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
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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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.
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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
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I thought that bamboo are like banana plants in that you can't kill them off. What's your secret?
Nothing kills bamboo, slow Me. We burned it, it would sprout. We dug it up, along all the roots we could find. Two years later, it's back. It has roots that go as deep as hell and alway regrows. In a million years, all trees will be replaced with bamboo. My secret? A lot of salt. It will kill the bamboo. It will prevent ANYTHING from growing there, but given enough salt, bamboo dies. All and any patch containing it should meet the fate of Carthage, and be BLOODY WIPED OUT.
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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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
Ah, I live in FL... I keep forgetting... People are still locked down. We are LITERALLY "Gods Waiting Room"... And we lock down the older people, so the younger people can live. Majority of counties have lifted masking, although many companies act like it's still critical. This is NOT the season to have to lock down. Sun is out, virus drops off during this time of year, back in September! I've worked from home for 15 years, so nothing has changed... Especially now that the gym opened the Suana/Hot Tub/Pool. So I am getting there more often. Oh, how I missed all of that... Doing FASTING! Did two weeks, of two meals/week. Then going 3 weeks with 3 meals/week. And finally losing the "Covid-19" (the 19 lbs from covid)... During the lockdown, I started walking more, listening to Audible books, and podcasts at double speed. Averaged 30-40 miles/week. (And still managed to gain weight. LOL) I guess Walking/Listening was my Covid Hobby!
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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
Learning mountain biking at our local treasure. Can now do all the black diamonds, working on the double black diamonds now. Drops and gaps are scary. (Note, this is NOT me in the vid). Duthie Hill Mountain Bike Park WA (Gravy Train - Ryan's Eternal - HLC - Voodoo Child) - YouTube[^]
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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
Taking part in protest demonstrations against the Corona measures. ;-)
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Picked up my old guitar and I'm trying to learn how to play it.
I started learning to play the day after the Beatles made their American debut on Ed Sullivan show. It helps to take lessons. I played in various bands several years later. Quit about 5 years ago, tired of all of the "drama". Plus I was "too old to Rock and Roll, and too young to die." - Jethro Tull. Until you can take lessons, run you scales.
My callouses are all gone! :sigh:
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I started learning to play the day after the Beatles made their American debut on Ed Sullivan show. It helps to take lessons. I played in various bands several years later. Quit about 5 years ago, tired of all of the "drama". Plus I was "too old to Rock and Roll, and too young to die." - Jethro Tull. Until you can take lessons, run you scales.
My callouses are all gone! :sigh:
Will do! Thank you, Sir
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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
After watching a ton of video tutorials about "cut your own hair" I got the courage to buy an electric hair clipper set and try it. Some fails and fair rate of success. I already tried the fake bald style, Jarhead cut, and currently I’m trying the Peaky Blinders style. :-D