Category — Microblog Mondays

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One of the most amusing things about Quentin is he absolutely hates birds. There was an enormous storm the other day — thunder, lightning, pouring rain — and I went to check on him. But he was just munching on some dry food and looked up at me with curiosity.

But if he hears a bird chirping outside — and he always hears birds chirping outside — he emits a low warning growl. And then I have to remind him that I don’t control the birds. And they can’t harm him. And they’re less annoying than so many other things in life. I don’t think he believes me.

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Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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Quentin turned two months old and went on his first road trip. We went to visit Josh’s parents, and while you can normally leave a guinea pig alone for a day or two with food and water, he’s still a bit too little to stay alone. So we packed the same amount of gear that we used to bring when the kids were little (little carrier and big carrier and playpen and toys and food and and and) and jumped in the car.

He was a joy in the car (he mostly slept) and took a few hours to get comfortable in a different house, but he was a good roommate — I had some fears that he would want to play at 2 am because he could see us — and after his nightly zoomies around the playpen, he went into his big carrier and slept until morning. Road trip plus: Justine got to meet him and give him a cuddle.

I love that he’s such a chill pig and game for any adventure. Plus, I literally feel my body calm when I’m stroking his back. He’s a great travel companion.

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A friend posted a link to a Wikipedia page, which had been edited to contain wrong information. It had 25,000 changes since January 2025 alone, and it looked like there were two main groups of people going back and forth to replace and reestablish immutable facts, such as names and dates. Exhausting and troubling.

Depending on the day you hit the information (or even the hour you hit the information), you may walk away believing one thing or another. It made me think of those old World Book sets or Encyclopedia Britannica — if the information was wrong or biased, at least we were all working from the same information, making it slightly easier to address it because we had all read the same thing.

I learned a long time ago to take anything on Wikipedia with a grain of salt. Someone changed the principal’s name on the twins’ school’s page, and while the new name made me snicker (and it had been up there for two years!), it also highlighted the reality of mass-edited information.

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Celebrating my birthday with a lot of meetings. ChickieNob and I will exercise at some point. Josh also got me a chocolate hazelnut cake, and I plan to cuddle with Quentin while we watch television and read for the rest of the night.

When I was little, I couldn’t believe adults wanted a low-key birthday celebration. Now, my biggest hope is that my library holds come in, and I have time to read them.

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You know how those productivity lists all talk about the five-minute rule? If the task takes five minutes, do it instead of writing it on your to-do list. The idea is that we take more time to agonize over the task than to do it, so if it’s quick and easy, take care of it and move on.

It’s great advice, but most of the time, I have no clue if a task will take me five minutes. I mean, returning an email? Yes, I can generally predict that if it requires a yes/no answer, I can respond immediately and archive the email. Inbox zero!

But there are phone calls I need to make that I would predict should take five minutes, which turn into 20 minutes, and three follow-up calls. Or backing up my phone, which I thought would take five minutes but ends up requiring a software update and a photo download and and and…

You get the point. It’s hard to judge time. Don’t feel bad if you leave the task on your to-do list.

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