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 I plan to photograph the comet as it makes another pass around the Sun, and near the Earth, during that return.
-In 1986 I photographed the comet as a high school Physics class project. At the time I thought I did a good job of it. In retrospect I could have done better.
+During the school year 1985-'86 I photographed the comet as a high school Physics class project. At the time I thought I did a good job of it. In retrospect I could have done better.
-Most of my youthful mistakes are water under the bridge and can never be corrected. In this one unusual case, however, I think I can take another shot and reach a more successful outcome. I can be prepared when Halley's Comet returns: equipped, and practiced in astrophotography, ready to capture the comet on film, better than last time.
+Most of my youthful mistakes are settled, in the past, and can never be corrected. In this one case, however, I think I can take another shot and reach a more successful outcome. I can be prepared when Halley's Comet returns: equipped, and practiced in astrophotography, ready to capture the comet on film, better than last time.
 ===== So What Do I Do in the Meantime?=====
-A main theme of my next thirty-five will be persisting through all of them. It becomes a kind of survivalist project though with an unusually specific time frame.
+A main theme of my next thirty-five years will be persisting through all of them. It becomes a kind of survivalist project though with an unusually specific time frame.
-Many modern survivalists seem to be focused on specific and impending threats, from being laid off, to being without power and water due to storm damage, to war coming to American shores, and even civilization-ending events like a coronal mass ejection frying all electronics, or a Cumbre Vieja tsunami wiping out the East Coast of the United States.
+Many modern survivalists focus on specific and impending threats; from being laid off, to being without power and water due to storm damage, to war coming to American shores,  even civilization-ending events like a coronal mass ejection frying all electronics, or a Cumbre Vieja tsunami wiping out the East Coast of the United States.
-For this project a major requirement is to still have the physical and mental ability to take night sky photographs thirty-five years from now.
+For my project a major requirement is to still have the physical and mental ability to travel to suitable sites and take night sky photographs thirty-five years from now.
-It is a small but important distinction from ordinary prepping: I have to plan against internal threats first, and all the usual external threats second. I have to maintain physical and mental health for at least thirty-five more years. I have to generate enough income to support that effort for the duration. Plus, I have to stay occupied: involved in enough activities the whole time to not get bored, and be tempted to give up and check out early.
+It is a small but important distinction from ordinary prepping: I have to plan against internal threats first, and all the usual external threats second. I have to maintain physical and mental health for at least thirty-five more years. I have to generate enough income to support that effort for the duration. Plus, I have to stay occupied: involved in enough activities the whole time to not get bored and be tempted to give up and check out early.
-===== Okay. So What Do I //Do// in the Meantime?=====
+===== Okay, So What Do I DO in the Meantime?=====
+That's the question I'm working on answering right now. This site is a tool for exploring the question.
+Early indications are that I'll need to exercise regularly, eat healthily, and start a business. I'll age out of the workforce eventually. It's not physically demanding, so I could try to stay in my profession as long as physically possible. However, I've reached a point where the job, well, it doesn't //add// to my desire for longevity. Something else will have to take its place and the sooner, the better.
+For planning this project, given its scale and scope, one approach is to look at it as a long voyage: an intra-planetary space voyage to a rendezvous with a distant celestial body. What would a thirty-five year space voyage, where basic life support could effectively be taken for granted, still require?
 =====Digital Scrapyard=====
 This is a [[content:scrapyard|digital scrapyard]]. There's no true [[start]] or end to it, but here we are. It was inspired by and adapted from the  [[content:garden|digital garden]] concept.