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I looked back in my photo library to post today’s OTD photo from our 100-day adventure last year, only to discover that I took exactly zero photos. I was quite sick and didn’t leave the hotel room. We’ll see if that holds for tomorrow’s post, too. It was a rough few days.

Just renewed my membership at SunDevilSource. I’ve been a paid member for 232 months now (and I was a member of competing ASU forum communities prior to that)!

Whenever I hear about “sports twitter” I always shake my head—the best communities are, and have always been, the single-topic ones. The ones that create their own culture, their own inside jokes, their own shared history, their own unique personalities, their own traditions, their own unwritten rules.

We simply don’t need everything crammed into one feed.

Quite happy with this vehicle-specific magsafe phone mount by Course Motorsports. We’ve always struggled to find a second phone mount for Jen’s car that actually works okay (there’s really only one spot that works well), but this thing fits perfectly. Install was mind-numbingly easy, too.

I recently bought a vacuum sealer for sous vide and freezing meat, and damn I can’t believe I waited so long to buy one. Also added a dedicated sous vide container and set up an always-ready spot for it.

Taipei - OTD during our 100-day adventure.

Today concludes ten seasons of ASU football games with Jen - Go Devils!

Old meets new - OTD during last year’s 100 day adventure.

This is the first year we took the Coffeeneuring Challenge seriously enough to actually complete it.

For the unacquainted, coffeeneuring involves:

• between October 11 through November 24, 2025,
• ride your bike 7 times,
• to at least 6 different places (you can repeat 1!)
• at least 2 miles round trip every time,
• max 2 rides per week,
• drink 7 total cups of coffee (or another approved fall-type beverage), and
• document your coffeeneuring

Here are the full rules for this year’s challenge, as well as my own summary page (Jen has one too).

• Ride 1: Wren Südhalle
• Ride 2: Wren Südhalle, Part Deux
• Ride 3: Kolache Cafe
• Ride 4: Buzzed Goat
• Ride 5: Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf
• Ride 6: Cotta Nosta
• Ride 7: Hillside Spot Cafe
• Bonus Ride 8: WhereUBean Coffee

Our prior two attempts were interrupted by travel, illness, and/or intensive prep for our 100-day adventure. We could have completed both of them, had we understood the rules to mean that we needed at least one ride per week, as opposed to simply a total of seven rides. So when we missed a particular week, we had assumed we had failed and simply gave up. Whoops.

Not this year, though. While my exercise and heart rate restrictions limited the length of our rides, it also kept us from traveling—and that meant that we were home on the weekends to do some coffeeneuring. Not only did we not miss a week, but we even snuck in a bonus ride too. Not bad for a non-coffee guy like myself—though yes, I did sub in some fall brew beverages. In fact, I could have only done fall brew destinations, but Jen really wanted to do all coffee ones, so we ended up in the middle.

While only one of our rides was longer than 5 miles, the rest were much shorter affairs: usually around the 3 mile mark. That was due in part to the aforementioned restrictions, but also simply because our targets just happened to be pretty close by. But our goal was never about getting in mileage as much as it’s simply getting out on the bikes. I suspect that next year’s rides will look quite a bit different.

The big change this year was also using our new Lectric folding ebikes. We’re still dialing in a lot on the bikes, especially the accessories (gah, finding a suitable back rack and/or pannier setup has required countless orders/returns). But they were a please to ride, and accounted I think for some of our excitement in coffeeneuring this year.

Overall, we had fun doing the challenge and I anticipate that we’ll continue to give it a shot every year for the foreseeable future.

Snowy Seoul, OTD during last year’s 100 Day Adventure.

Grabbed some new ASU gear before Friday’s Territorial Cup game. Go Devils!

We’re plotting out next week’s road trip around Georgia, Alabama, & Florida…and I realized we’ll likely pass close to Britton Hill—the “high point” of Florida.

Here’s a short video of my visit, part of my “High Points of Otherwise Flat States” quest [www.youtube.com/watch

South Korea - OTD during last year’s 100 Day Adventure.

It’s been a decade since I’ve had a desktop document scanner, and it’s time to remedy that. I’m looking at the ScanSnap iX2500. Anyone have one, or have a different one they like? I need duplex, single-pass scanning with an auto feeder, preferably one-click, via wifi or directly to a NAS.

Well, usually ChatGPT is, at best, a mixed bag. Far too often it’s simply full of shit.

But I have to admit that this chat REALLY helped me—by far the easiest diagnosis + fix I’ve ever had. For someone who is terrible at home repairs, it can be a very helpful tool, for sure. 🤷‍♂️

It was rainy yesterday, so we rode our old REI ebikes over to our local brewery for some pregame “tailgating” before watching last night’s ASU road game against Colorado. While those bikes were a bit more utilitarian than our new ones, whoa boy do I prefer the ride on the new Lectrics.

Thanks to micro.blog, I’ve been much more active posting on my own website. In fact, I just passed the 1000 post mark here on rsjon.es.

• On rscottjones.com: 248 posts since Jan 2007 (my current WP install)

• On rsjon.es: 1003 posts since I joined in Oct 2024.

That’s a staggering 6500% increase!

Do Future You a favor and spend 3 minutes to log some info when you buy a new kitchen appliance or electronics—snag the pdf of the manual, add your warranty expiration date, a copy of your receipt, and any other useful info (like where you’re storing any unused accessories or whatnot).

I just switched to annual billing on micro.blog—hadn’t realized that was an option until today. Also noticed gift memberships for micro.one; I’ve got some folks in mind.

I have a couple of friends who are beginning full-time nomadic life next month. One of their first destinations is southern New Mexico, so I spent some time writing up a long list of suggested stops. And that led me to sharing this old post on a place called Cabinetlandia. I love this stuff.