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In the woods (ROOPHLOCH 2024)

I'm writing this on my phone, sitting on a bench beside a little stream in a patch of woodland that's only a shortish walk from my house, as my first ever ROOPHLOCH entry!

Remote Outdoor Off-Grid Phlogging Challenge 2024

It's not quite the wilderness or rural idyll that you might be picturing as I'm on the edge of a town and there's a road very close by with frequent traffic, but I'm still very lucky to have such easy access to somewhere like this. I should probably make more use of it than I do.

I don't have very much to say here, but I've spent quite a while sitting and just enjoying the sound of the water and the fresh air. I normally don't do this sort of thing, usually when I go outside it's with some sort of purpose. Even if that purpose is just wandering around taking photographs, I'm still generally moving around a lot and rarely stay in one place for long.

In this case the purpose was to write this entry, of course. I was originally going to write a bit about my plans for the capsule (including a sort of "digital garden" set of notes on various topics) and my thoughts on publishing some parts to the web alongside Gemini, but I'll leave those for another time.

Now all that remains is the slightly fiddly task of uploading this to my capsule and editing the gemlog index via ssh on my phone. In future I'll probably look into making that a bit more automatic, but for now it's not too bad.

I did originally have some thoughts about trying to upload the entry via SMS to lean into the "Challenge" part of the ROOPHLOCH acronym a bit more and remove the reliance on a mobile data connection, but I didn't have time to get that set up. Also, I think SMS in the UK possibly now only works in the same places that mobile internet does anyway, so in practice there's not much difference?

I've got a whole year to come up with something more interesting for the next ROOPHLOCH, time will tell whether I manage or not!