All's well here at The Dispatch. The snails are eating healthy this week. Or so they keep saying. We don't feed them and we just sort of guess that they make their own arrangements for meals. It doesn't seem like there's been any change in their mood or behavior, other than them talking about "clean living" a lot. It feels like they might be trying to psych themselves up to something. Or maybe they are just in denial. We'll see if they keep it up.

Game Boy 👾

• New shop downtown selling Warhammer and TTRPGs and Magic; Played a proxied Vintage Cube with a friend and some other folks at the shop one evening after work. It was very fun, playing with fake powerful cards and drafting with real people.
• Smash Up played with extended family (was hard to play with six people who hadn't played before, played again with just three and that was more fun/streamlined); secretly is similar to Magic

Coding Corner 👨🏻‍💻

• Neovim post on Bram Moolenaar's death
  • Everywhere, people were saying that he was a good guy and made a supremely valuable tool for free
  • Is inspiring to think that one person can just pick something and work on it and have such an impact

Albums 🎧

• "songs" by Adrianne Lenker
  • paradise
• "Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit" by Courtney Barnett
  • elevator
• "A Beginner's Mind" by Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine
  • call
• "Two Saviors" by Buck Meek
  • telephone
• "i,i" by Bon Iver
  • ma
• "Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You" by Big Thief
  • blue
• "The Creek Drank the Cradle" by Iron & Wine
  • mountain
• "Trick" by Alex G
  • Listened to this twice this week (the start of a rabbit hole)
  • lungs
• "God Save the Animals" by Alex G
  • Listened to this twice this week
  • help
• "Race" by Alex G
  • I don't know, something about animals probably
• "The Natural Bridge" by Silver Jews
  • Feels like local history I haven't known
• "American Water" by Silver Jews
  • "Repair is the dream of the broken thing"
  • "All my favorite singers couldn't sing"
• "Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You" by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
  • trees

Podcasts 🎙️

• Cube&Chaos podcast about Vintage Cube with Matt Grenier