Gaming for the greater good - Superstruct

Tyren -

I heard about this multiplayer forcasting game on CBC - where you project what your real self will be doing in 2019 and how you will deal with various issues - like climate change, food shortage, a pandemic, power struggles and major security breaches. "Your mission is to come up to real solutions to those problems by doing things like blogging, making videos and uploading photos online. You play the role of yourself, but 11 years in the future." (CBC website)

One of the cool things is that they are going to use this information to project what people really will do when faced with these challenges and in order to get people to share ideas about how to actually deal with these issues.

I've created a profile and thought you might enjoy this too. You can earn " badges" by writing stories about yourself in the future, making vidoes.. it looks super cool. Check it our here:

http://www.superstructgame.org/

On getting things done

I'm tired today - see last nights post -- I just couldn't sleep, I've been reading a bit online about parenting to shore me up and spoil myself a bit. I found this quote, and it made me feel better about not getting much done today:

“Cleaning and scrubbing can wait ‘til tomorrow, because babies grow up, I’ve learned to my sorrow. So hush-a-bye cobwebs, dust go to sleep. I’m rocking my baby and babies don’t keep!” Author Unknown.

Little bug is sleeping right now - all chubby writs curled under apple cheeks - and watching her chubbiest chubbiness sleep is a limited time offer. One day she'll be a tall whirling dervish like another girl I love and she may not sit still long enough to stare at!

Jelly beans for breakfast ..

I can't sleep, and this song keeps running through my head - it's by Dusted and is simply beautiful.

Well if I had a child
What a child it would be
Never have to bathe
Have sweets every meal
Wear their favourite clothes everyday
And go to bed when they want to
Have jelly beans for breakfast
And run free wherever they please

If I had a child
What a child it would be
To see them play in the flowers' shade
Pick apples off the trees
If I had a child
It would be the child God made


It is so gorgeous and rich and simple - just like a child.

Changes

I'm having a restless night - due to a restless day - which involved a big mess in the kitchen, lots of help from Emily, and my caving in and buying a fake Swiffer - may all my friends and the green gods ( esses) forgive me. I just couldn't touch a mop today. Also, the Swiffer ish thing will help in my efforts to keep sir Kitt Katiest, the chubbiest, cuddliest, most persistent, dog like and stinkiest cat, clean.
That was a run on sentence. Here are some short sentences to make up for it. My apologies. Apolgies to my English teachers and the language at large.
Anyway - the restlessness caused me to change the blog template. I was never comfortable with the margines on the left. Let me know what you think - I thrive on feedback and suffer when there is a lack of it. I loved report cards as a kid... yes, just like Angela on the office. I'm not proud of this, just admitting it. Also, I ate double stuff Oreaos for dinner. You're jealous.

Willow's latest passion

Willow's latest passion is paper. She loves to touch it...


Willow loves rip it....


She loves to eat it.

all..



upYummy!!!!

Will blog for cash?

Hmm. ..
I am on a search for ways to stay home with Willow-bug that will not result in poverty or over exhaustion. It has also occurred to me, while filling out the interests section of my profile that my brain may have turned to mush lately - or maybe not as recently as I'd like to believe. It's been awhile since I was able to sit down and finish a book, attend a class of any kind, follow through completely on a ...

So I ran into this site while fiddling with blogger, looking for recipes, and trying to distract myself from my existential crises . It's called blog her ads and if you write for them they advertise on your site and pay you. I'm not sure how much but this bears looking in to.

The other thing is that I've decided to learn. Of course, I'm hoping to go back to school in January but I think that I'll start now with the following idea : I will learn one new thing every .. day? week? two days? Every day I think. A Buddhist friend of mine once said that he tried to learn three new things every day and it impressed me. I think I'll start slow.

So if I start a blog about learning one new thing every day -- with pictures of course-- I would be working towards both goals. Make cash at home, expand horizons. Wish me luck! Teach me things!

Happy talk like a pirate day!

Yargh! It's talk like a pirate day, which I celebrated by eating pirate cookies



Apparently, these cookies are a Canadian creation - all I know is, peanut buttery deliciousness abounds in every bite!

Willow celebrated with her usual brand if grrr ing and grunting - seriously, that child sounds nothing like pebbles and everything like a surly pirate. I noticed today that she probably gets it from me - ooops. Me and the gang at DnD night. I applaud her sturdy pirate - iness - here

For Max, who I know is a fan of all things pirate, and who I've thought of lots today, I submit the following song, written by the guys who came up with talk like a pirate day, for the enjoyment of the G rated set:

A Children's Pirate Shanty
by Mark "Cap'n Slappy" Summers
(can be sung to the tune of Monty Python's "I'm a Lumberjack and I'm OK" - or make up your own!)

Chorus
I'm a pirate! That I be!
I sail me ship upon the sea!
I stay up late - till half past three!
And that's a peg below me knee!

Yo Ho, my friends I have a tale
of treasure, plunder, sea and sail
my story's bigger than a whale
it gets so deep, ye'll have to bail.

Chorus
I'm a pirate! That I be!
I sail me ship upon the sea!
I stay up late - till half past three!
And that's a peg below me knee!

I like to fish, I like to fight
I like to stay up half the night
When I say "starboard" ye go right!
Me ma, she says, "Ye look a fright!"

Chorus
I'm a pirate! That I be!
I sail me ship upon the sea!
I stay up late - till half past three!
And that's a peg below me knee!

I've got no hand but that's me hook!
I pillage stuff but I'm no crook.
Me booty's in this chest I took.
They'll write about me in a book!

Chorus
I'm a pirate! That I be!
I sail me ship upon the sea!
I stay up late - till half past three!
And that's a peg below me knee!

And that's all there is to this song.
I hope it hasn't been too long.
A pirate's life might just be wrong
So grow up nice and big and strong!

Chorus
I'm a pirate! That I be!
I sail me ship upon the sea!
I stay up late - till half past three!
And that's a peg below me knee!

and if you'd like help talking like a pirate - go here : http://www.talklikeapirate.com/translator.html

I'm off to read and starfish.