I’ve been to Napa for the harvest a couple of times. Totally worth it.

the one damn issue I can’t find

I have a burr grinder, can’t see the point in buying pre-ground coffee. It goes stale a lot faster. My current favorite whole-bean is from a company called “Cafe Jose”. Silly name. pretty decent coffee. A couple of $ cheaper than Peet’s (my other go-to).

I’ve never spent that much on goose down, but I did spend $200-ish in 1965. (so around 1300 in 2017 dollars) for an ‘expedition weight’ woolrich parka, so sort-of? Totally saved my ass as I was outdoors in -20F that winter. I now live in MA. Don’t need that level of protection, but I’m still using it when we have a…

That was supposed to be intelligible?

Hard to know how it will play on Nov. Repubs are already the party of “fk over the little guy” from their temp-for-people, forever-for corps tax ‘cut’.

Following the Repub playbook? Really? Over 70% of the country supports DACA. Try again.

Seems like the point of ending DACA* was to have something to use as a hostage in negotiations with the Dems. CHIP, which had been bi-partisan, is being used the same way. He’s ended TPS for Salvadorans. Gotta wonder what’s next.

Peet’s

Which hospitals in Maine are in danger?

You’re right: water has more thermal mass than pretty much anything. But that’s per-weight. I focus instead on convenience and how long either can stay in the ‘cozy’ temp range. I’ve not noticed a big difference - but I switched away from hot water bottles in the early 70s, so it’s been kind of a while since I last…

You mean your processor leaks? Or this is a way to not have to clean the underside of the lid?

Add some living space, some office space - and it’s an arcology.

Why can’t it be both?

re: hot water bottles. Try a corn bag (feed corn sewn into a cloth bag). Heat in the microwave (2-3 min) they work just like hot water bottles only they’re lighter and never leak (at least not water: corn leakage depends on your sewing skills). You can also make the same kind of bag but with brown rice, works about…

will likely do him no harm in Trump country.

There does not seem to be a way to get it to read documents from Google Drive. Anybody have a way?

Eric Holder’s running a fair-districts program called the National Democratic Redistricting Committee. I send them $$$. They’re doing good things, but I think the long term answer isn’t fair redistricting, which I do support, but no districting at all - or maybe half districted and half at large.

He’s no more accurate than Herodotus, who reported what was told to him as “things told to me”. But I have no issue with that. Just nabbed a copy, haven’t started reading...

I read the book. Not bad. A glimpse into a life that many of us really had no idea was there.