Lattes & Loitering, Episode 52: A New Book (with a twist)
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It started, as these things often do, with a book.
Not a new book, exactly—just new to me. One of those titles that practically taps you on the shoulder from across the digital aisle:
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The Fairgrounds at the End of Summer
The mountains don’t care about your festival.
They were there before the fairgrounds and they’ll be there long after. They just sit above Quincy, California, the way they always have — patient, enormous, indifferent — while somewhere below, a fiddle starts up and people who’ve driven three hours from the Bay Area shuffle toward the sound.
We Did It!
·1 min
We made it.
Shrek the Musical opened this weekend—and somehow, despite all the chaos, all the costume changes, all the quick cues and frantic prop swaps—it came together.
Markdown Learning Cheatsheet
Just in case you always wanted a Markdown Guide # A quick reference for learning Markdown, the lightweight markup language used for formatting text on the web (e.g., GitHub, Reddit, and many docs).
Lucky Me.
·1 min
Lucky me.
It only cost $25 this time. And three hours of my life I won’t get back.
Every spring, the house reminds me who’s boss.
Dog Walk In The Rain
Rainy all day, but they need their exercise.
The park, emptied of everyone
except me and the dogs—
tails up, noses down,
BB Gets Attacked. A Bad Day At The Park.
·2 mins
It happened too fast.
My little dog Beatrice—BB—was ahead of me, doing what she always does in the park: sniffing, patrolling, trotting just slightly too far, like she’s got her own errands to run. I was trailing behind, letting her be her scrappy, independent self.
Nana and the Elephant. A Story and an Instant Podcast.
I decided to test out some of Google’s newer AI tools—specifically, NotebookLM. I was curious about their podcast generation feature, and figured: why not throw something personal into the machine and see what comes out?
Playing Ukes With The Ladies For Valentines Day
I love getting together to play ukuleles with this group of fun people. For Valentines Day we met as we usually do at our local toy store and sang torch songs together. Bella loves going there too, especially since the place doubles as an ice cream shop (she’s fond of vanilla). Look for her. She’s partially obscured. I’m in the santa hat. (For Valentines Day ???)