Friday Five — self-care et al.

[metawidget]

What have you done lately for improving or maintaining your mental health? What more would you like to do?

I have been getting outside and moving almost every day — running, walking, biking — most days for an hour or more. I'm lucky to have that time to do it, and it feels good to move, get fresh air, and see my local area and how it all fits together. I know where my tofu burgers come from! I know how to get between neighbourhoods! Also, I got my first dose of COVID-19 vaccine (Team BioNTech/Pfizer for the curious, although really Team Get Something In My Arm), which is one thing off my mind and a step toward getting to the After Times.

When did you last eat something specifically because it was good for you?

I think the only thing I "eat" for health reasons is actually making a point of drinking water. I'll remind myself to take it easy on something rich or vapid but I try to eat things that I like eating.

These days, what are you learning about, and what would you like to learn about next?

Management, union-ing, exercise training (taper! cross-train! stretch!), 18xx games (mostly 1846).

What’s positive about your physical appearance lately?

I trimmed my hair and beard yesterday! And I'm a bit sleeker than pre-pandemic thanks to all this running.

What will you do this weekend to bring joy into your life and a smile to someone else?

I'm going to play silly online games with a friend living alone, help make nice food appear for Mother's Day, and DM a D&D session with some of my favourite people. And probably get outside on feet or wheels.

From f.riday5.com

Comments

[onebadscrivener]

Sounds like a heck of a weekend. My thing for number 4 is also related to facial hair. How odd!

It's spot the metawidget day!

[beable]

Apparently sightings of people not recently seen happen in packs: I spotted you on 18xx (I've been playing there for awhile but have only recently decided that asyc games are enjoyable after all and now I have several though still fewer than dagibbs) and then after waving hello on 18xx 5-10 min I got an email with union email photo study thingies in it!

Actually I probably got the email first, but I don't count email as having been received until I've actually looked at it.

Re: It's spot the metawidget day!

[metawidget]

I am everywhere, and most of them are me (unlike all the unbeables who keep giving your e-mail address) ;). That article started out in the AGM programme but it seems to have many uses!

I still have trouble getting from "make functional railroad" to "make me a lot of money" on 18xx, but I feel like it's coming (and I'm not sure if 1846 counts as training wheels or a good place to learn there, but partial capitalization seems like an intuitive way to do things to me compared to 1830-style capitalization).

Re: It's spot the metawidget day!

[beable]

My doppelgangers are many, yes.
People on the site do seem to use 1846 or 18Chesapeake as the suggested learning games (chesapeake is more like 1830 though, except trains disappapear so it is a shorter game).

I think given your description of what you like about 1846 you'd probably like 1867: it has partial capitalization and the ability to do full/half/withhold for payments but adds minor corporations and the ability to convert or merge corporations. It also has both options for the kind of stock market 1846 has (default) or the 2-d grid option.

Plus it's set in Canada (Mostly the Quebec City-Windsor corridor , but with some northern Ontario as well).

I bet getting a game going with me, Dagibbs and another Ottawa suspect or two (even async) would be entirely plausible.