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- the lease, leaving early. then Gail - Finchley application, my half, to Dez - call Obaachan - tabs for the car, they run out in about 3 weeks - Miso's vet appointment is next week. pill 2 hrs before - passport. the form's been printed since august

the light's going. it's dark by seven now and the radiators will be on any day; I caught myself listening for the hiss. two years of these now, the octobers. I plan them like a trip, like Renee said. lamp at seven thirty. people on the calendar before I don't…

miso: salmon dry food (small bag, she's still on the diet), turkey cans, the flea stuff refill white miso for the squash thing

she let me finish and said "you've lived alone for two years and it was the right thing. you needed to find out you could. you found out. you don't have to keep proving it." I said what if living with Dez wrecks it. she said "you lived with him for two years…

done + approved as colour samples: 12-13, 20-21 done, not sent: 4-5, 6-7, 8-9, 14-15 inked, no colour: 10-11, 16-17, 18-19, 22-23 pencils only: 24-25, 26-27, 28-29, 30-31 not started: p1, p3, p32, jacket, case, endpapers order: send the four finished ones thi…

001 1/8 Pilcrow & Pine catalog spots 600 paid 1/22 002 1/14 Loomfish 12 icons 1,800 paid 3/26 (due 2/13, 41 days late) 003 2/12 Burr Oak spring issue, 3 spots 900 paid 3/9 004 2/27 Kettlebird spring bird (phoebe) 450 paid 3/3 005 3/30 Pilcrow & Pine heron boo…

- how much notice - what leaving early costs - does the deposit count toward it - if she re-rents for dec 1 does she still charge don't apply till I know

legal name: Theodore Kenji Nakagawa-Reed current landlord: Gail Hedlund, Fourgable Properties, 612-555-0106. here since 6/1/24 EMPLOYER: Crooked Fender Cycles, 2411 E Hollis St, Mpls 55406. bike mechanic, part-time. started 9/14/2021. supervisor Ines Aguilar…

the sunroom. I walked into it and knew. windows on two sides, a floor that slopes a little to the south, room for the flat file and the drafting table and still a place to stand back and look at a thing. I've worked in the corner of a living room for six year…

GOOD - the sunroom. 9 x 14, windows on two sides, radiator vent in the floor so it's warm. north light it is not, it's south/west, I'd need a shade for afternoon. flat file fits on the long wall (measured: 112") - bedrooms are equal-ish. Dez says I get the ba…

--- 2751 Finchley Avenue S, Upper — Minneapolis, MN 55406 $1,900 / month · 2 bed · 1 bath · 1,050 sq ft · Available December 1 Bright upper unit of a well-kept 1916 duplex in Longfellow, four blocks from the river road. Two real bedrooms plus a heated three-s…

Q1 due 4/15: paid 4/12 Q2 due 6/15: paid 6/12 Q3 due 9/15: paid 9/14 Q4 due 1/15/27: not yet + the 1,412 for 2025 went out 4/10 w/ the return. state refund 88 came 5/2. if the book's third payment lands in november, tell Deb, she may want Q4 bigger

the year-going-by spread scares me. it's four seasons on one page and if any one is wrong the whole thing is a calendar instead of a year. Lu came by after her shift and sat on the floor with Miso and didn't talk while I inked. after an hour she said "you do…

tries: - for Jiichan, who counted - for Tadashi Nakagawa, 41 steps - for my grandfather, who gave me the paper - for Jiichan and Obaachan. he counted. she remembers the number the last one. I think. ask Hana.

Obaachan had the whole family over for his breakfast. Hana put me on the laptop at the end of the table, so I had rice at nine in the morning in Minneapolis with seven people in Sacramento. Mateo was there. he's tall. he eats. I showed them the kanji. I've be…

sent her: 2009 Toyota Corolla, tan, MN plate HVN-761 hang tag #14

invitation: 5x7. the 51 bus where they met, w/ a just-married sign. ink + one colour, persimmon orange due to the printer by 9/1. (sent 8/29) travel: fly MSP -> SMF thurs 11/5, stay at mom + dad's, drive down w/ Hana fri. back to MSP tues 11/10, so I'm still…

- the north bedroom window, still painted shut, year 3 - back porch light is out again - can Annika + I split a bigger organics bin - the front door keypad sticks on the 7 - is she raising rent again next year (asked. window: "Rolf." light: done same day. bin…

I'd done the heron arriving and the ice going out. the arriving one came easily. the ice one I did three times. what fixed it was taking colour out, not putting it in. the sheet breaking is nearly white paper and the noise is in the line. so that's the look,…

--- From: Gregory Halvard <g.halvard.collector@artbuyermail.example> Subject: Commission of 3 Artworks for Wife Anniversary Good day Theo Nakagawa-Reed, My name is Gregory Halvard, I am a marine engineer presently working offshore and I was looking for some a…

中川 正 stroke order. 10 a day

Obaachan, when I said my kanji isn't good enough to write Jiichan's name on the box for Yuasa.

