It's the monthly review, the second half of the year must be better than the first.
The lockdown diary:
- NSW numbers keep going up, other states watching curiously
- NSW finally sign up for the lockdown strategy
- VIC back to no masks in the office after 6 weeks or more
- For one week...
- VIC two outbreaks from that escalating NSW outbreak
- Both reported to be caused by people doing the wrong thing
- VIC 5th lockdown for 5 days
- Or longer...
- Called 'lockdown 5.0' for some reason
- Lots of apartment buildings and entire schools being shut down
- Lucky not to be living in an apartment right now...
- Every day the news reports people waiting in line for several hours to get tested
- Every day is a 'critical' next 24 or 48 hours
- VIC lockdown extended for another 7 days
- SA also in lockdown at the same time
- NSW numbers past 200
- Looks like they are headed for months of lockdown, which impacts everyone
- VIC lockdown finished but usual restrictions remain
- No AFL crowds for two weeks or more
- QLD lockdown just in time to replace SA and VIC
- All the sports leagues conveniently relocated before the shutdown
Nothing to be excited about for running. Gold Coast restrictions were removed right in time for the proposed marathon weekend, the event was already cancelled but rugby league games were back at 100% capacity...
Managed two more parkrun course PBs before they were shut down in Victoria for the rest on July and beyond. Similarly the Run Melbourne event for late July was cancelled and Run 4 The Kids in late August. The only big event left for the year is Melbourne Marathon in October and it's impossible to predict what the situation will be - making it almost impossible to commit any serious training. I was going to be eligible for the preferred start due to older age group, but then they made the criteria like three minutes faster !
I'm finally due to retire a few pairs of shoes, which coincided with another trip to the Nike Outlet to buy even more shoes - also got lucky to miss being at a covid exposure site by one day. Got a pair of Infinity Run 2 - which look quite similar to version 1, and some very cushioned Invincible - not sure if they are best suited for weekend long runs or daily running.
Lots of injuries this month - sore left shin once again, which has been recurring for several years, sore right foot, have to verify if it was being caused by a narrow pair of Pegasus 37 I started wearing, and some strange stomach pain for a few weeks of various severity, hopefully it's some kind of muscle strain rather than anything internal.
Still nothing exciting happening with shares, just grinding out a slow recovery since the big dip in March, not sure if I'll reach my target by the end of the year.
We reached the end of the Euro 2020 competition with a bit of an uneventful final, decided by a penalty loss to England. I think every news report had the same headline - 'Football's not coming home, it's going to Rome' which wasn't even clever the first time I heard it. I only got to watch a little of the NBA finals, the most I saw was from game five which seemed to resemble an all-star game with no defense. Anyway it was my preferred outcome that the Milwaukee Bucks won.
A similar issue with trying to watch the first week of the Olympics, a lot of the medal events are during the day but I'm either busy with work or running during my lunch break to see a lot of the competitions. I should try to make the most of it as the next two won't be in favourable time zones - and maybe we won't be stuck working from home by 2024.
There's not a lot to do at the moment:
- Galaxy A52 upgrade
- Loaded all data from Galaxy A50 using Samsung Switch app
- It was fairly seamless but had to do a lot of reconfiguration:
- Login to all mobile apps again
- Reconnect Garmin device
- Reset 2FA authenticator codes - very painful to get the QR codes again
- Running Calendar
- Generally cancelling all plans is my current activity
- Melbourne Marathon registered
- Run Melbourne registered but cancelled within a month
- A few other Melbourne possibilities, nothing exciting
Just back working at home five days a week again. Had a bit more focus on development this month which was good for a change.
That's it for this month.
- Books
- None
- Movies
- Fear Street Part 1 1994
- Like a bad Scream remake with younger high school kids
- 3 out of 10
- Music
- None
- TV
- Clarice
- Started promising, but the main story for the season wasn't very good
- 6 out of 10
- Survivor South Africa season 4
- Just an average season
- 5 out of 10
- Video Games
- Xbox One
- Console factory reset
- I think I had a bad upgrade as the desktop wasn't working properly
- Took a long time to load, couldn't login and half of the items weren't rendering
- It's annoying that you keep game download data but lose all saves, lucky I had none in progress
- Call Of Duty - Infinite Warfare
- Just finished off some achievements
- Call Of Duty - World War 2
- A much different gameplay with limited health supplies
- The story was much better although a little short
- Just annoying you can't skip the story on the second playthrough
- 8 out of 10
- Xbox One - Xbox 360 compatibility mode
- Call Of Duty - Ghosts
- An older game but still good gameplay
- 7 out of 10