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September photo 📷 challenge day 10: Cycle

I talked about my sand timer (hourglass) before; it’s how I measure my productivity/work cycles and downtime/rest cycles. I try to have them as even as possible, though it’s usually 2 cycles of work, 1 cycle of rest…

An hourglass standing on a desk on a wooden plastform. In the background some electronics and wires
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September photo 📷 challenge day 9: Language

After traveling from Bangor Maine to Portland and now to Boston to catch a train to NYC, that’s the language I have in front of me.

Buckle up, bucko, this is a big country.

A sign on the back of a bus seat saying buckle up for safety
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Flight from Maine back home got cancelled due to weather and United is telling us no refund because we’re economy. Anyone ever heard lf this?

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September photo 📷 challenge day 8: Yonder

A water stream leading toward a mountain in the distance.
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September photo 📷 challenge day 7: Panorama

From Bar Harobr :)

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I’m in Bar Harbor, Maine. It’s pretty here, quiet. There are plenty of boats and fewer cars, no air conditioning. Thankfully it’s not needed, especially around the evening. Too bad I’m not a lobster person, but there are plenty of other good things to enjoy.

A quiet sea from the shore. Several boats float in the water, reflec&10;ting the &10;golden sunset light. There's an island in the background.
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September photo 📷 challenge day 6: well

I’m on vacation, and while there’s no well, I’m doing well myself 😊

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The Mastodon in the room

I recently wondered if the folks on Mastodon who read my posts are aware of my Micro.blog blog. The answer is not really:

While not surprising, this was still somewhat discouraging.

My independent Mastodon account on Fosstodon is not set to automatically cross-post my content from the blog; I use my Micro.blog Mastodon account for that. I like to keep my Mastodon content separate from Fosstodon since both places have different communities and follow other interests. Another reason is formatting and hashtags: Micro.blog does not use hashtags (for a good reason, in my opinion), and formatting as well as the length of posts work differently.

What I usually end up doing is to reply to my Micro.blog Mastodon account with my Fosstodon one. This comes up on the blog as a footer with additional remarks that didn’t make it to the main post while also giving the option to use hashtags and converse with Mastodon folks directly.

The problem is that people don’t seem to make the connection that both of those accounts are mine. I presume some Mastodon folks find my blog through my Fosstodon account’s retoots, but I don’t know how many (tinylytics might come in handy here).

I’m considering re-posting some of my older posts on Fosstodon semi-regularly to point folks to my posts without trying to be too obnoxious about it. I do want more comments and discussions on my blog, but I don’t want to become one of those folks who chime into any conversation that might be remotely connected to something they wrote and point to some vague reference on a post I wrote a couple of years back. I unfollow people who do that myself religiously.

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September photo 📷 challenge day 5: Forest

A magical path in the woods…

A path in the woods paved with brown leaves. There's a wooden frame standing ahead like a gate, which blends well with the forest in the background.
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September photo 📷 challenge day 4: Orange

A woman and her dog taking a nap between stops on the NYC subway, which happens to have orange seats.

A woman in sleeping on an orange bench on a subway. She holds a leash in her hand which is tied to a dog, which is sleeping in her lap