Started compiling a list of interests to ponder or learn or make or do or write about when I find myself with more time on my hands than I do now being gainfully employed. I was aiming for 52 for no particular reason. I am up to 61, but don't feel like adding to the list here.
1. Learn to Surf
2. Learn to Sail
3. Learn how to use a sextant
4. Timber framing
5. Stone carving
6. Finished the Crossbow Tennis Ball Launcher. January 2024, doesn't shoot far, but I guess that is safer.
7. Sashiko; a form of Japanese folk embroidery and clothes mending
8.
Business Card, Calling Card, Personal Card, Real Me Card, Post Work CV
9. BMW Motorcycle/Vespa rebuild
10. Fix an analog wind up clock
11. Long distance hikes
12. Travel?
Why Not! blog posts or plans
13. Abridged Poorly Executed Translations of Foreign Novels
14. Pressing flowers
15. Moving rocks for trail construction use using cables, rigging
17. Book binding
18. Moss,
photos and grow Made a moss terrarium using a repurposed security camera in March 2024
19. write Inspector Maigret Paris walks or Maigret Companion
20. The Daily
life of Madam Maigret or Madam Maigret’s cookbook
21. Monsieur Pamplemousse Companion
22. Monsieur Pamplemousse ‘s wife 's life book
23. Rally School
24. Holiday scented candles in empty tea tins
25. Learned to use a slide rule. I have a slide rule from my dad and a booklet from my father-in-law. Leaned basic operation in March 2023.
26. Keep water lilies in a fish tank indoors
27. Learn some number of songs on upright bass
28. Play music for plays/musicals/theater group
29. Community Big Band
30. Save Seed/seed bank
31. Herbal Liquors
32. Knife and other types of tool sharpening
33. Mead, make? compare? consume? Made Mead in 2022 and a Maple Mead in 2023
34. Constellations, learn more, know 2, learn 5 more
35. look into Staten Island Mohlenhoff Farm History, maybe Mohlenhoff Mobile Museum
36. Get a website
37. Trail maintenance, adopt a local trail
38. Bottle openers
40. Intra-coastal Waterway
41. Holiday Spice coffee (ginger, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, cloves)
42. Distill Essential Oils
43. Risk Management
44. NGO Work
45. Micro-meteorites
46. 52 Things Blog Post, done?
47. Keith’s Book of Lists
48. Keith’s Farm Memories
49. Jacobs ladder or other mad scientist devices
50. Sword fighting lessons
51. Hydroponics
52. Knots (Marine, climbing, camping, GP) 8 each?
