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title: Now
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This is my [Now Page](https://nownownow.com/about). It hopes to answer the question, **"what are you doing these days?"**

## Pets

| Rosie                 | Bingley                             | Clover                            |
| --------------------- | ----------------------------------- | --------------------------------- |
| ![[images/rosie.jpg]] | ![[images/bingley.jpg]]             | ![[images/clover.jpg]]            |
| 8 yeas old            | 8 years old                         | 3 years old                       |
| GSD / Husky / AmStaff | Husky / AmStaff                     | Terrier / Chihuahua / many others |
| Loves sun, her ball   | Loves food, wrestling, being a lump | Loves barking, chasing            |

## Projects

- Creating and improving my personal site, Blazestar.net
  - Comments
  - [Webmentions](https://webmention.io/)
  - More content
- Exploring ways to use Haskell for various projects, particularly the web
- Maintaining our forest of timber bamboo
- Logging observations of all the [Messier Objects](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_object)

## Hobbies

- Playing miniature war games, mostly Warhammer 40k
  - Weekly games and monthly tournaments at [Great Escape Games](https://greatescapegames.com/)
  - T'au Empire: Printed and painted around 3,000 points of [FishMech](https://pipermakes.art/collections/fishmech) proxies
  - Blood Angels: Printed and painted 2,000 points of various proxies
- Enjoying World of Warcraft: Midnight
  - [Main Tank](https://raider.io/characters/us/tichondrius/Ironsoul) for &lt;Mitsakes Were Made&gt;
- Hiking and camping in the High Sierras
- Star Gazing with the [Sacramento Valley Astronomical Society](https://www.svas.org/)
  - Current equipment:
    - Meade 2160 254mm SCT
    - Stellarview ST102 102mm refractor
    - iOptron AX Mount Pro

## Media

- Re-reading Lord of the Rings
- Listening to [Marketplace](https://www.marketplace.org/) for economic news
- Reading many blogs I'll get around to listing some time

## Personal

- Developing my physical health and mental health
- Finding my place in swiftly changing culture, economy and technology
