First off, I love your parents' new home! What a wonderful, peaceful setting!
And I'm impressed by your focus on continued learning. That has never injured or wasted the time of anyone and is the best brain-stimulator you will ever find.
I was a coder (once) and loved the logic challenges that came up from time to time (usually when I had no time at all to be delayed by unexpected "learning opportunities". Later, I was on a long-term systems design project that focused my attention on combining diverse applications.
Anyway, I thought that was a good time to learn bookbinding because it was something I had always been curious about. Once I started learning the steps and building a press and stringing frames, it became my main focus and the computer project was just something I did to pay the bills. The actual physical manipulation of building honest-to-goodness bound books with my hands was the best therapy I could have found.
There is still more to learn about everything and I'm doing a refresher run-through on calculus courses on KhanAcademy.com while I have my early morning cups of tea. Too much to learn and too little time available to learn it all!
Will
Thanks Will. It sounds like you've done a really interesting range of things. I'm a huge fan of Khan Academy - I've just finished their HTML/CSS course and now looking at starting the JS one. I agree - there's never enough time!
I can't claim to use my little educational side trips to full advantage, but I do learn a lot about a variety of (useless, but fun) things. I probably will never use the calculus - not that I ever have since college - but at least it reminds me of why I spent so much time preparing for those two courses!
I like your focus on continuing education. It's interesting and certainly most people could benefit from.
Keep on Steemin'!