22-5-29

 Douglas Coupland gilded a thing. 

22-5-28

 This house has been like this for years. It would probably sell for something like $1.5million. It needs a little bit of work but is a charming character piece waiting for your personal touch. 

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22-5-26

My coffee machine died a couple of months ago. I've been "surviving" on stove top espresso and drip coffee but I finally got around to taking in the big machine, the commercial Nuova Simonelli Mac DIGI in for repair. Turns out there's a short in the 28 year old circuit board and, as you could imagine, they don't make them anymore, and there was no guarantee that installing a new circuit board would fix it. What was just as likely to happen is the "thing" that fried the old circuit board might fry the new circuit board. So it got recycled. 

And I bought a new machine. 

Nuova Simonelli Oscar. It's a residential machine. It feels light compared to the old one. I very nearly throw it off the counter when swapping in the porta filter. It makes pretty stellar coffee and I've missed the quality espresso in the mornings. Today was its inaugural run. On a cost per cup evaluation, I'm at about $300 per cup of coffee. I'll be working on getting that number down. I don't think this one will last the same 28 years as the old one. If it lasts 10 I'll be happy.
 

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22-5-24

 I took the most amazing photograph of a hearse in a grocery store parking lot today. It was blurry. Just when you thought technology was perfect. I might ramp up to another week or two or three of film. It's been a while.

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22-5-18

 Oscar. 

22-5-17

 The kid is wearing my bowling shirt from 35 years ago. 

22-5-16

 I don't know. I thought I took a photograph. Maybe it's on film. I don't know. 

22-5-15

 Wettest spring in years. Here's hoping it fills the reservoirs and cuts down on the smokey skies. Tonight was torrential.

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22-5-11

 Honey was on sale. So I bought 2. Never goes bad...

22-5-10

Inaugural ride. This bike felt amazing....
 

22-5-9

 It took over a decade to get this thing together. I've owned that seat and seatpost for that long knowing it would go on this bike. Apparently I don't own a hacksaw blade so I couldn't cut the stearer. And I need to wrap the bars. I'm torn between blue and black. It should be white. 

It's a bike. I welded it. I'm going to ride it. 

There are few things more satisfying. 

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22-4-30

 How to redevelop property in Vancouver. Step 1) Remove the old property. Step 2) Profit.

22-4-29

His name was George Floyd.