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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. All my coping tips are under this tag. 

Today’s tip is to take a different route when you next go somewhere.

I go a lot less places than I used to before the pandemic. It’s something that never really mattered to me, but it stands out now. My Google travel timeline each month is way less diverse than I’d like.

However, I do go to the grocer, the gym, and coach a little volleyball. Those are relatively short trips, but I can go out of my way a little. The other day, I was going to the gym, and normally it’s a fairly straight, short set of roads. However, I can go a little past my normal turn and turn into a neighborhood that loops back behind the gym. It’s a slower route through some neighborhoods, but it also goes alongside the E-470 highway outside Denver.

It used to be a very open route, but there has been more development, and there’s less open space. The nature of the changing world, but not a welcome site. As many others feel, I wish the area was more like when I moved here.

In any case, it was a nice drive, windows open, heat blasting, music turned up.

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. All my coping tips are under this tag. 

Today’s tip is to connect with someone near you – share a smile or chat.

One of the things I’ve still been able to do this month is go to yoga at the gym. I try to go a couple times a week, and then practice at home some times.

Recently, I went early and saw someone I lightly knew from class. Rather than just sit and start my own warmup, I said hi, asked how they were doing and spent a couple minutes engaging pleasantly with someone else.

That’s one of the things that doesn’t happen often during the pandemic, and it is something I appreciate taking the time to do.

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. All my coping tips are under this tag. 

Today’s tip is to switch off your tech 2 hours before bedtime.

I try to get away from my computer after work. I am lucky in that I have a separate office and PC. I typically don’t use a computer after hours, and I try not to use my phone too much at night. I do read on it, which I don’t count as “tech”, and have gotten better at not switching to check other things.

I decided recently to skip reading and instead, just put my phone on the charger and ignore it. My wife and I do watch some TV at night, but I took time to instead hang out, play some cards, play some guitar, and relax without any digital anything.

It was a nice break. Something I should do more often.

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. All my coping tips are under this tag. 

Today’s tip is to get moving. Do something physically active (ideally outdoors).

I am going to get active today. I’m taking a couple days off with my wife and heading to the mountains to ski. I went for the first time last week with a friend, and this will be my first time with my wife. We’re driving up early and will spend a couple days enjoying the outdoors, getting some exercise, and taking a break from life.

I hope you find a way to do something similar soon.