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Continue reading →: How I Take Care of LeatherAll leather needs to be maintained and conditioned, especially if it’s routinely exposed to water or sunlight. Shoes I normally do an annual treatment of all my leather shoes in late summer to prepare for the Pacific Northwest rainy season, but I recently got some new shoes, so I did…
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Continue reading →: The White Lotus (Season 3, Episodes 1-4) [Updated]Significant spoilers for all seasons I’m in the apparent minority of people who think the second season of The White Lotus was significantly better than the first. The first season built main characters so one-dimensionally around rich people stereotypes that they were caricatures instead of people: Jake was only a…
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Continue reading →: Just One LookI primarily go to concerts for the music (I almost always go solo), but there is also a unique charm in sharing the experience with people who have come together because of commonality, even something as small as musical taste. However, as an asexual person (“ace”), there’s always some trepidation…
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Continue reading →: How I Bandage Field InjuriesIt’s a running team joke that I’m “Dr. Scott.” I’m the type of person who keeps a bunch of useful stuff in my field bag, including a whistle, nail clippers, a folding knife (for shotguns), and a basic medical kit. If I see a new bandage type that looks promising,…
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Continue reading →: Maestri House Mini Coffee ScaleFor the seven years I’ve been making espresso at home, I’ve been using regular kitchen scales that rounded to the full gram. After I used them for a while, I think I got a feel for what was a “heavy” and “light” 19/20g. It didn’t even occur to me that…
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Continue reading →: Everything Sucks!Everything Sucks! had been on my To Watch spreadsheet for a while. I added it after seeing it on some critic end of year favorites list back in 2018. It was a victim of the classic Netflix “green light everything, then cancel it if it’s not a smash hit” methodology,…
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Continue reading →: Why I Game on XboxI talk about video games a lot, and several people have asked why I chose Xbox over all the other options. Console vs PC In my teens and early 20s, I played on PC, but switched to consoles by my late 20s. I don’t see myself going back. So console…
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Continue reading →: Counterfeit QuesadillaTaco Bell is my favorite fast food chain. For a long time, one of my favorite menu items was their chicken quesadilla. I guess a lot of other people also liked it because the price was increased significantly a few years ago. Today, it’s $5.99 a la carte. If I’m…
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Continue reading →: Salzmann Spoke ReflectorsOne of the basic tents of bike safety is to be as visible as possible from as many angles as possible, especially in the dark. For a long time, I mostly focused on front and back lights/reflectors since that’s the approach angle for most vehicles, but riding more often in…
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Continue reading →: When to Call It: Playing Deep Deep in a ZoneSetting context and expectations: if you don’t play ultimate frisbee, you probably won’t care about this post. Fair warning. I’m the primary deep deep (abbreviated “deep” for the rest of this post) when my club team plays zone. I briefly played free safety in football in high school, and the…