Tag: Life
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- National Illinois Day reminds us to put up Christmas decorationsNational Illinois Day falls on Dec 7th, and it's a reminder to transition from Thanksgiving to Christmas! 🌲 Discover more fun facts and festive musings.
- Reclaiming the ‘beige flag’Embracing our quirks! Did you know the term 'beige flag' isn't just for relationships anymore? It's about celebrating the unique, everyday traits that make us who we are. From consistent breakfast routines to peculiar music tastes, let's celebrate our individuality!
- Keeping track of where you’d like to visitCurating the ultimate adventure catalog! My Google Sheet holds 279 must-visit spots, from art museums to bicycle collections. Stay tuned for more categories like sculpture parks and famous trees!
- Making notepad pages for 2023Writing is not only about getting thoughts out of your head, but also about putting thoughts into your head.
- If you sprayed your windshield wiper fluid non-stop, how long would it last?ChatGPT does not have the answer, but the new Bing AI does give a guess with actual research.
- Your age in circles drawn on a sheet of paperA fun exercise that takes less than one minute: Take your current age in years, and draw the same number of circles on a sheet of paper, without lifting your pencil/pen.
- Can you mail a paper airplane with a regular stamp?Throwing a paper airplane into the mailbox slot is a lot of fun!
- X-men logos suddenly appear everywhere in a suburbWhy is someone going around Glen Ellyn spray-painting X-Men logos on people's lawns?
- What’s in your pencil cup?Participate in #mypencilcup by photographing what's in your pencil cup.
- Pressing leaves with storiesTips for capturing the moment when saving a leaf
- Finding more days to fly your American flag19 days to fly your flag; and an additional 46 days if you are really adventurous
- Children amazed by typing speedA fun slice of life moment… My five-year-old daughter is at home from school with me (she has a fever). She saw my fingers dance across the keyboard as I typed in my computer password, and commented, “How did you…
- Hot Wheels bug helps me through rough terrainLittle did I know, that there would be another reason for me to purchase this fun toy.
- Capturing sand memories inside an hourglass Take sand from a beach that is significant to you, and put it inside an hourglass
- Sticker for “I got my COVID-19 vaccine”Now I have a vaccine sticker and a “I voted” sticker from the DuPage County Fairgrounds. I hope the Fairgrounds hands out stickers for all their events!
- Strava map of chasing a toddler and pre-schooler around a playground for 15 minutesStrava’s GPS tracking feature is so much fun—especially when you forget that it’s on.
- Important tips for analyzing monthly electricity usageWould you like a nice chart showing your monthly electricity usage? I'll show you how to build it.
- Enhanced weekly electricity reportsEvery week ComEd, my electricity company, sends me a report on how much electricity I’ve used in the past week. This report is very helpful, because it compares this week to last week. If I changed any of my electricity…
- MAR 10 is MARIO dayI saw on National Day Calendar that today is National Mario Day. Now I know why it’s on March 10. Funny how National Day Calendar’s page doesn’t mention anything about how MAR 10 looks like MARIO. I love little word…
- The Spudart Notepad A new section on Spudart.org for ideas I’m building a place on spudart.org for my quick thoughts and beginning ideas. This will be public place on the site for anyone to see. I have so many unpublished ideas that never…
- Two simple minutesWhen you see something interesting, you might stop, pull out your phone and snap a pic. Then you move on. Good for you to stop and capture the picture! But what if you spent a little more time with that…
- What I learned this week from February 26, 2021This week I learned that seahorse skeletons are amazing, Gobots were once humans, and Tuffy Rhodes tied Japan's single season HR record
- What I learned this week from February 19, 2021This week I learned how power lines can burn through sidewalks, and why cars have ‘grab handles’ above the doors
- What I learned this week from February 12, 2021This week I learned about golf balls found on the moon, fathoms as hugs, and double-cycle snowblowers.
- What I learned this week from February 5, 2021Clubhouse, Trapper Keepers, and what Jupiter would look like on our horizon if was the place of our Moon.
- What I learned this week from January 29, 2021This week I learned about joy, mazes, White House factoids, Hank Aaron, and a bunch more.
- What I learned this week from January 22, 2021This week I learned about flag trivia, chocolate secrets, Jawas unveiled, and much more!
- What I learned this week from January 15, 2021This week I learned about e-ink posters, emu wars, woodpeckers, and a little more.
- Growing in mudThe Hindu name Pankaj has a wonderful meaning. The word is a compound of paṅka ‘mud‘ and the suffix -ja ‘born from, growing in‘. The associated symbolism is of the lotus that is born in mud and blossoms after arising…
- Beautiful poster of Antarctica for $10I had the greatest map Antarctica hanging in my dining room when I lived in Lincoln Square. I got it at the Rand McNally closing sale on Michigan Avenue for $6. Some of the lines were printed in silver ink.…
- Maybe one blog post per day?I’m going back to my old method of scheduling blog posts. The beginning part of this year, I was doing great! Making about 20-30 blog posts per month. I wasn’t scheduling blog posts. As soon as I wrote the post,…
