Monthly Favorites: March 2022
Hi there,
It’s been a good month. My family and I traveled to visit extended family in California, which was scenic and beautiful and overall quite a nice trip. The kids got to play with their cousins, we explored beaches, a farm, a zoo… lots of activities packed into a short visit.
View from a beach in California
Onto the favorites — here are some things from this month that I really enjoyed:
The Dropout on Hulu
Goodness, I’m obsessed. I turned on this show on a whim after reading about it on my Twitter timeline, and expected to mess around on my phone with the show on in the background — the kind of ‘watching’ a show I do when I only have a vague interest. But no, it captured me, and I’ve googled so many things about the real-life story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos as a result. I can’t wait for the final episodes to be posted to Hulu so I can finish it up. Watch the trailer here.
CardGames.io
My new favorite website, and that’s not an exaggeration. I’ve started playing Spider Solitaire before I go to bed at night, I play Golf or Solitaire or Pyramid or Tripeaks (I love every single Solitaire-based card game, I swear) when I’m bored or waiting or working through a problem with a story or something similar. I love this website so, so much.
One thing that annoys me about the current version of Solitaire games by Microsoft is the format is the gamification of a game. It’s not enough that you get to play Solitaire, but then you get to level up (which is, in a word, worthless). Not to mention, there’s ads. To play Solitaire. Which… honestly? Ridiculous. All those issues are why cardgames.io is my new favorite website, and probably (hopefully?) will be for a long time.
2022 Reading Goal Progress & Pirates
This year, I set my reading goal for 35 books, and I’m already 54% there, having read 19 books so far. Among those is a book I found myself absolutely enthralled by — it’s called Pirate Hunters and it’s about the search for a pirate ship by two professional divers. I’ve become so interested in not only pirate history, but also the ocean diving that’s required in order to find ships that have been lost at sea. Here’s the book:
That’s it for this month. Hope you had a good one!
