LionKimbro recently asked Who are you now? What are you here to do? and I started writing…
Who are you now? What are you here to do?
I’m still madly in love with my wife, Claudia. ❤ 😄 ❤ ❤ 🤓 ❤ ❤ ❤ – 2010-03-10 marks our eighteen years anniversary. I’ve spent half my life with her, and feel like the luckiest man I know. As we’re approaching our forties, thoughts return more often to the choices we’ve made. Still no kids. Will we die alone? Would having children avoid this bleak vision of growing old and frail? Are we the first generation to start looking for alternative models of old age, where we move in with our peers and grow old together?
I play pen & paper roleplaying games a lot – about a dozen times a month! This flexes my creative and social muscles. Telling a story, entertaining people, organizing games, handling conflict, setting a mood.
I still listen to a lot of *music*. Lately I’ve enjoyed an Irish influence with The Pogues, Flogging Molly, and The Dubliners. I still enjoy Bruce Springsteen and The Cure like I did when I was a teenager. I listen to a Swiss indie music podcast by our state radio called “Sounds!”
I read a lot of books. I help organize an English bookclub in Zürich, but I still ❤ ❤ ❤ my Fantasy and Science Fiction books. The Malazan Book of the Fallen, A Song of Ice and Fire, the latest Guy Gavriel Kay, and many other unread books are piling up around me. I spend too much time reading Old School RPG Blogs and wish I could find better books with interesting medium-level origami stuff to fold.
interesting medium-level origami
I also sort of wish I could draw better. I’d submit more of my drawings to Fight On! magazine. Sometimes I feel like I should take up the painting of miniatures as another meditative hobby. But there’s just no time!
I keep working on Oddmuse, but I’m rarely compelled to write new code. It *just works*. That feels very good. I contribute very little to Emacs and Emacs Wiki. My heart’s no longer in writing software. Nevertheless I guess that’s where I still have things to contribute to society – writing Free Software. That, and *community building* around the software projects I’m associated with.
If you feel like chatting, hop on to Freenode and join #wiki or #oddmuse and talk to me. 🙂
I guess that makes me some sort of *warden* – I mow the grass and weed the spam. *Not quite a curator* and more of a caretaker. I feel strange and out of time, here. Perhaps I’m feeling the Wiki Now.
#Life
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Funny. When I took the Keirsey character sorter years ago I apparently scored as an *Idealist*. Today Claudia and I talked about such tests because they used one at work (she works with the psychology and psychiatry services of the canton’s justice department) and I showed her that old link again. I think they used something involving those color-coded cards. Well, we took the free test again, and I ended up a *Guardian* instead of an Idealist. Here’s the stuff I agree with: “Guardians are […] given to serving and preserving our most important social institutions. Guardians […] use all their skills to keep things running smoothly in their families, communities, […] and businesses. Guardians can have a lot of fun with their friends, but they are quite serious about their duties and responsibilities. […] Guardians honor customs and traditions […]. Practical and down-to-earth, Guardians believe in following the rules and cooperating with others.”
Now that I read this, it seems sort of weird that I scored as an Idealist in the past. That must be wrong! Then again, Claudia just scored as an Idealist. W00t!! And I saw on her page that *infp* is the Healer type and *enfp* is the Champion type. Those names ring a bell. I think I must have scored as an Idealist many years ago.
As Claudia puts it: Have you lost your idealism as you grew older?
Gaaah!
(Deutsch: Ich bin IPFG - Fürsorger; Claudia ist ETFG - Lehrer. Haha, unheimlich: Fürsorger – Lehrer Beziehungen. Myers-Briggs-Typindikator.)
Fürsorger – Lehrer Beziehungen
– Alex Schroeder 2010-03-09 21:49 UTC
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Über deinen Fürsorger muss ich jetzt noch lachen!!!!!!!!*Ich habe den Test auch gemacht* Ich bin ITFG Psychologe und gehöre zu den Idealisten! Da unterscheide ich mich von Claudia nur durch intro-und extrovertiert und von dir nur durch theoretisch und praktisch*Soviele Gemeinsamkeiten mit euch beiden?*?!?!?
– der Vater 2010-03-19 21:42 UTC
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Bei soviel Ineressen, wie du sie hast, musst du dir um deine Zukunft (Beschäftigung im Alter) keine Sorgen machen!
– der Vater 2010-03-19 21:49 UTC