On 02/11/2021 02:22, Udhay Shankar N via Silklist wrote: > I have a question for the collective. > > With so much not going well with the world, at almost all levels of > abstraction, what are the things that are still great? In fact, what are > the things about your own life that have improved over the past two years?
I'm really glad about how my children are developing as people. I won't bore you with all the doting-parent stuff, but our eldest has always been really interested in, and good at, understanding people; she's the go-to therapist for all her friends with troubles, and she's just started her A levels where she's getting to study psychology and sociology (and maths) - and she's loving getting to study these things she's been thinking about informally for all these years! And our younger child is ten now, and starting to mature and develop as a person. She's always been very immature, a stark contrast to her sister; barely able to reason beyond her immediate desires (for instance, happily committing to never ever play on the computer ever again if she can just play on it for half an hour extra this one time) - but over the past year or two she's started to actually open her metaphorical eyes and look at the world around her, beyond the next ten seconds! Suddenly she's turning into an interesting and observant human being :-D Other than that, I've been learning things again. I love learning stuff, but for a couple of decades I'd been a bit stuck finding new things to learn. However, I finally broke the back of a topic I'd long been mystified by - analogue electronics - finally getting a good enough understanding of the core of it that I can start learning lots and lots of details. Since then I've built an analogue audio mixer, and am well into designing a dual-input (solar+grid) smart battery management system that will manage power in my workshop when it's done. Lots of fun! -- Alaric Snell-Pym (M0KTN neé M7KIT) http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ _______________________________________________ Silklist mailing list -- [email protected] Manage your membership here: https://lists.digeratus.in/postorius/lists/silklist.lists.digeratus.in/
