although I haven't been bothering with unnecessary fripperies like shoes. I haven't been having much trouble keeping track of what day it is; keeping a daily diary probably helps there. One thing I have noticed being affected is laundry; in olden times, there would be only a few days a week that I had time to do a full load of laundry, which concentrated my attention and made it easier to decide it was time to do it, but now that I can do laundry any day there's less impetus to go "today's the day", and I've repeatedly left it later and later until I had to do it because I was one day away from running out of something.


. As predicted, working at home and having all my evening social groups in suspension hasn't made an enormous difference to how much more I get done around the house nor to how quickly my to-read and to-watch lists have been depleted. I've been thinking about why this is, particularly during moments when I've been lying on the couch moaning "there's nothing to do" and meaning "there's a bunch of things to do, but I don't feel like doing any of them, even the fun ones", and I think part of it is related to how I'm bad at making irrevocable decisions. Choosing to spend a couple of hours watching a particular movie or reading a particular book means choosing not to do any of the other things I might be doing instead, and what if it's a poor choice and I could be spending my time better, and so on and so on. Of course, the same could be said about lying on the couch moaning, or spending four hours on the internet doing nothing in particular, and somehow my brain doesn't have any problem with those. Brains are weird.


. I've been keeping an eye on some of the various theatrical groups that are making portions of their back catalogues available online, but so far have only got around to watching two: the Jesus Christ Superstar with Tim Minchin as Judas, and the National Theatre's Treasure Island with Arthur Darvill as Long John Silver. I thought about watching the National Theatre's One Man, Two Guvnors, which I remember hearing got good notices at the time, but I kept putting it off until it was too late, possibly because it doesn't star any actors I like. Probably the same thing is going to happen with The Phantom of the Opera, which isn't available much longer.


. Our roleplaying campaign has successfully transitioned to meeting online through Roll20. We've had two online sessions so far, completed our first adventure, and picked up a new party member, because it occurred to my sister that the advantage of being stuck playing online instead of face-to-face is that we're not limited to players we know locally, so she's invited a friend who lives miles away to join us.


. Still playing Alto's Adventure. Still charmed by the snow-scooting llamas.

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

The llamas do look pretty cute! (One of them seems to be maybe building an igloo as well?)

[pedanther]

Both of them are sliding down the mountainside at high speed, throwing up a spray of snow behind. The clouds of snow are made of little squares, because a lot of the elements in the game that aren't people or llamas are made up of basic geometric shapes. You can probably see that the mountains are all basic triangles; so are the leaves on the trees, when there are trees.

[ariaflame]

I know what you mean about irrevocable decisions. And our transition to roll20 has also picked up extra people.

[fred_mouse]

no shoes for work is definitely one of the perks of the situation.