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Which was kind of my thinking behind the current incarnation of
this website (not this gopher site; I just chickened out and posted
this here instead) some five years ago: what are the fewest most
important things that make up you (well, actually, me) as a person?

Now reduce to a minimum.

If I had to go to the absolute minimum it'd be tea and music;
Strangely neither feature as a specific category here - although
music does come up a lot and tea has once. I could so cope without
alcohol, even coffee, but without tea? No fucking way.  Without
music? There would be no point to life itself. You can take
EVERYTHING else from me and I'll be ok with those two.

I’d like to keep running because I do like it and it is a really
(relatively - compared to cycling) cheap way of staying fit. But
presumably I’ll get too old for it at some point.

Programming I do still really enjoy. I’m definitely not doing
enough anymore (dive in maintenance and contributions on
open-source projects). But, I could live without it as long as
something kept my brain ticking over until it was happy enough to
just sit and listen (and drink tea).

Photography, well, fuck, it’s pretty much like as soon as I found
and expressed an interest in it (as a replacement for video editing
I’d been forced to give up), it was torn from me and I’ve basically
been learning to live without it ever since.

So tea and music it is.

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