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I introduced Wordle to my family, and now it's the thing we all do. I was surprised my children took to it. It's been fun comparing scores every day! My daughter found another app, Wordus, that can be played as often as you like, but what I like about Wordle is that everybody is working on the same word, and there's only one word a day. Gives the family something to look forward to and share.
Ok, so what is Globle (sp?)? Thanks.
Theresa wrote: "I remember Mastermind! ..."I might still have Mastermind in my closet! Even if I do, I don't think I've played since high school
Karin wrote: "If anyone has any book suggestions about helping my husband reduce carbs without any big changes in the way he eats (obviously some changes) that would be very helpful. He is never going to go for ..."I don't have any book suggestions, but I have been successful in losing weight steadily using the Lark app. It's designed to help with diabetes and prevention. It's like Noom but it's free, but can only be used through your health insurance, and they don't accept Kaiser. I started around November or thereabouts, and have lost 15 pounds since then. I was skeptical about it but was surprised when I found it really helped with my mindset in choosing healthier food. Maybe your husband can check it out.
LibraryCin wrote: "Ok, so what is Globle (sp?)? Thanks."Globle is a map of the world in which you have to guess the one country.
It is a getting hotter or colder game with the colors of the countries you name become more or less red with how close you get to the country.
Like wordle, you can only play it once a day.
Benefit is that it helps you learn and know the names and locations of countries of the world.
Amy wrote: "I almost buckled."Amy, Amy, Amy - I am counting on you to keep me company in the Resistance! Don't abandon me!
I haven't been able to do much reading the last couple of weeks. Things have been crazy for me. I went to see my daughter out in California and while I was there my aunt passed away. I was scheduled to come back on a Tuesday and when I got to the airport, one leg of my flight was canceled. The next available flight wouldn't get me home until Thursday and then I'd have to drive 8 hours up to my mom, and the funeral was on Friday. So I ended up having to change airlines and buy a whole new one way ticket. Not how I wanted to spend that money. But at least I managed to get home on Tuesday as planned.
Wednesday I drove up to Kentucky (from Alabama) and stayed with my mom until this past Tuesday. Now we are moving on Sunday, which hopefully will go smoothly.
To top it all off, I have had a cough for about 2 weeks now and will probably have to make a visit to the doctor when we move if it doesn't go away.
I am hoping to finish the 2 books that I started in January here in the next week or so.
Sure hope everyone else is staying healthy and warm and have had a better previous 2 weeks than I have.
AW! Kim! That's so draining. But at least you had time with your mom.I think you reported 3 bad things, so you should be good with the move Saturday. I recommend you not rush the unpacking.
I do believe the official start of the Winter Olympics and Beijing starts tonight. Who else is going to be glued to the tv this evening? I have not subscribed to Peacock Network so I'll be watching only what's shown on the multitude of cable channels I have. If its anything like the past coverage, different sports will be aired on different NBC affiliated cable channels.
I'm a far bigger fan of Winter Olympics than Summer - figure skating has been the competitive sport I most follow, although I've lapsed badly in recent years. I have no particular skater I'm following and with COVID, who knows who will actually be able to compete through the entire competition. It's already sidelined a number of top competitors in the nationals and competitions that qualify skaters for the Olympic team.
I just love winter and snow and everything about it. I find myself entranced with sports like curling, ski jump, mogul skiing - stuff I never ever watch except at the Olympics.
While this will likely cut into my reading time somewhat, I'm hoping it gets me finishing the project laid over my barely started jigsaw puzzle on the ottoman so I can finish the jigsaw puzzle and do another! Perfect activities while watching the Olympics I think.
Theresa wrote: "Robin P wrote: "Can't remember if I posted this here or in another group, but we played a game called Jotto in college (literally 50 years ago), which was exactly the same as Wordle. I think each p..."We actually get The New Yorker in print but I don't think I've done their crosswords. I usually just look through the magazine for the cartoons and any specific articles that interest me. My husband reads a lot more of it.
Theresa wrote: "I do believe the official start of the Winter Olympics and Beijing starts tonight. Who else is going to be glued to the tv this evening? I have not subscribed to Peacock Network so I'll be watchi..."
I also like the winter Olympics better than summer because the summer just has too many events. I plan to record and then I can fast forward through all the commercials. Sometime in the '90's, the figure skating championships were held in Minneapolis. My husband, who was a technical writer, was recruited to work on the program booklet. He wasn't paid but our family got free tickets to many of the events. A lot of them were preliminaries, but it was still very interesting. They were at different times of day and not that well attended so you could sit pretty close. I know Tanya Harding was there and she actually landed something that hadn't been done in competition by a woman (triple or quad jump - I don't even remember?) Anyway, it got our family interested in figure skating, ice dancing, etc.
