Nose to the grindstone 2025

[Drunk Monk]

DM and TG - if your kids don't want your mom's silver, take it to San Jose Coin Shop on Meridian at Willow, next to the donut shop. Then you can buy weapons or musical instruments.

Good to know. Prolly won't remember it tho. My mom has a lot of silver. There's a huge cabinet of china too. 

I remember when I dabbled in lost wax casting and had to get some silver. The teacher directed me to a coin store and the proprietor there cut up some silver spoons with tin snips, weighing out what I needed. I was kinda shocked at the time. Silver is a pretty fun metal to work with though, and a simple blowtorch-driven lost wax centrifuge is a pretty simple set up. I thought about pursuing that craft more but never did. 

Walked to yoga today. The new school is delightful and we had a guest do one of those bowl bell sound baths. She leads yogic meditations with them and will be doing monthly sessions, but it's not my thing. Been working today mostly. 

Took down the xmas lights. Cleaned my yixing tea set for Thursday's Iai session - our annual 1000 cuts ritual, then a potluck afterwards. I'm bringing tea. Prolly mochi too, but one of the other students is actually making some. Got some writing done. About to head out to the dog park. Tonight I'll likely complete the Kenji sword trilogy and maybe watch more Squid Games.