- the persimmon tree has "too many" this year. she counted 212 green ones from the kitchen window. she's doing his count on the calendar now - she got the drawing of the red jacket (I sent her the 14-15 sketch). she put it next to his picture. she asked why t…

I keep thinking about that. that you can live with someone and not know. I'd saved 540 for it since october, ten or twenty at a time in an envelope in the desk, and the bill was 538. I've never in my life had the money for a thing waiting before the thing arr…

10/2022 9.1 (shelter) 10/2023 9.8 10/2024 10.6 10/2025 11.2 <- target 10.5 3/2026 10.8 (hair tie, hadn't eaten) 7/2026 10.9 (dental) dry food down to a scant 1/4 cup

- one tooth out: upper right premolar, resorptive lesion - the rest cleaned + polished - pain med: the liquid, 0.3 ml in the cheek every 12 hrs, 3 days - SOFT FOOD ONLY 5 days. turkey pate + a spoon of warm water. no dry till sunday - no feather wand for a we…

collision deductible 500 -> 1,000. payment 89 -> 76 a month from the august draft rep: Darnell. confirmation NM-CHG-663102. new declarations page coming by email car's worth maybe 3,000. 13/mo = 156 a year he tried to add roadside for 4/mo. no

it expired june 13th. four weeks ago. it's been lying in a drawer being invalid while I planned a trip to Japan. I knew it was this year. I wrote "check the date" in a note two weeks ago and didn't check the date. the photo: I'm eighteen. bad haircut, a colla…

renewal by mail (I qualify: I was over 16 when it was issued and it's less than 15 yrs old): - form DS-82, print single sided, sign - the old passport goes in the envelope (they send it back, separately) - one photo, 2x2, no glasses. the drugstore does it for…

who: Obaachan, mom, dad, Hana, me. Kenta (the cousin) is meeting us in Wakayama dates (mom's draft): leave SFO sat 4/3, home wed 4/14. Osaka 2 nights, Yuasa 5, Kyoto 3 my costs: - flight MSP -> SFO -> KIX: ~1,350 round trip if I book by november - rail + food…

Wanjiru wanted to cut the four-panel waiting spread and Liesl, from her kitchen in Bemidji, said "that's exactly what waiting looks like," and that was that. authors can do that, apparently. they can just say a thing and it stays. Liesl wants her father's rea…

changes (one round, this is it): - 10-11, the four panels: keep. Wanjiru thought too clever, Liesl wants them - 14-15: heron and Morfar should be closer to the same size on the page. cheat the perspective - 16-17: the ice sounds. they're cutting the words to…

store: rice, soy, tofu, butter, lemons, yogurt, seltzer, ice cream miso: turkey cans x12, litter, a new crinkle ball

today I didn't know what to do with my hands. I cleaned the scanner. I rode to the falls. I came home and re-hung the pictures on the wall a quarter inch to the left. first rent at the new number went out on the first. 1,150. it left without ceremony. I'd bui…

Walt, sorting spokes, to nobody.

"I want the tires that don't get flats." "those are called solid, and you'd hate them." man picking up his kid's bike: "what do I owe you?" Oskar: "fifteen." man: "for a flat?" Oskar: "for a tuesday." woman, of her e-bike: "it's like having a tailwind that lo…

"Hello from the bay window. Three things: 1. I'm illustrating a picture book. I can't say the title yet but it has a heron in it, which will surprise no one. It comes out next fall from Pilcrow & Pine Press. 2. Kettlebird's spring coffee has a phoebe on it. S…

thursday I picked them up in the car and dad got in the front and looked at the dash for a while and said "no air conditioning" and I said no, and he rolled the window down by hand and put his elbow out and said "I had a Datsun like this." he was happy the wh…

flights: in thurs 3:50pm, out mon 12:40pm. they're staying at Colleen + Marcel's in St Paul (I have one bed and a cat) - thurs: pick up, dinner at Colleen's - fri: I work 11-3 (swapped w/ Oskar). they want to see the shop. warn Walt - fri eve: my place. okono…

the ice: not white. a cold grey-green, C12 M4 Y8 K6, going to C30 M12 Y18 K20 when it's rotting open water: C70 M40 Y35 K35. almost the Loon blue from kettlebird, a little greener tamaracks in spring (bare): warm brown-violet the heron: three greys + the ochr…

