Category — Microblog Mondays

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There was a cute story in the news this past weekend about a little girl who wrote the Queen because she wanted a pet swan and she thought the Queen owned all the swans.

I showed it to the ChickieNob because she writes a blog about royal news, but she was royally miffed.  I think it secretly had something to do with the fact that she never got her pet clam, but the rest of it was because the ChickieNob sent a letter to the queen and got no response.  She did not want to hear about a little girl who got a letter from Buckingham Palace when she had been checking the mailbox for weeks since sending her own at the beginning of the summer.

When she first wrote the letter, we explained to her that it was highly unlikely that she would receive a letter back, though the ChickieNob couldn’t fathom how the Queen wouldn’t respond once she saw the evidence of the ChickieNob’s deep and abiding love.  We told her it was worth writing, but you need to send these sorts of things without any expectation of an answer.

Have you ever received a response from a public figure?

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You come across a magical wish-granting being who offers two possible situations.  You can either have one, super-charged night per week, where you don’t have to sleep and you won’t get tired.  Meaning, you could wake up Wednesday morning, stay up all Wednesday night while everyone else sleeps (feeling completely energized), segue into Thursday morning as if you slept the night, and not get tired until Thursday evening as normal.  You’d gain 8 extra hours in your week to do whatever you choose.

Or

You can have an 8-hour period once a week where you can eat anything you want with no bodily impact.  The calories are null and void.  No fat or sodium affecting your overall health.  You get 8 hours to eat whatever you choose.

Which would you take?

I’d go with the time option.

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If you are not doing anything for today’s eclipse, don’t despair.  You get another chance on April 8, 2024.  That’s only seven years away.

It’s traveling through places that I would go to even if there wasn’t an eclipse, such as Montreal or Newfoundland.  But it’s also going to be much closer to home, passing through sections of Pennsylvania and New York.

It helps me to feel okay with missing out on something knowing that it will happen again in the future and I’ll get a second chance to do it right.  I know that’s pretty optimistic believing the world will still be here seven years from now.  But crossing fingers, right?

Do second chances help you to feel okay about missing out on something the first time?

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There is a new site, another Tinder for Friends, in the app store.  Patook works exactly like Tinder, except it’s to find friendships and not relationships.  Unlike Peanut, which I wrote about a few months ago, this one seems to include everyone and not just parents.

Tinder if clearly successful, and people feel comfortable meeting someone to date through an online site such as Match.com or eHarmony.  So why haven’t friendship sites caught on in the same way?  Especially since so many people talk about how they have difficulty meeting new friends in the post-college years?

Would you use an app like this?  Why or why not?

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Carolyn Hax recently took a vacation and turned over her column to readers giving each other advice.  One of the ones that cracked me up came from someone annoyed at having to look at her co-worker’s baby pictures (without any reciprocation).  The person writes:

I worked with a lady who would bring pictures of her daughter to work every day, and she would show them to me. I understood her feelings for her child and was really willing to look at them.

One day, after I was looking the pictures of her daughter, I asked her if she’d like to see a picture of my cat. She gave me the nastiest look and said, “Why would I want to see a picture of your cat?” My response was, “For the same reason I’d want to see a picture of your daughter.”

No more daughter pictures showed up after that.

Um… I do turn my phone around and show people pictures of my guinea pig.  Wouldn’t you if you had a pig that looked like this?

I would look at her cat, too.

What do you think of the person’s advice?  Good or bad?

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