Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
I haven’t been able to get out on solo walks the last couple of days, but managed to get out with the kid while he biked around the neighborhood so I was able to get a few shots for the Socially Distant BioBlitz on #iNaturalist
Unfortunately my bike needs a ton of work right now, so I was walking/running behind him while wearing a mask and trying to pause to take photos of birds and plants when he wasn’t looking disapprovingly at how slow I was moving on my feet compared to his wheels. 🤷♂️
They have already had a falling out and blocked each other 🤷♂️
Ok, who had “Michael Moore pushes old and discredited fossil fuel talking points to attack environmentalists and build support for eugenics” on their 2020 bingo card?
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/planet-humans-film-moore/
Starbucks near the office just sent me a “we miss you!!!!” email 🙄
Kiddo is having multiplayer Minecraft drama.
“I don’t think he’s calm right now because he keeps destroying my Please Calm Down signs.”
“They don’t even have punctuation and he still doesn’t want them there.”
Weird how ringing the doorbell and then leaving (or at least backing away) is now a courtesy.
Gotta remember not to swear when I spill hot coffee on my foot during the kid’s online school session… 😬
Also to not spill hot coffee on my foot.
Alert from one of the nearby cities I’m subscribed to: “Support Local Businesses Responsibly by Not Consuming Alcohol while Waiting to Pick up Food” 🤦♂️
Anguished: “Two minutes ago I thought this was the best game ever!”
Kiddo is complaining about how he can’t see anything with the visor down.
I am not quoting Obi-wan.
I am not quoting Obi-wan.
I am not quoting Obi-wan.
Kiddo discovered today that one of his classmates also plays Minecraft. They spent half the afternoon & evening playing online.
But being two 9YO kids, neither of them bothered to start a farm, so they were both SOOOO HUNGRYYYY after sprint-jumping everywhere.
I joined & planted some wheat. Within 5 minutes, the other kid walks up to me in game and says I NEED FOOD!
It just cracked me up, ’cause it’s automatic for kids: You’re hungry, you ask the grown-up in the room.
Even in Minecraft.
The button on the digital thermometer has been acting flaky lately. First it wouldn’t turn off without extra pressure. Now it’s turning on randomly on its own, taking room temperature, and reporting that it’s below fever threshold.
My wife joked, “Well, at least none of the ghosts have fevers.”
Seriously, though, now is not an ideal time to look for a replacement thermometer.
To be fair, the shelf also features Modelo and Dos Equis, so it’s clearly a sale for May 5, but I’m not so sure about those “healthy” savings
With a Stan Lee rubric!
It’s so weird to be *expected* to wear a mask into a bank.
Just noticed that if you defeat Giovanni enough times in #PokemonGo you can take his pants, shoes, and jacket as trophies.
Which seems kinda weird.
Before #iNaturalist: “Wow, that yard is completely overrun with weeds!”
After iNaturalist: “Wow, that yard is completely overrun with stork’s-bills and mallows! And a bunch of barley over there by the edge…Ooh, what are those tiny yellow flowers…?”
#nature
#Minecraft released an April Fools snapshot where putting a book in a nether portal turns it into a portal to a new dimension based on the book’s contents. Some have been designed, and otherwise they’re generated randomly.
According to the video the kid is watching, “message” gets you a world with a giant message, written in flames, saying “WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE”
#hhgttg
This morning, even the yeast doesn’t want to wake up.
9YO is trying two flavors of gum at once. He has informed me that they are both losing flavor at the rate of the faster one.