Arrived at Breckenridge Brewery just in time to see the Derby run.
It’s our first time here, and it’s a glorious madhouse of kids and dogs and beer.
Reading
How to Take Smart Notes
Sönke Ahrens
- Reading The Epic of Eden by Sandra Richter. So good.
- Writing Psalm 105 lists 8 of the 10 plagues of Egypt, but puts 9 first and swaps 3 and 4. What the heck?!
- Drinking A 2008 Barboursville Cabernet Franc. Unbelievable that this …
Visited a brewery last night that I’d never heard of—Free Roam in downtown Boerne. It’s amazing what happens when you treat your “home” city as a destination. There’s probably something to that…
Feels weird to be starting a journey by flying… home?
We moved to Colorado for the summer for the hiking. Today was just a long walk, but here’s to lots and lots of these in the next three months…
fiction
Fiction: Mislaid
_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 …
books
Finished reading: On the Hippie Trail by Rick Steves
An exuberant diary, apparently lost for four decades, of Rick Steves and his friend Gene traveling overland from Istanbul to Katmandu. This trail is likely impossible today, but the journey was …
books
Finished reading: Tiny Experiments by Anne-Laure Le Cunff
A series of interesting insights about building the life you want through small experiments. I particularly appreciated the concrete suggestions: make a pact, join a community, learn in …
Coffee and yogurt on our first morning in our new place in Denver. It’s a bit chilly outside, which is glorious.
Via Reddit: this absurd story of a German fighter pilot in WWII guiding a heavily damaged Allied B-17 bomber to safety.
Read to the end for a wonderful capper.
Stopped for dinner at the Toppled Turtle in Dumas, Texas, which is halfway between Amarillo and nowhere.
The brewery is attached to a great pizza place though, so we had an excellent stop.
(Also, the local cats alternately sit on the bar and beg for …
We’ve been back “home” in San Antonio for two weeks.
It’s been amazing to hang out with our friends, most of whom we haven’t seen since before Christmas. But being here has been weirdly disruptive to our routine, because we knew we’d be leaving again …
Today I noticed that Harvey Guillén, who plays Guillermo on What We Do In the Shadows, plays a demon hacker in The Good Place. The demon hacker who finally gets into The Judge’s mainframe, no less.
I do not often catch these things, so I am always …
books
Finished reading: The Formula by Joshua Robinson, Jonathan Clegg
For a new fan, this book was a great history lesson of the business of F1 and the transformation since 2017 or so, culminating in the insanity of the inaugural Las Vegas Grand Prix.
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Warning: fire + touch = burn.
At Lazy Dog in Colorado Springs.
Packing up to leave Salt Lake City for the summer. It’s been an unexpectedly lovely experience, and we’re already looking forward to coming back when the snow starts falling again.
Inside the Straight to Ale brewery at the aforementioned repurposed school is a monkey hanging on a rocket.
That is all.
photos
This is the second school I’ve seen repurposed into a brewery. It’s not as cool as Idlewild in Colorado Springs, but the idea is still awesome.
I have really, really been enjoying bracket.city. What a clever and engaging game.
[Bracket City] March 15, 2025
☠️ hard mode!
Rank: 🔮 (Puppet Master) 🎹 Total Keystrokes: 105 🎯 Minimum Required: 105
Total Score: 100.0 🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪
I missed good Southern food in San Antonio, and even more so now in Salt Lake City, so since I’m recruiting this week at Auburn, I have to take what I can get.
It’s not Carolina, but it’ll do.
À la @QuilledSister,
These stories should concern all Americans because they are our family members, neighbors and friends. No American can be proud of a government that carries out change in this way. Neither can these actions be rationalized by discussion of past …
Today’s Apple News Quartiles puzzle is full of NFL teams (sort of): Ravens, Bills, Rams, Chiefs, Lions, Eagles (“birds”)—did I miss any? #superbowl
books
Finished reading: Eldest by Christopher Paolini
I didn’t realize until the afterword that Paolini was only 21 when Eldest was published. What a masterwork for someone so young, and yet it explains some of the inelegance of plot elements and prose. I …
travel
Time travel accomplished! I have landed in LAX seven hours prior to taking off from HND.
I know it is routine, but it amuses me every time.
books
Finished reading: 1633 by David Weber.
The addition of David Weber got us even more Mary Sue/Marty Stu characteristics, but at least there’s some serious risk in this one, with some major players stuck in England under Charles II, Amsterdam under …