Author: Dan Q
Dan Q is a software engineer, a director of a voluntary organisation, a trainee counsellor, a keen geocacher, and an amateur magician. He lives with his partner and her husband in a polyamorous triad, and occasionally finds time to blog.
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Found GC2WTGE 8~ NUDDSY MEGA RAMBLE
This checkin to GC2WTGE 8~ NUDDSY MEGA RAMBLE reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. A challenging and courageous scramble by the eldest (who turned 10 yesterday!) and I (who turned 43 today!) up the slippery wet leaves to reach the GZ. I stopped to double check the proximity and meanwhile …
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Did not find GC2WTGN 9~NUDDSY MEGA RAMBLE
This checkin to GC2WTGN 9~NUDDSY MEGA RAMBLE reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. An extended search by three adults, two children, and a dog failed to find this cache. We found what we think might have once been its camouflage near the obvious hiding place at the GZ, but nothing …
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Found GC5TF25 Mystic Abbey
This checkin to GC5TF25 Mystic Abbey reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Out for a walk on my 43rd birthday, left the kids playing with their other parents in the (beautiful) ruins of the abbey or I hacked my way around to the GZ. Started searching at my evaluation of …
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[Bloganuary] Live Long and Prosper
I'd love to live as long as I can do so in reasonable health, and I'm happy for that to be longer than I'm predicted to. But if everybody lived longer, what would that mean for the world?
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[Bloganuary] A Different Diet
I periodically aspire to veganism, or at least something slightly-closer to it than where I stand right now. From an environmental/sustainability perspective, that is.
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[Bloganuary] Billboards
If I had an enormous billboard sitting around, I'd print something like "this space intentionally left blank" on it.
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[Bloganuary] Nostalgia vs Futurism
Do I spend longer thinking about the future or the past? Honestly, I think it's about equal...
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[Bloganuary] The Gift of Time
The best gifts I've ever received have been those that take me out of my routine (or give me the time and space to do so for myself!).
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[Bloganuary] Alumnus
Bloganuary wants to know what colleges I've attended. Let's take a tour of my experience of further education.
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[Bloganuary] Playtime
Do I get to "play" in my daily life? Absolutely. For this Bloganuary prompt, I'm looking at the ways in which I play.
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[Bloganuary] My Biggest Challenge
What's the biggest challenge on my horizon as I come into the New Year? Right now, it feels like it's Bloganuary! But there's an underlying challenge of winter motivation and procrastination that makes Bloganuary seem so hard.
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Wonder Boy
I first played Wonder Boy on an arcade machine 35 years ago, and have played on-and-off ever since. Until today, when I finally beat it for the first time.
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It Is Only Q
The programmers at British Gas are among the many who don't believe that a surname can be only a single character, and their customer service agents have clearly worked around their validations (or just left a note for themselves in the problematic field!)... leading to hilarious postal mail.
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They See Me (Blog)Rolling
Inspired by Tracy Durnell, I've for the first time since 2008 started publishing a 'blogroll' of people I follow (now, dynamically-produced from my feed reader!).
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The Underground Blog
Chris McLeod's started a blog that's ONLY available via a feed reader. How cool is that?