I just went to the doctors today. It was a surprise to find that I lost 16lbs. Officially, I'm wintering now and there's been a lot of snow here at Home Port over the past few weeks. I don't remember having changed my diet much. But 16lbs is good news considering that I plan to resume hiking soon.
The Robot is having issues installing updates. But that's nothing new. It's The Robot being The Robot. I've got a system maintenance day scheduled for next week.
I've got an idea for somebody out there. This could be an opportunity for somebody with a lot of free time who's not as mobile. This is a "voluntarism from behind the desk" idea. As distance hiking trails go, they often times don't have the manpower to spare. But having a program on the trail might be a good thing. On low manpower, if someone could like, friend or subscribe on social media or e-mail to every community organization, convention and visitors bureau, they could listen in for relevant events and forward them to a master trail community calendar that others can subscribe to. It's a sign up for everything, stay at home and surf the web type of thing.
Another thing that this person might do is take over the agency's events page and convert it into a subscribable calendar as well. Over time, he, or she could ask that other components of the agency and other outside organizations convert to a similar public and live calendar. That way if the main calendar is subscribed to theirs and they update it, it will automatically update the main one with no further work needed of this new volunteer.
If this is done, the hiker, or prospective one could have access to information regarding an event they might like to attend, or one where they're already down trail and may be coming up on, or know what day to avoid something that's on, or near trail because they'd rather not get caught up in a crowd.
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