Jess

Ooh! I forgot about Tom Jones & The Cardigans Burnin Down the House. Love that one!

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Gin & Juice by the Gourds.

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This is so awesome!! Congrats!

Spotify daylist playing “chin-stroking proto-punk Thursday afternoon” music.

Well now.

I love that he will forever be known as General Hammond.

Thank you! My algorithm has absolutely zero of these songs and I needed to listen to something different.

Jess in front of the neighbors (a palomino stallion and two Appaloosa mares).

Stellar Jay! We don’t have these in Boston.

Jill and Jess in hand knit hats, the Bitterroot Mountains in the background.

Horses!

Here are a few more favorites from Farmer’s Daughter Fibers Knit-Ski retreat at Triple Creek Ranch in February 2025.

Realized I never finished the Seattle/Montana trip, so here’s a pic of me and Royal and the small hoard of sapphires I panned for. A+ would go again.

LLMs are making phishing attacks so much harder to spot AND they are leveraging Microsoft’s single sign on + MFA to steal sessions without you knowing. It’s nuts.

Use a browser sandbox like Browserling or Silo if you just want to see what happens down the rabbit hole. You can also drop the links in VirusTotal for some good security analysis.

Sure. Risotto, biryani… Chris uses it for oatmeal every day too.

Home - Roundhead Brewing Company Cerveza que reúne — great beer brings people together in our neighborhood taproom. Located in Hyde Park (Boston), MA.

Wishing I was closer - I would love to hear your take. Btw Boston now has a Latino-owned brewpub with a Peruvian focus. Fabulous beers and food. (roundheadbrewing.com)

Pretty sure that’s what the rest of us IP owners do now.

Humerus

Ooooh!

Gaaaaah

Also his cover of the Book of Love.

Agree! Followed closely by Superstition, specifically for the bass line. (Shut up autocarrot!)

I hate how thin my hair has gotten in the past few years, so my extensions are my new best friends.

Still life from a train. A large, half-full iced coffee sits on a table in front of a window on a train looking out to a dark, dismal morning.

Yesterday was a lovely preview of spring, but today is another story entirely. It’s dark. Like wicked dark. Like so dark you wouldn’t believe it. Hi Bob.

Espresso martini flight because Jess couldn’t decide. Three small glasses of frothy beverages, each with a different garnish.

Seriously, the poured the alcohol through a coffee filter before putting it in the glass. It’s totally my new favorite drink (even without the pour over).

A woman sitting at a bar, laughing while holding an espresso martini.

I feel like I’m being watched. Cyclops Grill in Seattle.

Back where we started, we hit the Starbucks Reserve Roastery because not only was it full of coffee, it had a full bar. Don’t mind if we do! After filling up on espresso martinis and a boulavardier (with booze poured through coffee!!), we found a diner with some very interesting decor.

Three women stand in front of a small waterfall trickling out of a wall of rock.

Descriptive sign with history and photographs of Middle Tumwater Falls.

A raging river flows under the arch of a bridge high above.

The hands of three women as they sit at a table knitting and drinking coffee and catching up on life.

Day 3 of J&J go west: a quick coffee at the Starbucks Reserve Roastery (more on that later) near the rental car place before hitting the road to Olympia where we met up with @whosharted.bsky.social at Tumwater Falls. We had a great walk around the park before finding food and a yarn shop.

Seriously, take your biggest mixing bowl and put broth, rice noodles, bean sprouts, and some tender chicken meat in it. Don’t mind if I do!

We finished Day 2 with a massive bowl of pho while a freak thunderstorm blew through.

Glassblowing demonstration. Two men stand in front of of an airstream converted into a glassblowing studio. People sit under a a white tent to protect them from the occasional rain.

A woman wearing glasses stands in front of a “tree” made from yellow glass. The Space Needle rises above them both.

Delicate pink hellebores dance in the foreground while black glass tendrils rise through a garden.

A woman in glasses stands in front of a tall, spiked, bright green sculpture.

I could have spent all day here. Outside there is more glass! Our climate in Boston would never permit this, so it was a treat. And running into the twin of the sculpture at the MFA was a pleasant surprise.

Detail of blue and orange glass “reef” sculpture. Jellyfish, nautiloids, and other sea shapes.

Ceiling covered in multicolored glass shapes. With light from above, the room looks like you’re inside of a kaleidoscope.

A woman in glasses stands in front of a brightly colored garden made of glass.

Tall glass bowls arranged on stands to look like flowers. Each is lit from above to cast light through the translucent parts of the glass and highlight the colors and shapes.

Chihuly. All I can say is “wow.” Glass is a craft I’ve always been fascinated with, but as I’m currently surrounded by the tools of my current craft (fiber stash toss in progress), I couldn’t possibly. The Chihuly museum is amazing. Colors, textures, details and happy accidents and I’m here for it.

A glass withe ice, booze, and an orange twist. The Old Fashioned at Lowell’s.

View of a corridor containing shop displays and neon lights.

The we headed back to Pike Place for lunch before my religious experience.

A woman in glasses smiling in front of a sign that says “Public Market Center.”

Vintage display in the lower level of the Pike Place Market touting a display of the world’s largest collection of giant shoes. Fun!

Storefront of the original Starbuck’s location with the twin-tailed mermaid on the logo. A woman in a purple coat is entering the door on the left side.

Wall of Ghibli: display of books, collectibles, and other products featuring popular Studio Ghibli characters at Kinokunaya Bookstore in Seattle.

At the other end of the monorail, Jill and I checked out the Pike Place market, visited the original Starbucks (this might have been a religious experience for Jill), and then we popped down to the International district to visit a bookstore with the biggest Studio Ghibli collection I’ve ever seen.

Sidebar: OK, so the Seattle monorail has two stops. Aside from the fact that we just pulled down all of the overhead transit stuff and now have a lovely park, why can’t Boston have one of these between North and South Stations?

Looking up at the ceiling in a bar. There is a beer can Xmas tree hanging upside down and a moose with a red bra dangling from its antlers.

The sign on the way out of The 5 Point Cafe reminds you to make sure you have all of your essentials before you leave.

Riding the Seattle monorail past our hotel. View out a train window at a building with a pineapple and a large number 5 on it.

Day 2 of Jess & @jillserenity.bsky.social go west: The breakfast bar (seriously - drinks and tourists, and a moose that isn’t quite sure what just happened) and a ride on the monorail.

And yes, I know that Step 1B of removing people who won’t vote for this fascist regime is to stop women from voting. We apparently belong in the kitchen, anyway.