/ fun

Quarterly Pencil Box Time!

Bittersweet feelings with this last of the pencil-focused CW Pencil Enterprise quarterly boxes. I’m sad that this is this fun NYC shop can’t keep going as a specialty pencil store, but I’m glad that they will be able to stay open as a more broadly-focused office supply store.

I haven’t been a long-time subscriber but they seem like real solid folks.

Man, I do like pencils.

/ photos

Delicious *and* photogenic

A ran a Pepsi Challenge on a couple of Manhattans for our podcast recording last night.

Knob Creek is in the foreground and Jim Beam Black is in the background. I liked the Jim Beam better, which surprised me, because I prefer the Knob Creek (of these two) for straight sipping.

/ beers

Weekend beer notes

I’ve been looking for ways to tinker with the camera on the iPhone 12 Pro Max so obviously I took some Portrait Mode photos of some beers I enjoyed over the holiday weekend. The Veil’s Circle of Wolves is a big barley wine, this one aged in bourbon barrels. I’m not sure what year it’s …

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Bye, jerseys.

Farewell, Corey Webster jersey. I’ll always remember that you caught Brett Favre‘s last pass as a Packer.

Go Big Blue.

Also a fond farewell to you, too, Karim Abdul-Jabbar jersey. You were a fantasy monster for a season and a half so **of course** I bought a Dolphins jersey.

/ food

Steady Sub’n

Mr. Submarine is one of these old-style Richmond sandwich shops that fell under the radar when we became a “foodie town”. The dedicated customers never left but it looks like a place that time forgot (and almost ran over judging by the mangled tables in front).

Some of the tennis guys were hyping this place, and I had never been, so I gave it a run for lunch.

I went with the Club Sub and the Chicken Parm. I didn’t toast the Club, which might have been a mistake. Both subs were plenty big. The fries were fine. I’ll re-run the Club next time but toasted and I’ll see how the Steak and Cheese is.