- bathroom - the fiddle leaf (hide? compost?) - oil the door hinge -

flat fix 15 + tube basic tune 85: brakes, shifting, lube, bolt check, wipe down full tune 140: basic + wheels trued, bearings adjusted, drivetrain off and cleaned overhaul 260: everything apart, new cables + housing included, parts extra wheel true 25, w/ spo…

p1 title: the notebook, closed, on a windowsill. pencil on a string p3: Ilse at the window in pajamas, back to us. outside is all white 4-5: wide. the whole lake under ice, tiny house left, tamaracks right. two figures walking down, red jacket the only colour…

1. bikes in from the sidewalk, count them (9 on the rack + 2 demos) 2. till: count, leave 150 float in the blue bag, rest in the deposit envelope w/ the slip, both in the safe 3. card machine: settle batch, staple the tape to the slip 4. compressor OFF, bleed…

forty herons in dead trees over open water, standing on the nests. they don't do anything for a very long time and then one of them does one thing, slowly. Marit says they're the only bird she knows that seems to be thinking it over. the cold one has its neck…

- they stand w/ the neck pulled in when cold, a grey loaf on stilts. stretched up only when alert - the plumes: long ones on the chest and back in breeding season, and the two black ones off the back of the head - legs are darker and thicker than I draw them.…

Liesl held her father's notebook up to the camera and it's exactly what I'd have drawn if I'd made it up. a pocket notebook with a cloth spine, soft from being in a coat. one line a year in pencil. the pencil gets fainter in the nineties. the last line in his…

Liesl Aamodt, the author, when I asked if the heron could be in every spread.

in the room: Odette Marchetti (art director), Wanjiru Kamau (editor), Hollis Trent (production, the one who knows what the printer can do). on video from Bemidji: Liesl Aamodt, the author. she's 71, she had the notebook in her hand. THE BOOK - Grandfather Her…

Walt wants a mural on the alley wall this summer, paid separately. get the number BEFORE the paint

on the first I had 212 dollars and a list. the list said: if one man pays me, I'm fine. on the third the car died, and it wasn't the battery, it was the alternator, and it was 95 for the tow and 486 for the part. I walked to work in slush. Kettlebird paid 450…

went out that I didn't plan: tow 95 + alternator 486.28 + vet 312.45 + Deb 240 = 1,133.73 came in: Kettlebird 450 (3/3), Burr Oak 900 (3/9), Loomfish 1,800 (3/26), extra shifts ~500 after tax card went from 1,340 to 2,138 checking today: 1,064. savings 1,310…

Walt gave me the morning. I got to the shop at one and Ines had written on the repair board, in the customer column, "THEO — picture book — due nov 20 — no rush lol." took Dez for the goat. he had two plates. I told him about the heron and he didn't say anyth…

I was at the shop with my hands in a bottom bracket and my phone buzzed on the bench and I saw the number on the lock screen. Lu saw my face and said "fish guy?" and I nodded and she rang the bell we ring for a bike sale. forty-one days late. I'm not adding t…

marked 2026-002 paid. 450 to the tax bucket

1. originals: says I keep them. good. there are no originals, it's digital + ink scans. do they want the ink sheets? (no, mine) 2. royalty only starts after 4,000 copies. is 4,000 the first printing? (yes) 3. kill fee is there, 50% of the stage we're in. ok 4…

Pilcrow & Pine wants me to illustrate a picture book. a whole one. thirty-two pages. it's called Grandfather Heron Counts the Ice. I made her say the title twice. it's about a girl and her grandfather waiting every spring for the ice to go off a lake, and he…

Pilcrow & Pine is doing a PICTURE BOOK, their second ever, and she wants me to illustrate it. whole thing. 32 pages. - title: Grandfather Heron Counts the Ice. author Liesl Aamodt, retired teacher from up north, first book - it's about a girl and her grandfat…

I didn't want to do anything and they made me. pho, the four of us. Lu, Dez, Priya. they'd agreed beforehand that I wasn't allowed to look at the bill. Priya's present is a print of my own bay window with a tiny Miso in it. Dez's is chili crisp. Lu's is a spo…

mom called this afternoon, out of nowhere, on a thursday. Hana had told her about the cat, which means Hana had told her about the car, which means everyone knows the whole month. mom said "your father and I would like to help" in the voice she uses for paren…

- 1,195 no heat incl - 1,225 basement - 1,100 studio above a bar - 1,275 heat incl, no cats staying. 1,150 is the ceiling for living alone

it's not a lot. it's the correct amount to be the thing that does it. I sat on the stairs with my coat on and the letter in my hand and Gerald started his scales underneath me and I just listened to the whole thing, scales and then the real song, which today…

