Contact Staff Practice - 16th January 2024

Hello Hive!

Is what I should have said at the start of the video! Instead, it was "What's going on Hive" with the "what's" being said before the camera had gotten it's shit together and started recording.

Anyway, who needs words when you have a big stick and an empty beach?

The new year has started indifferently for me. On the plus side, I'm easily a month into not smoking tobacco and I've not had any booze since the 1st January (afternoon and not just into the early hours of the new year, oops). The tobacco was easy enough, but I've failed after years without on a couple of occasions and so I could find myself rolling a nice reefer at any point. Not today though.

Alcohol I can do without very easily, as long as I stay in my apartment and invite nobody around. That's how you do dry January isn't it? There's beer, wine, and spirits in the house, but I tend not to drink alone these days and so there it will sit, for at least another 15 days.

So that's good. Also good is the exercise I've been doing. Jogging, balancing, spinning, yoga, HIIT, planks, and more I reckon. Trying to do something, even if it's only 15 mins, every day. Apparently, those that exercise and drink and smoke will likely last longer than lazy git who doesn't smoke or drink. I am firmly on the hammer it and try to work it off team!

On the downside, relationships! I'm so crap with them, be it friendships or otherwise. This new year I contacted old friends and have managed a catch-up with some, but for the most part I struggle with distance and sorta get on with my own thing - which is also known as messing up relationships with those close by! Disaster!

Moving on, the other thing that's not ideal for a stress-free new year is my current workload. It'll be 5 years in November since I started there, just prior to covid, and it's already been 3 years since they allowed me to move to Mallorca and work fully remote. I shouldn’t really be complaining eh, with a sea view 'office' and an empty beach for a back garden? I will though: p Two weeks of intensive training and trying to fit other main duties around this, absolute shite. It means I'm not finished until it's gone dark and cooler, and then there less time for Staff practice - but not today!

What's in this video?

It is me, showing you my current Staff ability and skills. I drop it a lot, hit my head and glasses, and look pretty unbalanced at times. It was very kind of people to compliment me on a 3 second GIF or two in recent posts, but I think you need to see where I'm really at - outside of an edited loop!

I'd like to post much more of these videos as I do record a couple of minutes each day. You're all gonna get bored quick though so I'll try to keep to a minimum - once a week or when I've learned something new maybe? Right, I'm waffling now (now!?), so I'll wish you all a lovely day and night.

Cheers

Ash