Happy anniversary! It’s over a year since I started working from home. Crazy times. As a “person with a predisposing condition for severe COVID-19”, I am fortunate that I can work remotely from my own lair and minimize all unnecessary contacts. Instead of early mornings and endless travel, I get to slouch on my own comfy chair, wear fat pants and munch snacks in meetings. Life could be worse! Like it probably is for those people whose work actually matters – i.e. health care, public safety, transportation, logistics etc.

It’s easy to sum up a whole year with two words. Nothing happened. The honeymoon period of remote work ended fast, and days have blurred together ever since. It’s like living the Groundhog Day again and again. The only variation are the lunch menu and the direction of our day walks. One noteworthy thing did occur, though: we finally bought a house. Spending all the time at home listening to the noisy upstairs neighbours drove me ̶a̶l̶m̶o̶s̶t̶ completely mental. In the end they got evicted (after trashing their place) and we ended up buying a place of our own. There’s only two ways I’ll ever move back to an apartment building: either I go deaf or dead. Now my only upstairs neighbours are magpies and squirrels: oh the bliss!

Although I decided to share the accumulated photos in two batches, I haven’t taken this few pictures in a decade. All the sitting at home has somewhat smothered my passion for photography, but also rekindled my love for first-person shooters. Perhaps I should start a blog about schooling the (mostly Russian) youth in the ancient art of Counter-Strike instead. Ence (and others), I’m still available! 😉