Theresa wrote: "I do believe the official start of the Winter Olympics and Beijing starts tonight. Who else is going to be glued to the tv this evening? "
We will probably watch some of it. We were watching the skiing that was on last night. I'm more of a summer olympics fan because I love gymnastics, but do enjoy a few of the winter events.
annapi wrote: "Karin wrote: "If anyone has any book suggestions about helping my husband reduce carbs without any big changes in the way he eats (obviously some changes) that would be very helpful. He is never go..."Thanks--if he'd use it, I would. Yes, he is pre-diabetic. He signed one of those forms so I called, the MD (new for him, don't know her) called back and I got the facts. He just said his blood sugar was "a bit high" and that he has to cut down on sugar. He also has to cut down on salt, but didn't mention it.
To be fair to my husband, my dad told my sister, around the time she started Med school, that most patients only remember the first thing a doctor tells them. I suspect it came as a bit of a shock to him, and she told him by phone.
I found an old, unopened jar of powdered stevia he's going to try in his coffee and tea, am going to try and have at least one of my kids help use up his jar of honey (he wants to use it up before he quits) and will do what I can but he's a grown man and other than shopping and cooking wisely when I am the one doing it, it's going to be his call.
Robin P wrote: "Theresa wrote: "I do believe the official start of the Winter Olympics and Beijing starts tonight. Who else is going to be glued to the tv this evening? I have not subscribed to Peacock Network s..."
Tonya Harding landed the triple axel, a very difficult jump and was first US woman to do so in competition. First ever in the world was Midori Ito of Japan.
I have attended Nationals in Philadelphia and Boston, Worlds in DC and Skate America a couple of times. It is very interesting to attend Nationals...you can - or could before Tonya resorted to knee bashing rather than relying on her great talent and skill - get really close and talk to family, coaches, skaters at all the practice sessions, plus nationals has the Novice and Junior levels too. I saw Johnny Weir compete in Philadelphia in novices his first year skating...he came in fourth after only a few months training. I saw Sarah Hughes win Juniors from the back of the pack - and heard her youthful admirerer sitting next to me, a novice skater, breathe an awed 'she's wonderful!'
I also saw Michelle Kwan skate 2 of her greatest performances at Nationals to qualify for Salt Lake City after being out for months with a fractured foot. There was not a dry eye in the arena.
I have so many great memories from those competitions.
If a competition ever comes to town, go. An all event pass is amazingly cheap given it covers a week of competition.
I too prefer the Winter Olympics, but that's because of the hockey! And though I am in the US I always root for Canada to win the gold, because it was my Canadian cousins who first got me interested in hockey. And throughout the teams there's usually someone I recognize from my favorite teams - besides Canada, I always root for Finland because of the Ducks' Teemu Selanne, and also for Slovenia because of the Kings' Anze Kopitar. So I watch just about all the hockey games.
annapi wrote: "nd have lost 15 pounds since then...."Congrats to you, Anna! That's terrific!
Booknblues wrote: "Globle is a map of the world in which you have to guess the one country. ..."Oh, that sounds cool - thank you!
Amy wrote: "Vive la resistance!"LOL! I'm not a Wordle player, either. Probably helps that I don't have a smartphone.
Theresa wrote: "I do believe the official start of the Winter Olympics and Beijing starts tonight. Who else is going to be glued to the tv this evening?..."Yes! Opening ceremonies are being replayed right now.
I'm a far bigger fan of Winter Olympics than Summer - figure skating has been the competitive sport I most follow, although I've lapsed badly in recent years.
yes, yes and yes. :-) I used to watch religiously. Skate Canada, Canadians, and Worlds every year. And, Olympics in those years. It's been a number of years since I haven't watched much, anymore. I so rarely turn the tv on, anymore. Really, I will just mostly cheer for the Canadians. :-)
And I quite enjoy curling, but it was pretty popular in the rural area I grew up in, as well.
Robin P wrote: "Sometime in the '90's, the figure skating championships were held in Minneapolis. My husband, who was a technical writer, was recruited to work on the program booklet. He wasn't paid but our family got free tickets to many of the events. ..."Oh, cool! I was at the Canadian championships with my mom in 2000 and at World's in 2006. Both here in Calgary.
Tonya Harding was the first woman to land the triple axel in competition, if I'm remembering correctly.
Theresa wrote: "Tonya Harding landed the triple axel, a very difficult jump and was first US woman to do so in competition. First ever in the world was Midori Ito of Japan...."Oh, wow - you remembered better than I did! I thought it was Tonya.
LibraryCin wrote: "Theresa wrote: "Tonya Harding landed the triple axel, a very difficult jump and was first US woman to do so in competition. First ever in the world was Midori Ito of Japan...."Oh, wow - you remem..."
