playing a huge minecraft modpack with no modded minecraft experience
I have no idea what is going on upwards of 90% of the time. It feels like I'm playing ten different games at once and I'm expected to manage inventory space for all of them. It's terrible, and it's the first game I've ever played that the computer I'm using has ever struggled to run. This is the ideal gaming experience for me.
learning to identify the birds that live in my area
It's nice to look at a bird and know what it is instead of just thinking "huh, cool bird". Then I can go and look up more information about the birds later. And then if I see a bird I don't recognise it's interesting - maybe it's rare? It's like Pokemon, I think. I've never played Pokemon.
taking a beginner Auslan class
This is just a lot of fun. Learning a language is one of those tasks where you can have displays of incredible skill and dreadful incompetence, from the same person, moments apart, and in a low-stakes group setting it's consistently funny. A lot of party games are about exactly that sort of task. And probably unlike the other stuff I've been doing lately this is potentially a useful thing to be learning.
I think I just like the process of going from knowing nothing about something to knowing just a little. So maybe I'm really recommending that.
