Finally watching Mandalorian Season 3. What the heck is up with the celebrity packing in minor roles? Jack Black, Lizzo, Doc from Back to the Future, etc. Distracting and bad acting.

I love it when the tiki stars shine in my favor and I have everything on-hand to try a new drink. In this case, the St. Lucian.

‪A rare stirred tiki drink. It is a blending of the two types of drinks I like most: Amaro and tiki. This one is going on the short list. ‬

St. Lucian Cocktail Recipe | PUNCH

For this cocktail recipe, Brad Smith of New Orleans’ Latitude 29 pairs Creole Shrubb with dark rum, amaro and chocolate bitters.

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Worked from Automattic’s NoHo office today. Here’s the view down Broadway.

At Astor Wines today, I noticed a baseball bat readily accessible behind the register counter. So I had to ask:

“What’s the bat for?”
“Shoplifters”

These Ticonderoga Laddie Tri-Write Pencils are my favorite pencils for woodworking. They have thicker graphite than regular pencils, are triangular so they don’t roll, and they make a variety without an eraser so you can sharpen both ends. Unlike the flat carpenter pencils, these can be sharpened to a fine point for more precise work, or left blunt for rough work.

Nothing like the dopamine hit from the first seeds of the season sprouting. Tomatillos and cucumbers are the first ones this year.

A sign of spring. Skunk Cabbages.

Charlie loves the first weekday of daylight savings. There is enough light to play outside after daycare/work!

Coffee cherries on the living room coffee plant!

The Austrian Daylight Cycle Theory would make for a great tongue-in-cheek paper. Raising the daylight interest rate leads to daylight savings, which curbs daylight malinvestment.

I opened an issue in the Gutenberg repo for a setting to require alt text on images before publishing: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/59754

I admire Bluesky’s setting to prevent posting without alt text on all images. This would make an excellent #WordPress #a11y core setting!

Learning from last year’s seed starting mistakes: – more lights (shifted four bars to one shelf instead of one per) – lights closer to the seeds (raised up the soil and heating pads) – warmer location (basement instead of my drafty office) – lights on a timer (sunrise to sunset)

I like to batch things that I find annoying. Two examples in the last two days: I printed 8 things that I’ve been holding on to for two months. I superglued four things that I’ve set aside for the past month.

Deli quart containers might be my new dust collection adapters. One end fits a 4″ outer diameter and the other fits a 4″ inner diameter.

Dust collection system is coming along! Next step is running hoses.

Sanded and planed the top to even out the joined sections. Now adding a blend of linseed oil and beeswax that I made a couple years ago for some stools. I had enough left for a couple coats.

Tonight’s tipple: Eastern Sour https://ultimatemaitai.com/2019/12/08/the-eastern-sour/