Category — Microblog Mondays

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I play a lot of solitaire. (Actually, the ChickieNob and I both play solitaire side-by-side, so we can talk during it, but it’s obviously a solo game.) So I was totally excited with the idea that there are dozens of games—beyond cards—that you could play solo.

Looking at our shelves, the Sherlock Holmes game is easy to play via Zoom, but you could also play it alone. (And like the article says, it states 1 – 8 players. I never noticed that before.) You could play both hands in Yahtzee. (Much easier to do than a game such as Scrabble where you’d see the letters in the other hand.) I’m trying to compile a list, or look at the games and reimagine them with slightly different rules in order to play them alone.

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We knew we weren’t going anywhere this summer, but last week, our airline finally canceled our flight, making things official. I had already dealt with the sadness, so I hopped directly to relieved. We’ll try again in the future.

In the meantime, articles about virtual travel keep popping up, but this has been the one that has interested me most. The woman at the heart of the story travels the world through Google Street View, taking screenshots of the sites. She does this because she has agoraphobia and can’t go out, but her method becomes an interesting alternative in this time period when we are all left between a rock and a hard place when it comes to leaving the house.

I tried it, going to places I know and places I don’t know. The images have gotten so much better since the last time I played with Google Earth. She writes:

It’s the opposite of how you normally travel. You don’t have any itinerary, you don’t have a planned holiday. You don’t know exactly where you’re going, you don’t know exactly where you’re going to land. So, many times I would jump in and go, “Oh my goodness, where am I?” and then do some research on the place. Then suddenly you know something about a place that you didn’t know anything about before. It kind of shakes up your idea of travel.

Try it. Start with a place you know, so you can have a sense of how well Google Earth captures it. And then go somewhere new. I’d love to hear where you go. I started in Chincoteague and then went to Corsica.

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Do you know what I’m not on right now? A train. Do you know what I was supposed to be on this week? A train. Not a fancy train like these dream trains. Just a normal Amtrak one that would have delivered me at my sister’s house.

I love train travel as much as I hate air travel. Car travel is between train travel (at the top) and air travel (at the bottom). Boat travel is slightly (very slightly) above air travel.

I miss my sister. I also miss trains. (Thank you, Amtrak, for the refund. I will rebook when I travel again.) New life goal: Ride on the Belmond British Pullman next time we get to London. Did you see where it goes?

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When I first heard about a “paste party” on Twitter, I assumed it meant everyone showing off pictures of their fake jewelry. Like tweet after tweet of rhinestones.

I’m not very bright.

A paste party is when you hit “command-v” (or however you paste after you copy something to your phone or computer’s clipboard) and paste whatever you copied last. Andy Baio describes it as “a momentary snapshot of digital ephemera, to be used and immediately discarded, much of it never meant to be seen by anyone and stripped of all context.”

I loved it. Much better than rhinestones.

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It feels fitting that the 301st Microblog Monday would be about transitions. Not that it is experiencing a transition except for going from 300 to 301. I guess I’m stretching here.

But I bookmarked this ages ago and clicked the bookmark this weekend to remember what it was. Atlas Obscura set up a booth called the Plotz Plot in Arizona (which blew over by this point). They explain:

Visitors to the Plotz Plot will discover a small metal shed with a sign that reads: “For those experiencing a life transition: This is a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.”

I really love this idea of setting up a physical space where people can take a pilgrimage and shed an object to give themselves closure on one section of their life. To know that the object is sitting with dozens or hundreds of other objects that all meant something enormous to the people who owned them once upon a time.

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