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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Distractions
2/2/2022:Yesterday driving between the Champlain Islands and the Adirondacks I listened to a Hidden Brian podcast, You 2.0: Deep Work. Shanar Vedantam (Host) was interviewing Cal Newport, author of Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World. Much of the focus was on the benefits of concentrating for extended periods without distractions. Makes
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Note-taking app
2/1/2022:I had installed Joplin on the Raspberry Pi (Raspian). I had a little trouble figuring out how to get it to start again, but got it going and went to sync using Dropbox. I get a syncing error. I had installed a two-year old version of Joplin on the Pi. Makes sense, since I was
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World of Warcraft
1/31/2022:Most Sunday afternoons I game with my grandson, eight years old, who lives in Atlanta. For a while now, we have been playing World of Warcraft. We have started dozens of new characters. I do not always know why he decides to start a new one, sometimes several in a session. I am not sure
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Exercise
1/31/2022:Skiing was fun. Four runs down the short hill. Catching my granddaughter. She is not yet stopping on her own but working it. A high point in the trip was driving there in my truck. This put my granddaughter higher up and she could see more on the trip. She was very excited to be
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Exercise
1/30/2022:Today my wife and I are going skiing with my son and granddaughter (age 3) here in Vermont. My wife and son are excellent skiers and my granddaughter has been taking lessons and loves to ski. This will be the first time being with her skiing. I have had a double knee replacement and since
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iNaturalist
1/29/2022: Last year I joined the iNaturalist.org group. It is a joint venture of the California Academy of Sciences and Natural Geographic. As a member, I can observe plants and animals and nature in general and post those observations to the site. Other members do the same. The observations include location, so you can see
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