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You're right - xbox game pass is effectively a Netflix of games. There's loads of games on there which you can download and play. It costs around £11 a month and titles are constantly updated including several brand new release games. They've also recently introduced cloud gaming which (if your internet is good enough) means you don't even have to download games to play anymore - you can effectively stream them. It's still fairly early days on that though so I'd always recommend downloading for best quality.
Xbox isn't like the switch - it has to be plugged into a TV via HDMI to play. Switch has it's own screen and a "port" in which it sits to connect to the TV.
One Game Pass subscription should be enough. You can then download multiplayer games and both your kids should be able to play online together. For example I believe FIFA allows multiplayer you just add multiple accounts onto one console and then play under one subscription.
Personally I think it's really good value for money. The selection of games available is really good and they're constantly releasing new games. I wish it had existed when I was your kids age! Have fun and let me know if you have any other questions!
I'm really sorry to hear you're having a tough time of it at the moment. As someone in their late 20s with long term depression/anxiety I can really empathise with your situation!
It's interesting to hear about your situation since finishing university. I found one thing that I really was unprepared for when finishing uni and moving away from the city I'd been studying in was the complete sudden loss of social life. That paired with general post uni "blues" was really difficult so I can imagine how tough it must be for you at the minute with everything else that's been going on.
I can't offer too much advice but one thing that I found has really helped me is keeping a thought diary. I struggle a lot with overwhelming thoughts/emotions but I find writing them down using the format below to be really helpful:
That as well as regular exercise and taking time out for myself/time to be kind to myself doing the things I really enjoy help to make things better.
Please remember, as bad as you might feel now, this won't last forever. As much of a cliche as it is, time is a great healer - things can and will improve for you.
Take care and feel free to drop me a DM if you want to talk.
I'm currently reading "The Devil's Alternative" by Frederick Forsyth which is fairly enjoyable. By far the best book I've read recently is "Man's search for meaning" by Viktor Frankl - possibly one of the most inspiring books I've ever read.
All three of you are an absolute credit to the club, your families and yourselves. Whenever watching you play I've never had any doubt that all three of you are giving 100% for the shirt and you've all always played with the utmost professionalism. As a "younger" town fan who wasn't around to see the Robson era and hardly remembers the Burley era - you are all legends for someone like me and deserve that status. I'm sorry your service to the club didn't see the trophies and accolades it truly deserved but I hope knowing that you 3 serve as icons for a generation of younger town fans like myself is enough. I hope one day to see you all back at the club in some capacity - I'm sure you'll be welcomed back with open arms!
I think you're right - property owners/ developers in cities will lobby to get as many people back to offices as possible.
Unfortunately, I imagine a lot of companies trying to downsize office space will do as much as humanly possible to avoid giving better office equipment for people in their own homes. There's already been talk (I believe for Facebook about their employees) about reducing salaries for people who WFH more as this is deemed a cost saving.
It'll be interesting to see which way it ends up going!
I've found from speaking to people it generally falls into two camps. People either hate it and can't wait to get back to the office or enjoy it and, in some cases, prefer it. I think companies would generally benefit from letting people work out what works best for them within reason.
Personally, at first I was all for WFH permanently. However, as the last year has gone past I definitely miss aspects of being in the office. I realised it wasn't the office I disliked but the commute. Hopefully going forward once we're back to the office there will be a better balance so people can access the benefits of being in the office whilst moderating more of the negatives such as long commutes etc.
Either way I think the days of all people being required to be in the office 5 days a week 9-5 are largely going to be a thing of the past.
You're absolutely right that one of the crucial parts of this bridge is the box girder form for the main road supporting elements.
When you have a span as long as the Orwell bridge (I believe it's about 190m) you start to get issues with deflection. Concrete is also very heavy and you start to get issues with the amount of load applied. Box girders are a very rigid "stiff" form of structure and so this helps to limit deflection for these very long structures. You also reduce the amount of concrete present which is a significant cost, time & environmental saving. Being able to go inside is also really useful from a maintenance perspective.
These type of box girders can also be found on the railway as well. I've had to spend some time inside steel box girders for inspection on the railway(it's not very nice!).
Another really interesting example of this kind of "hollow" construction is Royal Albert Bridge in Plymouth:
Paul Lambert, using a variety of innovative management techniques, has managed to unite the fanbase in a way never seen before in the history of football. His ability to get a team of players to play in a unique manner with consistent results is frankly impressive. He has successfully convinced an owner to back his plan including ousting an insurgent online message board which has sought to overthrow him.
I completely get what you're saying. There appears to be absolutely no strategy whatsoever at any level in the club.
I've found over the last couple of months that I'm stuck in a cycle with supporting the club:
Anger - How can this be happening? Why are they supporting someone so clearly unsuited for the job? Why won't they communicate? It's got to the point where I want us to lose to rub it into Evans face over and over again until he learns that something needs to change
Grief: I'm genuinely upset at the state of the club. I've cancelled all finance to the club including ifollow and it's achieved nothing. Even atrocious results won't make Evans act. The future of the club looks like we're happy being a mediocre league 1 club and that is bleak.
Apathy: I've expended so much energy and it's clear that I'm powerless to make any change. I don't care anymore.
Each weekend I seem to just cycle between these emotions. The one constant is that nothing about the club brings me excitement anymore. The signings made yesterday in previous years would have had me excited but yesterday I had no excitement, absolutely nothing. It's like clear apathy emanating from the club has embedded itself into me as a supporter to the point where I'm just too weary to get excited about anything related to Town as I know it's just a false dawn.
Worst of all, I'm a relatively "young" town fan. The first season I really remember was the 03/04 season and losing to West Ham in the play offs. All I've known is mediocrity and decline - I have no real positive memories of glory or better past years to cling on to. I can't even begin to imagine how painful it must be for people who've seen us during our glory days watching this happen. The decline is awful and there's just no obvious way out.
Sorry for the long rambling - it feels like this post has been building from me for months and I've finally found the right way to articulate it. I just really want the club to be better and to experience some form of success. At this point I'd take just a trip to Wembley in the Papa Johns Trophy - that's how low my expectations are.
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