Working adaptations

You don't have to smile all the time on a video conference. Maintaining 'interested-engaged-face' is exhausting. Tell people it is OK not to smile, and OK to turn their video off for a few minutes. Spending a whole day bouncing from one video meeting to the next is exhausting.

A little yoga helps with tight hips and legs, especially pigeon pose and downward dog. Mid-morning workout breaks are a mood-booster, if nothing else for the smug feeling of not having to workout after work. I have to make myself get up, stretch, pace, and walk during the day, where in the office I spent a lot of time walking between meetings and to talk to people.

It is a rare meeting that is without a visiting cat, dog, child, or spouse. That's absolutely fine too!

Commute time has turned into 'purring cat wanting to show how cute she is so she gets fed' time. It's an improvement but I really miss my highway driving time and singing in the car. Singing in the car in the garage isn't the same, and the neighbours can hear me.

Karate lessons and group class is happening over Zoom, and it's working, I'm learning Long 4 kata, which is new to me. Sworkit is making me get regular workouts in also.

My sewing machine, a 1914 Singer model 28k ('k' means it was made in Clydesdale, Scotland, obviously) with a turn handle, still works. So far I've made a face mask for a friend and a lined drawstring bag for me, which is more sewing than I did in the previous decade and a half, or possibly ever.