After the latest additions to Micro.blog’s location check-ins, I gave it another spin myself. I checked in at the George Washington Bridge yesterday.
Check-ins work well, but I felt a bit more explanation is needed, so I created a how-to article in my new-old wiki for mb. You can download a working version here
All I want to do is write little and weird and fun and dumb things. For me, whether people want to read them or not isn’t the point.
This entire post resonates well.
George Washington Bridge.
Backloggd Helps Writing about Games
I’m glad Backloggs exists. It helps me with my difficulty writing about games, and I play a lot of games.
Getting back into journaling: my guide and triggers
I stopped journaling for a while, and the gap gave me a good proof of concept. This is the routine I came back with: a daily entry, expanding bullet points with timestamps, and three triggers to get me to journal: a location, a person, and/or something worth remembering.
On Not having Kids: the Choices we Make
Shorter days, work, and running out of spoons. But the spiral has slowed, and I’m hungry for projects again — the blog, Emacs, new games, a good book. Watching friends make permanent childfree choices mirrors my own resolve.
Too Much to Say about Games and No Time to Say it
Writing can’t show what a game looks like, and a video takes more than a week I don’t have. Same dilemma as always: too much to say, and not enough time to say it.
Nice day for a walk and a vote 📷🇺🇸
Catching some needed sun. This is my favorite season. 📷
Old Man’s War by John Scalzi 📚 doesn’t disappoint. Already half through it! Record time for me.