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I’ll be attending a meditation retreat and won’t be reachable for 10 days. I won’t reply to your messages or react to your amusing GIFs. Catch you later!

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How to self-care:

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Ask yourself, “What do I need now?”\n(Assuming it’s not browsing social media.)

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If you can give yourself what you need, do so now.\nIf not, write down the next thing you can do to move towards fulfilling your need. Do it as soon as possible.

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Repeat as needed.

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I’ve been sitting on this post for a few months. It was my birthday yesterday and this felt like the right time to share it. Meditation is the best gift I was ever given.\nalexarmstrong.net/2019/10/y…

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I wrote a tiny post about a passage from T.S. Eliot 📚\nalexarmstrong.net/2019/09/t…

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My usual table was taken… 🐈

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How can I find some writerly/bookish folks to follow here on Micro.blog?

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Can you think of something kind you can do right now, for yourself or someone else? Do it.

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@smokey Touché 😃

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@collin I was gifted a reasoably cheap one (about $40 on Amazon) and I use it all the time. My neck gives me trouble when I don't do yoga, but the massager serves as a palliative until I can get back on the mat.

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@collin Blogging without the fussing about with the platform? I mean what's the alternative for non-techie folks? Battling with WordPress or Jekyll? (I run my own blog, but I wouldn't recommend it :D)

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There’s so much of everything, it’s no wonder there’s not enough.

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I like working out of a small, quiet neighbourhood café. These qualities also make it a common choice for couples having those quiet but intense arguments where one partner is overexplaining something, while the other is looking out the window on the verge of tears.

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I just spent 25 minutes installing iA’s Duo & Quattro fonts on my two iOS devices. I’m glad it’s possible, but it’s such a hacky process. They are lovely fonts, though ❤️

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@jonkit @paulrobertlloyd Oh, wow. I use Toggl on the Mac primarily. The native app is a pain and I have to use the web app for some things, which has different pain points. 🙄

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Some folks asked me to share how I do my “end of the year” review, so here’s a brief post about it: alexarmstrong.net/2018/12/r…

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…and they say the iPad is only for media consumption! 🙄

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New blog post: “Choker” ❧ alexarmstrong.net/2018/12/c…

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I was in a mood the other day and created a playlist (as one does) that consists of dozens of covers of Eagle-Eye Cherry’s 90s hit “Save Tonight”. If you know the song, you can guess the mood…\nopen.spotify.com/user/aleh…

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New blog post ❧ “Quickly create new Google Docs, Sheets, Slides and Forms”\nalexarmstrong.net/2018/10/q…

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New blog post ❧ “A better number”\nalexarmstrong.net/2018/10/a…

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I did something I’ve been dreading for two weeks and it took me ten minutes. It wasn’t even hard. Just something I found unpleasant. 🙄

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New blog post ❧ “Greeks and books” \nalexarmstrong.net/2018/10/g…

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@collin That's a good morning Shortcut. I have a reverse one for \"Sleep Mode\" which decrease the brightness, turns on Airplane mode, and opens up the Clock so I can configure alarm closk. My morning is simpler. I'm also a meditator and I tend to keep Airplane mode on until I've finished my sitting.

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Morning office. With cat. #remotework

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@manton This sounds like a cool idea. I've been looking to engage more with Micro.blog and I'm currently drafting a novel I began in last year's NaNoWriMo. I plan to use this year's NaNoWriMo to sprint to the finish... of the first draft 😃

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I read the moving introduction of Michael Chabon’s Pops the other day, which defends the value of fatherhood over some dubious dedication to art. Seemingly as a counterbalance, the universe has since populated every café I’ve been working in with shouty, unruly children.

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I love Say Hi and their new album, Caterpillar Centipede, was just released yesterday. No guesses as to what I’ll be listening to on repeat over the weekend ❤️\nlnk.to/caterpill…

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@jack @AngeloStavrow Haha, that's beautiful. I'm terrified of making a mess, which is why I have to remind myself that a mess is the process by which things get made. It's one of the reasons I prefer the digital. I can cover my tracks ;)

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@AngeloStavrow I loved this line: “The first thing I did was completely deface the first page“ ❤️

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@themindfulbit Is that Mastodon? I found it overwhelming.

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@rosemaryorchard I saw it. That looks really helpful! 🙏\nI’ll try and replicate your success ☺️

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@jl\\_siewert Yes. I do!

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New blog post ❧ alexarmstrong.net/2018/08/s…

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@rosemaryorchard Please do! 🙇

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@odd @cheri That’s a really good pick and one that I somehow have managed not to read yet. Thanks!

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@TheDimPause Should I start with the book?

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@donmacdonald That’s a good pick that hadn’t occurred to me at all!

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@rosemaryorchard Cool. Looking forward to that! Relatedly, do you host your micro.blog on Grav?

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@rosemaryorchard Can you share your workflow somewhere? I use Statamic, which is a bit like Grav – PHP CMS based on flat-files.

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I’m looking for films or books that involve a protagonist getting trapped on an island (or other confined space) with weird locals that appear friendly but actually hide a secret.\nExamples: Wicker Man, Shutter Island. \nTitle or link and whether it’s 🎥 or 📚. No spoilers.

\n","summary":"","url":"https://alehandrof.micro.blog/2018/08/25/im-looking-for.html","date_published":"2018-08-25T08:53:15+00:00","author":{"name":"Alex Armstrong","url":"https://alexarmstrong.net","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F39f5873ad1f55363bd3dd0d4b8df8e4e%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"alehandrof"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2018-08-25 08:53","date_timestamp":1535187195,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"825619","content_html":"

@cjkonecnik Second to last, surely ;)

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@help Am I right in thinking that the number of times a post has been favorited are not displayed publicly? If so, how do you know who's winning? 😬

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@themindfulbit Thanks for the tip. It’s a lovely app. I hadn’t looked at Micro.blog apps at all. I don’t use any for Twitter so that I can block it in Safari as needed ☺️

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@sethdrebitko I'll take a look. But the paragraph → outline model hasn't worked for me in the past. (At least if we're talking about what Ingermason has popularized as the \"Snowflake\" method.)

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@sethdrebitko This does sound interesting. But I'm an inveterate outliner, so adding this to my to-read list feels a bit like feeding an addiction. Oh, well ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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To the relief (or confusion) of my potential readership, I’ve put together a handful of suggested posts to get you started reading my blog. (Someone asked for this. Really. In 2017.)\nalexarmstrong.net/start-her…

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@themindfulbit Thank you for the kind words. @potatowire was the second person I followed here. Some autocompletion would be nice. It's very old skool.

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I read something by @themindfulbit and now I’m here. Currently on the trial, but eventually I’ll spend way too long setting this up on my own site. It’s easier than writing 🙄

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