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Some Dunhill Durbar, in my 40s vintage Savinelli KS. It's a cool, long smoke, but less flavorful than I remember. The two hours the bowl lasted was great for catching up on some podcasts, though, this evening. Perfect fine grey ash to the bottom, though it took a little bit of work to get it to stay lit, at top.

To me, HDCD wasn't terribly useful due to the actual quality increase that HDCD gave, but that albums which they bothered to make as an HDCD usually had good mastering.

Dunhill The Aperitif in my Parker.

How much kissing were you doing?

No pics, but I made a funky risotto, tonight: miso, beets, garlic and dry Huangjiu, made with sushi rice. Topped with a knob of butter and some excellent parmigiana.

If you are interested in nuclear insanity, I strongly recommend The Head Hand. https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Hand-Untold-Dangerous-Legacy/dp/0307387844

Veggie dogs and vegan burger patties for everybody!

Maybe I should have a cheat day and fire up the Weber, while the weather is still nice.

Well, my GMT has started running -20 sec/day. It was running -2, previously.. It's not magnetized (I had it demagnetized at a local jeweler I trust, who has a real demagnetizer, and not the $20 Chinese one I have), and it hasn't been knocked, or dropped, or abused in any other way. I guess it goes back to California. The service was warrantied, and I'm absolutely sure it will be taken care of, but I'm having some bad watch luck, of late.

It's really excellent, for sure.

Happy birthday, Stretch!

Yeah, I wasn't expecting that. I think GGG won 7 rounds. It was as great fight, though.

GGG/Canelo

Diaz/Rivera.

I take it you've never used a wok to deep fry, then, as there is very little. The shape of the wok, and the seasoning on a good carbon wok, means that you use very little oil, it doesn't splatter outside of the wok, and the oil slides right out when you're done. I take it that you don't like wings at restaurants, then.

What a legend.

If I were cooking wings in a wok, I'd deep fry. It's the perfect fry vessel.

I love seeing a burger on an English muffin! That's what every burger my father made (and my dad made a lot of burgers) was seated in between.

Casualties of Cool

That's good to know, thank you. It might come in handy, if I'm ever out that way.

Do they make it the opposite way, with regular buns and lots of lettuce and pickles and tomatoes and cheese in the middle?

I think this might be the first time I've really smoked the autograph (I think I've smoked a few partials). Man, it's a good smoker (cool, perfect draw, complex flavor, stays lit, dry to the bottom of the bowl), and this aged Old Dublin is very nice.

Not quite yet, but in a few minutes I'll be smoking some Peterson Old Dublin that has been aging for about a decade in my humidor (and boy does it smell good!) out of my Savinelli Autograph. I sure miss all those pipes that were stolen, but I guess I smoke a pipe infrequently enough that it's not a big deal, one way or another (I still have a very nice Parker and another Savinelli, from the 60s).

voices, unlike continuous background-noise, are intermittent sounds of short individual duration, so there isn't much time for the noise-cancelling to do its job with them.

That's just because Bubba J. Test, social security number 111223456 was part of the hack.