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Spring disappeared. There’s been snow on the ground all week. I shoveled on Monday and Tuesday. On Monday it literally snowed all day. And it’s officially late April. Bah. ✑ After Dark is such a good beer. Schwarzbier is a style I was confused by for so long, but really wanted to like it. After… Continue reading A weekly note

I’ve been trying for a while to work my way back to a perfect moka pot recipe. My tried and true version has stopped doing the trick—maybe because I’m using different beans; more likely because we fixed the grinder and the grind has changed in some way. If my guess is right, then it’s been… Continue reading A weekly note

Speaking of very long breaks: ⸻. Today I learned (thanks Rich) that while an em dash (—) is used as a break to provide emphasis or toss in an aside, a two em dash (⸺) is used to mark missing letters in a word and a three em dash (⸻) is used to mark missing… Continue reading A weekly note

It’s February, so of course it snowed again and of course it got down into the teens again. But Spring is just around the corner, right? ✑ A rolled over from back to front for the first time on Tuesday and then proceeded to roll over 3 more times. It was a very proud moment… Continue reading A weekly note

It’s. Still. January. But that’s okay. I’ve been out for two walks this week. Fresh air! ✑ I used the wrong pronoun last week. Michelle knew we had seen Cop Car (2015) before, I wasn’t sure. Michelle was correct. 😁 ✑ After I pretended there were parallels with Cop Car and Graham Greene’s The Destructors,… Continue reading A weekly note