1,150 from june 1 (from 1,095, up 55). 12 months, to may 31 2027 sign by april 1 or give notice 55 x 12 = 660 a year

Dez came over after with a pie because it's the 14th and he's that person. sour cherry, lard crust. we ate half of it standing up. I told him the month. all of it, the numbers. I don't usually. he listened with his arms crossed like he does at the pass, and t…

BANNED: hair ties, rubber bands, twist ties, string, ribbon, mask elastic, bread clips, thread. sweep under both radiators monthly OK: feather wand (supervised), crinkle ball, the big plastic springs, paper bag w/ the handles cut off, kicker fish

one: the hair tie. this morning, in the litter box, intact. black, elastic, not mine. it's June's. it has been somewhere in this apartment since november, under a radiator, waiting. I put it in a bag and then I put the bag in the outside bin. Miso ate a full…

Subject: Invoice 2026-002, 27 days past due Trevor, Invoice 2026-002 for $1,800 was due on February 13. It's now March 12. I delivered the work on January 13, a day early, plus two extra icons you asked for at the last minute, and you've been using all fourte…

1/6 agreed by email: 12 icons, $1,800, net 30. (his email, my reply "sounds good") 1/13 delivered all 12 + 2 extras he asked for on the 12th 1/14 invoice 2026-002 sent. due 2/13 1/16 their demo. he posted the icons 2/13 due date. nothing 2/17 email 1, friendl…

she started throwing up at midnight. four times by six. by the last one it was just foam, and she went and lay on the bathroom tile, flat, which she never does, and when I put her breakfast down she looked at it and looked at me. I called the vet at 8:01. I g…

called Sevenpaws at 8:01. in at 9:40. gave the gabapentin anyway Dr. Deshmukh: belly a little tender. x-ray (2 views): a small curled thing in the stomach, "consistent w/ a hair tie or a rubber band." not blocking anything. no surgery unless it gets stuck did…

today I asked Walt for more hours. I'd practiced it on the ride in. I said "I had a car thing and a client's late and I could use whatever you've got." he didn't do the face I was afraid of. he said "saturdays through april, sundays once it's warm, and I need…

- every saturday through april, sundays once the tune-up rush starts - wed 3/11 and 3/18, box builds, 6 hrs each about +30 hours this month = 585 before tax

Gerald with the cables again. it ran for two minutes and quit at the corner with the hazards blinking slower and slower like something going to sleep. tow truck. 95 dollars in cash that I had in the drawer for groceries. the driver was called Dub and had a sm…

Gerald jumped it, ran 2 min, died at the corner Polar Star Towing 612-555-0103, $95 flat under 5 miles. paid cash at Lake & Lantern by 10. Hamza: alternator, almost sure 3/4: alternator. 486.28 all in, battery charged + tested, ok for now 3/5: picked up. on t…

I made the list. the shape of it is: one client owes me eighteen hundred dollars and is sixteen days late, and everything this month depends on a man named Trevor opening an email. I've been here before. I was here in 2021 and 2023. the difference is I used t…

checking: 212.40 after rent cleared savings: 1,310, of which 600 is the april tax payment and I am NOT touching it card: 1,340 OWED TO ME - Loomfish 1,800. invoice 2026-002, sent 1/14, due 2/13. SIXTEEN days late. three emails, one "looking into it!" - Kettle…

she wasn't unkind about it. she was worse, she was patient. "you are a business, Theo." so that's april. and Loomfish is nine days past due and hasn't answered the one email I've sent. I rode to the shop and back just to have done something. minus two, the ki…

- 2025: W-2 19.8k + 1099s 23.4k + cash sales ~1.9k. after expenses the freelance side nets around 19k - I owe about 1,400 federal + a little state. final number when she files. (it was 1,412 federal. state refund of 88.) - WHY: I only made two of the four est…

called Obaachan at seven her time. she'd already been to the temple. she said the priest got his age wrong and she corrected him in the middle of the chanting. I used the paper today. one sheet. I've had it for ten years and him gone for one and I took it out…

three months. she's right. I never asked her to the sunday calls. I never showed her the paper in the flat file. she said I'm "a good place to visit." we split the olives. she hugged me in the cold for a long time. I still have two of her cups. she says keep…

rice (have), lentils, onions, cabbage, carrots, eggs, tofu x2, frozen peas, oats, bananas, store brand coffee miso paste: have. miso the cat: 6 cans turkey, she is not on the cheap week

