Month: September 2025

Anna’s Taqueria is opening a location close to my work, which I’ll be happy to add to my regular rotation. I had an appoointment at MGH today so I grabbed a preview burrito from their store near there.

Crews were setting up to film for a movie downtown this morning, evidently a new one from Mark Wahlberg.

When I went to play my new record I discovered that neither of my turntables was in working order — not shocking; they’re from 1976 and 1981 respectively. I hope I get 40+ years out of the new one, too.

I cooked a bunch of smoked food to share with friends for my birthday. Pulled pork and sliced smoked pork belly from the Traeger, and a big batch of chili simmered over wood fire in the Weber kettle.

I don’t know what type of melon, squash, or gourd our neighbor is growing in their garden, but it’s large. Probably 5 inches in diameter.

R.E.M. re-released Radio Free Europe on 10″ orange vinyl, all proceeds to benefit the Radio Free Europe non-profit that got its funding cut by a certain orange politician. I predicted back in March (or whenever it was) that I would have totally forgotten that I ordered this by the time it arrived, and sure enough when it showed up today.

The tree is dead! This street tree (an old Norway maple)  has been dropping branches on us for a while now, and we’ve been after the city to take it down for a while. From the condition of the stump you can see why. The center of growth is rotted out so the rings are hard to count, but by my estimate it was 70-100 years old. But it was failing (and shaded our solar panels part of the year) so its time had come.

We went to watch the sunset at Menemsha Beach, and the sea & sky just after it went down were calm and tranquil.

I have taken so many photos of this gazebo on Ocean Park over the years. But none with the clouds quite so cooperative as this one.

Vacationer’s delight