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ROOPHLOCH 2020 round up ----------------------- October is here, meaning September is gone, and thus the second ever Remote Off-Grid Outdoor Phlogging Challenge has come to a close. Thank you to everybody who participated! As per last year[1], I have compiled a list[2] of all the qualifying entries I am aware of. If I have missed your ROOPHLOCH post, please let me know via email! There were 8 ROOPHLOCH posts this year - half as many as the inaugural event, but I guess the Covid pandemic explains part of that, with many people surely being either less able or less willing to get outside for fun. I'm pretty disappointed that I didn't actually end up participating myself this year! September turned out to be an extremely busy and stressful month for me, as I have started preparing, yet again, for another overseas move (thankfully, this one looks set to be the last one for basically as long as I'd like). All this extra mental load appeared at the same time that I had already started taking deliberate steps to dedicate less of my time to computing, and these factors conspired to make it far too easy to put things like this off. Toward the end of the month I tried to rally for a final effort, only to find that, for some reason, at some point since I last used it, my little eeePC's AC adapter died, the battery had run down and I couldn't charge it back up, leaving my most portable "real computer" out of action. Everything seemed to be against me! Next year I think I'll start practicing in August to be sure of a triumphant return. [1] gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/1/~solderpunk/roophloch/2019 [2] gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/1/~solderpunk/roophloch/2020