one year ago today

inspired partially by ENBB's 'two years ago today' thread: Two Years Ago Today

and partially by the fact this pic is only one year old:
https://i.imgur.com/x9bozpD.jpg

what were you doing a year ago today?

I was posting about how Prometheus is actually good not bad: They're Remaking 'Alien' -- the 'Prometheus' thread

the teenage paintings of Picasso: Rembrandt vs. Velazquez

smoking, the quitting of: Cutting down on smoking?

alex trebek: Alex Trebek suffers 'minor heart attack'

and appreciating map's post about w.g. sebald and trump: Thread of What Is Fascism And Is Donald Trump A Fascist

This year's been a complete fucking right off for me, a void. 2020 was much better.

I was posting erroneous hearsay about how young fit Americans were not likely to get the vaccine before Sept 2021.

I was running a half term camp at a boarding school, which basically involved sitting at reception and checking the kids were eating lunch. Last thing I did before my company disappeared.

Stuck in some kind of repetition karma:

One year ago went for longish walk around Kennington/ Camberwell/Peckham/Herne Hill/Brockwell Park and back walk. Freezing cold, mostly in the dark, and walk somewhat blighted by the severe lack of toilet facilities.

Today - in a flat in the beginning stages of bathroom refurbishment with no ready access toilet or washing facilities (involves trek to the nearby gym)

I had to turn to the journal of my age, the family WhatsApp group. My sister was pretty sick with covid, and we were all trying to distract ourselves from the worry by making fun of my mother for fancying Wolf Blitzer and posting updates from the Arizona count.

I was otm here imo.

Personally 2021 has been a good year for me in terms of physical health only, mental health is still lmao insert coin and try again.

Copied and pasted from my records:

Mon., 9 November 2020; Battersea High Street to Waterloo via Victoria

Bus: 341 to Angel Islington (for Boots); 4 to Blackfriars
Rail: Blackfriars to Streatham [to visit my elderly mother and bring her groceries]

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Bus: 319 Becmead Ave. to Battersea High Street

On foot: Battersea High St., Vicarage Crescent, Battersea Old Church, Thames Path, Battersea Park, Chelsea Bridge, Grosvenor Rd., Claverton St., Denbigh St., Churton St., Tachbrook St., Longmoore St., Wilton Rd., Victoria St., Bressenden Pl., Warwick Row, Palace St., Buckingham Gate, Birdcage Walk (U: St James’s Park), Queen Anne’s Gate, Petty France, Broadway, Dacre St., Dean Farrar St., Victoria St., Broad Sanctuary, Little George St., Great George St., Parliament Sq., Bridge St., Victoria Embankment, across Hungerford FB to Waterloo, ending at bus stop outside station. (6.25 miles)

Bus: 341 home

Weather: heavy rain in early evening but dry later; mild

Total: 8.5 miles

really nice to see you here gyac :)

dubmill is that from some kind of tracking app?

I just remembered something: one year ago today we hadn't received post for two weeks :o

I should have mentioned beating you on the disco minigame as a highlight of 2021, TH :)

One year ago today, it had been months since I’d seen a single member of my family in person. So yeah, pretty happy that didn’t stay that way.

dubmill is that from some kind of tracking app?

Yes, I was using Map My Walk on Android. Unfortunately, I can no longer use it, as the latest version doesn't support the version of Android my phone is running. I now use something called Viewranger, but I export the GPX files it creates and upload them to the desktop version of Map My Walk so I can view the routes and statistics on the MMW website.

I like the voice on map my walk informing me every time I've reached another mile apart from when it happens walking past other people and feel a bit awkward about my phone telling everyone how far I've walked.

I like the voice on map my walk informing me every time I've reached another mile

When I heard it doing that, I turned it straight off in settings.

sometimes when it seems everything is falling apart I need a friendly satnav voice

Gonna pretend this is 'six months to the day ago' because that's when I met my girlfriend for the first time *crowd goes awwww*

I made 4 not v interesting posts

Gab B. Nebsit (wins) wrote this on thread outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc) on board I Love Everything on 09-Nov-2020

Sorry to hear you got COVID-420 calz

Gab B. Nebsit (wins) wrote this on thread outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc) on board I Love Everything on 09-Nov-2020

Yeah

Gab B. Nebsit (wins) wrote this on thread ILx "first mentions" part 2 on board I Love Everything on 09-Nov-2020

There are quotation marks in the original and people managed

Gab B. Nebsit (wins) wrote this on thread Rolling UK Comedy Thread - "Ricky Don't Lose Larry David's Number on board I Love Everything on 09-Nov-2020

Nobody should have to be discovering how insufferable qi is in 2020 I’m sorry

& wished my niece a happy birthday. Other than that, nothing, no photos on my phone or social media memories. But coincidentally I just saw it was exactly 1 year ago today that I opened this container of potassium hexacyanoferrate I am using

Four seasons ago today

it's been a very odd year, I lost a job in Cambridge and got a better but more stressful one in London, spending a fortune on trains and feel shattered, but at least the unbearable panic of late 2020 has faded away.

Still in the early days at the CBD startup I was working at. Not much else changed

cbd startup #just2020things

A year ago I posted a story from the Ayshire Daily News on the US Election result which was headlined, "South Ayrshire Golf club owner loses 2020 presidential election".