Train in Belgrade
January felt like momentum starting to find its shape. Not dramatic momentum. The quiet kind, where you start doing things again and realise you had missed them.
Photography 📷
I picked up the camera again. The ZV-E10 with the 18-105 has been sitting there, and January was the month I stopped letting it collect dust.
Started posting on Instagram again, which feels like a temporary home for now. The longer plan is to move it all to Pixelfed and eventually surface it on the site through its API. Owning the feed, not just feeding the algorithm. That part is still a plan. But the shooting is happening, and that is the part that matters first.
Running 🏃
January is also when I started taking running seriously.
The rotator cuff is still healing and physiotherapy is ongoing, so the upper body work stays on hold. Running became the thing I could do, and somewhere along the way it stopped being a substitute and started being the point.
Alongside that, I have been doing more stretches and core work. Not as a workaround, but as a foundation. I want to get back to training strong, and this feels like the right way to build toward that.
The plan is to run a 5k by march 3rd week. I’ve been training for it using Runna and Strava, and even though it hurts my shin sometimes, Im still pushing it. I dont want it to be another injury though :D. Injuries due to overtraining is a real thing and I proved it twice in the last 6 months.
Games I’m Playing 🎮
Stopped playing Ratchet & Clank. It was charming but it did not pull me back.
FC26 is still going strong though, and January made me think about why.
I first noticed the pattern during COVID. Everyone was locked inside, and games like PUBG and CODM became the primary way people stayed connected. Not just entertainment, but actual social infrastructure. You would drop into a match and suddenly you were with your people again, even if they were across the city or the country.
That pattern has not gone away. If anything, it is clearer to me now.In a new city, around new people, its comforting to have a connection with people you are already comfortable with, and FC26 is one of the main ways I stay connected to friends scattered around the world. A quick match, a voice call running alongside it. It is low stakes on the surface, but the social thread underneath is real.
The game is the excuse. The connection is the point. And that is a loop that is very hard to walk away from.
The Desk 🖥️
I have been thinking about the setup. Specifically, thinking about undoing it.
The external monitor, the whole desk arrangement. I want to move away from it and work on a single laptop screen instead. Less friction, more portability, less of a reason to stay anchored to one spot.
It has not fully happened yet. But the intention is there, and with me, intention usually gets there eventually.
I will write about how Im using the spaces in optimising my workflow and productivity in a future post.