Leisure
- Plaza Cafe, Gallup NM (huevos rancheros)
- West side market, Cleveland OH
- Ardmore Cafe, Ardmore PA
- Pine State biscuits, Portland, OR
- Pike Place Market, Seattle, WA
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If you haven’t had to shovel snow in slacks and loafers because the city did a second round of snow removal while you were at work, well then you haven’t really lived.
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I had my second jiujitsu competition yesterday; I lost both fights but I wasn’t there to win, I was there for Paco.

The bracket with small groups works out that I still got bronze. My friend/mentor from the academy snapped this one for me.
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Just found this note from 2014 on my hard drive
201409201429 - Top Five Breakfasts.
Hard to argue with that list, but maybe I should update it soon.
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🎥 I bought an UNUSED 70-year old Rolls-Royce crate engine, YouTube.
Yup. Get some popcorn and settle in. This is going to be good.
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Simplified Research
My research organization has gotten a little too byzantine over the years. Navigating to an active research project is now six levels deep on my computer. If I want to get to my book manuscript, e.g., I have to do the following:
Dropbox/AcademicWork/Projects/Inprogress/mssBook Then, I still have to navigate within that folder between my archival material, grant reporting, the book proposal, and the manuscript. It’s a mess.