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Mia, one of Emily's grad school classmates is the lead in this song. We love acapella and Mia has the most beautiful and engaging voice.

Fred Hersch and Esperanza Spalding - Alive at the Village Vanguard First jazz release in 2023 that I've listened to. If this is just a starter, this year is going to have awesome jazz.

Al invited me to the movie theater, and saved my night. Otherwise I'd be sitting in the dark, contemplating a fifth dessert.

Listen to a soundtrack I thought, for some light listening. Oops: TÁR Hildur Guðnadóttir, Cate Blanchett, Sophie Kauer 2022 https://album.link/i/1642488191 Example: A combination of clips, recordings and score. Some good things in there, but it left me disjointed. It feels like those super deluxe album releases were you get a bunch of takes and talking along with a couple of songs. Interesting, but not in rotation. Maybe I need to see the movie. :}

It's helping, it just that it is not enough, but keep doing it in addition to the antibiotics, steroids and all the weaponry.

spent way way too much time on home barista lately… ordered something ridiculous last week. Lagom P100 in silver. special request added to swap to SSP brew burrs which are a recent development and should allow for peak light roasted filter coffee and focus on turbo shots for espresso… meaning the next purchase will probably be a Flair 58 or (if another order round opens up) an Odyssey Espresso Argos. hoping for the latter. wife likes lattes.

Here is the full balanced CFA2 RMAA. RightMark Audio Analyzer test _ 48K CFA2 RME ADI-2 Pro.pdf

Here is the full balanced Dynahi RMAA. RightMark Audio Analyzer test _ 48 DYNAHI Benchmark DAC2 ADC1.pdf

I’m a box of rocks and mine was done in a month. You got this.

After two hours of reviewing the Benchcrafted plans, I have only been able to deduce that the bench seems to be built out of various pieces of wood and the red thing seems to screw onto the spinny things. Think I might go back to making beer openers and put this on hold as I might be getting myself into a 5 year, $20k build based on my skill set.

Happy new years, but it feels like Christmas. Dan was gracious enough to share some roasts with me from Marmot. I started out with the Rwandan. Espresso pull. I got it pretty close the first time, with 22g in and 42g out @ 35 seconds. There was a touch of sour in there, which is what I would want on a first pull. But there was tons of fruit from this, blueberries, some strawberry and hints of blackberry, with some cocoa in the background. I went a touch finer on the grind for the second pull, yeah I went right back for a second double shot. The second was still 22 in and I pushed it to 44 out. The berries were still there and it brought down the sour just a touch, like I wanted. After the taste test, I then made this into a latte, the berries still came through and just made a nice beverage. I will probably push the extraction just a little more to increase the depth, but very happy. Thanks Dan. I will be first in line for the next group roast buy.

Michelle and I met up with Shelly today for a few beers and a good post covid-times catch-up after what's been far too long. Great afternoon, and we even managed to find her Pliny on tap that was open in new years!

Visited my ENT's PA today. Turns out I have a large sinus infection. The antibiotics and steroids start tomorrow.