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Category: covid

  • Nice day for it …

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    Coronavirus lockdown day 46 It was close to a day off. Bit of a sleep in to start, which was nice. Went to Mitre 10. This was a regular pre-lockdown activity, and how it had changed. Two doors, which used to be entry and exit, were now Surname A-M and P-Z. You were given a…

  • Gently down the stream

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    Coronavirus lockdown day 45 Today it was hui and Pānui, meetings and email, conversations and best of all Friday. Couple of beers at the end of the day and a chat with friends and a quiet night in front of the tele.

  • Slow, slow, slow your boat

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    Coronovirus lockdown day 44 Thursday. admin, phone calls, edits, little by little progress made on projects. Time is going slowly again.

  • Get busy living

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    Coronavirus lockdown day 43 A cold and clear morning with snow on the Double and the Grampians and Mount Richmond, and a dusting near Motueka. More work, delivered a couple of eps of a radio programme; more taking the ums out of videos; more music, more life. Redid some tracks that I had been casually…

  • Ted’s dead

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    Coronavirus lockdown day 42 42: The answer to life, the universe and everything. Ironically, also a miscalculation. One thing you couldn’t get wrong though was the temperature today – after a couple of days of rain, some cold southerly snaked its way up the island and dumped snow on the hills. We put the fire…

  • The ballad of Jessie Dredge, or Stay the fuck at home

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    Coronavirus lockdown day 41 Some stories seem tailor made for a country song: This one could be called The Ballad of Jessie Dredge. Related:

  • Counting the lucky stars

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    Coronavirus lockdown day 40 It was another slow day. Some editing, some voiceover work. Some editing of zoom meetings. Reflecting a lot though on an email from overseas and how differently the lockdown is being handled around the world. The Moscow Times says Russia’s curve is climbing steadily: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/05/03/coronavirus-in-russia-the-latest-news-may-3-a69117 The curve is looking exponential. Russia confirmed 10,633…

  • Rain and fire

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    Coronavirus lockdown day 38 We have decided we’re going to enter the competition. One old song, one new. SO spent some time figuring out the new song’s structure, chords, phrases, that kind of thing. It’s funny to look at work that way, like the editing process it’s a different skill set and outcome you’re working…

  • A new month

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    Coronavirus lockdown day 37 Work, admin, a drive, a drink over a zoom call and the first day of New Zealand Music Month. It will be very much online this year, so that will be interesting. Also there is a competition – could be fun:

  • The days go slow, the weeks go fast

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    Coronavirus lockdown day 35 I was talking to a friend today and we were both feeling a bit dislocated. Because we are working from home, we have what feels like much longer days. Domestic tasks are mixed in with professional tasks; house language and office language are blurring. You do some work, then oput on…

  • Or is it level down?

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    Coronavirus lockdown day 34 Who can tell any more? It’s Level 3, anyway. It was a slow day. Work meetings got postponed, so I did some audio editing, some coding and other tasks. Lots of things are in the nearly finished pile. Made a bit of a plan for the month ahead. Already the city…

  • Time to level up?

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    Coronavirus lockdown day 33 Here it was, the last day of Level 4. Not much will be different of course, but we’ll probably feel better. It was a Monday, the Anzac Day holiday, so it was a cruisy day. Mow the lawns, talk to the nighbour, forget what I was was meant to be doing…