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.

BRB perpetrating a hoax on my child.

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.

My son just referred to my bookshelf of CDs as my “old timey music collection” so I’m dead now.

Instagram keeps showing me an ad for a dog camera that I can view through an app. The app can also be used to remotely eject a dog treat for her to eat, and can you imagine how rapidly my dog would demolish that thing when left alone with it?

Oh dear, I’ve reinstalled emacs and org-mode at work again.