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Open gathering and chat post!
(Consider this journal entry properly bedecked).
This "Christmas season" is hard on everyone -- even those who enjoy & celebrate it can find it exhausting. And for those of us who don't -- or can't -- celebrate it (for whatever reason) it can be especially isolating -- particularly for those of us whose primary social connections happen through these here Interwebs.
So:
I'm posting this entry as an open discussion/chat thread, so that we have a place to chat and commune through the comment threads.
Come sip a warm (or cool, depending on your season) spiced beverage of your choosing, and grab a plate full of virtual goodies.
I'll be checking back in frequently over the next 72 hours or so.
Welcome! Welcome!
Edited to add:
I also can't forget (or, rather, I can, but should not) that today is also the first day of Hanukkah. So have a video that
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ysabetwordsmith posted a couple of years ago:Because I also know many are over saturated with Christmas songs, by now...
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Do you think we can adapt it for playing here, in the comment thread?
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I like a lot of word games. Among them are Scrabble, Boggle, Bananagrams and so on. There are manymany online options for these. But for playing right here in a comment thread, one of the old verbal or scratch pad travel games might be best...hmmm...
Well, there is one-word-at-a-time storytelling, that's an old car trip game. Comment with one word at a time with dotdotdot, and when you think the sentence is done, comment with a punctuation mark. (Explanation here: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/5-word-related-car-games-for-your-next-road-trip/ ) There isn't a win condition to the basic form of the game, but a possible group objective is to make the longest possible grammatical sentence that makes sense and stays on topic, without repeating a word.
I'll start us off with a header and the first comment. if anyone wants to play.
Topic: travel mishaps (unless anyone objects)
First word to use: Once...
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