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Bedroom Window Prep

Today, we started to prep the exterior – and also removed the AC unit which was embedded into the foam insulation. If all goes well, we’ll be looking to install two newer windows into this space.

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The People of the Other Village

“We do this, they do that.
They peel the larynx from one of our brothers’ throats.
We devein one of their sisters.
The quicksand pits they built were good.
Our amputation teams were better.”

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Stain Complexity

Liz is a great researcher, and has a methodical process when she’s trying to figure something out. And as much as I tried to follow her summaries and descriptions, I was not able to do so today.

Suffice it to say, there’s an awful lot of testing going on. I kept up with most of it for a while, but I think at this point… I’m mostly just nodding and smiling politely.

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Franklin Room: Scotch Malt Whisky Society, November 2023 Outturn

Recently, we’ve had the good fortune to taste several very incredible bottles that folks brought to share. And prior to tonight, Liz and I were debating on bringing something of our own to share.

After having sampled so many generous drams from others, we were wanting to offer something to the “group” at large. We ended up bringing one of the bottles we got from our visit to
Bunnahabhain, when we travelled to Islay back in 2021.

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20×2 in Wrigleyville, Dinner at Daisies

An earlier 20×2 at GMan Tavern, with our start at 3PM. I wasn’t sure of the crowd, but we had a really decent showing of folks. Andrew kicking off the show (tonight’s prompt was “Did You Hear that?”). I have a preference of going early, mostly because I get nervous. And until I finish my presentation, I’ll be preoccupied. Going…

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PDF

Spotted this out in the wild, and it had me laughing. Liz thinks the letters are someone’s initials, but I like imagining that someone is just really into Adobe Acrobat.

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Covid Vaccine, 2023

I know we’re supposed to think of these Covid vaccine as an annual thing, as common and as innocuous as the annual flu shots. But there’s a part of me that still hasn’t felt like we’ve left the pandemic phase (even though I go about my life with this understanding).

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A Shameful Reminder

Posted here, mostly as a reminder of a shameful incident at Home Depot. We were looking for “rope lights,” something we could put outside and light up our sidewalk for Halloween.

Liz gravitated towards an LED section near the light bulbs, but I balked. Most of the things on the shelves were for cabinet/interior lighting, so I insisted we look elsewhere.

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