Category — Microblog Mondays

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It has been a draining three weeks. Four weeks? I can’t even remember when Beorn’s health woes began at this point. But it is tiring to be on high alert. That’s the real problem: Not the feeds or the medicine or the appointments.

My default is that things will go wrong. When the vet didn’t call when I expected him to after the procedure, I instantly went to believing there had to be a problem. If there wasn’t a problem, he would have called. It turned out that he started the procedure late because he wanted to give him more fluids. Simple explanation.

So I have spent the last four weeks (three weeks?) on high alert, feeling things before I need to feel them or, more often, feeling things that I don’t need to feel at all. For instance, worrying when there is nothing to worry about.

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While I’m normally good about updating to the latest software version, I put off the change from iOS 17 to 18 for months because I didn’t want things to look different. I’m fine with not having new features. I would rather have everything look the same and be located in the same place than have my device capable of doing anything new.

I waited until the Wolvog was home so he could change all the settings and get it as close to iOS17 as possible. And it still took me a few days to feel comfortable with it again.

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When I was little, I loved Pitfall deeply. Deeply enough to beg my mother to allow me to take a picture of my high score on the television screen and send it to Activision for a badge. While it took some coordination to play, it was all about memorizing the patterns to get all the treasures.

Someone made an online version, but while it made me so happy to see Pitfall Harry, it didn’t feel like the game anymore. I started running through the first screens, but the gold bar wasn’t where I expected it to be. And I couldn’t get keys on my computer to feel like the game controller. While it wasn’t quite as satisfying as my childhood memories of the game, I’m leaving this here in case anyone else wants to revisit Pitfall Harry.

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I saw this and thought it was the coolest thing in the world. The person mapped their life out week by week, so you could hover on any block and see what they were doing that week of their life. Their map isn’t super detailed. Big moments get their own square (but it is cool to see them visually placed on the map in this way so you can see how long you have to go before you hit the next big square), but most of the small squares simply state where they are working or living.

Along with looking at what has happened, you can look at the map and see what milestones are still ahead of them. I would love to make something like this, though it would take a lot of time to go back through files and figure out what I was doing at any given time. I’ve been bullet journalling for many years, so I have a sentence for each day, but that is different from seeing it all on one screen; able to scan to see the time between events.

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I promise that I do other things than play games.

But I play a lot of games. It’s better than doomscrolling right now.

A new favourite is Bracket City. Each day, you receive a paragraph with phrases highlighted in yellow. A mistake I made at first was thinking that you needed to tap on the yellow words to solve the clue. You don’t. You can solve any clue at any time, and it will fill the correct spot. For example,

You could type in “hand” for [kind of stand where you are upside down] or “ring” for [bad thing for your phone to do in a theater], and it will change the words in the correct spot. You keep solving until you’ve cleared all the brackets, and you’re left with something that happened on that day in history.

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