Just the IRL: 2021 'Nice Life-y Things' Post

[tetsab]

Alright, per the last post here's

January

• 01st: A co-worker drops off a counter-top dishwasher he no longer needs 'cause he's just moved into a full size house in my neighbourhood. Have I installed this dish-washer to date yet? No. No I have not (so I guess I don't hate hand-washing dishes quite as much as I hate the idea of dealing with plumbing!)
• Picked-up by sister after work to visit for my birthday

February

• 12th: Work grants us a bonus day off for an extra long weekend. What did I do with it? Probably just stared at my computer like most days!
• 26th: evening_tsar visit

March

• 19th: 'tsar again

April

• 07th: 'Best friend from highschool' (BFFH) pops by

May

• 21st: Another bonus day off. Just as many ??? about what I got up to as the Feb one!

August

• 14th: Visit for sister's birthday
• 20th: Meet up with co-workers in a local park for a picnic

September

• 03rd: Beers on a patio with one of my former direct reports
• 11th: Dinner with BFFH
• 18th: Off to the Toronto Islands to celebrate the birthday of one of evening_tsar's friends

October

• 02th: Guided local ravine walk with 'tsar
• 24th: 'tsar birthday dinner

November

• 06th: Pre-NaDruWriNi pub music night quiz (1st since March 7th, 2020)
• 08th: Drove myself to Bracebridge for a week (loads of walking in the day and watching Netflix She-Ra in the evening ;P)
• 30th: First concert since February 2020! (Just before Omicron rather abruptly became a thing): She Past Away & K0M0D0

... annnnnnd that's it! That's all she wrote (in the ole calendar) for IRL stuff in 2021. Yeesh.

The highlight, I think, was the trip to the Islands for that birthday party. I love the Islands in general and it was the right balance of perfect weather (not too hot, not too cold) with multiple humans (most strangers to me) being well-behaved through to the sunset pack-up.

Comments

[greylock]

Still more that I did!

[tetsab]

*laugh* maybe you'd surprise yourself if you counted that there's more than you remember. Even if there isn't more than this sometimes I surprise myself just in looking (which is a big part of the point of these posts!).

I looked back after posting to confirm that August to November 2021 was The Period Of Optimism where there was still caution (masking / outdoors events) but because I got my 2nd vax in July and Omicron wasn't a thing yet you see a fair bit of expansion before it all hugely contracted again through '22.

[greylock]

From memory, I had 2-3 social events in 2021 that involved more than one person, and not my family.

[evening_tsar]

That was a good party. It may also have been the last time I saw Glen in person, so bittersweet as well.