Doug's Project 365

Tell me without telling me that there was no line at security and now you’re 90 minutes early for your flight.

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.