I just decided to get a year’s sub to TTG. I had one before and took a year off. I got some nice goodies (tickets their live show in 2021, if it happens two boardgames: Panic Diner and a strategic Marvel Heroclix tie in that’s probably pants but has nice minis, so no bother.
The kick back against lockdown has started I notice:
It was bound to happen and makes sense to query it, since for some people it must be hell… but if the future is hybrid then that would be a good outcome.
One does feel they should have asked people who’d been doing this for longer. My reading plummetted when I stopped commuting and didn’t have reading-only time blocked out of each day, but I learned to do it deliberately instead.
Yeah … if obligatory travel before work is the only time one has to daydream, meditate, or do nothing at all I would wager not commuting is not the problem …
Routines are really helpful for a lot of people, but pretending that having an extra hour or more of your day locked up on top of work is somehow better for mental health and the thing preventing people from burning out seems kinda wild.
Teleworking is, on the whole, a terrible fit for me. I would much rather have a work day away from home and also skip the commute via teleporter.
Still more things to do with Viking: I parse its file to generate a scrolly zoomy Leaflet.js map with locations sorted into layers, and pop-up links to Streetview.