One day at a time

The restrictions in Victoria continue to be relaxed, although face mask indoors is still mandatory. Parts of Sydney have gone into lock down (although they are refusing to call it that) for the next seven days, their numbers of cases has been much higher than Melbourne had before it went into lock down (or circuit breaker). Still working from home, although the requirement to work from home has been lifted, however since masks are required to be worn in the office, I am not going to be rushing back. I had a better day on Friday, I made a bit of an effort to dress up and worked on the slides for the forum I am organising for the middle of July. Not going to be catching up with friends this Sunday as one of them is away in regional Victoria for the weekend. I still hope that I will be able to get away to Adelaide later in July, at least the SA borders are now open (even if I'd have to get a COVID test on the first day there). Trying out a new internet provider, it took a while to fin...

There have been a handful of new cases over the week, but the restrictions continue to be relaxed in Melbourne and more broadly across Victoria. Masks are only required indoors and people can have visitors in their home. Work continues to be very quiet, I do have the survey to give me something to do. This was a short working week, as I did not work until Wednesday with a combination of public holiday and annual leave, I was supposed to be in Hobart but that wasn't going to happen given the closure of virtually all state borders to residents of Greater Melbourne. Worry about my father who seems to have lost weight and has little energy to do anything these days. His sister is doing we, but also doesn't have much energy these days.

The latest (fourth) lock down was relaxed from midnight Thursday and we are now allowed to leave our homes for any reason, but are limited in how far we can travel (up to a maximum of 25km). Still working from home, although offices are allowed to reopen, but if people can work from home that is still encouraged. The relaxation coincided with a long weekend, which I should have been enjoying in Hobart in Tasmania, but since they have closed the borders to Victorians, that was cancelled last week. I am still taking the leave from work and will not be returning until Wednesday. One of the relaxations was that restaurants are allowed to reopen, so I was able to have brunch with friends over the weekend and I also washed the car (although I think that was allowed during the lockdown). I also took a train on Friday to do some shopping, as expected there were very few people on the train in both directions and I only travelled a couple of stops. My arm has finally stopped hurting where I had...

The 7 day circuit break has been extended for metro Melbourne for at least another 7 days, basically the same rules but with the extension of the distance that people can travel for shopping and exercise from 5km to 10km. So working from home continues up until my leave, but unfortunately I have had to cancel the trip to Hobart, as Tasmania has closed the border to Victorians. I had an unscheduled visit to my elderly aunt, she needed someone to stay with her after a small procedure to remove a lump and I was really the only one that could do it at short notice. I didn't sleep well staying there but we both survived the experience. I have had the first COVID-19 vaccination and my second one is scheduled for August. Apart from a sore arm where the injection was made, I currently feel okay. I thought that I would do some online shopping, but hit a problem when the payment system approved my purchase but the online retailer site failed as I returned from the payment site. I have been i...