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So, this was about 2021/2022. I wasn't a big camper.

I had made this friend on facebook a few years before (Lets call him Tim), and we had talked about everything, from parents, to religion, to partners. I think this friend was the first person I had even ever come out to as bi.

He saw a photo of me online from another trip (not a camping one) and asked that I travel to his place for a similar experience - I am Kenyan, and I love the natural vibe of almost every single nature spot I have found, from waterfalls and lakes to small dams I find when I am in a new place.

So anyway, a year later, I chose to travel, and to also camp for the first time ever. I tried calling, texting, fb messaging before. Nothing went through. I went anyway. It tried again when I got there.

Aside from that, the camping experience was surprisingly great, it was hotter at night than I had anticipated (I had carried two blankets, only needed a bedsheet). The bonfire was also spectacular, and the next day, going around the game reserve was good too, I have always loved wildlife, so experiencing it while camping was also something.

The way the trip went - I booked with a travel company, they told me it was a camping trip and what gear to carry. We travelled from Nairobi to Samburu, stopping along towns such as Isiolo and others for light refreshment. We arrived around 6pm. Though the trip organizers had hired a chef, we all had to chime in with the tasks of peeling potatoes and I think shelling peas around a campfire. It was a beautiful night, could hear crickets and stuff

Anyway, about a year later, a mutual friend told me that Tim had died a few days before my camping trip from a car accident.

This was my first experience with camping, and also with losing someone I had connected with only digitally before. It is a weird memory for me.

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Elephant pic from a Masai mara game drive included. The Masai Mara trip is what prompted my late friend to ask me to visit their area (Samburu)Unfortunately, I barely have other photos from that time

Basically what the title says. I understand that people who eat paleo avoid dairy. Is there a simple way to think about nutrients like this that can help me understand where someone would actually get their nutrients (not just calcium) just in general, within the paleo framework

This is coming from just my own thinking lately, with stereotypes I grew up around, and also seeing AI impact on the creative and technical side of things alike...

So, I just want to know other's experiences, especially those who work in a sciency field or even in tech.

In my own experience, creativity and making art and music are not so different from the logical more concrete side of things. It feels like fundamentally the same thing, and before AI, solving a coding puzzle was often the same as realizing a rhyme that also had meaning in poetry (internally at least). Is it different for you? Do you find that there is a hard line?

So, for context, my background is in tech (software engineering). I love music and also poetry.

Even with time, due to a bad software engineering market, I find it hard to focus on my personal creative side.

Does anyone have ideas. What did you do when you faced a similar stressor, where you have time, but the motivation just is not there