Covid Hobbies
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Picked up any new hobbies due to spending more time indoors? Canadians are being given tips on how to grow their own cannabis indoors; including contributions from popular mainstream women's magazines. And the census is coming out.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it. ― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
Bought a fixer-upper house and have been working on it forever, but getting close to being done. Then start on outside: 1/4 acre bamboo we've been weeding out a little at a time, 3 huge downed trees that I've been slowly turning into firewood, 2 acres 3 mow and trim 2ce a month. On top of that I've read about 80 books this year. 6 online classes. A couple of fair size programming projects. Photography, an on going passion. One of my photos has been selected to be in the Florida Trail Association's 2022 calendar.
The less you need, the more you have. JaxCoder.com
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Gerry Schmitz wrote:
Picked up any new hobbies due to spending more time indoors?
Yeah, try and spend as much quality time as possible outdoors. In the warmer weather, that includes working on my porch on the "outdoor office" - small desk, bring out the laptop and spare second monitor. Theoretically, now that I've hooked up the solar panel and batteries, I can probably power the rig for the day from the batteries.
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Client-Side Type-Based Publisher/Subscriber, Exploring Synchronous, "Event-ed", and Worker Thread SubscriptionsYes; I meant to say "around home" ... we have a month to grow stuff outdoors in Canada. (Restored the deck last year).
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it. ― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Bought a fixer-upper house and have been working on it forever, but getting close to being done. Then start on outside: 1/4 acre bamboo we've been weeding out a little at a time, 3 huge downed trees that I've been slowly turning into firewood, 2 acres 3 mow and trim 2ce a month. On top of that I've read about 80 books this year. 6 online classes. A couple of fair size programming projects. Photography, an on going passion. One of my photos has been selected to be in the Florida Trail Association's 2022 calendar.
The less you need, the more you have. JaxCoder.com
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Picked up any new hobbies due to spending more time indoors? Canadians are being given tips on how to grow their own cannabis indoors; including contributions from popular mainstream women's magazines. And the census is coming out.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it. ― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
I was working from home all through the quarantines in Israel. I had no time for my existing hobbies, let alone any new ones :(
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
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Yes; the other half watches the home channel, then orders stuff for me to install.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it. ― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
Well as well as remodeling it's; honey we could use some bookshelves here, oh and a murphy bed in the office and... The more I do the longer the list?
The less you need, the more you have. JaxCoder.com
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Gerry Schmitz wrote:
Picked up any new hobbies due to spending more time indoors?
Yeah, try and spend as much quality time as possible outdoors. In the warmer weather, that includes working on my porch on the "outdoor office" - small desk, bring out the laptop and spare second monitor. Theoretically, now that I've hooked up the solar panel and batteries, I can probably power the rig for the day from the batteries.
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Client-Side Type-Based Publisher/Subscriber, Exploring Synchronous, "Event-ed", and Worker Thread SubscriptionsMarc Clifton wrote:
Yeah, try and spend as much quality time as possible outdoors.
:thumbsup: exactly.
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Picked up any new hobbies due to spending more time indoors? Canadians are being given tips on how to grow their own cannabis indoors; including contributions from popular mainstream women's magazines. And the census is coming out.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it. ― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
My work load doubled during COVID... Not a single moment left to hobbies, old or new...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Picked up any new hobbies due to spending more time indoors? Canadians are being given tips on how to grow their own cannabis indoors; including contributions from popular mainstream women's magazines. And the census is coming out.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it. ― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
Not much change for me, same hobbies: bit of cycling, photography, drinking wine. Also tried a bottle of Tawny Port lately, that wasn't bad either :-\ We sometimes have a "guest" cannabis plant from someone who wants to avoid the limit of three plants.
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Bought a fixer-upper house and have been working on it forever, but getting close to being done. Then start on outside: 1/4 acre bamboo we've been weeding out a little at a time, 3 huge downed trees that I've been slowly turning into firewood, 2 acres 3 mow and trim 2ce a month. On top of that I've read about 80 books this year. 6 online classes. A couple of fair size programming projects. Photography, an on going passion. One of my photos has been selected to be in the Florida Trail Association's 2022 calendar.
The less you need, the more you have. JaxCoder.com
I thought that bamboo are like banana plants in that you can't kill them off. What's your secret?
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I thought that bamboo are like banana plants in that you can't kill them off. What's your secret?
We're under the impression that if we keep cutting them back they will eventually die off, at least that's what we've been told.
The less you need, the more you have. JaxCoder.com
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Picked up any new hobbies due to spending more time indoors? Canadians are being given tips on how to grow their own cannabis indoors; including contributions from popular mainstream women's magazines. And the census is coming out.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it. ― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
I learned today how to remove my new artificial eye from its socket, wash it, and put it back in. This is required maintenance every two months, and I got it on the 1st of March. Pro tip: Rinse the eye in cool water after washing; much more comfortable going back in.
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Not much change for me, same hobbies: bit of cycling, photography, drinking wine. Also tried a bottle of Tawny Port lately, that wasn't bad either :-\ We sometimes have a "guest" cannabis plant from someone who wants to avoid the limit of three plants.
