Stopped in at Barbarian Brewing’s downtown taproom for a few tastes.
That dark beer is a glorious syrupy 12%-ABV mess called “Waffle Cone Stout”. But the Little Wolf IPA was the clear best of this flight.
Nice view, too.
Reading
How to Take Smart Notes
Sönke Ahrens
- That’s 832/1,189 chapters, or 69.9%
- That’s roughly 832*150=124,800 words of Bible reading companion
Boise Fry Company has a gimmick, and they live up to it. Four different kinds of potatoes, prepared four different ways, with a dozen sauces and ten or so salts available.
Best combo: cinnamon-ginger salt on sweet potatoes.
Best sauce: spicy Idaho …
Visited Payette Brewing, since we’ve planned some more-central breweries for tomorrow. Awesome outdoor space with plenty of dogs.
Kept driving up 21 to Idaho City, which was apparently the center of the Idaho gold rush in the 1860s but today has a population of less than 500. No breweries, sadly, but we found a nice diner for lunch.
Took a nice drive up to Lucky Peak Lake today and ended up in Boise National Forest.
At a Raisin’ Canes somewhere between SLC and Boise.
Sadly our dog is hanging out with friends this week instead of us.
We woof him anyway.
Heading out to Craft+Commerce today for my second year.
Super-excited to bring my wife and sister (@QuilledSister) along this year. Lots of new people to meet, learning to do, and Boise to explore.
Just submitted my Craft Brews + Commerce meetup for Craft+Commerce next week.
I might be the only attendee, but I’m very proud of the name, and I spent way too long on the website.
If you’ll be in Boise a day early—come join me!
Two other ways of thinking about finishing Esther:
I have a long way to go, but it’s good to remember how many books are already …
This morning, I wrapped up my Chapter By Chapter notes on the book of Esther, which finishes off the history books and gets me to 44 books, which is 2/3 of the full 66.
Next up: Revelation, which (if it doesn’t kill me) will complete the New …
versenotes
And one more: Nehemiah is now complete in my Chapter By Chapter series.
It continues to weird me out that Ezra just pops in to Nehemiah’s book, just as Haggai and Zechariah to do Ezra.
Esther is next. I’ve written a lot about Esther …
versenotes
Finished another one today: Ezra is now complete in my Chapter By Chapter series.
Something new I noticed when reading Ezra so carefully is that it’s as much about rebuilding the exiles into the people of God as it is about rebuilding a city …
fiction
What that Aprille with His Slithy Toves
Some years ago, my brain—unbidden—committed an act of literary vandalism and produced the following. Apologies to… everybody.
Whan that Aprille with his slithy toves
The droghte of March hath perced to the borogoves,
And bathed every veyne in …
fiction
Fiction: Vision
My sister, aptly blogging at @QuilledSister, writes short stories on her blog. Read her stories; they’re wonderful. Every so often one of them lodges in my imagination and sends me wandering down a side path of my own. This is one of those …
Adding an "Open Terminal Here" Button to Finder
I often find myself wanting to open a terminal in the directory I’m staring at in the Finder.
I usually drag folders (or their proxy icons) onto the Terminal, or I type cd and drag into an existing terminal window1.
But today it occurred to me …
fiction
Fiction: The Lay of the First Pouring
(In collaboration with @QuilledSister; she titled this Keening)
“The song one!”
“Oh but you’ve already heard that one.”
“Tell us again!”
“Yeah, yeah, we want to hear it again!”
The four …
Exercising An LLM Wiki
I’ve been playing with a Codex-assisted LLM Wiki in Obsidian for a week or so.
Today it got its first serious exercise helping me plan for tomorrow’s VerseNotes office hours about Jesus as the firstborn, and it smashed it.
It started from …
Back in San Antonio again.
Apparently my hotel room came with a balcony.
If only it were cool enough to sit outside.
books
Brimstone (Callie Hart)
Finished reading: Brimstone by Callie Hart 📚
Look, the special girl gets more special!
Seriously, Hart’s worldbuilding and storytelling are massively improved from the first book, and this is a worthy read. (I really want to know who the Hazrax is, …
books
Finished reading: Cursed by Benedict Jacka 📚
Jacka continues to write fun urban fantasy with a little noir detective thrown in.
My unfamiliarity with London geography continues to make some of this series hard to follow, and the characters don’t see …
Day One AI-Guided Journaling: Good, Not Great
I tried Day One’s “Chat About Your Day” feature today. It’s a conversation about your day, where each turn is a little prompt, rather than a blank journal page.
It went well.
The prompts were very scope limited, encouraging short replies, and they …
photos
Afternoon hike at Ghost Falls trail down in Draper.
Three round trips in twelve days (San Antonio, Huntsville, DC) means I need to take every opportunity I have to get outside while I’m here.
Hop Skud and a burrito bowl at Free Roam in Boerne.
I don’t miss much about Texas, but Torchy’s is very high on the list.
Specifically, the brushfire tacos that were tonight’s dinner and which I can still taste.
Also high on that list: HEB. Other grocery stores should send ambassadors to HEB like …
books
Finished reading: The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden 📚
I finished this years ago, but apparently didn’t blog about it.
This third book takes the calm dark winter fairy tale of the first two books and turns it into an action movie that …