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Geocaching just sent a nice “wrap” of my 2023 activity (which I don’t remember them doing last year) that was fun to reflect on. It also became obvious how much of my activity has changed. Using Project-GC, this is my monthly activity over the last eight years: Quick observations: There’s a pretty huge shift from pre-covid (right half) to post-covid (left-half), as I have been unable to get out with friends. From 2018 through part of 2019, I was trying to do a geocaching “streak,” whereby I’d go out every day and find a cache. It gets brutal as I’d be finding all the caches I’d otherwise ignore just to appease some arbitrary metric. Each year has had a spike of activity around travel taken. My activity has been declining, which I think is a sign of clearing out nearby things to find. After all, I’m in Year 16 of geocaching. Iceland: Check! I did a geo-trail around the Reykjanes peninsula, also a lot of wandering around Reykjavik. ...

While rummaging through my study looking for an old tax return, I found my second grade report card. My handwriting still “Needs improvement.” The fourth and fifth grade report cards were more interesting because they were in a Q&A format, no letter grades assigned. Apparently I didn’t like the approach to Spanish instruction taken by the school system, but I did enjoy Faust.