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What did you do this week?
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
Just finished shopping. What was around a $200 grocery bill is now around $325. Dollar General and Walmart are threadbare, more than half empty when it comes to the food. Hard to find actual meat. Aldi is the only one that seems well stocked at this point. Also a small non-chain local grocery store I won't name since everyone around here has forgotten it exists, and now their prices are the cheapest.
Everyone was out of bird seed. Such a strange thing to run out of right now.
Pretty sure I have enough long-term canned goods and dry goods to last a year. Cleaned and oiled the guns, stocked up on ammo, just in case I need to start eating the cornucopia of wildlife that comes through my front yard. I need to pick up a big floor freezer unit if I'm going to go that way.
I don't know the first thing about butchering animals, but luckily my 1980s-era monster volume of do-it-yourself encyclopedia books has that and more, right down to salting smoking and canning for long term preservation. Might need to think about reviving the old half-acre garden area next year. Not looking forward to that.
NY rolled back the plastic bag ban - apparently it's an infection risk having cashiers handle a customer's bags. We're back to the same paper thin plastics we've always had again. /sigh
The only good thing today was that while I was driving all over town and in more than a half dozen stores, the only people I saw not wearing masks were the ones driving their cars. At least people in NY (even the rural hick-town hardcore conservative types) have taken the mask message to heart.
America, NY is laughing at you. I overheard a couple of old ladies today saying that God sent Covid to punish the stupid people and cleanse them from the Earth. Made me smile, and then feel slightly terrible. :P
Well, I'll be brutally honest, in case it helps anyone. I've done nothing this week. I think I'm burned out.
I'm working from home, so managed to get away with browsing random websites and doing anything I could to avoid challenging work. I did't want to, I feel awful for doing it, but it felt compulsive and unavoidable.
I then found this video which helped clarify a few things for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYWvUoN4yt8
I'm hoping next week will be different. I'm using the weekend to keep calm and slow down a bit. And trying to find a balance between forgiving myself, and poking myself in to action.
Some times I wish I shoveled dirt for a living and didn't think about work after 6pm.
I traveled to new worlds, made a few new homes, played fetch with a robot dog, and fired several bows and Lazer guns. Then I became Spiderman and defeated a giant trash robot.
Of course this was all in VR.
My Oculus Rift S finally came in and boy is is the perfect thing for quarantine. So naturally it comes in during the middle of a workweek long after I was actually quarantined.
And I must say, the experience with this headset is really really good. It's a completely different level from Google cardboard, that's for sure. It's glasses-friendly and fits well on the head. I look forward to the day when I actually get the room clean enough for roomscale experiences.
It was a mostly productive week. I had my first therapy appointment on Monday, set up an appointment with a support group on Tuesday, talked with an endocrinologist on Wednesday, called the employment agency - I didn't need to actually do anything to get unemployment benefits, at least until September - visited Piazza Duomo, visited an LGBT+ bar, called up my municipality this morning, and shopped for new pants and socks.
I'm making progress on my "don't hide inside" quest, and my "get all the documents to begin the name change process" quest is 90% complete.
That sounds like an exhausting amount of emotional effort for a single week, despite your minimization of it as "mostly productive". Please take care of yourself!
Incremental progress toward your goals is a huge achievement in the face of the long journey you've embarked on, even if it can feel inconsequential on a day-to-day basis.
Through a combination of failures of planning, client deadlines, and urgent rescheduling, I've been managing double my normal workload this week. It's doable, but I've been non-functional aside from work. I'm so glad we're interviewing next week for someone to take part of my work, though training someone to help me isn't something I've done well at in the past.
I've been trying to catch up on reading about and experimenting with Ubuntu. I'm still mostly just fiddling around with the basic terminal commands. It's easy enough to learn and pleasingly user-friendly in its design so far.
Also, cool, I didn't know you had ALDI in the US. That place is super-duper when it comes to stocking all the decently-made stuff you never realized you needed 'til you saw it in the weekly sale.
Same goes for LIDL. I swear that I never leave the building without getting something from the central aisle: I actually ended up installing and using their app to keep track of what they are selling, because they have a lot of nice stuff.
I basically got all of my summer wardrobe from them - they had linen pants at €9 each just today - and I really feel I lucked out by living nearby.
Went to physical therapy to get my weird arm sensations looked at, doing exercises and trying to sort out what is pain vs strain vs sensation vs noise.
Also played D&D and my brother's character died to an animated broom. We're playing Curse of Strad, and this broom apparently has a history of taking people out, but my brother was playing a ranged Artificer who spent their initiative pushing the Monk out of the way to get a good look at the magic broom, then Nat 1'd twice on saving throws. He's sorting out if he wants to make a dead guy junior, or enlist one of the random townsfolk to help out.
I'm still recovering from an overly scheduled Thursday.
Otherwise, it's been a massively fun week working at the winery. Aside from a lightning storm that closed the outdoor facility early, the weather has been glorious, the customers have been (mostly) understanding about the mask, social distancing, and sanitation requirements, and appreciative of the wines and service. Following the pattern of previous weird passions that have turned into professions, it wouldn't be hard to make a career in the wine industry here. If the winery job came with health insurance, I wouldn't be looking elsewhere.
We're also getting ready to move this coming week - it's both easier and more difficult than previous relocations. The new place is only a few miles away. It's easier in the sense that there's quite a bit we could move ourselves, and we've got access to the place in advance. More difficult in the sense that the construction isn't as finished yet as the general contractor had promised, we're older and creakier, and we're arguing about what proportion we want to leave to the moving service and what we should do in the time remaining.
This week was the week they closed all the bimestral activities at my school so mostly sending them screenshots of all the activities I've copied from the broadcast of our school classes.
My mother also bought me the remedies recommended by the doctors after the diagnoses. The diagnosis of all the coughed material I talked about last week is coming soon enough IIRC.
I decided to spend the week clearing out an old building that hadn’t been used since around 2014,
I found quite a few interesting things and rather enjoyed doing it apart from all the spiders it was ok,
It took up most of the week and Saturday but had a day off today and I’m going to finish it hopefully next week.
What kind of building is it? and is it yours? Did you just decide to clear out some random building? Do you have plans for it? Just curious.
edit: What kind of things did you find?
It’s a metal storage building, it’s owned by my family and different people have used it over the years but around 2014 it stopped being used,
I plan to keep using it for storage but put things in it I use somewhat regular,
I found some old newspapers that I found quite interesting they were from 2014 so I used that as as an estimate to when it stopped being used, I also found quite a few tools and miscellaneous things.
I was supposed to attend an out-of-state wedding, flying out on Thursday. Woke up that morning with a sore throat, so my partner went without me. I’m really glad I didn’t go, even though I felt fine the next day. I “attended” the wedding via Zoom, and I’m looking forward to the post-COVID celebration of their marriage.
I kept the time off work, played Ring Fit Adventure for the first time, caught up on some TV, got some reading done, and generally chilled out by myself at the house alone. It’s been wonderful.
Have you been tested for Covid? If you haven't, you should find out in case your partner brought it to share as a wedding present.
That’s on my agenda for this week!
I've been cleaning and packing for the past few days. I'm moving in 5 days and I'll be working all this week, so I spent this weekend getting prepped. It's been a hassle getting everything cleaned up (who knew 2 years of stove use would build up so much grease on the kitchen walls), but it has been really satisfying to see things clean.