What are you doing?

[Vinyl-ant]

I don't know about you lot, but I'm already fed up and pissed off with being stuck inside these 4 walls.
I suspect this is a prevalent sentiment.
So what are you doing ?
There are a million keyboard warriors on the interweb tapping and moaning and whining about the situation, and accomplishing the square root of F/A in doing so, other than to contribute to the rising tension in the country. and wind up others. and propogate whatever rumour about this is doing the rounds on social media.
well sod that, I have not been on any sites other than this one and audio talk, and to check in each day on the bbc site after boris the bullet dodger has made his daily proclamation to "do as you are bloodywell told and stay the hell away from anything breathing".

so.

Instead of whingeing, and constant internet surfing to invite on myself as much stress as is humanly possible without exploding, I have done 'stuff'.

amongst other things, I have had a skip and removed every little thing from the garden that could be construed as 'crap'. filled a 4 ton skip, so there was alot. and ended up with backache.....

gone through all cupboards and drawers and little places were screwdrivers/spanners/small tools end up and put them all in the correct toolboxes. of which i have many

pulled out the entire hifi for the first time in years and cleaned all the accumulated dust ect, and given them a once over with a cloth, abit of deoxit here and there then put it all back. cathartic for some reason.

did the same with the telly and its associated stuff like the tv box ect. That was worse. alot worse.

washed every bit of clothing ect that needed doing. those of you with kids will know that blinding joy when you see the bottom of the washing basket for the first time in 12 years.

read a couple of books i have had for years. I recommend hi fidelity by nick hornby. and a load of biographies of various musicians. and mclarens ayrton senna book.

squared the kids away with a study plan. there were fisticuffs.

built up another lenco 75 motor unit

Bte designs type 3 Gl75 conversion by anthony cresswell, on Flickr

made a couple of little house things for the quails my wife has

general pottering about

my advice, do as you are told, stay away from society unless you really really have to, and just look around your pit for something to do. and fergodsake stay off the internet as much as poss if you are of even a remotely nervous disposition.

do those little jobs that have been sat just on the edge of needing doing for ages, if you have some wood/valves/transformers/an old bike/something that wants fixing, whatever, make something. do things to keep the brain engaged rather than sitting on your arse binge watching buffy the vampire slayer. I did that for about 3 days and felt a vegetative state coming on. didnt like it much.

do stuff

[CN211276]

Thankful for the glorious weather at the moment. Have taken lengthy walks in near by countryside and my bored other half has accompanied me. Also spent plenty of time soaking up the sun in the back garden with headphones and a couple of cold ones. In touch with friends I would only see in pubs through emails. Also a dispute with an eBay seller who has not refunded me after returning something which was not as described. Will have to give the lawns the second cut of the year soon.

[NSNO2021]

Revised like there's no tomorrow for 5 interviews, all for the same job, still have two more to go if today's (5th one) has gone well. 10 litre ultrasonic cleaner arrived this morning so tomorrow I will start the process of making it into an LP cleaning machine as per the DIY Audio thread. As for getting bored, never ever, I honestly don't know how with access to the internet and YouTube any one who can see and hear can be bored.

[ArloFlynn]

working nights from home, keeping Argos IT going (Suppose people may need white goods?)s) Also entertaining kiddies. Walking my 87yr old mother round the block, 2 meter distance! Great weather, no cars. I go to bed more knackered than normal times!

Kevin.

[savvypaul]

Been doing this: https://nvahifi.co.uk/pages/optimise-your-nva-system

[NSNO2021]

Been doing this: https://nvahifi.co.uk/pages/optimise-your-nva-system

Good work Paul

[Fretless]

We have a pair of storks clattering merrily on the roof - looks like they might be staying on in the nest there. The last few years all storks have been driven away by Buzzards from the small copse behind the house - they regard this as 'their' hunting ground and haven't been friendly to any competitors.

However with the mild winter there is now an abundance of mice and other small animals - so with a guaranteed food-supply, the storks might be allowed to stay on. Would be nice.

I'm sitting in the kitchen with my laptop, ripping Genesis CD's to WAV files. Hoping to do one band's catalogue per day.
Then later on, into the garden - it is too cold outside at the moment with an icy North wind, despite the bright sunshine.

[scotty38]

Apart from worrying about kids in London and Sheffield it's all business as usual for me here. We are very rural and I spend 99% of my time at home anyway so day to day nothing has changed. I work from home too in IT but manage service delivery to clients. Given my client's business is Healthcare Logistics as you can imagine they are working flat out....

[CN211276]

I would have been up early for a short drive to go fishing, a good tide and lovely weather. Instead had the usual lie in playing music on the second system acceptable to both of us. Currently playing music on the main system which has been enhanced by the switch. Will probably go for a walk later before chilling out in the garden. We will be watching tv tonight or might play a game.

[savvypaul]

Been watching a little less television and reading a few more books. Halfway through BC, and these other 2 just arrived from The River...