Writing is easy to demonstrate... just visit the Library and browse the bookshelves, or take a peek at the 'books' in the showcase.

As with writing, this is easy to demonstrate... just visit the Gallery and browse the list of images, and click your chosen image to view it in the display window.

I normally do this when I am on vacation as my favourite destination for chilling out (and racing the clock) has a pretty good track to go racing around.

I'll post some times I've achieved, though none of them are record breaking, they do (generally) demonstrate my working to achieve my objective - get a better time next time!

Sure, it can be a simple, fun thing to do.

But have you seen the complexity of some of the kits they produce these days? The Colosseum? The Eiffel Tower?

Not all of them simply stand there and do nothing - roller-coasters, haunted houses all have functions to go with their appearance.

Some are even motorised - like helicopters and cars

Oh, and with all those bits you've collected over the years you can build utilitarian items, like a tower/rack for external Hard Disk Drives, mobile phone cradles, USB hub mounts, etc...

Then there's the stuff useful to writers - oh yeah - Lego can be used to model scenes, vehicles, spacecraft, etc.

My way? Pretty much, at least as far my abilities will allow. This website? Coded by me from the various bits of code I have managed to scavenge from various sources, most of which has needed to be adapted to do what I want it to do.

I started with HTML... just HTML (Hyper-Text Markup Language). But that was boring, so I learned about CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). Then came Javascript, followed by PhP and most recently the MySQL database and the programming language associated with a database.

In amongst all that, I had to learn about creating the graphics/images that I wanted to display on my pages. I find various packages have functions that serve for specific tasks, but I have yet to discover any single program that does it all. Besides, I'm a cheapskate. I will not pay exorbitant fees to companies like Adobe simply to use a fraction of their product's capabilities despite having paid the full cost of purchase (old-school) or the recurring rental costs (current practice).

Exercising is not fun. At least the routine, repetitive stuff that they do in gyms does not appeal to me in any way. So... I do that stuff at home - weights, rowing, flexing, stretching, etc.

My preferred form of exercise is the lifting of bowling balls to send hurtling (at least in my imagination they hurtle) to destroy the pins at the far end of the alley.

But that's not the only way I play that game. Much as I decry A.I. it has it's uses. I also bowl in the virtual world. No weights involved, but I still feel like I have exercised by the time I've played a few cards.

Another form of exercise I enjoy is that of playing table tennis. NOT the ping-pong that everyone else imagines is what it's all about, but real table tennis based on the ITTF rules. It's not a popular sport, but there is table (metal and outside) that I am able to use to practice.

There is also the virtual world in which I can play and, whilst it felt strange at first, it has become a reasonable alternative to using the severely limited local facilities particularly when the weather is bad!

It's not just a fisherman's tale. It does happen. Like that instance when I hooked a ray that was simply too big to fight without breaking the rod. Damn! That was a strong swimmer capable of bending my rod double when I tried to fight it. Thankfully the line broke!

I am NOT a sports fisherman. If I go fishing, I go with the intention of catching a fish that can be prepared, cooked and eaten while it is still fresh.

Teaching isn't a career, nor is it a job... it is a vocation and it is most unfortunate that the majority of teachers are career-minded first and foremost.

I have had a variety of teaching opportunities - I won't call them jobs, tasks or roles, because they were more to me than a source of income.

As an I.T. instructor I was able to pass on valuable knowledge acquired by experience, and I could directly relate to the students as I had been one of them prior to changing what I did to earn my income. Watching the fears, and confusion, disappear from the student's faces was worth far more than my salary.

As an instructor for novice motorcyle riders I was, once again, able to pass on valuable knowledge acquired by experience. From being a reasonable student I earned an invitation to return to the training scheme as an instructor. I taught my peers, then I learned to teach the absolute novices, became government certified to train the students, and then certified to supervise and instruct all the instructors at the training scheme.

At one time it seemed that becoming a certified TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign or second Language) teacher was the only option I had for earning income and stay alive. Yes, times were hard at that time. But it quickly became more that just a means to an end. I have a few very nice anecdotes to tell (at some time) about those times when the money faded to insignificance relative to the sentiments of the student's moment of enlightenment, or success in exams.

I used to make the effort to be on Facebook, but I couldn't find a use for it. Tried LinkedIn, but that never proved useful. Pre-Musk Twitter wasn't too bad, although it seemed it was already in decline when I first joined up.

That was, until the migration to Mastodon, the place I used to hang out. It was fun, for a while - hashtag challenges, prose and poetry, even a few photographs were posted. I set up an online 'newspaper' for those who were interested in having their efforts featured on a weekly basis.

I wrote the framework for the stories "Colosseum Survivor", "Walker" and "Paladin" on Twitter by using the daily hashtag prompt words to guide the story. A few folks loved the idea of a serialised story that was updated each day. They need more work, but I'm not in a hurry to wreck the flow of the stories as they stand.