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Marc Clifton wrote: Yeah, try and spend as much quality time as possible outdoors.
exactly.
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Marc 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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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.
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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
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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?
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I thought that bamboo are like banana plants in that you can't kill them off. What's your secret?
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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.
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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 
"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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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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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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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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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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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.
Software Zen: delete this;
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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! 
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I learned reflow soldering. Also esp32 coding in nanoframework.
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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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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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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 my old guitar and I'm trying to learn how to play it.
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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! 
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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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A lot of home projects I had on the backburner got accelerated (furniture, network cabling, new home cinema, etc.)
Huge rail and ice loop infrastructure projects in Minecraft...(sadly I cannot afford to build my own Shinkansen here in Texas)
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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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