I’m calling this New Years Day pho a success! We enjoyed this amid an afternoon and evening of board games with friends.

I spent a couple hours of New Years Eve taking apart my Xbox One X to clean up and replace this mess of thermal paste that was making the fan sound like an aircraft carrier. It even worked when I put it back together and turned it on.

Happy New Year

Picked up some good albums at the hometown record shop this week. (Not pictured: New Pornographers’ Brill Bruisers and Neko Case’s Hell On.)

Visiting family this year was really great. There’s also nothing like that first cup of coffee in your own kitchen, the early morning after returning home. ❄️☕️

Christmastime at Mom and Dad’s means tamales and eggs for breakfast every day.

Gunnison is pretty preoccupied with the wild turkeys that come in under the bird feeders.

Northward in the winter.

It’s super satisfying to open up this espresso machine and replace a couple of parts. This steam assembly wasn’t right, but the steam knob stem was perfect and made a huge, immediate improvement. The utterly precise fit of the components is so impressive.

Siri totally gets my Wednesday morning jam.