Category — Microblog Mondays

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I adore this story about how Penn and Teller did a magic trick, and it’s a really good reminder that most things you’re impressed with require an extraordinary amount of time to accomplish.

It’s two-fold: The hours put in learning sleight of hand to get the correct card chosen and the months put in having the grass regrow.

But mostly, I love Teller’s quote: “Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.” It’s something to keep in mind whenever making a comparison.

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The best pig in the world died last night. I’m not ready to write about Beorn, but he was loved up until his last second on earth, and we continued to hold him and tell him he was loved long after he passed.

I am really really really sad right now.

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It has been a draining three weeks. Four weeks? I can’t even remember when Beorn’s health woes began at this point. But it is tiring to be on high alert. That’s the real problem: Not the feeds or the medicine or the appointments.

My default is that things will go wrong. When the vet didn’t call when I expected him to after the procedure, I instantly went to believing there had to be a problem. If there wasn’t a problem, he would have called. It turned out that he started the procedure late because he wanted to give him more fluids. Simple explanation.

So I have spent the last four weeks (three weeks?) on high alert, feeling things before I need to feel them or, more often, feeling things that I don’t need to feel at all. For instance, worrying when there is nothing to worry about.

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While I’m normally good about updating to the latest software version, I put off the change from iOS 17 to 18 for months because I didn’t want things to look different. I’m fine with not having new features. I would rather have everything look the same and be located in the same place than have my device capable of doing anything new.

I waited until the Wolvog was home so he could change all the settings and get it as close to iOS17 as possible. And it still took me a few days to feel comfortable with it again.

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When I was little, I loved Pitfall deeply. Deeply enough to beg my mother to allow me to take a picture of my high score on the television screen and send it to Activision for a badge. While it took some coordination to play, it was all about memorizing the patterns to get all the treasures.

Someone made an online version, but while it made me so happy to see Pitfall Harry, it didn’t feel like the game anymore. I started running through the first screens, but the gold bar wasn’t where I expected it to be. And I couldn’t get keys on my computer to feel like the game controller. While it wasn’t quite as satisfying as my childhood memories of the game, I’m leaving this here in case anyone else wants to revisit Pitfall Harry.

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