Sometimes I wish I lived on more land so I could get better pictures of the sky. Then I remember that I really enjoy our high-speed internet here and I feel better.
Fooling around with video shot from my phone in the car holder. I’m sure there is a non-youtube option for presenting the videos but I haven’t figured that out yet.
I’m just starting Desert Oracle, so I can’t say much about it yet.
This issue of MAD is an all-Aragonés tribute, so it’s good reading. Our oldest subscribed a few years back. I don’t read them all, and I’ll read even less now that they’re just reprinting old stuff.
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.
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.
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 from. 2019, maybe? There was plenty of bourbon still in it so it couldn’t have been too old. It was nice for a cool autumn afternoon.
2013 Bourbon County was next. I’ve got this old flight of these I’ve been hanging onto for too long. Figured it would be an interesting follow after that Veil jam.
It was not. 7 years is just too long to rest. There was some bourbon in there and yeah, it was a stout, but it wasn’t in any of the fun ways this beer would have been after a year or two of cellaring. Oh, well lesson learned. I poured most of it out.
Official, a new, fresh IPA from Bell’s was exactly what I needed after that Bourbon County (failed) experiment. This one is all lively citrus at the front and the beer is hazy but not at all chewy like they can sometimes be. Bell’s just got back to us in RVA and this has been the highlight so far.
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.
