Lockdown Projects

[Sheilbh]

I mentioned in the wider coronavirus thread that I was starting to feel a little aimless and demotivated in just wandering through TV shows/video games/movies/books without any real focus during the lockdown. In my defence, because of a recent injury, I have basically been socially distancing in my flat for 8 weeks already.

So I'm probably going to try some sort of project with a bit of structure just to slightly organise the huge amount of free time rattling around my flat I have and wondered if anyone has started anything like this during lockdown?

Has anyone decided to get into sourdough starters? Or finish the "great book" you could never get into? Or complete Gossip Girl?

(I may steal your ideas )

So far I've got back into cooking (invariably batch cooking). But that doesn't count.

[celedhring]

Finish a spec script I've had in the backburner for the last 4-5 years.

[Monoriu]

I played Fallout 4 on survival difficulty. 

It is great fun. 

[Tamas]

I am still working, just from home, so that's plenty.

[Gups]

Not getting sucked into a perpetual round of video conferences.

[Grey Fox]

Schooling my kids while also working full time.

[The Larch]

I might start learning German.

[Zanza]

I might start learning German.

Viel Erfolg!

I might restart Duolingo for Spanish. And I am adding bits and pieces to my new apartment (bought some plants, some furniture pieces, pictures etc.).

My work will likely resume next Monday (from home), which will keep me busy. I also have to work through a time intensive online training for work.

[Tamas]

Not getting sucked into a perpetual round of video conferences.

Amen.

[Iormlund]

Getting my feet wet with Machine Learning.

[The Larch]

I might start learning German.

Viel Erfolg!

I might restart Duolingo for Spanish.

Let's do a language exchange! 

[Syt]

I have less time working from home than normally, thanks to work impinging more on my free time, and often having to do a few things on Fridays, too (my day off).

I'm still trying to get my free time organized. I have phases where I get absorbed by a topic for a a few years before burning out and moving on. Examples: pro baseball, streaming, writing ... 

Still trying to land on a new one.

In the pipeline are currently 3D modeling, learning Latin, and about 2 dozen different games I desperately want to learn/try.

[DGuller]

Getting my feet wet with Machine Learning.

[mongers]

Watching my toenails grow.


Good topic,Shelf; I should have a think*.


Oh that's an idea, taking up thinking. 

[DGuller]

So far my only lockdown project has been thinking about all the lockdown projects I'd be able to do.  For some reason it's even more difficult getting started on them now than it is in normal times.  I guess the proximity of work to your home makes it hard to coherently structure and compartmentalize your day.