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Aimless Wandering

July 15, 2017 by Scooter in the Sticks 12 Comments

No Destination

Lately, I’ve been engaged in days of aimless wandering.  Some on the Vespa through fog shrouded forests. Others on foot during daylight and night.  No destination in mind, just allowing myself to drift through the landscape, admiring the world, and wondering what it all means.

Aimless wandering requires a measure of letting go, at least a little, of goals and expectations.

At home, I’ve been tinkering with this website, attending to performance issues and shortcomings that I’ve largely ignored.  Examining page speed on the GTmetrix site I was shocked to find how poorly the site was performing.  After a few days of intense education I managed to cut the response time in half and achieve passing grades on the test.  Continue Reading

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