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A bunch of sex if you're with your woman makes the time fly past, provided it's not too cold and the dog decides he wants to make a bundle.
As far wilfully finding things to do I like optimizing the kitchen and cooking in a more interesting way than is necessary. Turning feeding into a ceremony makes for a real focal point of the day. It's useful to be able to eat the lightweight unpleasant soak / rehydrate / boil stuff. And when I'm in that mode I don't care so much about what it is it's just a nosebag. But with long cold winter nights plumping up a feed into a ritual is something that I really like.
I've got a lot of audio-voice stuff. I seldom deliberately read fiction [apart from BS on forums for comedy value] but I enjoy audio books. That could be Richard Burton reading Under Milk Wood, Dante Alighieri's Devine Comedy or any of various factual offerings. I take from wherever; audio books, excerpts of radio, podcasts, even audio stripped from video files or TV caps if it is interesting. I'd love a recording of Steven Fry reading from this work. Whatever, the solution is smaller than a book, much lighter than a book, has a capacity that dwarfs any book, and I don't need to be in a weird sleeping bag position to hold it or turn pages.
I like games. Devising games can be fun too especially for forfeits such has who gets to pump the water filter or whatever.
Then there's gear evaluations. What is working, why, what could go wrong with it, what sux. Sometimes that's not obvious stuff. For example; see these skeeter bite zappers, there's loads of variations around. Even if they work I think they're crap because they are an oversize lump. I can get exactly the same thing by stripping the Peizo sparker from an old dead lighter and pointing the wire at the bite site. Tiny little thing. Stuff that bites is thinner in the air in winter so to avoid waiting till summer I'd need to go try find a damp spot and roll mah sleeve up. It failed testing 'cos despite a few goes nothing bit but it was winter night testing all the same.
I do enjoy a lot of right-brain stuff too. Although apparently not doing a lot other than pondering whimsically I place a great deal of value on the tortoise mind. Allowing stuff to just emerge from it has given me many a eureka moment that I wouldn't have had if I had suppressed it with my dominant side searching for solutions. I love that sudden penny-drop of creative insight that comes seemingly out of the blue with that's what needs to happen with that shit. A winter evening in camp is the ideal peace for that for me. Although a downside is I've more than once suddenly felt the compulsion to charge home and implement it.
I don't really do the alcohol thing, it is usually to much of a blunt instrument for me in every way. That said, the last time a did I did take three pints of vodka, so when I do I do do it properly. I'm just not much of a drinker at any time. Besides, even spirits are heavy in the correct dose when I could be carrying more water. I do smoke a good amount of Warlock though or a good Cheese or the old standby #1 variants in times of drought. I find that offers a fantastic synergy with all of the above and I don't anticipate that changing.
As far wilfully finding things to do I like optimizing the kitchen and cooking in a more interesting way than is necessary. Turning feeding into a ceremony makes for a real focal point of the day. It's useful to be able to eat the lightweight unpleasant soak / rehydrate / boil stuff. And when I'm in that mode I don't care so much about what it is it's just a nosebag. But with long cold winter nights plumping up a feed into a ritual is something that I really like.
I've got a lot of audio-voice stuff. I seldom deliberately read fiction [apart from BS on forums for comedy value] but I enjoy audio books. That could be Richard Burton reading Under Milk Wood, Dante Alighieri's Devine Comedy or any of various factual offerings. I take from wherever; audio books, excerpts of radio, podcasts, even audio stripped from video files or TV caps if it is interesting. I'd love a recording of Steven Fry reading from this work. Whatever, the solution is smaller than a book, much lighter than a book, has a capacity that dwarfs any book, and I don't need to be in a weird sleeping bag position to hold it or turn pages.
I like games. Devising games can be fun too especially for forfeits such has who gets to pump the water filter or whatever.
Then there's gear evaluations. What is working, why, what could go wrong with it, what sux. Sometimes that's not obvious stuff. For example; see these skeeter bite zappers, there's loads of variations around. Even if they work I think they're crap because they are an oversize lump. I can get exactly the same thing by stripping the Peizo sparker from an old dead lighter and pointing the wire at the bite site. Tiny little thing. Stuff that bites is thinner in the air in winter so to avoid waiting till summer I'd need to go try find a damp spot and roll mah sleeve up. It failed testing 'cos despite a few goes nothing bit but it was winter night testing all the same.
I do enjoy a lot of right-brain stuff too. Although apparently not doing a lot other than pondering whimsically I place a great deal of value on the tortoise mind. Allowing stuff to just emerge from it has given me many a eureka moment that I wouldn't have had if I had suppressed it with my dominant side searching for solutions. I love that sudden penny-drop of creative insight that comes seemingly out of the blue with that's what needs to happen with that shit. A winter evening in camp is the ideal peace for that for me. Although a downside is I've more than once suddenly felt the compulsion to charge home and implement it.
I don't really do the alcohol thing, it is usually to much of a blunt instrument for me in every way. That said, the last time a did I did take three pints of vodka, so when I do I do do it properly. I'm just not much of a drinker at any time. Besides, even spirits are heavy in the correct dose when I could be carrying more water. I do smoke a good amount of Warlock though or a good Cheese or the old standby #1 variants in times of drought. I find that offers a fantastic synergy with all of the above and I don't anticipate that changing.
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