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There's something offensive about the word "hobby." It evokes images of building model train towns in a basement, poorly crocheting a potholder, or, even worse, playing pickleball. Hobbies are for people who instead of pursuing a rewarding career settled for tinkering, toying, and toddling. Or so I thought until I realized that getting a hobby is probably the best


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Private jet flight attendant Kelley Lokensgard.
Private jet flight attendant Kelley Lokensgard travels the world for work and earns over $100,000 a year.
  • Corporate cabin attendant Kelley Lokensgard serves wealthy clients aboard private jets.
  • She earns six figures but is away from home up to 21 days a month and personally caters the flights.
  • It's hard work, but she likes the grind and is seeing the world for essentially

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Hurdle game on a smartphone

If you like playing daily word games like Wordle, then Hurdle is a great game to add to your routine.

There are five rounds to the game. The first round sees you trying to guess the word, with correct, misplaced, and incorrect letters shown in each guess. If you guess the correct answer, it'll take you to the next hurdle, providing the answer to the last hurdle as your first guess. This can give


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We're now in the last lunar phase before the New Moon, which means we're almost at the end of this lunar cycle. The lunar cycle lasts about 29.5 days, during which the Moon completes a full orbit around Earth and passes through all eight of its phases.

What is today’s Moon phase?

As of Sunday, Jan. 11, the Moon phase is Waning Crescent. According to NASA's Daily Moon Guide, 42% of the Moon will be



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Today's NYT Strands hints are easy if you're always positive.

Strands, the New York Times' elevated word-search game, requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from linked letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting in quirky shapes and patterns. Every single letter in the grid will be part of an answer



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Connections game on a smartphone

The NYT Connections puzzle today is not too difficult to solve if you ride horses.

Connections is the one of the most popular New York Times word games that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and


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X may soon provide more insight into how its algorithm works. On Saturday, Elon Musk posted on the platform to say that the company "will make the new X algorithm, including all code used to determine what organic and advertising posts are recommended to users, open source in 7 days." 

X's recommendation algorithm has been the subject of investigations by France and the European Commission, the


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The author chose to spend the holidays alone and really enjoyed it.
  • I chose to spend the holidays alone while my husband and kids visited family.
  • Being alone at home gave me rest, quiet, and perspective I didn't know I needed.
  • Intentional solitude helped me reset mentally and return to my family refreshed.

When people asked me what I was doing for the holidays, I responded almost


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