Monday, 12th May, 2025

I’ve not started but I think I’m done with rock tumbling. Maybe I’m over thinking it. Maybe I don’t need to build my own tumbler and should just buy the £30 used national geographic one from eBay. I’d like to know stuff about rocks, and when we go to a beach people ask me what things are and I go “oh that’s a gherfledoohabah” and they coo.

The other day I asked ChatGPT for hobby suggestions. I don’t really need more things to fill my time but I was just curious. It didn’t suggest anything interesting. So I opened up eBay and looked at typewriters and now eBay sellers are offering my discounts on endless typewriters.

Maybe I should just do normal things. Like read a book, or develop black and white film. Probably using a radio on a hill is random enough for one person.

Enjoying GTA V. I’ve mostly forgotten the story, so it’s like watching a movie but you play. Like how computer games have been forever. Also stops me mindless browsing the internet looking for solutions to problems that don’t exist.

Oh I guess I could learn morse code.

Then Jack shared this post about emacs. Which is me before using emacs. However, I’ve looked this way before and always chosen not to go down this route. In the past I’ve maybe walked 100m down the road but then turned around and gone back. I’ve install Doom and various other starter kits, I’ve read a few pages of the manual and done some tutorials. I’ve acquired books and not read them. Articles like this mean I pass by the start of that road occasionally, I think of grand journeys and wild adventures and all the things that road could lead to. Then I look at my watch and think “it’s not time” and move on. I have a reasonable system setup - mostly around VS Code. I don’t really write much, and I don’t use text editors at work (except logseq for notes). So whilst there is some capacity to use emacs, I’m not really sure what for, other than to learn and “enjoy” emacs itself. Oh and to use some of the greatest software ever written that’s older than me, but I don’t need it.