Drove from LA to Malibu yesterday for the first time since December to see some accounts I have out there. It's really disorienting that all these landmarks one used to see on the way are gone as most of the homes on the beach side of the highway burned. All that remains are cement foundations and some metal girders along with some luxury cars burnt to a crisp. More than one time I felt like I didn't know where I was, like the feeling of where exactly I was on Earth escaped me for a few seconds.

My wife's coffee mug that she got in Mexico City broke when it slipped out of my hands last night; just the handle, into three pieces. Today I fixed it with Gorilla glue. There's something I find especially satisfying putting back together a broken mug handle.

enframed wrote: Sun Jul 06, 2025 1:35 pm My wife's coffee mug that she got in Mexico City broke when it slipped out of my hands last night; just the handle, into three pieces. Today I fixed it with Gorilla glue. There's something I find especially satisfying putting back together a broken mug handle.

There’s something special about drinking coffee from a mug worth repairing. I had a cup that said Mississippi on it with a magnolia blossom, and I was sorely disappointed when it broke beyond repair. It has since been replaced with a mug I bought at Cafe Du Monde last time I was in New Orleans. It’s strange how I get a little surge of joy when I see it clean and ready to be filled in the morning.

One of my weird little obsessions is perfect coffee mugs. Gotta be ceramic, gotta be white, gotta be the right size (10 oz), bonus if it's a gimme cup with an auto parts company logo on it or the name of a hardware store.

I'll drink coffee out of a fish bowl if there's nothing else, but I definitely have a preference for the above.

dontfeartheringo wrote: Sun Jul 06, 2025 7:26 pm One of my weird little obsessions is perfect coffee mugs. Gotta be ceramic, gotta be white, gotta be the right size (10 oz), bonus if it's a gimme cup with an auto parts company logo on it or the name of a hardware store.

I'll drink coffee out of a fish bowl if there's nothing else, but I definitely have a preference for the above.

I drink exclusively from a 10 oz ceramic John Deere cup when I’m at the farm.

Dave N. wrote: Sun Jul 06, 2025 7:35 pm

dontfeartheringo wrote: Sun Jul 06, 2025 7:26 pm One of my weird little obsessions is perfect coffee mugs. Gotta be ceramic, gotta be white, gotta be the right size (10 oz), bonus if it's a gimme cup with an auto parts company logo on it or the name of a hardware store.

I'll drink coffee out of a fish bowl if there's nothing else, but I definitely have a preference for the above.

I drink exclusively from a 10 oz ceramic John Deere cup when I’m at the farm.

10/10, no notes.

dontfeartheringo wrote: Sun Jul 06, 2025 7:26 pm One of my weird little obsessions is perfect coffee mugs. Gotta be ceramic, gotta be white, gotta be the right size (10 oz), bonus if it's a gimme cup with an auto parts company logo on it or the name of a hardware store.

I'll drink coffee out of a fish bowl if there's nothing else, but I definitely have a preference for the above.

I have this random mug from some random IT-firm. It's white, it has some vague orange logo and it's big enough and it brings me joy when I drink coffee out of it.
I also have a white "World's greatest dad" -mug with my face on it, but I don't always feel like a great dad, so I can't use it all the time.

dontfeartheringo wrote: Sun Jul 06, 2025 7:26 pm One of my weird little obsessions is perfect coffee mugs. Gotta be ceramic, gotta be white, gotta be the right size (10 oz), bonus if it's a gimme cup with an auto parts company logo on it or the name of a hardware store.

I'll drink coffee out of a fish bowl if there's nothing else, but I definitely have a preference for the above.

After I started my current job a few years ago I noticed a glass mug that had "Elmwood Staffing" etched into it. I used it and fell in love with it. Hard to explain, don't know if it's being able to see that gorgeous blackness or glass keeping the coffee hot for a bit longer or both, but it accounted for a good 27% of the joy in my life. It kinda became known as "Tree's mug" and other people wouldn't use it. I moved to another part of our site and left it with the general kitchenware population and one day noticed one of our directors using it. No biggie, I thought, I do not own this mug, but I came in the next morning to find it at her desk with her tea still in it; aw HELL no. I began hiding it after that.

A few months ago it broke in 100% the way I predicted it would. I had just got to work and had my keys on one finger, sunglasses on another, coffee mug on another. I released what I thought was my keychain finger and the mug fell to the hard floor. So it goes. I searched for the same type of mug, but they're pretty much exclusively used for promotion/company logo purposes so I'd have to order 20 for $150 or whatever. I'd be lying if I said I haven't considered it.

hyljetronic wrote: Mon Jul 07, 2025 3:09 am

dontfeartheringo wrote: Sun Jul 06, 2025 7:26 pm One of my weird little obsessions is perfect coffee mugs. Gotta be ceramic, gotta be white, gotta be the right size (10 oz), bonus if it's a gimme cup with an auto parts company logo on it or the name of a hardware store.

I'll drink coffee out of a fish bowl if there's nothing else, but I definitely have a preference for the above.

I have this random mug from some random IT-firm. It's white, it has some vague orange logo and it's big enough and it brings me joy when I drink coffee out of it.
I also have a white "World's greatest dad" -mug with my face on it, but I don't always feel like a great dad, so I can't use it all the time.

Anyone who tells you they're always a Great Dad is a psychopath and will have a kid who grows up to be in Royal Trux or Unsane.

Someone recently told me that it's not up to you to determine if you are a great parent. Your kids make that call.

I played drums for the first time in 6 years yesterday, and it felt really, really good.

(Disclaimer: I've set my drums up a few times in the last few years and given them a half-hearted tap, but there was no fire there. Yesterday I strapped on some headphones and played to some favorite music for like an hour, actually trying to give it hell for a bit. It felt restorative.)