In Alberta, you get to grow 4 plants; in some provinces, none. Or, indoors only. Little idea why the variance.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it. ― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Picked up any new hobbies due to spending more time indoors? Canadians are being given tips on how to grow their own cannabis indoors; including contributions from popular mainstream women's magazines. And the census is coming out.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it. ― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
Yep; doing more local walks I spotted some street furniture I'd never noticed before. Researched and found they relate to underground Telegraph cables - the internet of the late 19th century! Got obsessed and am now cataloging as many as I can. UK members please visit gpo-markers.derektp.co.uk[^] and contribute if you know of any! :-)
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Yep; doing more local walks I spotted some street furniture I'd never noticed before. Researched and found they relate to underground Telegraph cables - the internet of the late 19th century! Got obsessed and am now cataloging as many as I can. UK members please visit gpo-markers.derektp.co.uk[^] and contribute if you know of any! :-)
I learned reflow soldering. Also esp32 coding in nanoframework.
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Picked up any new hobbies due to spending more time indoors? Canadians are being given tips on how to grow their own cannabis indoors; including contributions from popular mainstream women's magazines. And the census is coming out.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it. ― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
Sadly, Initially it was doom scrolling in March 2020. Then Trump scrolling. Then Trivia Quizzes. Then I became a cruciverbalist for the first time in my life. 4 of them every morning. Then I purchased an E-Scooter. It is great to be outdoors again. I have two of them now. One of them is relaxing and easy and fun to ride. The other one is busy and sometimes terrifying, but is the best fun to scoot on. So the new thing for me from spending more time indoors is E-Scooting.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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Picked up any new hobbies due to spending more time indoors? Canadians are being given tips on how to grow their own cannabis indoors; including contributions from popular mainstream women's magazines. And the census is coming out.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it. ― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
Yeah, I picked up Arduino in earnest. I just finished installing a Google Assistant voice operated system for individually controlling the 8 recessed lights in my kids' "Game Dungeon". "Hey Google, light pattern 'front half'" will turn on the lights in the front half of the room and the back half off. I have half a dozen named patterns, but they can also be addresses with a bitwise number. "Hey Google, light pattern 162" will turn on 10100010. I had great fun and taught my kids binary.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx
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Picked up any new hobbies due to spending more time indoors? Canadians are being given tips on how to grow their own cannabis indoors; including contributions from popular mainstream women's magazines. And the census is coming out.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it. ― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
Picked up my old guitar and I'm trying to learn how to play it.
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Gerry Schmitz wrote:
Picked up any new hobbies due to spending more time indoors?
Yeah, try and spend as much quality time as possible outdoors. In the warmer weather, that includes working on my porch on the "outdoor office" - small desk, bring out the laptop and spare second monitor. Theoretically, now that I've hooked up the solar panel and batteries, I can probably power the rig for the day from the batteries.
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Client-Side Type-Based Publisher/Subscriber, Exploring Synchronous, "Event-ed", and Worker Thread SubscriptionsMarc Clifton wrote:
bring out the laptop and spare second monitor. Theoretically, now that I've hooked up the solar panel and batteries, I can probably power the rig for the day from the batteries.
A laptop and monitor, only getting a day running off of solar (which I'm assuming is trying to keep up topping off the battery while you use the laptop)? As a non-solar guy (but still rather interested by everything solar), that sounds...disappointing. Can you describe that setup some more?
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Picked up any new hobbies due to spending more time indoors? Canadians are being given tips on how to grow their own cannabis indoors; including contributions from popular mainstream women's magazines. And the census is coming out.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it. ― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
Wood Working kind of over the top to build myself a new desk I found a Delta 36-725 T2 10 in contractor table saw on Craig's List for $400.00 only 2 1/2 hours from my home I live in the Mountains of Northern Arizona so every thing is 3 hours away Home Depot and Milwaukee Power Tools had a special so I drank the Kool Aid and went cordless with a Circular Saw Hammer Drill and Handheld Router the special included 3 batteries and charger A set of brad point bits from Austria as well as a Doweling Jig Because I am old and no longer want to assemble the desk on the garage floor I started on a Outfeed/Assembly Table with a Pipe Clamp Twin Screw Vise Have I lost my mind NO It seemed like more fun than building another VB.Net Database Application Once the Desk is build any requests for cutting boards or small boxes will be honored It was the least I could do to help stimulate the economy PS anyone wishing to donate Wood Working Clamps feel free to reach out It would have fun to help Mike Hankey
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Yep; doing more local walks I spotted some street furniture I'd never noticed before. Researched and found they relate to underground Telegraph cables - the internet of the late 19th century! Got obsessed and am now cataloging as many as I can. UK members please visit gpo-markers.derektp.co.uk[^] and contribute if you know of any! :-)
This is one of my favorite hobbies, when I get time to do so. Following old marked trails that have (old) markers is a fun sport, only to see where they lead. This I discovered when my family would make trips to Lake Tahoe (CA.) [This was back in the 60s and early 70s.] We would take US Hwy 50 from Sacramento to Lake Tahoe and from Placerville to Lake Tahoe, the road was marked with tombstones marking the mileage to Placerville. I found it fascinating to follow the mileage as we got farther from Placerville and closer to Lake Tahoe. For those who don't know, Placerville, CA was nick-named 'Hangtown". Most people who were put on trial there we hanged (lynched). The tombstones were a reminder to those who were going to Placerville to face a judge, you would know where your destiny lied.
