But I admit that with my life circumstances (adhd, coming from a non wealthy family) and choices (active Christian, more than twice as many kids as the average around here) there will never be time.
I deal with it all by storing it in raindrop (used to be pinboard.in but I finally got utterly fed up).
I also have a bullet journal (ok, Logseq these days) where I have pages for each project and when I see something relevant I can paste a reference to it there.
Finally and most importantly I am realistic and I just admit it is not going to happen. That's life unless you are even more lucky than me. We can still dream though. My grandfather kept the blueprints for his retirement project (a boat he had designed for himself while being a boatbuilder as a young man) until he died, even if I think he realized before retirement it wasn't going to happen. He just made the best out of it.
I have realized already so I bookmark stuff just in case and to get it off my mind and then I very consciously make the things I need to do my hobbies.
I.e. at the moments my hobbies are:
- getting better in <tech I use at work>
- home repairs (drywall painting atm, but I have added a half way finished cobblestone path around my house and a tool shed, later made wall mounted cabinets for the new garage from leftovers etc etc)
- other repairs (clothes, toys, bikes)
- cooking (good, healthy meals that my wife and children will actually eat - on a budget)
- negotiations (bank, employer etc - I have a reasonably good economy but it needs to stay that way)
- fundraising for the church (I think one of the best way to find great and reliable friends is to volunteer for causes you believe in)
Also maybe interesting:
I felt had an almost crippling addiction to HN, then since late February last year I have barely read HN because of Ukraine.
I've been hunting disinformation, spreading information and hope and support, donated, tried to raise awareness with politicians and newspapers, that kind of stuff.
Got a severe back pain last fall that set in whenever I touched Twitter last fall, and scaled back, then scaled up again.
Now I need to take a break. Will still pray and donate if possible, but while 11 months on the information war frontlines is a lot of fun it is unpaid and mentally taxing comes on top of normal responsibilities and in addition you get to see and understand in your heart a lot of pain.
Luckily things are moving in the right direction now. Now even the leopards will be sent to roam the steppes of the east.
(Do I care about the Russians? Yes, unlike many others, yes. Thats the second reason why Ukraine needs to win before more of them are sent into the meat grinder.)
But I admit that with my life circumstances (adhd, coming from a non wealthy family) and choices (active Christian, more than twice as many kids as the average around here) there will never be time.
I deal with it all by storing it in raindrop (used to be pinboard.in but I finally got utterly fed up).
I also have a bullet journal (ok, Logseq these days) where I have pages for each project and when I see something relevant I can paste a reference to it there.
Finally and most importantly I am realistic and I just admit it is not going to happen. That's life unless you are even more lucky than me. We can still dream though. My grandfather kept the blueprints for his retirement project (a boat he had designed for himself while being a boatbuilder as a young man) until he died, even if I think he realized before retirement it wasn't going to happen. He just made the best out of it.
I have realized already so I bookmark stuff just in case and to get it off my mind and then I very consciously make the things I need to do my hobbies.
I.e. at the moments my hobbies are:
- getting better in <tech I use at work>
- home repairs (drywall painting atm, but I have added a half way finished cobblestone path around my house and a tool shed, later made wall mounted cabinets for the new garage from leftovers etc etc)
- other repairs (clothes, toys, bikes)
- cooking (good, healthy meals that my wife and children will actually eat - on a budget)
- negotiations (bank, employer etc - I have a reasonably good economy but it needs to stay that way)
- fundraising for the church (I think one of the best way to find great and reliable friends is to volunteer for causes you believe in)
Also maybe interesting:
I felt had an almost crippling addiction to HN, then since late February last year I have barely read HN because of Ukraine.