Hissing and slinking

[izmeina]

Daisy and her daughter left 5 weeks ago but I still can't seem to get back on the broomstick to Cyberia

Nearly half way through December and still not plugged in the Big Mac yet.

Bingeing on my 4 free weeks of Duo Super that I snaffled on Chess.com also hasn't helped.

Of course, there is a catch. Just like the 14 day free trial, they always want credit card details for the unlikely event that a newbie sucker forgets to cancel.

They say they give 2 days notice but I'm not taking that psycho bird's word for it.

I made a notification for 3 days earlier and even did a test run of the unsubscribing process to see if it's a Hotel California job.

I have a carpenter coming tomorrow so I'll need to be at the Lair most of the day.

So I plan to do a giant points Blitz before bailing out on Thursday.

If I do nothing, the paid subscription will start on Friday.

I'm happy with the random free day trials of Super. It's simply not worth the extra loot especially as the incentives are all stacked towards revision and big fat shiny golden gongs rather than actually learning NEW stuff.

But aside from the sad stats of spending more than 12,000 minutes on the mad bird app, one good thing about Duo is that I can steal their gamification tricks for housework and decluttering..

Especially starting & keeping a streak for getting rid of stuff.

The book Atomic Habits has also been an inspiration.

I've also got back into the habit of reading REAL books.

Now that it's summer time here in the Wild West, it's downtime in the garden.

Watering, weeding and burying the dead are really the only gardening activities suitable for summer..
So that means more time for reading, decluttering and hissing in parseltongue.

I'm hoping my next post will be from the Big Mac.

Comments

[catness]

LMAO at a Hotel California subscription! Back in the days when I used Duo actively, there was an option of getting 1-2 weeks of Super from referral codes. So I created a lot of fake accounts with disposable emails, and enjoyed months of premium, before getting bored with it. I wonder if they closed this loophole, or restricted it to be unusable.

Damn, I also had the intention to read only real (i.e. paper) books this year, but failed miserably. It's just so much easier to have a glance at the monitor or at the Kindle app now and then, than to settle in bed with the book, ample amount of free time, and appropriate light source. Been even rereading some silly children books I suddenly remembered and felt like rereading, it was easy to find them online, but of course buying and shipping a paper book across the world for a few minutes of fun is out of the question.

But you dislike e-books anyway, what is your meaning for real books?