Month: May 2023
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Have Fun with Missions, Visions, and Values
My team and I recently used a deck of Dixit cards to playfully work on refining our collective idea of our identity and our values. It turns out we're a D&D-like party of heroic adventurers!
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Found GC7FB9H From Canterbury to the cache
This checkin to GC7FB9H From Canterbury to the cache reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Well that was quite the adventure!
The first wayoint is right across the road from where some work colleagues and I are staying for an "away week". I decided to dash out during a break in … -
Found GC9QCKH When in Rome live as the Romans do (bb Tribute 05)
This checkin to GC9QCKH When in Rome live as the Romans do (bb Tribute 05) reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Took until the fourth hiding place before I found the cache. Out for a walk with work colleagues on the way to dinner. Greetings from Oxfordshire, UK!
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Travelling light
Lately, I've taken to "travelling light", and it feels carefree and liberating.
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Normal for Children
The natural state of a child is to assume that their upbringing, their family, and thier community is representative and normal, so we all end up growing up with learned "quirks" that we don't discover until they're challenged. How many do you still harbour?
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Found GC8B4CH Is 14 Your Lucky Number Yet?
This checkin to GC8B4CH Is 14 Your Lucky Number Yet? reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Easy find while out for a ride, breaking in my new bike. Great ride, aside from the mayflies, which I must've ingested about a million of! As others have observed, the logbook has soaked …
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![Screengrab from Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. Paladmin Xenk Yendar, played by Regé-Jean Page, rides his horse through a forest. It's subtitled with him saying "I'm sorry." and also "[horse nickers]".](https://bcdn.danq.me/_q26u/2023/05/d0a809c06b0d71981-978x480.png#21313)
Today I learned that the quiet, high-pitched neighing sound horses sometimes make is called "nickering".
I learned this from a subtitle which read "[horse nickers]". 🤣 -
Nightmares & Noggins
I had a nightmare last night in which I was underprepared for an upcoming D&D session. Because I am underprepared, I guess, but mostly because I was ill and sleeping badly anyway!
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Max props to the developer of puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth. Saved me a ton of work circumventing Cloudflare's bollocks while I was trying to get my own data as recorded by my smartwatch.