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The air cleared up enough to sit on the porch and make manual espresso.

Dimples does an horchata cold foam coffee and where has this been all my life?

At least the flowers were nice.

Trying out a minimalist in-real-life (IRL) gaming setup. Since paper character sheets are harder and harder to maintain, I'm using the DnD Beyond version in an iPad Mini on a little stand that let's me put the dice tray under it. Got an Altoids tin with fitted inserts to hold dice, which is nice but bulky.

Cardamom Cornbread: brown butter cornbread muffin infused with fresh ground cardamom.

Was delighted at the GF options for dessert, especially since I had assumed I was skipping dessert. Overall they did a great job having something (not just food) for everyone. Would repeat.

Butter Block had a jar of berry matcha mousse and they set one aside for me, which was lovely of them.

A chill July 4 on the porch.

Managed to see the Yayoi Kusama exhibit at AKG before it went away. Then hit a few more exhibits.

Sausage and escarole then pasta, peas, chicken in cream sauce. The next night a caprese and then bracciole. Both at Sinatra's.

I may have nailed my cold foam game.

All this under blazing sun, moderate humidity, and 84°F / 29C temperatures (hot for me, cool for, say, Germany).

Tempted by Dick Whiskey’s cannoli. But then moved on to The Clockers (punk) with a great, if aborted, cover of ‘868-5309’. An intimate session with Gates of Steel (Irish punk) and their driveway of (meat) smokers, closing with PastMasters (Beatles covers) and what felt like a street party.

Caught The Honk Committee (brass pop, funk, ska) and very glad I did — they closed with Chappell Roan. Then to Dick Whiskey (pop/punk) and that awesome Golden Girls shirt.

Started on lower east side with Not Normal (rock), then across town for Dellwood and the Nightshades (alt/indie) then caught Sector Seven-G (80s, 90s rock).

About 2.5 miles round trip, which I am pretending burned off the ice cream.

Decorated the remaining office wall with a bear, buck, and fox having a tea party. Five strips of self-stick wallpaper. Started off poorly but eventually wrangled it into a mostly smooth wall. The art quality, however, is not great. It has all the artifacts of scaling an illustration too large with none of the signs of trying to mitigate the artifacts (like a stochastic screen or similar). Glad to have tried it in my office before anywhere else in the house.