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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Financial Software
2/4/2022:I am a long-time user of QuickBooks and Quicken. With the closing of my various companies, I did not feel the need to continue paying Intuit for the QuickBooks subscription. I had not realized that stopping my payment would make my data inaccessible. Quicken was not downloading data from my accounts well and I needed…
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Hydroponics
2/3/2022:Yesterday I looked at my seed starting system and had a surprising number of germinations. I planted the second shelf, another 30 cells. I will let the plants grow for a while and see if they get harvestable in this configuation. In the meantime, I am researching a larger system to transplant the seedlings and…
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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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