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Cake day: June 28th, 2023

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  • I’m thinking about the Christmas letter idea more: each person’s card could reflect a life event from the last year - for example, my dad sprained his knee so his card could be an aura debuf with knee-sprain flavor text or something. Then the letter could go into details on our last year in the sections that aren’t meant to be cut.

    Pretty sure I’m 100% doing this next year. Wish I thought of it a month ago!










    1. Mountain bike - on my second bike now, my favorite hobby and form of exercise, excuse to get in nature with my dog, explored a lot of my state because of it.

    2. Kobo e-reader. The night light is amazing, I used to use a neck light for night reading to not wake my wife but this is way better. Easier to travel. The dyslexic font helps my dyslexic ass like 10% too which makes a huge difference in me reading more.

    3. My first raspberry pi in Jr high led to a career in software. Still love pis, and have even more toys now






  • Forgot to mention that slow-living or whatever you want to call it is valuable. Just spend a while doing nothing. Thinking. Chatting with a friend. Be bored. You’ll probably knock out some chores, and get really motivated to do something big (humans do not like being bored)

    Edit: gonna put more hobbies I think of here

    • Skateboarding/longboarding, roller blading - pretty meditative once you get into the flow
    • kayaking, paddle boarding, canoeing - as a kid I went on a week long 100 mile canoe trip that I think heavily impacted my life. I’ve always wanted to do something similar again, but not been able to make it work yet
    • I tried paragliding, but it wasn’t as fun as mountain biking for me so I dropped it
    • I’ve had a lot of fun making dumb games and publishing them for the web, hosting that on GitHub, and using netlify to make it into a website. I bought some domain names for family members so that’s where I put them. I want to spend more time with Godot to get better at making games
    • Engage in the communities of the hobbies you enjoy - you’ll learn and make connections and share your own insights