John Bredesen
This is really cool if you are into space. The Roman telescope is a big jump of the Hubbleand serves a different purpose than Webb. This video covers the new features and differences. I’m not sure the. Video can embedded so youay have to click thru to YouTube.
The creator is Tim from Everyday Astronaut who is excellent.
I belong to a retired guy coffee group. We meet every other week at a different location (more on that in a moment).
Coffee group are interesting. They usually are retired men. Or perhaps I’m just not aware of women’s or mixed coffee groups.
I wonder why that is? My current theory is centered on where we find our community. For many of us, work was our primary social contact. Church was a secondary social group for me, but that was once or twice a week versus five times for work. Retiring means no longer working full time and no longer having that level of socializing.
Coffee groups are one way of opening up a new social circle, or at least continuing a prior one. Perhaps men need that more than women.
Side note regarding location. I’m a “Norm at Cheers” kind of guy. Ever since high school when I could drive myself to places (and a job to pay for it), I liked going to places enough that the staff knows who I am. Being a regular was nice. In high school, it was the waitresses and the occasional freebies. Now it is another social connection.
When we started this coffee group, my thought was to pick a place and always go there. But several of the others were more of the change it up and go to a whole bunch of different coffee shops opinion.
That was fine with me as long as I didn’t have to be involved in the decision of where we go.
It works well. And I really like our group.
I’m a black coffee guy. I started drinking coffee back in college. First with lots of milk and sugar because frankly coffee taste terrible to someone who’s never had it before. Eventually I phased out the milk and sugar and now drink it black.
But.
I also love creme brulee. I have adopted my sister’s approach that if creme brulee is on the dessert menu, there is no other serious option. So when I got to a coffee shop today and saw that they had a creme brulee latte, had to step away from just black.
It was delightful. It appeared that they had even use the flame on the top.
10/10, will reorder.
When I started publishing books, I thought about branding (yes, it’s a business). At the first couple of conferences I went to, I saw authors using clothing as part of their brand. Fedoras, costumes, special jackets.
That felt right to me and I chose a flannel shirt.
A few years later, after I had used it in all the photos and it appeared at a number of conferences with it, I realize the flaw in my plan. I only had one of those shirts and they were no longer manufactured.
My wife thought I should change the shirts to something current that I could buy several of them. I didn’t want to change the shirt cuz I’d already started using it and I really like the shirt.
Recently she discovered a new shopping site for used clothes. And, lo and behold, she found the right sides of my shirt. She is awesome.
So now I have my current shirt and two spares. Much happiness. Piccolo. Yes I dry clean my flannel shirts. Some of us take our flannel seriously.
There are a lot of colorful trees this time of year, and lots of shades of yellow. But I haven’t seen this lime green before.
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