Category — Microblog Mondays

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I have a game… of course, I have a game. I always have a game. But this game has a lot of replay.

With Habitat, you get a tiny land with trees, wheat, and bear-like animals. The job is to build houses from the trees, grow food to support the people in the houses, and keep your resources plentiful without depleting the land.

It took me three tries, but I entered an endless mode where I had all elements in optimal balance. It’s a fun game to pick up for a few minutes while you’re waiting for the water to boil.

Enjoy!

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Peaklet is a game you play AND contribute to. Each day, you get an opinion or a factual question with many possible answers. For instance, what are the longest books in this list? And then there are maybe 12 – 20 choices. Your job is to rank the top five by size. So choose the five longest books, and then put them in order from longest to shortest of the long books.

After each guess, it tells you whether you chose a correct option in the correct place, a correct option in the wrong place, or an incorrect option. You get five tries to get the items in order.

BUT. After you play a round, you get a survey on some days. The answers to that survey become a future question. For instance, I ranked my top 5 favourite animals out of a list of 20ish animals, and days later, I got to guess what were collectively the top 5 animals.

Enjoy!

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It is March 9, which means that it is Random Act of Kindness Day for Thomas (Facebook group link). On this day, Kristin asks people to do a random act of kindness in her son’s name because he is no longer here to put good into the world himself. I love this explanation from a few years ago:

Sandy once said that all these acts of kindness help write Thomas’ story, since he’s not here to write it himself. I’ve always loved that idea because it means that by encouraging participation on March 9 we can still parent our invisible child—and he can still change the world.

It doesn’t have to be big. It just has to be good. Take a moment today to do something for someone else. To pay a compliment. To give someone your time or expertise. To go out of your way for another human to make them feel seen in this world. And then tell the universe that you just did that for Thomas.

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A discussion about streaks made me realize how many streaks I was keeping, and while none of them feel onerous, it did give me pause. I close my rings every day on my Apple Watch, I meditate, and I read. I play 9 games before work while I drink coffee, and 9 games after dinner. I write down a single sentence about work, and in another notebook, a single sentence about my non-work life.

I clearly care about them, or I wouldn’t have tracked/kept them. But it does seem like a lot of things to keep going, writing it down like that.

Do you keep any streaks?

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I’ve written here before that I think a lot about destroying my journals. I kind of don’t want to leave them behind when I’m gone, and you kind of don’t know when you’re going to be gone. Plus, I have a lot of journals.

But at the same time, I think about digitizing the journals to preserve them. What if the pencil in my childhood journals fades? What if the books are water-damaged?

I can’t really have it both ways — destroyed AND preserved. I need to pick one or the other.

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