Interests to Investigate

 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?