This is the 14th anniversary of this blog. It all started in 2011 when I made the firm decision to retire and started a daily blog…a few months before my computer/engineering career formally ended. It was a way for me to guarantee a little bit of structure for a time of my life without many external requirements on my time.

There are some other activities that have emerged over these 14 years that also structure my days – weeks – years:

Volunteering in my community – specifically as a Maryland Master Naturalist for a decade and now as a Missouri Master Naturalist.
Reading a lot of books - almost exclusively electronic (primarily from Internet Archive).
Creating Zentangle tiles almost every day.
Participating in the care of my parents and now my dad – monthly trips to the Dallas area for in-person visits.
Traveling for birding festivals.
Exercising.

The blog has documented my technology migration

from Intel based PCs/Laptops to a Mac
from a Kindle Fire to a Nivida Shield to an iPad tablet
from a Canon point and shoot to a Canon bridge camera
from Samsung Android based phones to an iPhone
from an Acura TL to a Prius Prime (plug in hybrid).

The blog has offered opportunities to showcase my growing photographic skills and my increasing knowledge of native plants…particularly trees. Recently plastics have become a big concern, and I anticipate that there will be a lot more posts on that topic over the coming year.

Previous anniversary posts: 13th anniversary, 12th anniversary, 11th anniversary, 10th anniversary, 9th anniversary