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@lwdupont Amazingly, they were all hot. No idea how they work their magic. Highly recommended if you find yourself in Boise.

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Stopped in at Barbarian Brewing’s downtown taproom for a few tastes.

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That dark beer is a glorious syrupy 12%-ABV mess called “Waffle Cone Stout”. But the Little Wolf IPA was the clear best of this flight.

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Nice view, too.

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Boise Fry Company has a gimmick, and they live up to it. Four different kinds of potatoes, prepared four different ways, with a dozen sauces and ten or so salts available.

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Best combo: cinnamon-ginger salt on sweet potatoes.

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Best sauce: spicy Idaho fry sauce. Adobo chile flavor, amazing.

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Visited Payette Brewing, since we’ve planned some more-central breweries for tomorrow. Awesome outdoor space with plenty of dogs.

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Kept driving up 21 to Idaho City, which was apparently the center of the Idaho gold rush in the 1860s but today has a population of less than 500. No breweries, sadly, but we found a nice diner for lunch.

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Took a nice drive up to Lucky Peak Lake today and ended up in Boise National Forest.

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At a Raisin’ Canes somewhere between SLC and Boise.

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Sadly our dog is hanging out with friends this week instead of us.

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We woof him anyway.

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Heading out to Craft+Commerce today for my second year.

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Super-excited to bring my wife and sister (@QuilledSister) along this year. Lots of new people to meet, learning to do, and Boise to explore.

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Just submitted my Craft Brews + Commerce meetup for Craft+Commerce next week.

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I might be the only attendee, but I’m very proud of the name, and I spent way too long on the website.

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If you’ll be in Boise a day early—come join me!

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Two other ways of thinking about finishing Esther:

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I have a long way to go, but it’s good to remember how many books are already available to help people read Scripture with clarity and confidence.

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This morning, I wrapped up my Chapter By Chapter notes on the book of Esther, which finishes off the history books and gets me to 44 books, which is 2/3 of the full 66.

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Next up: Revelation, which (if it doesn’t kill me) will complete the New Testament.

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And one more: Nehemiah is now complete in my Chapter By Chapter series.

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It continues to weird me out that Ezra just pops in to Nehemiah’s book, just as Haggai and Zechariah to do Ezra.

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Esther is next. I’ve written a lot about Esther already, but now it’s time for the CBC treatment.

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Finished another one today: Ezra is now complete in my Chapter By Chapter series.

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Something new I noticed when reading Ezra so carefully is that it’s as much about rebuilding the exiles into the people of God as it is about rebuilding a city and a temple.

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On to Nehemiah.

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What that Aprille with His Slithy Toves: jerrytowler.com

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Fiction: Vision: jerrytowler.com

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Adding an \"Open Terminal Here\" Button to Finder: jerrytowler.com

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Fiction: The Lay of the First Pouring: jerrytowler.com

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Exercising An LLM Wiki: jerrytowler.com

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Back in San Antonio again.

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Apparently my hotel room came with a balcony.

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If only it were cool enough to sit outside.

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Brimstone (Callie Hart): jerrytowler.com

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@QuilledSister Take revenge on the sun! It will… keep you young, somehow?

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Finished reading: Cursed by Benedict Jacka 📚

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Jacka continues to write fun urban fantasy with a little noir detective thrown in.

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My unfamiliarity with London geography continues to make some of this series hard to follow, and the characters don’t see quite as rich as I wish they were. But they’re fun...

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Day One AI-Guided Journaling: Good, Not Great: jerrytowler.com

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Afternoon hike at Ghost Falls trail down in Draper.

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Three round trips in twelve days (San Antonio, Huntsville, DC) means I need to take every opportunity I have to get outside while I’m here.

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Hop Skud and a burrito bowl at Free Roam in Boerne.

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I don’t miss much about Texas, but Torchy’s is very high on the list.

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Specifically, the brushfire tacos that were tonight’s dinner and which I can still taste.

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Also high on that list: HEB. Other grocery stores should send ambassadors to HEB like Meiji Japan sent ambassadors to the world.

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Finished reading: The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden 📚

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I finished this years ago, but apparently didn’t blog about it.

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This third book takes the calm dark winter fairy tale of the first two books and turns it into an action movie that somehow has the same creepy Russian fairy tale vibe.

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An excellent...

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@writingslowly Too many words for a comment: jerrytowler.com/2026/04/1…

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@QuilledSister It was a giant mess, but it was delicious.

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@mroutley Nice! I agree, it’s eye-opening.

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@Mtt I installed it when Brett Terpstra linked it recently. It’s surprisingly good, but I definitely have to turn it off in some contexts.

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It’s lots of fun so far, and sometimes even useful!

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@rscottjones s/a month/eight months/ …

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@rscottjones Whoa! I started about a month after you and am just above 2,500. So many beers yet to be tried!

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@amerpie I’d love to hear your thoughts on why Octarine might be worth $80 when Obsidian is free. “Native vs Electron” is almost enough for me alone, but what else have you observed?

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@rscottjones Done! No pressure, just offering some feedback if it’s useful.

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@QuilledSister We must «cultivate» the serenity to ¡accept! the punctuation we |cannot change|, the ]courage[ to change the \\marks/ we can{ and the ((wis’dom)) to know the difference‽

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@QuilledSister

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> Never lend books
\n> —Captain Adama

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@manton I agree with all of that. Part of my professional work is with autonomous vehicles, and we are slowly, and unevenly, but surely, getting regulations caught up to their existence.

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Thanks for the reminder not to be too pessimistic about the future.

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@jaek In this context, it’s almost jarring to see “You are not your own” not followed by 1 Corinthians 6:20, “…you were bought with a price.”

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@lex I am quite subject to streaks mechanics, and I love that Lex.games lets me binge them occasionally instead of grind them daily. Thanks for the empathy!

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@QuilledSister

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Fun trick: Settings -> Accessibility -> Zoom

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  1. Zoom filter: low light
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  2. Maximum zoom level: drag all the way left
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Then Settings -> Accessibility -> Accessibility Shortcut -> Zoom

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Now you can triple-click the power button (top left) to extra-darken your screen.

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@QuilledSister Throw enough stones and you could say,

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> I can see clearly now the moraine is gone…

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@manton The 600-character counter on micro.blog is helpful for me. 300 makes me edit, which is sometimes useful (like in this comment), but 600 is long enough to drive me to saying something useful.

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I think it’s still “micro” so long as it’s never 750 words…

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@Mtt That’s amazing work to put out a year’s schedule. Very cool.

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@Mtt How are you doing Scripture of the Day? Is it manually curated? Cyclical list? Something else?

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@QuilledSister I like this idea! I could do with some more Pepper quotes. And Ms. O’Harliot. They’re easily my favorites.

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@manton My Day One journals are not remotely close to print-ready. Do you work on the posts/entries as you write, or have you done a retrospective curation/edit?

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@danielma Do it! It’s super quick.

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@Mtt Yep, that’s me! I kept getting confused why the wording was switching back and forth on me.

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Trying to be helpful, not negative. I’m impressed at anybody who can ship a full app!

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@Mtt Yes, although it occurs to me it might be valuable in the Favorites list too.

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Haven’t played with Favorites much yet, although I can already imagine myself abusing it just like I do highlighting in YouVersion.

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