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Lis and I went to a dog halloween costume parade in Boston. The very first group out of the gate was also one of my favorites. If you can’t see it well, their chihuahua, in a lobster costume, is inside the trap.

 

Friends Michelle and John are retiring to Malaysia and threw a bitchin’ “Bye, bitches!” party with a great Duran Duran cover band.

My new phone’s camera can zoom to 30x optically, and then if you zoom in more it will use AI to enhance/sharpen the image. But like all AI content it’s just making stuff up that looks like it should be there. This is a picture of some text on a bag of lawn fertilizer, pretty far away.

The original before AI processing:

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.