redbird | things I did in 2020 (Reply)

An incomplete list of things I did this year, in something resembling temporal order:

went to New York with @adrian_turtle and @cattitude to see my mother and my aunt Lea. That turned out to be the last time I saw my aunt.
practiced/learned at least a little French almost every day, via Duolingo. Reached "diamond league," a meaningless ranking that I nonetheless was somewhat motivated by.
finished indexing a book that I edited in 2019 (my first-ever indexing job, the author's idea rather than mine)
a lot of text banking, and some phone banking, for candidates in the 2020 elections (mostly Biden/Harris, the Maine senate race, and non-partisan get-out-the-vote efforts that probably reached/motivated more Democratic than Republican voters)
joined the local Senior Center so I could use the exercise room, which I did once before the pandemic and lockdown in March
socialized via Discord and Zoom, and got to know some new people through those
got ice cream delivered regularly
baked bread from scratch
had telemedicine appointments with doctors both by phone and with video (over Zoom)