I'm in a similar situation as [mention]nomadh[/mention]. I've been busy as a one-armed paper hanger at work since the pandemic hit, and I haven't had a social life since I moved to California (I'm not anti-social, I'm gregarious as hell, but it's hard to meet people when you don't know anybody), so I already felt isolated before Covid came along. It doesn't feel like my life has changed very much, except I have a little more money and I have to put a stupid placebo on my face every time I walk into a public place.
In my free time, I've been really motivated to get comfortable with recording and making videos, and I've recently been getting back to playing more bass after playing guitar almost exclusively for the past 6 or 7 years. I never realized how much I missed playing bass until I committed myself to learning the bass line to "Something" for that video. It's opened up another channel of creativity. I've been coming up with basslines like crazy ever since! Basslines that can be turned into
songs (I've never used the bass as a song-writing instrument before). I've also gotten interested in doing voice-over work, and I've been spending a lot of time learning about that, and arranging my space into a viable, amateur studio, instead of just a room with a bunch of random gear in it.
I still check in here at least once a day... Sometimes more. I don't always post, and indeed, I've noticed that it's been kinda quiet around here, but it hasn't concerned me too much. As has been mentioned; there were slow times on the old forum as well. There were times when I've disappeared for a month or two, and when I came back, everything was pretty much the same. There's always been an ebb and flow of activity on AGF.
I'm not at a loss for ideas to stimulate chatter around here. I've got more than a few threads that I plan to post... but the way I write, that stuff takes a lot of time, and I need to keep rolling with this creativity and learning while I've got the gumption!