[x] W-2 from the shop (came in the mail 1/27, also in the payroll site) [x] 1099 Pilcrow & Pine (pdf, emailed 1/30) [x] 1099 Kettlebird (pdf) [x] 1099 Burr Oak (paper) [x] 1099 Coldwater Bluffs (paper) [ ] 1099 Wren & Anvil - not here yet, emailed Caleb. (cam…

base: 22 x 22 plywood, 3/4" post: 4x4, 48" tall, wrapped in sisal rope, 3/8", need ~100 ft platform 1 at 20": 14 x 18 platform 2 at top: 16 x 20 w/ a lip carpet scraps from Rolf, he has a roll in the basement has to fit left of the bay: 24" of wall. ok Walt s…

1,800 dollars for a week. I didn't take a deposit. he said they don't do deposits and I heard myself say ok, and I knew while I was saying it. January does that. the shop is fourteen hours and the radiators are loud and somebody says "eighteen hundred" and yo…

12 character icons, a fish doing things. 512px, flat color, transparent bg, by 1/14, they demo on the 16th 1,800 for the set (12 x 150) no deposit, "net 30 through our payables system" said ok

day rate: 450 spot illustration (magazine, small): 300 half page 450, full page 700 book cover: 1,400 to 1,600, more w/ interior pieces label / packaging art: 1,200 per piece + usage icons / app stuff: 150 each, minimum 8 pet portraits: 110 (was 85 through 20…

rent 1,095 electric ~40 (winter, no AC) internet 45 phone 25 student loan 187.34 car insurance 89 gas ~50 groceries 260 miso 55 (food, litter, the vet fund) subscriptions ~50 credit card 100 (balance 1,340) renee 80 = 2,076 a month coming in: shop is ~960 tak…

put the first bowl in front of the persimmons, since that's where he is in this apartment. stood there. felt silly and then didn't. sent Obaachan the photo. she called instead of texting, which costs her a walk to the landline. "the carrots are round." yes. "…

- savings: got to 1,310 of the 1,500. this year 2,500 - 50% up front from every new client - the screw jar book: 12 thumbnails by summer - home twice - renew the passport before it's an emergency (expires this summer I think? check) - 20 kanji, to read the ne…

3/27 Coldwater Bluffs site visit, 38 mi round trip 5/9-5/11 open studios load in/out, St Paul, 3 x 19 = 57 6/2 Pilcrow office, 21 6/14 Coldwater sign opening, 38 9/18 Kettlebird kickoff, 11 10/2 Halftone Hall pickup, 9 10/11 zine fair: Sam drove, 0 11/14 Kett…

the week. I want all of it. Obaachan gets up at five and I've been getting up with her, which nobody asked me to do. she sweeps the patio in the dark, the same strokes, and then she makes tea and sits at the kitchen table and paints. she started in the spring…

this is the Kansai kind her mother made (her family was from Wakayama too): WHITE miso broth, ROUND mochi, not grilled. Jiichan's family did the same. dad's side would have clear broth, she says, "if they had any." for 4: - dashi: a 4 inch piece of kombu in 5…

dad met me at the door without the cane, on purpose, standing very straight. he walked me to the car and back to show me. mom rolled her eyes behind him and then hugged me so hard my glasses went sideways. the house is different. Obaachan's in my old room, so…

FOOD - morning (whenever you get home from your shift is fine, she's used to 7-8am): a SCANT 1/4 cup of the dry salmon food. the scoop is in the bag. she will act like it isn't enough - evening (6-8pm): HALF a can of the turkey pate, in the blue dish. the oth…

gifts (budget 200): - mom: the map print from the Pilcrow book, signed, + coffee (Loon) - dad: the 2000 piece jigsaw of old radios + coffee (Chickadee) - hana: a framed drawing of her cat Udon - obaachan: the 41 steps zine, and I'll read it to her. + new brus…

eight of them in a row, kraft, each with its bird and its one colour. they look like a family, which is what Rashid wanted. the loon faces left and the rest face right and it does look like the loon is being difficult. a woman picked up the Kingfisher, turned…

- 1 double-page map of the lake + 5 small locator maps, one per section - ink, hand lettered place names (she WANTS my lettering here, unlike covers) - north shore towns she needs on it: Duluth, Two Harbors, Silver Bay, Grand Marais + Isle Royale, the Apostle…

mom texted at 12:10 my time: "out. went fine. he's asking for a sandwich." then a photo of him giving a thumbs up with the wrong thumb, the one with the IV in it. called at six. he was loopy and delighted. he told me the recovery room air handler was oversize…

mom says don't fly out send him the national parks jigsaw 11/18: out by 10, went fine

Rashid paid the second 2,100 before I'd left the building. he does that. he holds up the phone to show you. Tomas had printed the killdeer at bag size and taped it to the roaster. he said "I've changed my mind about the bittern. it's the best one. don't tell…

