Isolation Day 12 Game: Tsuro

We love board games in our household, and never have time to play them as much as we’d like to. Or rather, we hadn’t had time until a certain pandemic you may’ve heard of pushed everyone–at least, in countries whose governments grasped the science… *ahem*–isolating away from workplaces and schools and being indoors at home…

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What I’m reading

**HERE THERE BE WEE SPOILERS*** I’ve was finally getting around to reading Wanderers by Chuck Wendig, and was really enjoying it but then a couple of things happened. First, the Covid-19 pandemic hit. Not full-on at first for us here in North America, as we all know, but it was clearly spreading farther and farther…

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Sleepy squirrel?

This little guy has been about six feet away from my daughter’s window for over half an hour now. He seems to be all right–breathing and moving around, and such–but I’ve never seen one so content to just hang out like this anywhere before, let alone atop a narrow bit of latticework fence. Having been…

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In search of some digital privacy

I use Gmail, and have for maybe a couple of decades, or whenever it became common enough that its initial, exclusive invite-only clique had run its course and the “in-people” had a ton of invites they could just throw around freely. And it’s been good, for the most part. It’s pretty intuitive and lets me…

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National Day of Unplugging

My wife and I were a bit surprised when our daughter announced after school this past Friday that it was National Day of Unplugging between Friday at 6pm and Saturday at 6pm. So said her principal among that morning’s announcements, anyway. The point of the Day is to get people off their electronic devices and…

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