Category — Microblog Mondays

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While I don’t want to live in Florida, I do want to live in Disney World.  (Yes, I’m aware that will be a problem if I don’t want to live in Florida.)  Like really really really want to find 2 million dollars so I can buy a house next to the parks and go there every day.

I love amusement parks.

And I love the idea of living in one.  I know some people find amusement parks draining, but I feel super recharged and happy after being in one for a few hours.  I know — sort of strange for an introvert, but I didn’t say I liked engaging with people there.  I just like being on the rides and walking around the park and breathing in the scent of park food and listening to carousel organ music.

Would you want to live in an amusement park?  And if not, what would be your ideal space to inhabit?

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We’re nearing the end of summer.  Soon the twins will be back in school, and I’ll be expected to buckle down and accomplish things.  No more beach, no more pool.

I always have a hard time with endings, even when I know that summer — barring the apocalypse — will roll around again in about 9 months.  Plus we have at least two beach trips planned over winter, so it’s not even like I need to wait 9 months to get back to the sand.  But still.  You know.  Summer is almost done.

I am admittedly a cold weather person.  But I’m a beach person, too.  It doesn’t really match up, but I make it work.

Are you more a summer person or a winter person?

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By the time the next Microblog Monday rolls around, the Olympics will be over.  Sniff.  There are still the Paralympic Games to look forward to in September, but then they’ll be over and we’ll have to wait 2 years again.

Remember when we used to need to wait 4 years?

We’ve been mostly watching anything gymnastics or swimming.  Though if they ever brought back pankration, I would be all over that.  I am smitten over the idea of zero rules, and all the kicking, sticking, fighting and biting one can muster in the ring.  Oh, wait, just re-read the two rules and they’re no biting or gouging out the opponent’s eyes.  So, all the kicking sticking, and fighting one can muster in the ring.

What are your favourite (still-existing) Olympic events?

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Happy Olympics!

I’m on an eternally-going group chat.  It started out for talking about game development, and while it sometimes is still about game development, it’s more just talking about our day.  A while back, someone from Brazil posted about a brigadeiro-flavoured ice cream treat.  Everyone else seemed to know what brigadeiro was, but I had to Google it.

It is the national truffle of Brazil.

So we obviously must make some in honour of the Olympics.  Wish us luck.  We’re using this recipe.

Did you make anything good to eat for Olympic watching?  Do you tend to make something special for television watching events (like the Super Bowl) or just grab whatever you were going to eat anyway?

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Speaking of letters (uh… I spoke of letters about two weeks ago), I remember having a pen pal through my elementary school.  Everyone’s pen pal was from a different country (though everyone wrote in English, so even if your pen pal was living in a non-English speaking country, the letters were all written in English), and the letters were sent weekly to the school so you didn’t have to give out your home address.  My pen pal was an Australian girl my age.  We continued to write each other after that year, but it fizzled out a few months later.

When I got to college and discovered Usenet, it sort of scratched that pen pal itch because I was speaking with random people around the world.  One boy (from Ballarat) and I had a standing date every day to log in at the same time and find each other on the board and chat while we worked.  Blogs further removed the itch because it’s like having hundreds of pen pals at once.

But every once in a while, I sort of wish I had a letter writing pen pal again.  Not a friend that I speak to through other means, but someone on the other side of the world where we only communicate back and forth through letters.

I remember being so excited every time a letter arrived.  I guess I also wish that I had time built into my day to be a pen pal.  Not sure how sustainable it would be as an adult.

Did you have a pen pal growing up?  Did you ever get to meet?

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