My 2022 vacation so far

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Here's a story about how I am spending my vacation. Oh yes. Vacation is a thing. Sometimes we forget about it. But it's nice when you do it. A 🧵.

Here are a few things I do. Swim, read, sit without a purpose, walk, socialize, learn Elixir, listen to Commodore Amiga music on @Spotify.

Swimming is easy cause I am just by the sea. One of the best in #halkidiki #greece. I only hit the beach after 5pm cause the sun can literally burn you. I am in one of the best places in the world. So grateful.

Reading is not something I do often. And even when I do, it is through Audible. These days I am checking out goodreads.com/book/show/59609056-running-remote

I sit without a purpose. Thoughts come and go. One needs to get bored to be creative again. Getting bored is something kids dread. It's the worst to them. I am happy when I reach that state. I seek getting bored. Getting bored is resting your brain. Giving it a break.

I need to exercise. I do 6km in the morning and 4km in the evening. A total of 10km a day. That gets me well beyond 10K steps that I have as a goal per day. I want to break the routine, but between walking and swimming, there are not many other things I can do where I am

Socializing extends your life. Meet new people. Spend time together. Laugh. Be silly. I am not doing it on purpose, but it seems meeting folks outside of my profession helps. It helps expand your horizons. See different perspectives. Stop talking about work for a change.

I continue #myelixirstatus journey, and learning @elixirlang. I am doing the #exhort @exercism_io. I love Elixir, many many others also do, it seems, as it's 2nd most loved language in 2022: survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted-programming-scripting-and-markup-languages

As I am coding, I like to listen to Commodore Amiga music. Really loud. I love it how confused kids' faces are when they see me rocking to something so foreign to their ears. Love it. open.spotify.com/playlist/4a64urXFVgnaMYdfENcOGw?si=bbfe740613444fa6