Category — Microblog Mondays

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Every year elevates me to a new level of crankiness about April Fools Day. Yes, the fake pregnancy announcements were worse ten years ago when it was possible for the vast majority of my Facebook feed to possibly get pregnant, whereas by now, it sounds so far-fetched that I scroll on by without pause, but it doesn’t make the holiday any less annoying.

It’s hard enough to figure out reality without adding a fake holiday into the mix for the sole purpose of creating more confusion.

Bah humbug, or whatever the equivalent is for April Fools Day.

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I am extremely late to the game because the Handsome podcast started back in September, but my friend told me about it a few weeks ago. And as they say at the end of each episode, “Tell your friends.” So now I’m telling you.

I am not a podcast person—I don’t have a lot of time to listen to things, and I generally like quiet—but I have made an exception for the Handsome podcast. It’s Tig Notaro, Mae Martin, and Fortune Feimster talking about whatever is on their minds that week and answering guest questions from other celebrities, such as Brett Goldstein or Sarah Silverman.

At least one point in each episode, I burst out laughing. I’m bouncing between listening to the most current episodes each week and returning to September to listen to all the old episodes I missed. It’s such a fun hour.

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I could lie and say I don’t construct my day around a series of games, but it’s a lie and you know it’s a lie, so let’s move forward.

I love the new game from the New York Times, Strands. Each day, you have to find a series of words that are part of a theme. So once you figure out the theme, you know what you’re looking for. And it has hints if you find three words that are not part of the theme (that is a brilliant addition), and you know that one word will stretch from one end of the puzzle to the other. It’s now part of my morning routine, which grows and shrinks as I find new games but currently totaling nine games I play over coffee.

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Modern Mrs. Darcy posted about a store that is hiring a reader-in-residence and paying them in books and coffee. It’s a fun idea, but they could take it so much further.

The article doesn’t mention it, but I would look at what someone was reading and be inspired to try something. I often pick up books in a bookstore because I see many other people looking at them. If I knew the person reading in the chair was the reader-in-residence, I’d ask for a recommendation. I’d follow their GoodReads if we liked the same thing. It would bring me into the store to see what the person was reading. It’s brilliant, and it feels underutilized as a concept.

What do you think?

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My morning routine of word and geography games keeps getting longer, but I have one more I need to add: Squeezy.

You get a set of words with missing letters and a bank of letters that need to return to the words. You can only use each letter once, and the letters (when in the correct order) spell a word that goes down through all the words.

You may need to play it once to understand what I mean. It gets harder with each level.

Enjoy.

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