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This weekend our Hunkering-Down-At-Home lead me to try something new: Chad and I played a game. Actually, the game–Marvel ReCharge card game–is quite old. We’ve had it for about 20 years. But we’ve only played it once in that whole time, because, as I’ve said many times in many ways, I don’t really like games.…
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“I found out something on the internet today about the Triscuit cracker company that just blew my mindgrate…” (TBTL podcast host Luke Burbank at the beginning of the March 26 episode). As I listened to those words on a recent mid-day walk, I immediately felt a sense of dread. “What the hell was wrong with…
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It’s Day 33 Part 2. No, it’s not Day 33 of “Amy at Home”–I think it’s Day 19 of that (I start counting from March 17 when my gym had to close). It’s Day 33 of my 50 Day Blogging Challenge. And it’s Part 2 because I’m posting twice today to make up for missing…
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Does anyone want to see a drum solo performed by an amateur adult? Probably not. But this is the apocalypse (or the pre-apocalypse but I don’t want to be morbid). One of the really cool things about all of our staying at home and the cancellation of live performances is that musicians from professional to…
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A childhood mystery that has haunted me for years has been solved. I’ve found the name of the bilingual Spanish/English public TV kids show I used to watch in the 70’s: Carrascolendas. It was pretty cutting edge–I’m pretty sure I didn’t have any clue that there were languages other than English before watching this show.…
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I’ve tried not to make my blog too much about COVID-19. That’s getting harder and harder as the days go on. Even if I stay away from writing about the virus itself, I can’t help but write about how social isolation, etc., is directly affecting my life (which, blessedly, so far is much less than…
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Today was “Concert shirt” day for the Library Senior Team. Not surprisingly, it took me a while to decide on which concert shirt to wear. I started with my Jason Isbell “Something More Than Free.” It’s my most flattering. But I soon realized that if I was wearing something over it (which I needed to…
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As we start week three of completely WFH, all my co-workers know about StanLee. They’ve seen StanLee during meetings, they’ve HEARD StanLee during meetings, and they may have seen me turn my video on and off as I wander through the house and into the yard looking for StanLee. Everyone who’s attended our church services…
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“Today” (in Blog Time, actually yesterday but I’m back dating this) I attended virtual usability tests of our library website that were conducted by University of Minnesota students using Zoom. A brief explanation: Usability tests (at least for the purposes of this post) involve asking a person to try to accomplish some tasks on your…
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March 27 is World Theater Day AND International Whiskey Day. Wow, a day to celebrate two of very most favorite things. Of course it’s rather difficult to celebrate theater right now, since we’ve had to cancel both our productions as has the rest of the theater world. And, for better or worse, it’s way too…
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