Category — Microblog Mondays

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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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Here’s a morbid question: I do a big book-buying spree every few months. These are the books I want to own and not borrow from the library. I intend to reread them (fully or partially) or loan them to family members to try.

But it occurred to me when someone mentioned Swedish Death Cleaning that there will come a time when I will not buy books without a plan for how I will release said book when I’m done reading it. If not, I’m leaving my clutter for someone else to deal with. And added to the idea of books are all the things you purchase as souvenirs as you go through life that only hold meaning for you. It’s not that someone else won’t appreciate those items, but they are purchased with only my enjoyment in mind.

But what is that age? How do you know when you should slow down on acquiring and start thinking about tidying things up? I am (hopefully) decades away, but the question occurred to me now.

What do you think?

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Many years ago, I read an article that said the Old Man of Hoy would fall into the sea one day, and I suddenly had to see this sea stack for myself. We took the ferry out to Orkney so we could pass it on the water, and we took a million pictures while we called our greetings. (Okay, I was the only one who called out things, but I think the rest of us were silently considering it.)

It’s the same impulse that made us schedule a tour to see Dark Hedges in Northern Ireland (damn you, COVID, for canceling that trip). Those trees will be gone one day, and we wanted to be there. To hang out with some tree friends.

It makes me sad when I hear about places we can’t go or amazing things that we can’t see anymore. Similar to closed restaurants or books out of print.

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