How are you staying in touch with people?

[petra]

It's been a little more difficult than usual being social. How's that going for you, and what kind of conversations are you missing having?

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[fred_mouse]

Our Tuesday night board gaming group has turned to a mix of Zoom (until we run out of free minutes), Discord (where this week we worked out how to do a video chat), and horsepaste.com, which allows for us to play one of our standard games. Next week I think we are going to try a different communal gaming site to see how one of the other standard games goes.

Our Wednesday night singing group experimented with watch2gether.com, which was kind of fun. I found the interface a bit glitchy and it wasn't wonderfully social, but it might be good for other common activities. We are going to try again next week -- possibly picking good Karaoke songs rather than random silliness (which is what we tried this time).

For work, our team is aiming to have a 10 minute morning meeting -- still getting the feel for keeping it short; different people dominate on different days, depending on what the current work topic is, so that is good. And then our morning tea group have a daily meeting over a cuppa, which different people attend depending on their work days. This one is actually starting to be too much people for me, so I might cut that down to M/W/F and see how it goes.

Which pretty much covers my standard social activity. I don't go out in the evenings, people come to me, because it has been a decade and change since I've had the oomph to leave the house in the evenings (I flirt with the idea every few years, nothing has lasted).

What I'm missing is my once-weekly catchup with partner-who-lives-elsewhere. They are too high risk, and one of their household is an essential worker, so we won't see each other for who knows how long.

[petra]

Oo, online Codenames sounds like a lot of fun. I'll have to see if I can get my family to play that with me.

My Wednesday night singing group has done karaoke over Zoom, which is not as social as one would like--it's not possible to hear anyone else singing, so while I know other people are doing the same as I am, the communal experience is only theoretical.

I'm sorry you're missing your partner who lives elsewhere. That sounds very difficult.

[fred_mouse]

I hope you all enjoy the codenames! We've only had 5 people turning up, so we are planning next week to try two spymasters against each other with the other three guessing on both sides (so that the social aspect of 'which should we pick' actually happens). Which would mean that that it is one or other spymaster who 'wins'.

I imagine that we won't so much be doing Karaoke, but encouraging people to put up songs we can sing along to. This thought inspired by the inclusion of Bohemian Rhapsody in this week's set.