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Writing Season participant, in Base Camp
I've added a new entry to my book, "Blogocentric Formulations" :
         "Watch List - August 2026" 
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With all the fancy new Merit Badges being released this week, anyone interested in a little quid pro quo?

From now until the end of birthday week in [Refresh to load countdown.] , anyone who sends me a Merit Badge that I don't currently have and counts for CR will get the same from me in return!

If you're interested, just follow these easy steps:

         1. Go to my Portfolio
         2. Click on the Community tab
         3. Click on the Merit Badges button (next to Overview)
         4. Click on Badge Checklist
         5. Select the Can Give option below.
         6. Select the badge you can give that I don't have! *Cool*
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I'll wait tomorrow because that's when all the badges are released. *Laugh*
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Somehow I missed this. If there are any you still want, I'm glad to trade.
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storymasterMail Icon FAB addition with the "can give" option! I love it!
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It's here at last! "Writing.Com Party Central 2026!"  and "WdC Writing Season 2026"  *Delight* *Party*

The activities I'm running this year are:

         "Quotation Inspiration: Official Contest" 

         "Barrel of Monkeys" 

         "Blog Harbor" 

Blog Harbor even has a special activity for birthday week... any of the three of these activities are great ways to earn some exclusive merit badges and make progress toward your "September: Fun Run"  goals during this leg of "WdC Writing Season 2026" !
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Jeff, these are amazing challenges! *Heart*
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*looks at Barrel of Monkeys* *looks at [State Fair] schedule* Welp, I guess I'll be unofficially participating next month.
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I've added a new entry to my book, "Blogocentric Formulations" :
         "Fictional Cities & Billionaire Body Swaps" 
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Ooh, a new opportunity to publicly set overly-ambitious writing goals for myself and then stress out over trying to meet them?

You better believe that I'm...
Signature Image: I'm In for Writing Season! #1

*Laugh* ... but also *Inlove* and a just a little *Scared*
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😜
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It's been a while since I've made some work-related trinkets, so here are a few to get everyone caught up (and excited for what's next)! *Bigsmile*
         
         
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Thank you for the cool Trinkets *Heart* *Cool*

Since you have said these are work related, I am only left to assume that your day job is Superhero.

*BigSmile*
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Thanks for the Spiderman trinket. I was walking around Glasgow last year and unintentionally run into Spiderman movie set. Had a chat with few people there about what is going on. It was a little bit strange to see NYPD cars in Scotland, and really cool as well 😁.
Thank you! *Bigsmile*
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Today we finished reading the Harry Potter series as a family. Roughly 4,000 total pages, read aloud almost entirely by me (with the exception of a chunk of The Order of the Phoenix listened to on audiobook during a road trip), completed over the course of the past 6+ months as our nightly family tradition.

My favorite part? The first thing my kids asked after we finished the book and talked about the series was, "So what are we going to read next as a family?" *HappyCry* *Reading*
Awesome, Batman. *Thumbsupl*
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I *Heart* this so much!
Perhaps you should read the Redwall series next!
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I've added a new entry to my book, "Blogocentric Formulations" :
         "Billionaires Shouldn't Exist" 
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I've added a new entry to my book, "Blogocentric Formulations" :
         "Watch List - June 2026" 
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My Father's Day consisted of:
*Sleeping* Sleeping in

*Reading* Reading the last 200 pages of Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix to my kids, so we could finally...

*Movie* Watch the movie adaptation of Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix

*Cow* Grilling some St. Louis ribs for dinner which got a little dicey when the entire grill caught fire while I was inside getting some other items... like, I'm talking coming back outside after a few minutes to find flames billowing out from the under the hood of a 500-plus-degree grill! Apparently the person who used the grill before me didn't clean up and some residual stuff near the burners caught fire. After I put out the flames, I continued to grill the ribs which ended up quite well-done on one side and entirely edible on the other.

 It was an unexpectedly adventurous day. *Laugh*
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It's not real cooking unless there's danger involved.
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Sounds like it was perfect! *ThumbsUp*
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cathartes02 - Sounds like you've seen me cook........
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Randomly checked my daily achievement streaks today and realized that I've been maintaining them for exactly one full year (and then some for the login/visit streak)! *Shock*
 sybaritescribe
Congratulations, Jeff. Amazing accomplishment. I blame vacations for my interruptions. *Wink*
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sybaritescribe - Same here!
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Wow! That's quite an accomplishment! *Smile*
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I'm not usually a "sports" guy, but between the FIFA World Cup, the 24 Hours of Le Mans race, the Formula 1 Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix, and the NBA Finals, I might have to spend the weekend in front of the television. *EyesLeft*
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daveryan - Playing the rerun now. I am getting ready togo to church, but my hubby is watching. Gosh, I love the sounds of cheers! So festive! Stock up on your World Cup-binge snacks, peeps!
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daveryan -

Looks like the German team didn't like their 2022 showing.

7-1 is absolutely insane in soccer.
annette - After our show against Haiti, I've every confidence we can match your scoreline when we play Morocco on Friday. And, if we really hit top form, we might even keep them down to six.
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I love it when HR tells us that we have to start taking our accrued PTO.

"You're not working today? But I need something ASAP!"

"Don't blame me! HR told me I had to take some of my vacation time!"


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mikewrites - yep, that's the one! *Laugh*
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This came about because companies found themselves paying out unused PTO, which was not in the original budgetary plan. So they started forcing people to use the time, which led to your current problem. My husband's company battled that by implementing unlimited PTO. Now people are taking advantage, of course, especially younger employees who never knew life with limited PTO and don't understand that it doesn't mean, take off whenever the heck you want with zero notice (which ultimately results in the same problem you're having). At some point HR will either have to do a reliability campaign during evaluation season, or backtrack on the unlimited thing. Corporate America is just chasing the wind on the PTO dilemma.
When I retired, I had six weeks of overtime to take before my last day.
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Look what's coming back...

... can't wait to see what tuozzodoes with it!
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Yes, I was telling Michelle in an email how I almost walked into a dead end double glass door while reading about this because I was so excited, I forgot to see where I was going.
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