Status Report #38 - Peace and quiet

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Good morning folks! Amalia here, and welcome to a bit of a lightweight Status Report.

We'd love to tell you about all the massive stuff that's been happening and share lots of cool images with you, but..... well, we kinda can't. The last couple of weeks, we've mostly been busy with some self-improvement, contemplating and establishing better routines for ourselves and working on personal projects.

So today, let's not have big headers for the categories. Lemme just tell you what we have (or mostly haven't) been up to.


So, as you can guess, we've not had the time to do anything music or art related. We wanna pick up again with those, but with things being the way they are, it's just realistic to accept that our output with these hobbies will likely stay at 0 until sometime next year. Can't really be helped.

Blogging-wise, it's better news. For one, you might have seen our Wanderburg post, recently. It's a little indie game that popped onto our radar and, giving it a chance, we had plenty of fun with it.

We've also already started playing the next game we'll be writing about, and it's another one of Michael's childhood games, so expect a nostalgia trip.😉

Flightsim-wise, we've found very little time. The one thing of note we did was to have our first night flight with the F-4.


That was pretty cool. Just a calm midnight transfer from Berlin to Ramstein, but good instrument practice.

We also dabbled a little with GHPC, a cold war tank simulator. Not quite as detailed as something like DCS, a little more accessible in turn. Pretty good, too!


Though for that one, we ended up deciding that we don't wanna invest the time to learn it properly for now. Cool thing to have on the back burner, though.


Around the house, it's mostly been bureaucratic work, with nothing much to show for it. We did fix the sink siphon we talked about, last time.

Oh, and we're currently in the process of installing and programming these:

Smart thermostats! We had the more traditional, manual twist ones before, but in our old apartment, we had one of these, and we liked it so much that we've decided to have them here in our house, too. And this newer model can be programmed with an app, too, so we can set a program for when which room will be heated, and to which temperature. Along with a bunch of extra functions. It's pretty neat.

(To be fair, there's much smart-er, fancier kinds available, but meh, we're quite happy with this model, and it won't break the bank.😉)

Other than that, we've started dabbling in Tai Chi. We might have mentioned here and there how we've been practicing Yoga for many years, and we figured Tai Chi, being more of a meditative practice, could supplement it nicely. So yeah, we're dabbling.

But that's kind of it. We've been busy, but the quiet kind of busy, where you don't have much to show for it.

Hopefully, we'll have more to share in a couple of weeks!

But until then, dear readery Womrades, stay safe, find some joy in these drab autumnal days, and have a good one!✋

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