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πΈ September 2023 Micro.Blog photo challenge. Day 21: Fall!
There is nothing like the crunch of leaves underfoot as you’re strolling around a local park during the Autumn / Fall season. π³π The only thing missing is a pumpkin-spice flavored drink. πβοΈ #mbsept
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πΈ September 2023 Micro.Blog photo challenge. Day 20: Disruption!
It’s always good to stop when see a sign, unless you want to cause a dangerous disruption. π Bonus points when the intersection contains your last name… π€£ #mbsept
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πΈ September 2023 Micro.Blog photo challenge. Day 19: Edge!
Any time I fly, I always feel like I’m at the edge of the world, especially when going over large bodies of water. This is the sunrise from my first trip to Europe, ten-ish years ago, flying into Amsterdam. π₯οΈβοΈπ #mbsept
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Trying out the “Micropost” feature on MarsEdit…
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πΈ September 2023 Micro.Blog photo challenge. Day 18: Fabric!
Taken during the first summer of the Pandemic, when we were all having backyard gatherings, the friend who was bringing over their projection screen couldn’t make it so we used a sheet instead. πΊπ· #mbsept
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πΈ September 2023 Micro.Blog photo challenge. Day 17: Intense!
It was rather intense watching my friend pose for this photo, I was panicking the entire time but he really wanted that photo while we were hiking in the Smoky Mountains. β°π± #mbsept
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Really wanted to try out some of the new watchOS features, so I downloaded the beta tonight. It was taking a very long time but on a hunch, I turned off the bluetooth and bam! The download time went from two hours to twenty minutes.
Happy nerd alert! π€£
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πΈ September 2023 Micro.Blog photo challenge. Day 16: Oof!
All I can say is that falling into a glowing fire-pit would result in far more than saying “oof!". π₯ #mbsept
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Micro.blog September Challenge
I’ve been toying with Micro.blog for years, playing with it (and paying for it) but never really committing to using it. …but then came the buyout / take-over of Twitter (I absolutely refuse to call it “X”) and it seemed like a ton of folks online were looking for alternatives. I’ve always been a fan of supporting software (hence never complaining much about paying for Micro.blog) developers and as I was already paying for it, I decided to give it another go.
As I predicted, it ended up being more a direct Twitter replacement than anything else, becoming a place for rants, observations, etc, but then I saw a post about the September 2023 Photo-blogging Challenge and decided it might be fun to participate.
I was right, it’s been a lot of fun. π
The premise behind it is to post a different photo, every day, following the same theme / idea as everyone else. I thought it would be cool to see if I could post a photo each day from my own photo library and with a few exceptions, I’ve succeeded. It’s been a great time, going back in time in my library, looking through old memories, to find something that matches the daily topic.
If you’d like to see my entries for the Challenge, they can be found under a specific tag, in my Micro.blog instance (the tag: “Photo Challenge: Sept 2023”).
I’m looking forward to the rest of the month.
In the end, I think Micro.blog is going to continue to be my Twitter replacement. I thought Mastodon was going to be it but I really enjoy the fact that I control my own subdomain and could migrate away if I wanted down the road. With Mastodon, at least currently, that isn’t really an option for me. So…I’ll continue to use Micro.blog for Twitter-like functionality and keep my existing blog for longer-form posts (like this one).
Note: This post is from my old site and was ported over into Micro.Blog when I consolidated from two sites into one. All of the migrated posts can be found here.
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On a lark, I fired up the VPN connection on my iPad to dump my internet traffic out to Berlin, just to see which podcasts would give me advertisements in German. πποΈπ©πͺ
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Itβs only taken nineteen years but Iβm finally watching the series finale of Frasier tonight. π€£πΊ
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πΈ September 2023 Micro.Blog photo challenge. Day 15: Red
Taken back in 2020, we got in / out of QuΓ©bec right before the Pandemic lock-downs in March of that year. Whilst visiting the Great White North, we stopped for a drink in the Ice Hotel and had some Caribou. ππ₯Άπ¨π¦π«π· #mbsept
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πΈ September 2023 Micro.Blog photo challenge. Day 14: Statue
While wandering around MontrΓ©al back in 2014, my partner and I stumbled upon the Tai Chi Single Whip statue in Victoria Square. πΏπ¨π¦π«π· #mbsept
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πΈ September 2023 Micro.Blog photo challenge. Day 13: Glowing
Nothing like a glowing sunset on one of the Great Lakes. π€οΈπ₯οΈ Took this on my summer vacation. #mbsept