Category — Microblog Mondays

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I had a thought while I was making dinner: That everything I purchase, everything I bring into my home, is pre-trash.

It may be trash within the same day. I bought the box of pasta, I made the box of pasta, I ate the box of pasta, and I threw out the box of pasta. Or it may become trash years down the road, such as worn-out socks.

But every item is just pre-trash, which makes me pause somewhat as I think about purchasing something. I tend to keep paper books unless someone wants to take them. So it’s worth buying a book because it will likely outlive me. But something that I’m not going to use (or use up)? Probably not worth bringing it into my home only to throw it out later.

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The kids have a week off where they align this summer, and I thought it would be fun for all of us to go to Venice. I got out the journal I kept the last time I was in Venice to get the name of the hotel. There was a long entry where I stressed over the cost of the place. My friend had made the reservation for us, and it would cost each of us $60 per night. I lamented that I was paying triple what we’d pay per night for the rest of the trip.

I looked up the hotel today to see the cost per night. Remember, it was $120 per night for a very nice hotel in Venice. That same hotel today? $1,132 per night. Yes, it has been 25 or so years, but that seems excessive, no?

In Rome, it was $40 per night for a whole apartment in Trastevere. A quick search on VRBO shows it will be about $540 per night for a comparable apartment.

I can’t tell if the price difference is normal inflation, supply and demand, or priced to curb tourism. In any case, we’re not going to Italy this year.

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A person recorded a monologue in English, moving from about 450 AD to the modern day. A timeline appears on the screen, and you note the date when you start to understand the monologue. Is this video accurate? Who knows! But let’s try it anyway.

I started being able to follow along in 900 AD, missing about half the words, but could mostly catch everything by 1300 AD. How did you do?

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All last week, the news would report that we maybe-likely-possibly-definitely have a weather event. The weather event would be zero inches of snow or 3,000 inches of snow.

I do not envy meteorologists because people get so angry when their predictions are wrong. But they can’t really predict accurately until we’re close to the event. I still think it’s pretty cool that we live in a world where we get some advance warning that something is about to happen.

I prepped by putting batteries in the flashlights, locating extra blankets and thermal layers, and making sure we had ingredients for meals.

I always think that I want snow until I get snow. And then I realize that I don’t really want snow. At all.

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I blame Dear John for adding another game to my daily game sessions. Wordiply is from The Guardian. You get a few letters in a row, and you need to make the longest word possible that uses those letters in a row.

For instance, if the letters were CHIC, you could make CHICken. But you could also make hierarCHICally, which is 14 letters vs 7 letters. “Hierarchically” would win over “chicken.” The point is to make the longest word possible and when you think you have, reveal how close you are to the actual answer.

I am terrible at this game and usually settle too early. But it’s also pretty clever and not timed, so I like that I can think about it while I go about the rest of my day.

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