Joe Esposito

Totally makes sense that my Apple All Time playlist was essentially the Pure Calm 2023 version.

It played nonstop during Noras final months. I still listen to that playlist today, but got smart enough to use a second user and an old phone since the replay playlists are fun!

6pm coffee as I wait for the #StarWars #Andor final arc tonight! This slots between Knicks games perfectly, too.

Absolutely proud of you all! HUG! So far, 3.1 million protesters counted today — that’s nearly 1% of the U.S. population! Photos are flooding social media everywhere. Still waiting on more numbers to come in.

Didn’t plan on tax loss harvesting VTI, but here we are.

Hi! Been watching your content on Youtube. Love the 'first hour' where you ease into the game and often include a history lesson or show and tell. Def a new fan :)

Neato! Also wanted to say I followed you. I'm also from an HD family. Playing Civ and watching content (IV, specifically) ate up a ton of time during my caregiving journey. I've stepped away a bit from nonprofit work to give me some space after my wife passed in '23, but will get back to it! 💙

Some popcorn reading. Going back to a time when wars were cold, and Russia was the bad guy.

Stretching some leftover brisket 🍽️

blank hex template for a civilization 7 city

If anyone finds this helpful, here's the hex diagram I'm using. The spreadsheet is a screenshot from OdkaSolut's video. I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader to pull or maybe he'll release it himself.

As the saying goes, "Just One More Turn".

Who else is playing?

reference material and urban plan prior to starting the game of civilization 7

urban planning example for civilization 7

screenshot of implemented urban plan in civilization 7

I spent the morning trying some of these techniques on a test city. Things made so much more sense and the build basically went as planned in advance. Looking forward to trying this in a real game as the complexity multiplies!

YouTube video by SolutOdka Master Urban Planning in Civ 7: A Step-by-Step Guide

Coming from IV, there is so much to learn! I oved this video by OdkaSolut (www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wSS...) that helped me understand the core micro mechanics of city planning. Also have learned a ton from www.youtube.com/@JustOneMore... and of course, Civ Fanatics is still thriving!

I thought about moving to 6, but figured with decade long timelines for these games, I may as well wait and jump in at the beginning. I'm glad I did. It's been a part time job the past 2 weeks, and I feel like I'm just scratching the surface of this game. But also learned enough to dive deeper...

I picked up Civ IV again somewhere during the pandemic and played it a ton while caring for my wife and after she passed. Having streams on in the background and that early soundtrack was one of the ways I coped and kept myself out of doom loops.

Civilization 7 has been this year's cure to February cold, a too quiet house, and doom scrolling. It's way different from Civ IV, which has been the Civ game for me for the last 20ish years(!). Sure, it's a bit rough around the edges, but I'm enjoying learning. (🧵) #Civ7 @civgame.bsky.social

Video light and phone mount used as a work lamp and screen magnifier.

Also, this vid light and phone mount became a work light and magnifier today. My eyes appreciated this

This is probably also why I never got into Tik Tok!

YouTube Premium is so valuable to me. Today was learning what a “hidden stitch” was to fix a hem on a suit. I didn’t do a great job for the first time, but good enough for this biz trip and something to try again! Glad I kept my wife’s sewing stuff and can go back to packing for trip #1 of the year.

It was sooo good! I bet it went great with curry. I made it twice in one weekend. The larger one was a scaled recipe for the pan I used. The smaller was a corner of the first attempt. I cubed it up and brought it to a party where others brought hot dips.🍽️

I got this guy recently mainly for camping. Been working through the bags of not quite enough coffee in the fridge. I love how much easier than a French press it is to clean up. 🍽️

@dkthomp.bsky.social Looking forward to "Plain History".

I've been watching the #NFL games on Fubo. That Fox 4k feed looked great and really makes everything else look horrible. Didn't even mind the announcers since the TV has been muted all day!

The label was long gone and they were really dry. Probably an ancho though.

I won’t tell you about the barley I added then.

Looks great! I made chicken chili yesterday, too. I switched to the 6 qt dutch oven shortly after this photo as I decided to just use all the chicken stock I had on hand and let it simmer longer. 🍽️

Helping families directly, sharing the realities of a diagnosis and the corresponding journey remains important to me. I'm not sure I'll go as far as calling funding science, 'wasted efforts' but maybe that shouldn't come from the community itself? All so hard.

There was a comment from a hospice physician that really resonated with: "Instead of spending millions on wasted NPO’s efforts for a 'cure' we should be spending millions on helping these patients and families come to grips with what is right in front of them."

Brooke's story really motivated us to be even more public in Nora's Huntington's Disease journey (and me as a caregiver). Glad her fam is there for her.

UpTooLate even.

Screenshot of NotePlan on iOS showing habit tracking plugin

Well, tomorrow I’m adding a new tag to track in @noteplan.bsky.social #UpToLate

For a hot second earlier today, I thought the Giants were playing well enough to win. Then the unraveling happened. Now, big Raiders fan!