Letters with @jsonbecker, week four

I’m late cross-posting this fourth in a continuing series of letters with Jason Becker. Week one. Week two. Week three. Dear Jason, It’s interesting how we can both have the same goal, i.e., the preservation of the natural world, and such different paths to get there. (A point, as you say, that we’d do well to remember with human relationships also!) It would seem that in our visions of the future, you would have a healthy planet with pockets of humanity minimizing their impact of the world around them while I would have humanity more diffused but integrated with their ecosystems.

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Progress picture on the bookshelf. I’m waiting to cut the joint for the bottom shelf until I get the trim (the width of which will determine where the bottom shelf sits). I’m the slowest woodworker ever!


I’m just not built for the hour-long TV dramas; I’m more of a “rewatch favorite sitcoms over and over” sort of guy. Over the years I’ve only ever really finished and enjoyed Mad Men and Deadwood. And only one do I absolutely love: Penny Dreadful. I even bought the DVD set.


Never has anyone complained about the neighbors so beautifully. (This is Jeffers, if you couldn’t guess.)


Snow trillium. First flower I’ve seen in the woods this year.


JeffersCast Episode Two: “Hurt Hawks”

This episode includes a reading of “Hurt Hawks,” followed by a few comments.

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Proof of concept for some shoe boxes I’m making for Rachel.


Letters with @jsonbecker, week three

This is week three of a continuing series of letters with Jason Becker. Week one is here and week two is here. Dear Jason, Your description of Tulum was very interesting. It’s the first I’ve heard of it. And, yes, I can see what you mean by it being a contradiction. I like the idea of lifting people out of poverty; at the same time, it sounds like the usual corporate greenwashing.

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Got my tickets for the Old Gods of Appalachia live show in Indianapolis!


Woodworking notes 2/14/2023

Finally completed the stool (using this Steve Ramsey video). The build was delayed first by illness and then because I decided to redo the legs. I picked up a shop vac this week but my problem now is finding an adaptor to connect it to the dust collection port on my table saw. It’s proving more difficult than I would have imagined. Next up: a small bookcase.

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