- Dunmore Direct: 119 - the gecko one: 104 - Northmere Mutual: 89, same coverage (liability 50/100/25, collision w/ 500 deductible, no comprehensive bc the car is worth 3 grand) - pay per mile: 61 + per mile, no went w/ Northmere. policy NM-4082217-MN, starts…

- oat milk, no sugar. tea after 3pm - her studio is in the same building as Sam's, 2nd floor, she throws mon/wed/fri - allergic to cats, takes a pill first - hates being late - sister in Chicago, parents in Albuquerque - birthday jan 19 - likes: the conservat…

she's allergic to cats and came over anyway, took a pill on my doorstep like a toast. Miso was in her lap in ninety seconds. I like her. I'm trying to just like her and not start building the house. Renee says I either hold things at arm's length or move in,…

miso: turkey cans x12, the salmon treats june thurs: not soup

Jonah's band is actually good, which was a relief for all three of us in the car, we'd rehearsed faces. he looks ten years older and very happy. he lives above a bait shop. this morning we walked out on the breakwater in a wind that took Priya's hat. the lake…

my car, dez + priya. leave 10am, 2.5 hrs. gas ~45 split 3 show 9pm, $10. jonah's floor, bring pads check oil before (half a quart low. topped up)

I thought I'd feel like I was selling him. I didn't. it felt like the lunch after the funeral, the people coming up to say what he'd fixed. also. a ceramicist two tables down, June. she traded me a cup for a zine at eleven and came back at two and bought anot…

zines: birds (reprint) 38 x 6 = 228, radiators 19 x 5 = 95, NEW one "41 steps" (8 pages, about counting, kind of about Jiichan, didn't say so) 44 x 5 = 220 prints: 8x10 21 x 15 = 315, 5x7 16 x 8 = 128 total 986. minus table 30 + printing 206.60 = 749 didn't p…

- "you describe money like weather. something that happens to you." homework: one number I control, track it for 2 weeks. (picked: what I invoice vs what I'm paid, by date) - grief isn't a debt I pay down. it doesn't have a balance - I say "it's fine" before…

Renee, session three.

the killdeer is the best one. it's standing in gravel with one eye on you. Tomas emailed one line: "it's about to lie to me. approved." the bittern took nine tries. a bittern is a bird pretending to be reeds, so every time I got it right it disappeared. Rashi…

woman on the phone: "no. no. I said he could have the dog OR the boat." two kids arguing about whether a heron could beat a goose.

Loon 296 U (darker) Chickadee 131 U Junco 5285 U Kingfisher 3155 U Nuthatch 1675 U Waxwing 124 U Killdeer 7516 U Bittern 5763 U typeface: Marlin Grotesk hex for the mockups only, never for print: loon #1c2a3a, kingfisher #00707a

she's maybe fifty, has a plant that's doing much better than mine, and doesn't fill silences. I talked about money for forty minutes and she said "I notice we haven't mentioned your grandfather" and I said that's not why I'm here and she said "ok" and waited…

what got decided - posture: all eight birds face RIGHT, toward where the type starts, except the Loon which is on water and can face left bc it's the flagship and "the Loon does what it wants" (Tomas) - Bittern stays. I floated swapping it for a heron since t…

stood in the store for forty minutes doing the math on the back of my hand. it's a tool. Walt doesn't apologize for buying a truing stand. still felt sick handing over the card. set it up tonight. the pencil is touchy. Miso walked across it and left a line I…

- canvas presets: kettlebird 4800 x 4500 @ 1200 (line layer bitmap), book cover 1800 x 2700 + bleed, spot 1500 sq - imported the ink + tea wash brushes. pressure curve needs redoing, the pencil is touchier than the wacom pen - backup: nightly to the cloud. on…

--- KETTLEBIRD COFFEE ROASTERS — BAG ILLUSTRATION BRIEF Prepared by Rashid Darwish with Bex Thao (design). Version 2, September 5, 2025. 1. WHO WE ARE Kettlebird is a small roaster in Northeast Minneapolis. We started in 2017 in a shared kitchen and moved to…

Lu faced the bottom bracket shell and chased the threads and said "this frame's been waiting." bar-end shifters from her parts box. I owe her beer. first ride home at nine with the new light. it's longer than the Surly and it floats. it goes where you look. I…

frame serial (under the bottom bracket): T7B3461F <- registered on the bike index 9/7 BEFORE riding it. also sent to Lanternhouse build, w/ shop discount: wheels: take-offs from the used row, 700c, 85 tires: the 35s I already had (studs go on in nov) drivetra…

called Obaachan. she'd made his breakfast and put it in front of the picture and then eaten it herself "so it wouldn't be wasted, he hated waste." she said the tree has a hundred and sixty this year. she counted. the claim paid yesterday, 380. I'd asked for 8…

curds, the pickle pizza, corn, mini donuts, milk x5 biggest pig 1,140 lb, Gus drew in the poultry barn for an hour

