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19th Anniversary Dinner! Me: Bucatini with shrimp Anne: Almond crusted cod Us 19 years ago: If you look closely, the priest was the Jazz guitarist at Canjam Chicago. Wait, Canjam? Is that what it was called? Sorry if I got the name wrong. ChiUniFi?

People connected to me on FB and Instagram may have gotten the memo that we're fostering a litter of four puppies for the next ten days or so. It's exhausting but rewarding, and probably something the kids will remember for awhile. Eleanor wants to adopt one of course.

They hold up incredibly well. The passage of time has not diminished the power of his prose. Mona Lisa Overdrive is next. I don't remember reading the books together all at once. I've owned them for years, but reading them again as an adult (living in the future) seems to be different than when I read them as a sheltered teenager. For one thing, I'm actually bothering to look up every one of the words I don't understand this time – I admire Gibson's creativity and the breadth of his interests and vocabulary. I've read Neuromancer many times over the years, but I've only read the others once or twice. William Gibson's cyberpunk novels changed my life. I've been looking back at the cyberpunk era (triggered by the upcoming launch of the Cyberpunk 2077 game, I think) and few of his contemporaries' works can compare to Gibson's trilogy. I didn't even consider the books a trilogy (and the publisher has never numbered them as such), but the linkages are more apparent when you read them back to back. I've always found the covers for Mona Lisa Overdrive to be cheesy – I found this beautiful image on Google (art by Vladimir Manyukhin):

The Sprawl trilogy was my bible in the late 80s. Haven't re-read them in decades. Kind of afraid to! "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."

Count Zero by William Gibson He mentions ray tracing on page 218 and Nvidia has just gotten around to doing it in realtime... the book was published in 1986. A wild ride.

Thanks for all the birthday wishes. We celebrated both Karens and my birthday (only separated by 13 years and 361 days) on Saturday at our favorite Japanese restaurant. Much sushi and sake was consumed.

Yesterday's tritip today. Scramble a few eggs and there's breakfast.

Chicago CanJam is correct, although I had no idea your priest was in the jazz combo that played there. Red Vodka may have wiped that information if it was mentioned back then... Anyway, congrat Mr. and Mrs. Mack Daddy Doc!

Congrats! May you have many more happy years together...

You two look awesome in that photo.

Puppies!

You can force a pepper to get hotter. If you stress a pepper plant after blossoming, it will produce more capsaicin. You can also grow a jalapeno next to a habanero, and the second generation will cross pollinate, therefore making a hotter Jalapeno, and possibly milder habanero.

I used hatch and jalapeño peppers for the chili verde, which made it very smooth and not as spicy as with pasilla peppers. I learned this by making a burrito for testing purposes.

William Fitzsimmons @ Jammin Java in about 15 mins. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

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This is happening on Saturday! I'm really excited. It's the biggest show we've ever booked in terms of financial risk. As ticket sales sit now, we're set to lose money, but I only turn 40 once, soooo...

Mastering room in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

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