My espresso machine broke down today (solenoid that I think I can replace) so I got myself a backup plan and have been reading up on AeroPress recipes.
Good night I’m going to be so insufferable as AeroPress Guy.
Oh, dear, they just said suh-GWAR-oh on this NPR story about Arivaca, AZ.
I bragged the other day about my rock-based repair of my sprinkler controller, so it should surprise nobody that I have spent most of my day replacing the thing after it failed entirely and refused to respond to any sort of geology-oriented solutions.
Fig 1: The circuit board in my sprinkler control box with its sophisticated “cram rock behind it” repair technique.
I’d like to say this is a temporary fix, but I stuffed the rock in there a year ago.
📚Finished The Stars are Legion. It’s a wild, inventive story of warring factions of women aboard giant living spaceship-worlds, weird organic everything (including monsters and cephalopod cannons), and an intriguing plot.
She possesses the very definition of puppy dog eyes.
📚Finished Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches by John Hodgman yesterday. A fun set of essays on being an adult and figuring out grown-up friendships. Hodgman balances these with touching, insightful passages about grief and learning to say goodbye on the early passing of his mother.
📚Finished The Changeling by Victor LaVelle. Compelling (maybe a little long) read mixing family legacy, race, social media and … monsters.
