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Photo of a whole-wheat, sourdough sandwich loaf on a stove top.

Checked out Luna at Bowery Ballroom on Thursday night, they put on a great show. Based on observations from some recent shows, I have some advice for my fellow middle-aged concert goers: If you want to stay on your feet, maybe have one less edible.

Hadn’t made sourdough since before we moved due to the general moving chaos and then a malfunctioning oven. Despite both me and the starter being out of practice, we managed to turn out a reasonable looking loaf. The new kitchen is such that the stand mixer is on the counter and available for use at any time. At some point, I really need to take advantage of that for some different types of bread.

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The Big Green Egg that departed last week was in exchange for a beautiful dining table and a set of Bose 901 speakers, both vintage and both looking sharp. This weekend, I acquired the necessary cabling and hooked up the EQ for the speakers—they sound amazing. We’re looking forward to many delicious meals at that table while listening to the smooth sound emanating from those 901s. Thanks, Carl!

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Photo of two Big Green Eggs flanking a pizza oven outdoors in New England during the winter. The egg on the left has smoke rising from it and the pizza oven has a visible wood fire inside.
Eggs and pizza!

I forgot my phone one day this week. I hadn’t gone far and could have gone back for it. But, I decided I could survive a work day without the infernal thing. It was wonderful not being interrupted by it throughout the day, and I only felt an ever so slight disconnected feeling once, or maybe twice. The only real bummer was the basketball game invite that I didn’t see in time. While I’d like to say this made me totally rethink my relationship to technology and am going to forgo all mobile communications, my phone hasn’t left my side since.

Hot on the heels of last week’s human.json, I added an AI policy to this site.

On Saturday, we successfully extracted the Big Green Egg from the deck at the old apartment. I was worried we’d have trouble getting it down the stairs, but it turned out to be lighter and easier to handle than than expected. It now resides on a farm in the country with other, old Green Eggs.

This also gave us an opportunity to have one of our infrequent live jams. Jamulus is amazing in that it lets us play together every week, which would be impossible otherwise. But live is so much better. I think we sounded pretty good, I hope the neighbors agree.

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Photo of snow covered trees and the Meadowport Arch in Prospect Park, Brooklyn."

The last (full) week of 2025 is in the books. That means a wrap for the 2025 weeknotes. There are enough year end review type write-ups in the world—no need to include one here. Looking forward, I hope the coming year brings some ever so slightly less interesting times. I’m not sure what that would look like. Trump and the rest of his corrupt administration out of office and in permanent exile somewhere would be a great start.

As is often the case, it is pretty quite around here since so many people are out of town. We did get a nice coating of snow just after Christmas. it was pretty good timing (unless it derailed your travel plans). All weekend felt like an extended snow day. Warmer temperatures and rain are in the forecast, so it may turn out to be the be the best sort of snow—one that melts before it gets too grimy.

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Photo taken from a NYC Subway 2 train of an 8 train across the platform.
8 train?

Aboard a downtown 2 train, I looked up and saw this 8 train across the platform. What the? I had just enough time to snap this picture before we left the station. I shouldn’t have been too surprised, there have been a few 8 lines over the years and the MTA includes an “8” on the roll signs. While this particular sign was an error, there may be 8 trains on the rails in the future.

Recently, I received the renewal notice for vintagesailors.com domain. It is an oft forgotten ecommerce site that sells t-shirts and other goods emblazoned with old sailboat logos. The site’s existence can be chalked up to me wanting a Pearson Ensign t-shirt and not being able to find one I liked.

It wasn’t much of a leap from making one t-shirt to thinking “Hey, I like this, wouldn’t everybody want one?” Of course, everybody absolutely doesn’t want one. But, a few people did, despite an almost total lack of marketing.

I say all of this because I’m going to let the domain expire and I feel like it is worthy of marking the occasion. Plus, there’s still time left to get a hat if you want one! As of 2025-12-28, the site is shut down, I can still get you a hat if you want one, just let me know.

The jukebox project is coming along. I made some good progress this week on a couple utility type things that make managing the music library much less cumbersome. I also learned a bit more about what it’s going to take to interface with vintage hardware. There’s a short write-up here: Jukebox Title Strips (and more).

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