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@Yakster said:

@Rdp77 said:
Cost of living is getting ridiculous around here.

That’s what I went after…the 4.99lb whole ribeyes

Ahi tuna

Fishing out of Hale'iwa with my Dad, two brothers, and my son today. Reeled in two Ono and one Skipjack. Awesome day.

Every six weeks or so, I make the 8mi. trip to Woodman's to do the bulk of my grocery shopping. Since I used my last tortilla for my nightly burrito yesterday, today was slotted to be the day for Woodman's.

In between my two cups of coffee, I stepped outside to water my pepper plants and do a bit of weeding around them. 5min of that was enough to tell me I'm staying indoors. The stinkin' wildfire smoke is bad enough that I was feeling winded and out of breath. Yuck. Maybe a nice big bowl of popcorn will be dinner tonight.

I've been to war. It was a grand adventure until my first gun fight. Over time I changed as did the Marines around me. We became savages. I was lucky to survive but it took most of my life to become somewhat civilized again. War is man's worst endeavor and should be the last resort.

I brewed a pot of Ethiopia Sidamo Kontama Natural this morning in my Fellow Aiden brewer that I'd roasted over a month ago and then put in the freezer for three weeks while we were in Japan.

I say Gosh Darn, that's a good cup of coffee. I did take some home-roasted Burundi and Peru coffee to Japan with me, but ran out after about a week, subsisting on locally roasted coffee there that was good, and some bulk Costco coffee that was not good, but man this stuff is blowing my socks off.

Full-on palate reset for coffee and cigars, sure I did have coffee in Japan and I did have three cigars standing out on the porch, but I'm really enjoying my own coffee and smoking cigars in a relaxing environment at home.

Thanks Pedro! @peter4jc