We did have to take a trip to the landfill (which is free) to drop off our trash and recycling. On the way there, a moose crossed the road only two cars ahead of us. On the way back a group of at least three caribou were grazing by a pond near the side of the road. I expect that we will see more of these sorts of animals as the trees lose their leaves and the food is scarce.
Not all of my computer time was spent on video games. I keep an ongoing GoogleDoc with all of the blogs that I post on my website, but I haven't updated it since the beginning of the summer. I decided to spend some of my day looking through those blogs and attaching them to the document. It kind of felt like I was time traveling. It was particularly strange to read my writings in June and July before I had any idea that I would be moving to Alaska. Some of them were eerily ironic.