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Finished reading: Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson π
Wow, that was fun.
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I did not know that Shantaram was being made into an AppleTV series (starting this Friday!). I loved this book and hope the show does it justice. π
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I gave the updated Spark email client a trial run. It’s nice, but I’m not to pay for a subscription. I have a few simple filters in Fastmail to separate newsletters and “other stuff” from email written by actual humans. It isn’t as pretty as Spark (or Hey), but it works.
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My favorite local grocery store has been stocking more N/A beer lately. I picked up a 4 pack of Wellbeing’s Hellraiser this week. It’s pretty good. I give it a 7/10.
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Finished reading: Termination Shock: A Novel by Neal Stephenson π
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π Fountain Pen Day 2021.
I celebrated by inking up a new bronze Lamy Al-Star with some KWZ Honey and buying a green ysutdio Classic Revolve. I love my ystudio Brassing portable except for the Schmidt nib it came with so I’m excited to see how ystudio’s new nib writes.
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Finished reading: The Every by Dave Eggers π
Ouch. A blistering satire of tech and surveillance that hit pretty close to home.
Buy it directly from McSweeney’s to get one of the randomized covers.
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Finished reading: Attack Surface by Cory Doctorow π
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I couldn’t figure out today’s prompt (majority), so here’s a picture from my afternoon walk instead.
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Dark. π·
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A touch of color here in Connecticut. π·
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There are a few opening song riffs that can immediately transport me back to a time and place. When I hear the beginning of “Alive”, it’s 1991 and I’m in Troy, NY. “Ten” was released on this day, 30 years ago. π΅
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View from our beach hut, Eleuthera, Bahamas. My dad and I built this in 2013. Itβs made it through a few big storms, been completely under water more than once, but is still standing.
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I own A LOT of pocket notebooks. Perhaps more than I’ll ever get around to using, which is why I usually kick myself for buying even more. But this collaboration between Railway Station Press and Story Supply Co is a home run. ππ
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Last back to school drop off for our oldest as she starts her senior year at Cornell.
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πNew pen day. Tactile Turn Nautilus. I bought the short version to better fit in my pocket and cut down a Zebra Sarasa Camel Yellow refill to fit. It seems to fit just fine. The ink color goes well with the gold accents.
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Finished reading: The Way of Kings: Book One of the Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson π
About 900 pages in I was thinking “this is good, but it could be a lot shorter”, then the story took off and all the setup was worth it. 8/10βοΈ
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Lukaku is back at Chelsea. Now do De Bruyne and Salah.
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The Olympics have ended, so Settlers has restarted in our house. I came from way back for the win.
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βοΈ This week’s roast: Kenya Kiambu Mandela AB from Sweet Maria’s