I built that bike. every bearing. I rode it to work for three winters. it had the dynamo light I saved two months for. I was so angry I couldn't see properly and then I just felt stupid, because the lease says no bikes in the stairwell and I knew that and the…

- police report filed online: case MP-25-218846 - Gail: bikes aren't supposed to be in the stairwell (lease). the bike room was full - Lanternhouse claim opened sat: claim LH-CL-0092731. they want proof of value: I have the shop receipt for the frame (2022) a…

move the mushroom-anvil left 0.5in to clear the seam. apron longer, it reads as a diaper

- price tags on the used bike row tonight (Walt's numbers are on the clipboard, don't round) - the $5 bin: old stock tubes w/ schrader valves, bar tape in bad colors, 26" tires - free safety check table 10-2: brakes, tire pressure, chain lube, quick bolt chec…

she looks happy. she got her hair cut short. she handed me the dutch oven at the door like a baby. the hard part was Miso. she walked straight to Maren and got in her lap and stayed there forty minutes, purring, and Maren put her face in her fur and I went an…

brought the dutch oven, a bag of miso's old toys, and my half of the wexcombe deposit, 740, cash gave her the big heron print

two labels this year, 1,200 each: - "Anvil Fest" marzen, on shelves sept 5. art due 8/15 - "Wrenfrost" oatmeal stout, on shelves nov 14. art due 10/20 16 oz can wrap label: 8.0 x 5.0 in, + 0.125 bleed all sides. safe area 0.25 in. the back third is their lega…

south window: 30.5" wide, sash lifts 24". needs one that fits 23-36" ~117 sq ft -> 5,000 to 6,000 BTU the outlet under the window is on the kitchen circuit. not w/ the kettle 190-230. next summer

tent (mine, the 2p), pad, bag, headlamp + batteries stove: Lu. fuel: me, the small can food: I'm on dinner 1 = dal + rice (priya's recipe, pre-mix the spices), tortillas, PB, coffee water filter: Oskar sketchbook + the 3 pens, small watercolor tin bug stuff.…

- back brake pads (car) - the closet door latch - north window. rolf -

the 4th: fireworks from the river with Dez and Priya. Hana and Dez argued for an hour about whether a burrito is a sandwich and are now best friends. Priya whispered "she's you but she finishes her sentences." yesterday the lake. she swam out to the raft at N…

a kid sorting screws into jars on a workbench. every page the jars are fuller. the grandfather's hands at the edge of each page, never his face. last page the jars are all poured back in the can and the kid starts again and knows. title: The Screw Jar? no. Fo…

it should have been done friday. friday night I flattened the file to send a preview and saved over the layered version. two days of colour, gone, one click, no backup, because the backup "was going to be set up this weekend." I sat very still for a while. th…

in: thurs 7/3, SMF -> MSP lands 4:35pm, terminal 1. I pick her up (car has no AC, warn her) out: wed 7/9, 10:20am she gets the bed, I take the camping pad plan: - 4th: fireworks from the Stone Arch side w/ Dez + Priya, bring the blanket - sat: lake day, cedar…

- somali spot by the shop, sambusa 2 for $3 - ember & rye: family meal 3:45 if dez sneaks me in - the diner w/ the hash browns - mom & dad: the walleye place by the falls

I stood at the back and watched a kid put her whole hand flat on the heron and then look up and across the water at the rookery and then back at the sign. that's it. that's the job. that's the entire job. Marit introduced me to the board as "the artist who as…

"can you make it faster but not, like, scary" "my husband says it's fine" (holding the handlebar in one hand) Walt to a rep on the phone: "I don't want it to be smart. I want it to be a bicycle." Lu, re: a rusted seatpost: "it's not stuck, it's committed"

1. "work for hire" - means they own it outright. only for real money, and say so 2. "all rights, all media, in perpetuity, throughout the universe" - ask what they actually need. license that 3. who owns the ORIGINAL. I do. always. write it in 4. kill fee. if…

