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Sophie's girlfriend is Jewish and we just feasted on home made latkes with trimmings and pastrami and brisket and corned beef and rye and sour pickles and then chocolate babka and cookies and custard donuts. Friends of Sophie's from high school joined and helped make latkes. Stuffed and happy.

Thanks for the suggestion. 🙂 But the amplifier is too good for having my "name". It’s a Gilmore design combined with JimL cascode CCS or T2 CCS. I have tried both, my privilege as a DIY:er.

14 Peaks on Netflix. About Nimsdai Purja climbing all 14 mountains over 8000 metres. All in the Himalayas of course. In 7 months. Previous record: 7 years. In the process he broke 6 mountaineering world records. Stunning. One of these massive mountains he did with a stinking hangover! https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81464765 By the same production team that did Free Solo https://films.nationalgeographic.com/free-solo about Alex Honnold free climbing El Cap in 3 hours. Full thing on Amazon Prime. I defy you not to grab the arms of the chair and curl your toes for that one.

Heal well, heal quickly Knucks!

Spent over 8 hours in the ER, from 1AM to ~9:30AM. I'm OK. Well "ok." Don't have much use of my right hand which makes typing super fun. Docs not sure what's wrong with me ("Gee knucks we coulda told you that in under 5 minutes.") but they think it might be somethi9ng autoimmune related. Got prescribed ROIDS which might make me cranky. I'm sure no one will notice the difference. I have some really gross pics of my hand, b ut I'll spare y'all. Need to go get my scrip filled.

Had my first cup of the Esteban Garcia. It’s absolutely delightful. Bright and rich and sweet and endearingly nutty, with a funkiness that is interesting and sort of rounds things out. I would happily buy this if it were to ever be available for sale, which it almost certainly never will be.

Based on the above, I ordered a Zutto as well. I liked my prior zoji, which I gave away, so I had need for a drip machine.

Flair 58 finally shipped! Once I get it I can decide on the next espresso machine, I guess.

Hey, Clive is great too, and that’s a nice promotion! French Press is another store I’ve bought from. I get Prima stuff next day, though. BTW: I really like the Crema coffee palm tamper/distributors. I like them enough that I have it in four sizes for my various setups. Highly recommended. I would also get a precision basket. I like IMS, but this is a lot less important than a good tamp.

They look like a serious outfit, ER. I went with Clive Coffee. They are reputable and are offering a Pearl with purchases over $1500...thought a good scale would be a nice to have. HS

I’d go for it, Sam!

I am leaning towards this beauty given the wifey has provided an option with more counter space. Any thoughts? I like the looks and the idea of flow control. But then again...that's all in my head at this point. https://prima-coffee.com/equipment/lelit/pl162t-lelit-sp HS

Lapham’s Quarterly Collections sale. Jump back through the ages on minor subjects like war, time, death, happiness, eros, epidemics, etc. I have the Essentials Collection and it's great. I should read them some time. Use code LIBRARY at checkout https://store.laphamsquarterly.us/collections/?campaign=JBALQB6 Also while you're there, good posters...

Oasis - Knebworth 1996 Great live set! Hard to believe it would be all downhill from here.

Not quite yet, but gonna drive up to Dayton National. Yesterday was my dad’s birthday. I have a little note from me and my mom to put there. We’re past the anger. My mom would go with me, but she has physical difficulties.