Ugh, how is it February already?
Feb. 2nd, 2020 11:12 amApparently I can just recycle subject lines from previous years and they still work. :P
Yes, it's February and we're officially not part of the European Union any more. What a shitshow this has all been. Decisions made based on lies peddled by the media and lapped up by people who want to believe that somehow the EU has been holding us back and we're just going to gambol back into the sunshine as an 'independent' country now they can't do that any more. Bollocks. We're stuck with a government which is massively uncaring (if not openly hostile) to much of the population and little sign of that changing any time soon.
I'm currently also chewing over what to do personally in terms of holidays, as there are plenty of places I want to visit (and have to go for years, in some cases) but there are all sorts of philosophical wheels churning in my head. If I don't see these places soon, some of them might just not be visitable in the future because of climate change and general human fuckery, but if I go then I'm contributing to climate change etc, but if I don't visit them then the people who rely on tourism will suffer. Jeez, life is so much easier if you have no conscience about these sorts of things, isn't it?
Work has settled down a bit, despite the best efforts of the IT changes we're currently undergoing to make how we do our jobs as complicated as possible. I currently have 2 work email addresses and can only print anything at work by emailing stuff to one of them, which account currently takes me 7-8 minutes to log into at work because of the process involving in actually getting in (multi-factor authorisation and so on). After a further run-in with the QA woman, which led to her complaining to my boss about me, I've decided the best way forward is to ignore her completely.
Started the new year in fencing terms with two competitions on the same weekend, which I won't do again if I can possibly help it, especially as there was driving between the different locations involved. The first was against a mixture of UK and European fencers and I had the pleasure of running someone off the back of the piste, as well as roundly beating another who did very well in the national veteran's championship last year. She was having an off day, but I'll take that result anyway! It took forever to then get to the DE fight and I'd checked out before it started, so I didn't do particularly well. I then fenced much better on the Sunday but ran up against someone in the DE who usually has one really good competition result a season and happened to inflict it on me this time around. My next competition is this coming weekend and I'm looking to improve on my result last year, where I finished DFL.
I'm back to working on my overall fitness as well, with attempts at getting into a routine of going to the gym. January is rarely great for this, as the gym is full of new folks with resolutions, but I know what I need to do and it's just a case of going regularly, doing more each time I go, rinse and repeat. At least I have a reason for going, as I can see the difference in how I fence when I'm fitter overall, I just need to keep reminding myself about this!
Yes, it's February and we're officially not part of the European Union any more. What a shitshow this has all been. Decisions made based on lies peddled by the media and lapped up by people who want to believe that somehow the EU has been holding us back and we're just going to gambol back into the sunshine as an 'independent' country now they can't do that any more. Bollocks. We're stuck with a government which is massively uncaring (if not openly hostile) to much of the population and little sign of that changing any time soon.
I'm currently also chewing over what to do personally in terms of holidays, as there are plenty of places I want to visit (and have to go for years, in some cases) but there are all sorts of philosophical wheels churning in my head. If I don't see these places soon, some of them might just not be visitable in the future because of climate change and general human fuckery, but if I go then I'm contributing to climate change etc, but if I don't visit them then the people who rely on tourism will suffer. Jeez, life is so much easier if you have no conscience about these sorts of things, isn't it?
Work has settled down a bit, despite the best efforts of the IT changes we're currently undergoing to make how we do our jobs as complicated as possible. I currently have 2 work email addresses and can only print anything at work by emailing stuff to one of them, which account currently takes me 7-8 minutes to log into at work because of the process involving in actually getting in (multi-factor authorisation and so on). After a further run-in with the QA woman, which led to her complaining to my boss about me, I've decided the best way forward is to ignore her completely.
Started the new year in fencing terms with two competitions on the same weekend, which I won't do again if I can possibly help it, especially as there was driving between the different locations involved. The first was against a mixture of UK and European fencers and I had the pleasure of running someone off the back of the piste, as well as roundly beating another who did very well in the national veteran's championship last year. She was having an off day, but I'll take that result anyway! It took forever to then get to the DE fight and I'd checked out before it started, so I didn't do particularly well. I then fenced much better on the Sunday but ran up against someone in the DE who usually has one really good competition result a season and happened to inflict it on me this time around. My next competition is this coming weekend and I'm looking to improve on my result last year, where I finished DFL.
I'm back to working on my overall fitness as well, with attempts at getting into a routine of going to the gym. January is rarely great for this, as the gym is full of new folks with resolutions, but I know what I need to do and it's just a case of going regularly, doing more each time I go, rinse and repeat. At least I have a reason for going, as I can see the difference in how I fence when I'm fitter overall, I just need to keep reminding myself about this!