Title:  COVID Status
Date:  20200404
Tags:  me
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Well everyone is talking about their COVID-19 situation and I've been lacking
motivation to write about anything, so I guess I can go with the crowd.

I've been working from home for a few weeks.  It's OK.  I'm not particularly
social but I do work in a support role and prefer direct interaction with people
over email and tickets.  Interacting with people at work is an easy way to be
social for me so I do miss that.  Of course, there are certain people at work
that I really like and I miss seeing them.

Two problems with working from home for me.  One is that I have a standing desk
at work.  I have a problematic back and standing has been an amazing improvement
in my life.  At home, since I spend way less time here than at work, I don't
have such a setup.  I have one piece of furniture, a DVD cabinet, that is at
about the right height to stand at but it's tiny.  I can just about cram a
monitor and keyboard onto it.  I have been using that for about half the work
day and sitting on my couch for the rest of the time.  Not great.  I need to be
standing more.

The second problem is that after work, I usually tend to sit on the couch with
my laptop catching up on the world via the internet or working on 8080 assembly
or OpenBSD ports.  But since I tend to be on the couch working for at least part
of the day, I have zero interest to then switch to my personal computer and
continue that situation.

I have been sort of switching over to my summer hobby, which is working on old
cars.  The weather hasn't been great for it yet, thought.  Still a little chilly
and rainy, but getting there.  I wanted to finish my 8080 assembler before
Summer, but since I don't feel like spending my evenings on my computer anymore,
I don't think that's going to happen.  Hopefully I can remember where I left off
when I pick up retro-computing again in the Fall.

Overall, I'm more than fine with isolation.  I don't usually see people outside
of work.  I don't get lonely and I don't get bored.  I can entertain myself and
I have plenty to do.  What sucks, though, is that I tend to get motivated to do
something specific and if I can't because of weather or the work situation or,
at this time, the pandemic, then that gets frustrating.

I have people in my life that I am especially worried about in this situation
and that's a source of stress but I'm not one of them.