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Went on a lovely 30 mile bike ride with Andy P-C this morning. I showed him my favorite roads for tricking myself into doing high quality intervals, and we did a bunch of those. It was a ton of fun and I think we'll do it again soon.

It was Ingress mission day, which used to mean getting game credit for traveling a few hundred miles to go for a few specially chosen pleasant walks. In pandemic times the traveling part is gone and you have more choice of walks to do, so I got another hour or two of outside time.

Last night I put up some Chicken Tikka to marinate, and this evening I cooked it up into some absolutely perfect Chicken Tikka Masala. I adjust all of my recipes on an ongoing basis but I think this one is done.

offset bottle brush

I use a speed pour to make drinks sometimes, and keep bottles of lime juice and mint simple in my fridge. In order to fit a speed pour to a bottle it has to have a 3/4" neck, which is smaller than most bottle brushes. I have some bitty brushes that fit inside, but they only clean a few square millimeters at a time. My dishwasher isn't much help -- not a lot of water gets in there. It's a big pain.

Fortunately there's just the right tool out there: an offset small neck bottle brush that not only neatly fits into my bottles but also easily cleans the inside shoulders. The only downside was figuring out what else I was going to order to go into the box with it.