@Bee ok I guess.. still in the office so still got money coming in which is good. Going a bit stir-crazy with just Home->Office->Home->Office->Supermarket->Home->Office though.
@Bee typically I do a reasonable amount - but with one thing and another I've been a bit.. erm.. lax this year so I'm going to try and take this as an opportunity to get some fitness back
I was hoping to join a rugby team when I moved here but then I went along to a session of volleyball with my partner a couple of weeks ago and realised how unfit I'd gotten - i think it's a good chance to just get my base fitness back to the stage I can at least cope with the warmups...
I'm encountering similar resolutions these days- been quite fit during my 20's and 30's, but the last 5 years I slacked off quite a bit as well, and sitting behind a screen for 8h a day just makes it worse. I started to do some cross-fit exercises at home for a couple of times but never pulled it through for more than 2-3 weeks. Additionally I just love beer (in reasonable amounts of course), which adds up to my problem ;)
@motosubatsu I feel you - when the work-load becomes overwhelming, other things (personal fitness, family, social life etc.) suffer - Hopefully you will have the time and strength to pick up where you left!
@iLuvLogix that's the hope.. I'm struggling to find the time/energy this week so far though, we're pretty shorthanded at work and it's not leaving me with much left over. Hopefully the weekend should be a different story - there's not much else to do then!
@Neo so so I guess.... town is like a ghost town, just gangs of thugs roaming around at night.... mass prison escape just recently but the villagers caught them all as of yesterday. No confirmed cases of covid but everything non essential has closed, essential stuff is on skeleton staff. We have the advantage that we can feed ourselves from the land, and most people do anyway. So it's mostly govt people affected.
Only thing worried me personally was staying up 3 nights in a row in case some escapers jumped the fence. I think the response from the First World wasn't well thought out or ruthless enough which is affecting a bunch of countries. It's an economic disaster in some countries by the look of it.
@Kilisi It's an economic disaster in the first world too. I'm in germany and our economy is going straight into the toilet
orders are steady at my workplace but so, so many small businesses are 2-4 weeks away from inevitable bankruptcy despite a massive government help program
dire times ahead
and of course, the virus is still here and killing people every day
@Bee yeah those are empty but I can get the fresh stuff and my kids need meat. I cant even get hot dogs and you can't find chicken at all. we have to go to mcdonalds if we want anything with meat in it.
A lot of the vegan alternatives are very difficult to tell the difference and have plenty of protein - don't get me wrong I'm a massive carnivore but desperate times...
Oh that's lucky - not sure why I thought you were UK based!
Every week one of the grocery stores near me runs out of something surprising. Last week one of them ran out of flour. This week one of them almost ran out of table salt. What's really weird about the salt is that there were runs on rice, beans (bagged, not canned), and pasta well before that so it's like those people only just realized you need salt to cook those things.
@Magisch I meant the First World, third World doesn't have 'real' economies. They're part of other countries economies mostly to be exploited.
the advantage is that most people have no money or jobs to lose apart from the elite families and live off the land. I'm exceptional in that I'm not part of an elite family, and I don't rely locally for a lot of my revenue stream, and I grow a lot of food. There are very few self-reliant people here.
So the people jumping up and down crying are the minority.
And they're mostly parasites anyway... ahaha... ok rant finished