Galzy, how are you and how are things? Are people allowed to swim again yet?
Eevee!! How goes it way over there? Is it Denmark? How are you?
Fang!! It’s been too long? How are you and how is the family?
Things are going well. Still not re-open out here in California, which is well past tiresome at this point. Would very much enjoy being able to work again!
Swimming is spotty. Indoor pools are *mostly* closed, although some schools are bending the rules/guidelines to have limited reopening. Most outdoor pools are open, but with severe restrictions on capacity and usage. Unfortunately for us, we do not own any outdoor water right now, and I have been unable to obtain any, so we're all just sitting around bored.
On one of our escape the house trips to Lake Tahoe earlier in the Summer, Raptor asked me if we could swim across the lake (I've done the 21-mile length crossing in the past). It's "only" 12 miles across the width, so I said that we could... so we spent a few days a week for 3 months up in San Francisco Bay training. We swam across it on September 14th in just over 8 hours. Swowl got to kayak in support for us. Unfortunately we were fighting Air Quality due to the fires - ended up swimming in an AQI rating of 163... which definitely isn't healthy... but with the season turning the water will soon become too cold to stay in for that amount of time, so it we pretty much had to do it then.
But other than all of that... life is pretty much at a standstill still.