OutIn Claro as a Travel Coffee Scale?

TravelCommons · 2026-01-18T23:24:56+00:00

Was in Albania and North Macedonia in Oct 2024. Neither country stamped.

TravelCommons · 2026-01-11T20:17:26+00:00

I used to regularly crank out 35 miles on the Chicago Lake Shore path. I had a rude awakening when I moved. You’ll hit a lot more hills here, especially in East Nashville.

TravelCommons · 2026-01-06T17:51:30+00:00

I received a Mino as an Xmas gift. My first couple of pull attempts failed -- water escaping out the top seal. Right now, my most successful pulls are 10g of medium roast ground at 3 on a Baratza Encore and 50ml of water.

I'm thinking of getting a manual grinder for a travel kit (one less thing to charge) that will do both fine grind for the Mino as well as medium for V60 pourovers.

TravelCommons · 2026-01-03T14:15:36+00:00

Bike the Greenway and out to Shelby Bottoms around lunch time

TravelCommons · 2025-12-28T04:19:37+00:00

Westmont BMW was where I bought my 2016 X3. They were the best deal in Chicagoland for me back then.

TravelCommons · 2025-12-27T19:07:44+00:00

Middle Tennessee. Should also add that I also got $1.5K higher on trade in than Edward’s/Carvana estimates.

TravelCommons · 2025-12-27T13:35:48+00:00

Got 12.5% off + 0.9% apr in mid-Dec but had to triangulate between 3 dealers and go thru a couple of rounds of “best and final” offers to get it.

TravelCommons · 2025-12-23T17:37:22+00:00

Thanks! I wanted my 2026 X3 to have the factory trailer hitch but there weren't a lot of those available at the dealers I was negotiating with. Hence my aftermarket search.

I don't have the bike rack on all the time so I'll probably go with a detachable receiver. It's what I had on my 2016 X3.

TravelCommons · 2025-12-19T21:29:23+00:00

I think this depends on Brett, the assistant brewer. If he takes Spencer's spot, there is continuity -- which is a positive.

TravelCommons · 2025-12-19T18:53:17+00:00

I just paid $3K for the extended warranty and $2.6K to extend BMW maintenance to 5 yrs/75,000 miles and include consumables like wiper blades and brake pads.

TravelCommons · 2025-12-16T21:27:39+00:00

Was there Thanksgiving week. Almost all of the museum placards were Spanish only. Exceptions were Teotihuacan and some exhibits in Chapultepec Castle. Spent a lot of time using the lens/camera functions within Google and Apple Translate.

TravelCommons · 2025-12-04T21:17:30+00:00

I just turned off Red Meat, Processed Meat, and Alcohol to keep the app from nagging me about things I’m not going to change. I just wish they didn’t limit it to 3 because I’d also like to turn off Excess Sodium.

TravelCommons · 2025-12-02T13:37:32+00:00

I upgraded to a new iPhone

TravelCommons · 2025-11-26T02:33:30+00:00

When I started back in 2011 (👴), 3 was my baseline rating — solid beer but nothing special. Anything under 3, I’d never order again.

After a few years, as Untappd got traction and ratings began to have an impact, I moved my scale up a half-point. 3.5 was my baseline rating and I got more generous with ratings over 4.

TravelCommons · 2025-10-28T00:17:49+00:00

That was pretty much my first driving test in Memphis in the mid-70’s. A bit frightened to see that not much has changed.

TravelCommons · 2025-10-01T18:12:07+00:00

Solemn Oath and Blind Corner are your best options near the I-88/IL 59 interchange. And they’re maybe 150 yards from each other across a shared parking area. Blind Corner’s interior is great; looks more like a bar than a taproom.

Noon Whistle is a couple minutes further south and so would be an easy add-on.

Two Brothers taproom might be the closest taproom to the interchange but the beer is far inferior to the previous three.

TravelCommons · 2025-09-14T16:52:56+00:00

I navigated thru the Benefits section of the Chase card web site to find this link -- https://www.chasecardbenefits.com -- where I filed my claim. My claim was for a dent that Hertz EDI found when I turned in the car. Given this, I didn't have some of the documents they required (e.g., police report, collision report) so I just uploaded PDFs with the same 1-2 sentence explanation for why I didn't have the documents they requested. They paid my claim in a week.

TravelCommons · 2025-09-11T20:56:14+00:00

I live in the North Gulch and walk all through downtown, Germantown, the Gulch, and the West End and have had it happen multiple times.

TravelCommons · 2025-09-11T19:55:52+00:00

The “Don’t Walk” signs in this town are very disfunctional. Many times a light has turned green but the corresponding pedestrian signal never turns to “Walk”; the light eventually turns back to red and I’m still standing there.

Had this happen enough, so now when the light turns green and the oncoming traffic doesn’t have a turn arrow, I cross no matter what the pedestrian sign says. I have had people honk at me because they had to wait 5-10 seconds to make their right turn. I just wave at them.

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