Oh yes! I was an avid fan during those years. And there was so much opportunity to see figure skating on TV and see live shows and competitions. When everything seemed to become about only the quad jumps, with artistry and all the footwork and stuff I loved disappearing...I started losing interest. No one just does a really dramatic sharp fast scratch or layback spin stopped on a dime to end a routine any more, for example. Now it is a constant changing of position, edge, foot to add point value to the spin.
Yes, winter Olympics are better for me, and not just because Canada is often high up in the rankings (but too small to be the top!).
@ Anna - thought of you last night as I watched Canadian Womens Hockey obliterate whatever team that was outmatched in the qualifying.
I started playing Worldle at the end of December on a different device, and switched to my phone early Jan. I'm currently on a 26 day streak (every day since I started on my phone). I have a group of friends who play daily, and we all text each other our stats and afterwards our world progression. My husband and I also play
-Lewdle: Wordle but all the words are "bad" and "naughty" words.
-Hogwartle: Wordle but all the words are Harry Potter based.
Theresa wrote: "@ Anna - thought of you last night as I watched Canadian Womens Hockey obliterate whatever team that was outmatched in the qualifying."I watched the highlights of that - oof what a rout, 12-1. Poor Swiss.
Joi wrote: "I started playing Worldle at the end of December on a different device, and switched to my phone early Jan. I'm currently on a 26 day streak (every day since I started on my phone). I have a group ..."Your mention of Lewdle reminds me of an iconic scene in the movie Foul Play. As Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn climb down past a window they look into a room at 2 sweet dotty looking old ladies wno are playing Scrabble. Camera Zooms in as one puts down tiles for a triple word score and you realize that they are playing only dirty words. One of my favorite scenes and it is always severely edited and censored when shown on any tv channel. Need to watch theater version.
I remember that scene! As Scrabble players, my husband and I loved it.
Theresa wrote: "@ Anna - thought of you last night as I watched Canadian Womens Hockey obliterate whatever team that was outmatched in the qualifying."I, on the other hand, was thrilled with the Canadian victory. Plus Canada has a really strong women's hockey team, and since Canadians invented ice hockey, I have an even softer spot for us winning.
Hockey trivia, and Theresa probably already knows about this: kids on reserves, farms, etc who couldn't afford all of the equipment would use frozen horse manure for pucks (I think it was horse and not cow dung. My youngest aunt used to use them to play in Manitoba and NWT.
This is how the NHL's first indigenous player (debuted with the NHL in 1954), Fred Sasakamoose learned plus with a stick whittled by his grandfather,: https://www.nhl.com/news/fred-sasakam... but he only played 11 games--with the Chicago Blackhawks and then went back down a league.
Karin wrote: "This is how the NHL's first indigenous player (debuted with the NHL in 1954), Fred Sasakamoose learned plus with a stick whittled by his grandfather..."Karin, that's fascinating about Sasakamoose - never heard of him before! Learned something new.
Just watched men's figure skating, where Nathan Chen won while performing to a French song, La Boheme, by Charles Aznavour, which Theresa probably knows. It's about being a starving artist but young and in love, so lends itself to dramatic interpretation. Aznavour performed for over 70 years and wrote almost all his own songs plus many for other people - hundreds of songs, almost all of which I have in some format, LP's from the 1960's, cassettes, CDs & digital. I learned quite a bit of my French from his songs!
Robin P wrote: "Just watched men's figure skating, where Nathan Chen won while performing to a French song, La Boheme, by Charles Aznavour, which Theresa probably knows. It's about being a starving artist but youn..."I watched and revelled too! Edith Piaf and Charles Aznavour are the sounds of Paris to me...predating my living there as a student. When feeling nostalgic, I put some of their cds, mostly bought on trips to Pari,s on the BOSE.
I just finished watching the Women's Luge-Awesomeness that a 33 year old mother won! (Germany)
Joanne wrote: "I just finished watching the Women's Luge-Awesomeness that a 33 year old mother won! (Germany)"Yes, I love sports when women over 30 can win, and most especially if they can at 40 (very rare). There are 4 athletes this winter in the age 40 and over--the two women are in curling (Switzerland & Canada) but I forgot to pay heed to what the men are in (sexism or just eager to see which curling team the Canadian is on--thankfully not the abysmal mixed team.)
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He is not diabetic as far as we know, but I didn't hear the call and all he said is that his sugar is a bit high and he has to lower it.
As in he doesn't want to stop eating grains (and why should he?), but I am trying to get him to go for only whole grain things (slower carb absorption) and less.
So recipe books, etc, but not keto (not healthy as a full diet and chock full of nuts--I don't mean the food brand) or radical stuff like that.