HeyJaredDave Sokolowski
Mystery Writer – Recovering Class Clown – Coffee Drinker – Chasing the mysteries of creativity – Writing everything myself
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This Silly Puzzle is Just Like Writing a Book (opens the original)
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I play this dumb little game on my phone called Water Sort. There are other similar versions of it, but you or someone you know may play it. I saw a woman playing it on the airplane a few weeks ago so I know it’s popular enough.It’s just a spatial puzzle – you have 8-20 test tubes filled with 4-6 layers of different colors all mixed up, plus two empty tubes. And the goal is to sort all the colors out into their own tubes of one color. But you can only move colors into an empty tube or a tube wit
On Friendship and Annual Gatherings and Games (opens the original)
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For all his faults, 30-something me did make good decisions from time to time.One of those decisions was to start gathering friends for an annual gaming weekend, where we spend multiple days playing tabletop board and role-playing games and yelling at each other. For a while now, we’ve come to stay at a friend’s house south of Portland, Oregon, well outside of town and away from most neighbors and pretty much everything. There are ten of us, give or take, as the group grows and shrinks year to y
Rush is the Greatest Rock Band of the 21st Century (opens the original)
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Please let me gush about my favorite band, my recent experience seeing them live, and how important this reunion tour is to artistry around the world…You may not know it, but the rock band Rush are currently saving rock music from complete irrelevancy and I’m here to explain how their comeback tour makes them the greatest band of the 21st century.Bold claim.But as the band strides confidently into their 50th anniversary world tour, they are clearly demonstrating how hungry people are for a real,
Dream without Sleeping (opens the original)
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I’m behind on sleep this summer and I find it hard to make up for it.My insomnia, which only appeared in my life after Covid arrived, arrives and leaves inconsistently, like a neighbor showing up to drop off borrowed lawn equipment in the middle of the night. I know a healthy sleep schedule is so important. I love to sleep. Bedtime is also when I do most of my reading: before falling asleep, whether around 9:30pm as scheduled or, like last night, at 2am, when the house and world are quiet.Often
Rick Rubin’s Spiritual Hypocrisy (opens the original)
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Like many middle aged people, I look back at things I did when I was younger and I’m sometimes surprised at my actions. Like hating on golf courses or getting mad at people who carry 13 items into the “12 Items or Less” line at the supermarket – these things used to really heat me up.But hopefully we learn to live and grow up and let things go.It was a hard transition for me, though, when in the late ‘90s many rock performers chose to sell their songs for TV ads. For a brief moment, my friends a
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