A Wanderer
Not all who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
I am a recently retired accountant/finance professional looking to explore all of the interests I have had over the years, promising myself that I would pursue them “when I had the time”. Maybe you are on a similar journey.
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Unavailable Thoughts
My son said a while ago that there were thoughts a person could not have if he only spoke one language. I said I had trouble believing there were thoughts I could not think. Robert Pirsig, in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, has some Koreans tell him that thinking in a language with
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Blue Mars
I recently read Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson. From the highlights I made, gardening and terraforming, including ecopoiesis, dominated. According to NASA, “Ecopoiesis is the concept of initiating life in a new place; more precisely, the creation of an ecosystem capable of supporting life. It is the concept of initiating “terraforming” using physical, chemical
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Physical Journal
In a Ryan Holiday YouTube video on journaling, he suggests a physical journal on the basis that in the future it will be available, whereas digital copies may not be. One of the reasons I like Obsidian is that it creates text files. They are unlikely to be unavailable in the future. Like physical books,
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Planer Stand
This afternoon, I designed my first project from scratch using Fusion 360, a stand for my planer. I found a design I liked from a You Tuber, Daniel Demir (video at Thickness Planer Stand). I modified Daniel’s design dimensions to my needs and lost myself for a few hours in the design. The design is
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Nature Observations
Yesterday and today I spent time taking pictures of plants, identifying them (initially with Google Lens and then with the National Audubon Field Guide to Trees and the iNaturalist site), and then posting the ones I could identify to the iNaturalist site. A good advance on my naturalist skills. I listened to a Tim Ferriss
Please note that I use AI in my projects, including my blogs.
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