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Posts on and around this day (Jul 19):- 2026-07-16 / Today at Crucial Tracks: Monster Ballads, by Josh Ritter I have a live version of this song from Josh’s 2020 Hell Yeah! album that’s so deeply searching and beautiful, with Sam Kassirer performing this delicate piano part that just lifts me up.
- 2024-07-21 / Our plums are starting to ripen: Some have already been claimed by the ants and squirrels, but we go to these ripe beauties yesterday and tried them — and wow, they’re delicious! Can’t wait for more.
- 2023-07-22 / I’m publishing a project I’ve been tinkering with for a while and finally decided to make “good enough” to share! D2Rstats is a set of Quarto notebooks that fetch, store and make fun and useful data out of your Destiny 2 postgame carnage reports, such as this all-time weapon treetop. If you’re comfortable enough with R, it can be a jumping off point to exploring your own game data further. It’s been a lot of fun to refine this, and I’ve learned a ton along the way.
- 2023-07-16 / Haven’t shared a coffee in a while. This one is pretty good!
- 2022-07-20 / Last night’s monsoon season sunset showing off.
- 2021-07-21 / We have a small square of patio that’s a lovely spot to sit with coffee and a journal when the sun is coming up.
- 2021-07-19 / I went for a really nice paddle with my dad at the reservoir about 20 minutes up the canyon, yesterday. I hadn’t been up there in … 25 years or more? It’s a beautiful gorge with some winding passages and cool water.
- 2021-07-17 / Sunset was all right. After a week of smoky, hot weather that kept us mostly inside, yesterday a small storm blew through and our air quality improved wonderfully, for a cool and fresh sunset walk.
- 2020-07-21 / Watching sunset from atop a paddleboard on Lake Mary was the right idea, tonight.
- 2020-07-20 / Monday bread update: gluten free bread is hard, friends.
- 2020-07-20 / Yesterday I learned how to make a Discord bot (success!) and this morning I’m making a loaf of bread (outcome TBD but it smells good in here). It’s a cool monsoon-season day so far. Hope Monday treats y’all well.
- 2020-07-18 / Well, hello there, noisy little buddy.
- 2020-07-16 / In addition to sitting on an exercise ball, I have impulsively ordered a mechanical keyboard, so my transformation to Insufferable Guy At Work-from-home is nearly complete.
- 2020-07-15 / How’s work today? Well, here’s the note I just made to myself.
- 2020-07-15 / Decided to listen to some records while at the work-from-home-station today.
- 2019-07-16 / Nailed It! but for loading the dishwasher after baking twice in one day.
- 2018-07-22 / My son, staring intently at me: “Dad, I think I see one gray hair right there by your ear.” Me: “Oh! Well that’s nice of you to point that out.” Son: “Never mind, there’s a whole bunch.” Eight-year-old wisdom is UP FRONT, gang.
- 2018-07-20 / Today in Brief Moments of Lizard Brain Terror: reaching into the briefcase pocket where I keep my wallet and ID, just like I do everyday, to find it utterly entombed in spider webs and also occupied by a reasonably large and angry (but harmless) wolf spider.
- 2018-07-20 / Not gonna lie, there was some suffering on this morning’s spin ride.
- 2018-07-16 / Picked up Borne in audiobook from my library, using Libby. It’s an intriguing read/listen so far, and I continue to be really happy with how well done Libby is.
- 2018-07-16 / It’s three o’clock and I’m working from home today, so that means… Espresso time!
- 2015-07-19 / Plerd, a Dropbox-hooked static blog builder
- 2015-07-18 / How Invisible, Inc. Gets It Right
- 2014-07-22 / Payne to Andreesen
- 2014-07-16 / Overcast
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