Small accomplishments during the year, not otherwise accounted for. Not major milestones, but bigger than inchstones.
- Served as a teacher’s aide for English Empowerment Center for three terms.
- Reorganized the space behind my desk to be more Zoom-worthy. Artificial backgrounds are just evil, even if you have a green screen.
- Reached level 6 of WaniKani.
- Along with my various community science projects, I pulled-chopped-yanked-sawed a lot of non-native invasives. All told, I logged almost 300 service hours for Virginia Master Naturalists, and I’m three-fourths of the way to 1000 hours of service. On one survey trip, I found a really interesting parasitic fungus of alder trees that causes a gall-like response.
Oh! And something I stopped doing: I retired from NPR, closing the books on a 42-year career in software development.