@wanderinghermit@mindly.social

Wandering Hermit
@wanderinghermit@mindly.social

In the long run, we're just a thin layer of plastic-rich, slightly radioactive rock.

#showerthoughts #thinking #thoughts #random #geology #geoscience #anthropocene

Wandering Hermit
@wanderinghermit@mindly.social

#PSA #OldPeopleOfMastodon

At least 6% of people 60 and older (including me) have a vitamin B12 deficiency. Symptoms can include memory issues and confusion, feeling tired, depression, irritability, and/or difficulty in walking or speaking. The deficiency can develop at any age but the likelihood increases with age. The symptoms are easy to dismiss with “well, I'm just getting old.”

A blood test will tell you if you are B12 deficient. In many cases it can be treated with oral B12 supplements.

Wandering Hermit
@wanderinghermit@mindly.social

Hiking is a deep clean cycle for your brain.

#camping #hiking #wandering #solitude #happy

Wandering Hermit
@wanderinghermit@mindly.social

Four Steps to Happiness

1. Make a list, physical or mental, of the things you do on a regular basis.
2. Pick one that you really don't like to do.
3. Rearrange your life so you don't have to do that thing anymore.
4. Go to Step 1.

#showerthoughts #happiness #random

Wandering Hermit
@wanderinghermit@mindly.social

#introduction

I'm a wanderer, camper, hiker, sometime mountain biker. I get antsy if I stay in the same place more than two weeks.
I'm also a seismologist, software developer, and engineer, all semi-retired. And an avid reader.
I live in the desert southwest of the USA, on those rare occasions when I'm home.

#science #wanderer #hiking #travel #geophysics #geoscience #nature #books #bookstodon #photography #developer #mountains #desert #solitude

Wandering Hermit
@wanderinghermit@mindly.social

#ThickTrunkTuesday

A large spreading tree, maybe an oak, with multiple trunks growing in a stream bed in central New Mexico. The area around the tree has been heavily grazed by cattle so not much vegetation survives. The sky is a hazy blue with a few clouds.

Wandering Hermit
@wanderinghermit@mindly.social

I don't much like posting video, but this is pretty cool. It's a mountain lion wandering through my back yard at 3:49 am, as seen by my wildlife camera. By moonlight.

#Wildlife

Wandering Hermit
@wanderinghermit@mindly.social

2:47am this morning, there were TWO mountain lions. So. Damn. Cool.

Wandering Hermit
@wanderinghermit@mindly.social

Old schoolhouse

#fensterfreitag #WindowFriday

An old, falling-down adobe schoolhouse in rural New Mexico. The doors and windows are partially boarded up, but part of the bell tower on the roof remains. A gravel road passes on the left and curves into the distance. The sky is bright and partly cloudy, the desert is uncharacteristically green because of the monsoon rains.

Wandering Hermit
@wanderinghermit@mindly.social

I don't much like posting video, but this is pretty cool. It's a mountain lion wandering through my back yard at 3:49 am, as seen by my wildlife camera. By moonlight.

#Wildlife

Wandering Hermit
@wanderinghermit@mindly.social

#PSA #OldPeopleOfMastodon

At least 6% of people 60 and older (including me) have a vitamin B12 deficiency. Symptoms can include memory issues and confusion, feeling tired, depression, irritability, and/or difficulty in walking or speaking. The deficiency can develop at any age but the likelihood increases with age. The symptoms are easy to dismiss with “well, I'm just getting old.”

A blood test will tell you if you are B12 deficient. In many cases it can be treated with oral B12 supplements.

Wandering Hermit
@wanderinghermit@mindly.social

Hiking is a deep clean cycle for your brain.

#camping #hiking #wandering #solitude #happy

Wandering Hermit
@wanderinghermit@mindly.social

In the long run, we're just a thin layer of plastic-rich, slightly radioactive rock.

#showerthoughts #thinking #thoughts #random #geology #geoscience #anthropocene

Wandering Hermit
@wanderinghermit@mindly.social

#introduction

I'm a wanderer, camper, hiker, sometime mountain biker. I get antsy if I stay in the same place more than two weeks.
I'm also a seismologist, software developer, and engineer, all semi-retired. And an avid reader.
I live in the desert southwest of the USA, on those rare occasions when I'm home.

#science #wanderer #hiking #travel #geophysics #geoscience #nature #books #bookstodon #photography #developer #mountains #desert #solitude

Wandering Hermit
@wanderinghermit@mindly.social

Four Steps to Happiness

1. Make a list, physical or mental, of the things you do on a regular basis.
2. Pick one that you really don't like to do.
3. Rearrange your life so you don't have to do that thing anymore.
4. Go to Step 1.

#showerthoughts #happiness #random