Tag: life

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each day here.

Today’s tip is to join a friend doing their hobby and find out why they love it.

Joining someone else isn’t really a good idea or very possible during this time. Colorado is slightly locked down, so it’s not necessarily legal, and likely not a good idea to join someone else.

However, my daughter picked up some supplies and started knitting recently. I decided to sit with her a bit and see how the new hobby is progressing. It’s something I’ve been lightly interested in, and it looks somewhat zen to sit and allow your hands to move along, building something while you sit quietly. I remember reading about Rosey Grier picking up the hobby years ago.

I have done some minor paracord crafts, usually making some bag pulls for the kids I coach. This was similar, and while I don’t need another hobby now, I enjoyed watching her work.

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each day here.

Today’s tip is to tune in to a different radio station or TV channel.

I enjoy sports radio. For years while I commuted, I caught up on what was happening with the local teams in the Denver area. With the pandemic, I go fewer places, and I more rarely listen to the station.

I miss that a bit, but when I tuned in online, I found some different hosts. One that I used to really enjoy listening to is Alfred Williams. He played for the Broncos, and after retirement, I enjoyed hearing him on the radio.

I looked around, and found him on 850KOA. I’ve made it a point to periodically listen in the afternoon, hear something different, and enjoy Alfred’s opinions and thoughts again.

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each day here.

Today’s tip is to set aside regular time to pursue an activity you love.

For me, I don’t know I love a lot of things, but I do enjoy guitar and I’ve worked on it a lot this year. The last month, I’ve let it go a bit, but I’m getting back to it. I try to remember to bring it downstairs to my office, and I’ll take some 5-10 minute breaks and play.

I’ve also started to put together a little time on Sat am to work through a course, and build some new skills.

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each day here.

Today’s tip is to make a meal using a recipe or ingredient you’ve not tried before.

While I enjoy cooking, I haven’t experimented a lot. Some, but not a lot. I made a few things this year that I’ve never made before, as an experiment. For example, I put together homemade ramen early in the pandemic, which was a hit.

For me, I had never made donuts. We’ve enjoyed (too many) donuts during the pandemic, but most aren’t gluten free. I have a cookbook that includes and one for donuts. It’s involved, like bread, with letting the dough rise twice and then frying in oil.

I told my daughter I’d make them and she got very excited. I didn’t quite realize what I’d gotten myself into, and it was hours after my girl expected something, but they came out well.

It felt good to make these. My Mom had made something similar when I was a kid, but I’d never done them until now.