Jean MacDonald

Our 2nd Annual February Photoblogging Challenge starts Monday. 📷😮

As we did in the August 2020 challenge, the daily prompts will come from community suggestions. Email 1-3 prompts to jean@micro.blog.

And thanks for all the great suggestions so far!

New Micro Monday episode!

@ohBananaJoe has a lot going on. And we don’t even talk about the house he is building or where he got his internet handle. (But you can check out the song on YouTube.)

It’s almost time for our 2nd Annual February Photoblogging Challenge. 📷🥳

Like our August 2020 challenge, the daily prompts will come from the Micro.blog community. Email 1-3 prompts to jean@micro.blog.

First burn in the firepit! 🔥

Larry King’s passing reminds me how my grandmother always listened to his late night radio show on Miami’s WIOD 610 AM. My sisters and I had many overnights at her house in the 1960s and we all fell asleep to loud Brooklyn-accented chatter.

I think I finally figured out the math: for each shot of espresso I have in the morning, I stay up one more hour past midnight.

Someday I’ll get back to a more conventional circadian schedule. Today is not that day.

I’m feeling a lot more creative about plans and projects today. It’s as if a significant part of my brain was in silent anxiety mode, using up most of the energy the last several months.

It’s a done deal now. :: exhales ::

The singers all moved me. I wasn’t expecting that. 😭

Amy Klobuchar was really good.

Biden hit the right themes. I wish we could have a VP address in the same program.

I had a lot of fun chatting with Tyler (@twweaver) for the latest episode of the Micro @monday microcast.

🎙😊🐕🐕🐕

(What the heck is Micro Monday?)

The new firepit has arrived, and both my brother and brother-in-law want to come over for a fire warming. One is a bit of a pyromaniac, and the other got a new axe for Christmas and wants a reason to chop stuff.

Almost time to walk down to my local post office. If you’d like a Micro.blog sticker, email me your postal address: jean@micro.blog

(I have international stamps, so no worries if you are outside the U.S.)

Ok, it seems to be working again. Whew! I had that terrible feeling one gets when one’s primary social media outlet is no longer available. 😅

Something is definitely not working for me on Micro.blog. I will need to sort this! I need to use this platform for my job. 😉

My account was having an identity crisis last night and posted personal posts to the Micro Monday account. It looks like signing out and signing back in on the app solved it. Admittedly I’m an edge case: multiple micro blogs, two teams, and a renamed user.

Also it was 2 a.m.

Thanks to @vishae’s clever idea, I’ve created a group on my Signal account that has a shareable link if someone wants to communicate privately with me. Thanks to everyone who has been trying out this experiment, and to @patrickrhone and @maique for getting the ball rolling.

New episode of Voyager Revisited has been posted! A great chat with Shelly Brisbin, whom I would love to lure to Micro.blog, about the episode Revulsion (S4E5), one of my faves.

Organics Are So Revolting

After @cheesemaker’s enthusiastic recommendation, I put the Solo Stove fire pit on my Christmas list. It was backordered to mid-February, but it coming January 12. 😀

I think Pandemic Backyard Micro Cinema will still be a thing in 2021, so this will warm up me and my guests.

And the vote is certified. Time to go to bed. I wish I had a time machine to go to January 21, i.e. the day after the inauguration, which I was already nervous about.

I feel like I need to watch this through to the end. Someone needs to keep an eye on these people, and to sigh with relief when the vote is certified.

I did not have “glued to the television all day and evening” on my to-do list today. 😳

I’m grateful they were able to get the Senate proceedings moving so quickly. I thought I’d be up all night seeing this procedure to the end.

If your resolution for 2021 is to have a Micro.blog sticker, I can help. Email your postal address to jean@micro.blog. I will probably send out a batch next week.

(If you listen to @theweeklyreview or @voyager_cast, let me know for a bonus sticker or two. 🗓🖖)

The Fave Eight is a corrective to what 2020 felt like overall to me, which was this:

I don’t remember who suggested this last year, as an alternative to Instagram’s top liked photos.

Here’s my 2020 Fave Eight.

Happy First Monday of 2021!

I don’t have a fresh episode of Micro Monday to offer, but the latest episode of the @relayfm Parallel podcast features @stevesawczyn and me as guests of host Shelley Brisbin. I was glad for the chance to get to know Steve a little better.