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davidcook at 09:31pm on 01/04/2023
davidcook at 09:31pm on 01/04/2023Haven't felt like posting for quite a while now, but figured it was worth it for a special-ish occasion - 20 years (plus one day) since I started on LJ.
Noteworthy things from the last 6 or 7 years which I didn't feel like writing about:
- 2018 we had Family Gastro (first and only time, wiped 4-5 weeks out of the year). I had a bonus bacterial chest infection, and later all but ripped my left thumbnail off ... the night before a fencing competition ... that our club was organising. I still went, helped organise, competed, & won. I came 2nd at the Commonwealth Veterans in Men's Epee ... and a couple of weeks later managed to come down with chicken pox (!).
- 2019 ... I have no idea what we did of note in 2019.
- 2020 ... well, stuff definitely happened in 2020. I remember seeing someone posting on Twitter in January or so, excitedly (or worriedly) about the R0 of this new virus that seemed to be coming out of China, and someone else telling them to calm down, it wouldn't be that bad. By March, my workplace had sent everyone home, whether the VPN was ready or not (it wasn't, but was upgraded remarkably quickly), and that's become the "new normal". I've been to the office only a handful of times since then, and even now as companies push people to go back, I'm in no rush (not helped by train works on my line, bus replacement services adding 30-45 minutes to the journey makes it much easier to skip). And Mum died (not COVID), so ... not a great year, all around.
- 2021 ... some first glimmers of regular life came along? But also more lockdowns and complications. Managed to sneak in some fencing and became National Veteran Men's Epee Champion.
- 2022 ... back to more-or-less normal for school. Still working from home. Went on an epic road trip through Mildura, Coober Pedy, Uluru, back through Coober Pedy, and home via Adelaide in April. Dad died in May (also not COVID). We have a new cat (a stray that my parents had been feeding - was named Kat, now Cleo (short for CleoKatra, thanks kids)). Defended my National Veteran title.
- 2023 ... is passing by in a blur. One of our kids just turned 11, the other turns 8 in a couple of weeks. Just finished my second season of cricket (Mr11 is also playing). Life is whooshing by, and we're heading to Adelaide in a week to (hopefully) finish preparing my parents house for sale.
Whee ... ok, it looks pretty intense in bullet points like that. Certainly been some ups and downs, but mostly we're muddling through ok.
Noteworthy things from the last 6 or 7 years which I didn't feel like writing about:
- 2018 we had Family Gastro (first and only time, wiped 4-5 weeks out of the year). I had a bonus bacterial chest infection, and later all but ripped my left thumbnail off ... the night before a fencing competition ... that our club was organising. I still went, helped organise, competed, & won. I came 2nd at the Commonwealth Veterans in Men's Epee ... and a couple of weeks later managed to come down with chicken pox (!).
- 2019 ... I have no idea what we did of note in 2019.
- 2020 ... well, stuff definitely happened in 2020. I remember seeing someone posting on Twitter in January or so, excitedly (or worriedly) about the R0 of this new virus that seemed to be coming out of China, and someone else telling them to calm down, it wouldn't be that bad. By March, my workplace had sent everyone home, whether the VPN was ready or not (it wasn't, but was upgraded remarkably quickly), and that's become the "new normal". I've been to the office only a handful of times since then, and even now as companies push people to go back, I'm in no rush (not helped by train works on my line, bus replacement services adding 30-45 minutes to the journey makes it much easier to skip). And Mum died (not COVID), so ... not a great year, all around.
- 2021 ... some first glimmers of regular life came along? But also more lockdowns and complications. Managed to sneak in some fencing and became National Veteran Men's Epee Champion.
- 2022 ... back to more-or-less normal for school. Still working from home. Went on an epic road trip through Mildura, Coober Pedy, Uluru, back through Coober Pedy, and home via Adelaide in April. Dad died in May (also not COVID). We have a new cat (a stray that my parents had been feeding - was named Kat, now Cleo (short for CleoKatra, thanks kids)). Defended my National Veteran title.
- 2023 ... is passing by in a blur. One of our kids just turned 11, the other turns 8 in a couple of weeks. Just finished my second season of cricket (Mr11 is also playing). Life is whooshing by, and we're heading to Adelaide in a week to (hopefully) finish preparing my parents house for sale.
Whee ... ok, it looks pretty intense in bullet points like that. Certainly been some ups and downs, but mostly we're muddling through ok.
okay
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