Category — Microblog Mondays

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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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Rebecca Solnit had a piece in the Guardian on climate change, but I think the dek applies to all news right now: “So much is happening, both wonderful and terrible – and it matters how we tell it. We can’t erase the bad news, but to ignore the good is the route to indifference or despair.”

The problem is outlined in the first paragraph: “We are hemmed in by stories that prevent us from seeing, or believing in, or acting on the possibilities for change.”

I went from not reading opinion pieces to sticking to heds and deks for news coverage to taking nights skipping the news entirely, beyond email alerts, because it felt like all bad news. And while Solnit is correct, we cannot erase the bad news, she is also correct that we cannot leave people in a perpetual state of hopelessness. Celebrating the small wins, highlighting the work that can be done, spotlighting people making a difference helps balance out the reality of those other stories. Because I think Harvey Milk had it right when we think about the power of hope to drive change.

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I really like this game. It has had staying power, like Bracket City and 368 Chickens. Every day, you get a picture turned into a 7 x 7 square of dots. Click the dot, and it breaks into smaller dots. Click those dots, and they break into even smaller dots. If you could click every dot, you would see the pixelated image. But the trick is that you only have 60 clicks.

I don’t stress about the clicks (for instance, I don’t try to keep it to only 10 clicks) and find that I can usually guess the image correctly in 30 – 40 clicks.

Have a go at it.

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This game annoys me for two reasons. First, it often resets, especially if you are playing on your phone and walk away from it. It is annoying to need to go through a board again.

The second reason is that I cannot pass level 3. LEVEL 3! I keep coming close, but then I forget how I got that far and mess up the pattern. I would keep at it, but I fear that if I’m having this much trouble with level 3, I will only be annoyed with level 4 and/or the game resetting and needing to win level 3 a second time.

But maybe it’s your cup of tea.

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