Sigh. I wish I had enough money to "soft retire" and then I'd do three things. Concurrently.
- Overlanding and hiking trips, especially in the Rocky Mountains of (mostly) Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana in the summer, and to the deserts of Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and even Wyoming in the shoulder seasons, and New Mexico, southern Arizona and West Texas in the winter. I'd make YouTube videos and blog posts about my adventures outdoors.
- Create videos about gaming. Some general gaming news, but mostly talking about my setting. I'd also blog a lot more and a lot better. I'm whipping this out while multitasking on a meeting, but that's about all that I have the time or mental energy to do. Actually, a lot of these would overlap. I'm sure I'd do some videos from a studio/office room in my house, but what I'd like to do is talk about gaming from outside. If you're familiar with Jackson Crawford's Old Norse videos, it'd be kind of like that for most videos, if I could. Heck, I'd focus on utilizing the wilderness in my gaming, because that's kind of a thing for me. Maybe not focus, but I'd talk about it quite a bit, and how the place that I'm standing in for that video can be utilized/adapted to make your game session more interesting. Crawford dresses kind of like a cowboy. Maybe I'd dress kind of like a pirate to mix it up. At least sometimes, just for fun. The image below isn't really me, by the way, although it's (originally) based on a picture of me, run through AI several times until it doesn't look that much like me anymore in most respects.
- Also, in an ideal world, I'd have another room in my house that would be my model railroad room, and I'd have that hobby that I always kind of wanted but never did anything with for the last four decades other than tinker a bit here and there. This one is, sadly, a little disconnected from my other two hobbies, which would be more tightly integrated, but the reality is that being outside inspires me to create models of the outside on the inside in miniature.
Anyway, as if. If anyone wants to fund my desired lifestyle by giving me a few million dollars that I can invest and quit my terrible day job, you know where to reach me.

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