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Read & write. Spend time with my spouse. Hopefully, being done with some that has been preventing me to walk as much I would have liked for the last week.
if you're looking for something to do this WE, have you considered reading? I mean, I'm well into my 50s and I can't remember that many times in my life I felt bored (or lonely), thanks to books. It doesn't matter the type of book or their genre, they're great companions ;)
If you're more into games and want to chat with people: chess maybe an option: play a few games (for free on lichess.org, or even on chess.com but this one comes with ads) and with any luck a conversation might start with another player. You can also check in your area oif there is no club/public place where people can play IRL
I recently started reading more books and really enjoy it. My only problem is, there is so much choice, I feel overwhelmed. At the moment I just read some random books that I got for free from someone. In the city there is also a public bookshelf. Does your city have this as well?
I also tried chess, but could never really get into it. I can never remember which moves I'm allowed to make with the pieces.
It's normal to feel overwhelmed as there is an almost limitless amount of books to chose from. The best advice I may give you is to talk to your local library. Most librarians are more than happy to help a new reader find their bearings (based on what you think you might enjoy, say scifi, or fantasy, or romance, or biographies, or whatever), no matter your previous (lack of) experience :)
Library? We do (multiple ones), but I do live in a rather large city.
You will learn the rules by playing, there are not that many they're just... arbitrary (like any rule). To learn the basics you can create a free account on chess.com and follow their beginner tutorial (there is no need to subscribe to one of their paid plan), or you can use lichess.org (100% free, this time): https://lichess.org/learn and then you can start playing against players or bots (at least on chess. com there are bots for absolute beginners to play against).
The one tip as a beginner that is just starting is to be ok with losing a lot of games. That's to be expected, don't take it personally. That's how most of us learn... anything, by failing and by being bad at it to begin with ;)
No, a public bookshelf is literally a book shelf (usually inside an old telephone booth) where you can bring old books. You can also take books for free.
Oh yeah, of course. Silly me. We have multiple of those too in various spots in the city, there are a couple really close from our place. I sometimes leave books there but seldom find any I feel like reading ;)
Yeah, me too :-/