I found this interesting:
""The amount of alcohol we are consuming is significantly reduced. We go to bed early and get up early and I'm doing things I never had time to do before."
"I'm really working hard on the business, building processes and systems I never had time to do before," he said."
My partner and I are completely the opposite.
We're staying up later (bingeing West Wing|Line of Duty|Expanse|etc ), to try to forget the drudgery of the working day (which would normally be taken care of by the commute), She's also become a bit of a Skyrim widow :(
Getting up later because we don't need to commute (although we are doing a morning walk instead, about the only exercise we are getting),
Drinking more (at least a glass or wine per evening, sometimes a couple) where we wouldn't normally have any during the week, again I think this is to maintain sanity
Both of us are working from improvised 'desks' that are not really suitable (mine is the dining table with a sit-stand platform and a 2nd monitor, keyboard & trackball) (although today i'm just on the sofa due to unfinished kitchen decorating and my back is already aching), and while we can work, I think we're both missing the office 'banter' that gets you through the day.
Other lockdown restrictions have meant that while I was able to attend my father's funeral last month (my heart really goes out to those who had relatives pass before funeral gatherings were re-opened), we'll have to wait a few more months (hopefully) before we can have a proper celebration of his life. That is merely a single example of the way that the general flow of life has completely changed; well - for those of us who take the restrictions and precautions seriously anyway.
It's got to the point that we're both becoming reluctant to go out and see friends/family (as things open up), because shunning the outside world has almost become our 'normal'. :(
Biting the hand that feeds IT
