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Check out Hazy Mountain Supply from hops guru @brucegodin !

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@brucegodin WHAT A RAD IDEA! Love it, man!

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@patrickrhone here’s hoping 🤞

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@patrickrhone it is. Is your neighbour still working? I haven’t followed the MLB situation as closely.

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@patrickrhone that being said, we’re still technically Canucks employees, so there’s always uncertainty with the NHL and Live events off the books.

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@patrickrhone our provincial gov just said yesterday that Sports & Concert venues likely won’t open until there’s a vaccine or herd immunity. Thankfully, our owners have many businesses where we also handle IT, so there is still work to be done while other sectors open.

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As someone who works in a professional sports stadium, this hits close to home.

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Opening Up to Not Normal

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@patrickrhone such a great, simple idea! Love it.

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@brucegodin yuuuuuuuuup

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It seems like everyone around here is gearing up to go back to normal, and I am definitely not ready for that.

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@nickwynja I’m pretty sure this was the first book I bought on my kindle.

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📧 05: The kids hate rock, I hate ads, Permission granted

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Realized I keep adding all these “Trump is terrible during this crisis” articles to my read later queue, only to delete them later, unread.

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Guess I just don’t need any more confirmation.

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🍺 Drinking a Laser Illusions milkshake IPA from Boombox Brewing. Tasty, but ABV a little high.

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“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”

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— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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🍺 Drinking Arcade Glow hazy pale from Boombox Brewing. Delicious. Thanks to hops guru @brucegodin for the recommendation!

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⚔️🎲 Game night! Going to attempt Force & Destiny over Discord.

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🥾 Just walked the Bedwell Bay trail @ Belcarra Regional Park.

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@danj or something 😂

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@pratik Catastrophe is 😘👌

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“It’s all layers. Always rewriting over and through previous sentences and words. Just building it up, coat by coat, until it holds some weight.” — Warren Ellis

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“Multitasking is the delivery method for average work. Avoid.”

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Make time to do your best work

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Whoa whoa whoa… what?

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“Alcohol doesn’t make you more interesting.”

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23 Laws Of Interesting

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Putting together issue 04 of the newsletter for tomorrow. You can subscribe here or check out the last issue here. 📧

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@danj ys pls. I'll read for sure.

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@tones thanks for reading! 😉

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A snail named Alberta 🐌

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Turkey is in! 🦃🔥🍗

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Working on issue 03 of the newsletter for tomorrow. You can subscribe here or check out past issues 01 and 02. 📧

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@nickwynja was just thinking about you yesterday. Glad to know that you’re safe, man.

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@brucegodin juicy AF was my gut choice, but I’ll get the Arcade Glow too, because I love hazy pales. Thanks!!

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@brucegodin they’re delivering to me tomorrow! What should I order?

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@patrickrhone they did. I feel I’m often in the same boat. Thanks for writing.

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Whoa. These words from @patrickrhone got me.

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@mandaris ... “Coronials”

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My haircut is not lockdown-friendly.

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@tones I appreciate you

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Just about to send out issue 02 of the newsletter. Subscribe here. 📧

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@danj listening right now. Thanks!

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Onward. So great. 🍿

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“Many of my friends are anxiously wondering when our lives will be able to go back to normal. I find myself more anxious that things won't continue to be different.”

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— cassiem

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Just sent issue #01 of a new newsletter. You can subscribe if you're into that sort of thing.

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@jeffmueller oh baby

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I just discovered Monochrome Dark in Drafts and I’m, like, way too excited about it. 🤓

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Windows updates 🤪🔫

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@brucegodin it’s always noon in quarantine 🍺

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@Burk blackberry or cherry. Peach tastes like someone dropped a fuzzy peach in a glass of club soda and somehow made it worse than that sounds.

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@jeffmueller sure it time travels, but it needs 1.21 gigawatts of power and 88mph? This never would have happened under Jobs. One star.

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@Burk #1 Peach!? <<FLIPS TABLE>>

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@brucegodin you too! Thankful for local brewery delivery 🍻

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