ROOPHLOCH 2020 round up

October is here, meaning September is gone, and thus the second ever

Remote Off-Grid Outdoor Phlogging Challenge has come to a close.

Thank you to everybody who participated! As per last year[1], I have

compiled a list[2] of all the qualifying entries I am aware of. If I

have missed your ROOPHLOCH post, please let me know via email!

There were 8 ROOPHLOCH posts this year - half as many as the inaugural

event, but I guess the Covid pandemic explains part of that, with many

people surely being either less able or less willing to get outside

for fun.

I'm pretty disappointed that I didn't actually end up participating

myself this year! September turned out to be an extremely busy and

stressful month for me, as I have started preparing, yet again, for

another overseas move (thankfully, this one looks set to be the last

one for basically as long as I'd like). All this extra mental load

appeared at the same time that I had already started taking deliberate

steps to dedicate less of my time to computing, and these factors

conspired to make it far too easy to put things like this off. Toward

the end of the month I tried to rally for a final effort, only to find

that, for some reason, at some point since I last used it, my little

eeePC's AC adapter died, the battery had run down and I couldn't

charge it back up, leaving my most portable "real computer" out of

action. Everything seemed to be against me! Next year I think I'll

start practicing in August to be sure of a triumphant return.

[1] gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/1/~solderpunk/roophloch/2019

[2] gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/1/~solderpunk/roophloch/2020