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show person but we ended up watching old episodes of the chase because every hotel in ireland seemed to show hours of episodes each night it s a trivia show that ranges from popular culture to history and literature to sports we started shouting out the answers along with the players the stakes felt high i d go to shower and rush back into the room to ask what had happened to the team had they been able to beat the chaser our four in a bed we watched bed and breakfast proprietors give each other hotel advice in a friendly competition to be the best value for money and i looked forward to it my time with random hosts what had gotten into me i ve had a hard time returning to my regularly scheduled program i cannot seem to shake post travel fatigue read intense books or consume the news it s like my brain is telling me to be gentle with it don t jostle it or challenge it too much give it a hot water bottle and let it watch game show episodes from 2009 would i have felt this way if i hadn t given myself a break i think so i think my brain was heading this way months ago i just gave it permission to take a break july 7 2026 no comments microblog monday 590 popular pages by mel not sure what microblogmondays is read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too i have no memory of how i found this site but it pulls up the most popular page on wikipedia the day before it s interesting to try to figure out why everyone was searching for it sometimes it s easy it s the world cup and it s a football player but other times it feels sort of random and then strange when you see that 300 000 people all had the same thought are you also doing microblogmondays add your link below the list will be open until tuesday morning link to the post itself not your blog url don t know what that means please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog s main url only personal blogs can be added to the list i will remove any posts connected to businesses or sponsored posts july 6 2026 1 comment learn 10 words by mel pre internet if i was going to another country i bought two things a let s go guide or similar book and a phrase book i needed the let s go guide to find places to stay and know what to do and i needed the phrase book because i was going to try as hard as possible to at least start the exchange in the other language i stopped getting the let s go guide when we could book everything before we left the country but i also let the phrase book go at some point the internet and apps have made it easier than ever to learn another language or at least the basics provided by those old phrase books and instead of learning more i learned less i saw a great list of side quests you can do if you feel stuck on a project to get yourself out of your head and one of the options was to learn 10 words in another language just because i kind of love the idea of returning to this tradition if not with a whole phrase book than at least with a phrase sheet 10 words before the next trip july 5 2026 1 comment 1090th friday blog roundup by mel i m doing nothing for this weekend i m not going downtown to whatever is on the mall i m not watching fireworks i ll read a book and bother the guinea pig but that s about it for this holiday weekend do you have any plans stop procrastinating go make your backups don t have regrets seriously stop what you re doing for a moment it will take you fifteen minutes tops but you will have peace of mind for days and days it s the gift to yourself that keeps on giving as always add any new thoughts to the friday backup post and peruse new comments to find out about methods plug ins and devices that help you quickly back up your data and accounts and now the blogs but first second helpings of the posts that appeared in the open comment thread last week to read the description before clicking over please return to the open thread none sniff okay now my choices this week a half baked life has a post about abiding being present and supporting a person is something that happened via her blog she writes this space and the community i found through it have been so important to me for over fifteen years that it s hard not to acknowledge it s also shaped the person i ve become far beyond the page it s a gorgeous post about how writing and reading can change who you are lastly the road less travelled has a lot of thoughts and reads rounded up in her odds and ends list there are good reminders to get in the picture and why and to not tell people that everything happens for a reason the roundup to the roundup no weekend plans your weekly backup nudge and lots of great posts to read so what did you find this week please use a permalink to the blog post written between june 26 july 3 and not the blog s main url not understanding why i m asking you what you found this week read the original open thread post here july 3 2026 3 comments three greatest items i brought on my trip by mel i don t usually reflect on items i ve purchased as i m using them but these three things made the trip so much better that i feel like i need to put it down here too tom bihn side hustle this bag fit so many things hugged my body never got in the way as i walked and was accepted as a bag in all museums it got soaked in the rain and everything inside stayed dry it never felt heavy on my shoulder it really is the perfect bag alpha keeper belt i am someone who stresses a lot about my passport due to too many friends family members having their passports stolen i could barely feel this belt the moment i put it on i sometimes forgot to take it off when we got back to the room it was that unnoticeable it made me feel super safe new phone i agonized over getting a new phone did i really need a new phone my other phone hadn t died yet and i usually only replace a phone when it becomes literally unusable as in it won t turn on but i decided that life was short and i was going to get a new phone before we left i didn t get something super fancy but the photos were definitely higher quality and it made such a difference to not have emails take a minute to load july 1 2026 2 comments previous entries categories categories select category analogy project barren advice bettering blogger bingo blogher diaries blogiquette or on blogging blogoversary blogroll rooms book club book reviews caught my brain concert on the blog consumption creme de la creme diy mfa dydt free advice friday blog roundup games golden haiku guitar hero icomleavwe jew with a view mental sampler mfa sunday school microblog mondays operation heads up politics as usual prompt ly read me recipes secret ode day show and tell steve jobs superbetter the exclusion project the grateful said travel with kids uncategorized ungaming virtual lushary wish operation heads up click on the links below to learn more from your fellow iffers about each procedure surgery and medication 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