Sorry I mean keeping yourself dry is still a problem and a huge debate in camping gear. Look up the goretex controversy for example haha

I bring an actual pillow. It’s worth the weight

Staying dry is still an issue

I’m really nerdy about camping gear. The shit coming out every season is just insane.

I wish I could learn to nap. I’m 30 and I’ve never been able to do it. Even a 14 hour flight there is no way I’m going to nod off even for a second

Yeah it’s really easy to lose the plot sometimes. Lately at my desk at work the words “worthless animal” and “I trusted you” are what the voice in my head won’t stop shouting so I’m slowly picking up the pieces with the forest routine again and trying to get that noise to ease up a little bit

With info overload these days everyone struggles with this to some extent I do believe

For anyone with a noisy self destructive brain like mine appears to be, I got pretty good at mindfulness by walking the exact same route through the forest the exact same time every day and by just sort of casually observing the sights and smells which somehow became a mental association with “these thoughts are normal and OK” including those extremely dark ones if you know what I mean

Basically any time a bird is making a sound now I can just enter a meditative sort of state where thoughts just come and go regardless of how evil those thoughts are. I changed the angle of my skylight window in my bedroom so that it acoustically catches the sound of the birds on the tree to my east, and if you know birds they sort of go sit on the same branch and sing the same exact bullshit on a somehow perfect schedule

Lately going through the darkest period of my life. When I manage to finally fall asleep I wake up from horrifying nightmares but there is a bird that will sit on my skylight at exactly 4am and he gets me back to sleep ez and I stay asleep

I used to have a hummingbird couple that I chilled with on my balcony every sunset but unfortunately they passed away this year

Sleep deprived ramble but maybe there’s some wisdom here

You need to practice mindfulness. People should be OK with 10 minutes “staring into the void” and this is exactly the damage phones did to us

Edit: if I really want to look at my phone I open Wikipedia and check out the featured article or maybe the top read of the day list. It’s not brain rot and it’s not that fun either but it’s time well spent

Your edit lol. You just picked the answer you wanted to hear. This is not about covid whatsoever.

On Vancouver Island they will shit literally anywhere. After summer ends, go camping literally anywhere and there is human shit

I have even seen it cooking on pavement outside of an outhouse at a roadside pullout

I would just be the weird caretaker with the cat

Divorced at 30 after 9 years, just a few months ago, and I don’t think I’ll ever get over it

Lost the majority of my friends in the process too because they took her side

Don’t really think guys can recover from this. Making friends in my 30s is not ever going to be the same level of connection as the ones I made in high school/college

Hogwarts

Tallinn Estonia is amazing and for some reason not mentioned yet

I’ve been to Prague 7 times and never scammed

I stumbled into it by word of mouth in my case. I started out doing IT for public schools which gave me some experience with racking stuff, security cams, basic electrical work, etc

Pretty much that but also ability to use tools and basic knowledge of air conditioning etc

No but look into datacenter night shift work. Where i am nobody wants that shift. Working in a datacenter is pretty fun

We had one in the lab though and just ignored it

I spend a portion every day removing tapes, shipping them offsite and inserting new tapes

Annoying but must be done

I went to a trades school which offered IT computer systems as a 2 year diploma. Fast track to a job back in the early 2010s. That path would never get you into IT today lol

The specific class I mentioned was windows system administration