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I think it affected everyone regardless of if we felt like it or not. I guess we just had to wait for better times

Times are good.

It depends on the time period we are talking about and the subject in general. But yes, times are good.

It didn't affect me. I have no choice but to steem on because I have two 365's to see to their ends.

I can't speak on @gamer00's behalf but he had a lot of things on his plate when I met him over lunch today (I don't mean literally because he had had lunch already. I had lunch and @gamer00 had coffee. :).

An bonus lesson on English idioms: to have a lot on one's plate means being busy.

Yeah, I know about this idiom, we use it a lot in my country.