- trim 5.5 x 8.25, I do front only + spine art, she does type - "a woman, an orchard, the sea is too close. not a face. I am so tired of faces" - wants ink w/ one flat color, like the prints I had up at open studios - 3 roughs by 6/13, pick one, final by 6/30…

co-op bulk: oats, lentils, white miso if it's on sale cat litter!!! rhubarb from Gerald's patch, he said take it

a woman in a green coat came through saturday around three. she stood at the heron for a while, then the ink pieces, then picked up the radiator zine and read the whole thing. she asked if I'd done book covers. I heard myself say "yes." she gave me a card. Od…

fri 5-10, sat 12-8, sun 12-5. I get the wall by the window + one flat table bring: framed heron (the big one, 240), 6 small originals (60-90), print bin, zines, card reader, the shop stool Sam's door code for load-in is on her text result (sun night): 2 origi…

- Hasui, the snow + night ones - the Moomin strips - Alemagna, texture - Klassen, the eyes - Arsenault, pencil + one color - whoever did the Burr Oak covers in the 90s, ask Imogen

spent today on the beaver for no reason, it was already done. I just wanted to. first time since january I've drawn past the point where I had to. the ice went off Nokomis this week. rode around it after work. a guy was standing on the dock with a thermos jus…

4/9 started 25mg. nothing 4/12 stomach off, sleepy at 2pm 4/16 yawning constantly?? 4/23 up to 50mg. take it w/ breakfast not coffee 5/2 stomach fine now. dreams are LOUD 5/14 drew for 3 hrs for no reason and didn't notice till it was dark. first time since f…

Corinne didn't write for a while, she just listened, and then she said "that's a lot of winters to do this by yourself." she had me fill in the form with the nine questions. she said the number and what it meant and that it wasn't a verdict. so: sertraline. h…

selvage. rookery. petrichor (overused, still). gouache. kerf. burr. sedge. murmuration. lath. isinglass. persimmon. ullage (the empty part of a bottle!!)

bring: ID, list of what I take (just the inhaler) say: - sleeping 10 hrs and still tired since about november - not drawing for myself at all - the thing in february - it's every winter but this one didn't lift ask abt: vitamin D, the wrist (still clicks), wh…

- herons nest in colonies, the rookery has ~40 nests in dead cottonwoods. they come back late march, "about when the ice goes out, they need open water to fish." saw 6 on the nests today - heron neck is an S in flight, folded back. cranes fly w/ the neck stra…

pho after with Dez and Priya. Priya gave me a book of Hasui's snow prints she found used. I didn't know anyone knew I wanted that. mom called. Obaachan has moved in with them as of last weekend, into my room, which is funny, she's sleeping under the glow star…

tues: process (sketch next to final) fri: finished thing one miso story a week, 4x the numbers of any art never post a client's thing before they do

9 signs for the new marsh loop, opening june 14 each sign 24 x 18 in landscape, printed on that outdoor laminate stuff, so: flat color, strong shapes, nothing that dies if it fades 20% in the sun one main illustration per sign + 2-3 small ones. she writes the…

Dez came over tonight without asking, with a cabbage, and said we were making okonomiyaki, and I said I don't have bonito and he took a bag of it out of his coat. he cooked. I chopped. it held together for the first time ever and he said that's because I wasn…

1 cup flour, 3/4 cup dashi (or water + a pinch of the powder), 2 eggs, 1/2 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp baking powder 4 cups cabbage chopped SMALL, 3 scallions, handful of the tempura crumbs if I have them mix just barely. medium heat, lid on, 5 min a side, don't press…

- lateral first, small. quarter turns MAX. find the worst spot, fix a third of it, move on, come back - rim pulls TOWARD the spoke you tighten. hub flange side matters: to move the rim left, tighten a left-flange spoke or loosen a right one - do both (tighten…

nothing w/ a plot twist

Miso met me at the door and yelled for a full minute and then wouldn't look at me. Annika had left a note: "she ate everything. she slept on your pillow. she is furious with you. I'm sorry about your grandfather." and a pot of soup in the fridge. the painting…

- she met him at a picnic for the church in 1961. he was fixing someone's car radio in the parking lot instead of eating. she brought him a plate and he said thank you without looking up, and she took the plate back. "then he looked up." - they married in 196…

tuesday. Hana picked me up at the airport and we didn't say anything until the freeway and then she said "he asked for you" and I said "I know, mom told me" and she said "no, before that. all week. he kept asking if you had the paper." I didn't know what that…

My grandfather, Tadashi Nakagawa, counted things. He counted the persimmons on the tree behind the house every October and wrote the number on the calendar in the kitchen. He counted the steps from his front door to the mailbox, which was forty-one, and he to…

Jiichan, the day after I told him I was going to art school. 2016.

"Hi Imogen, my grandfather died yesterday and I'm flying to California tomorrow for the funeral. I have two of the three spots inked and the third sketched. I'm sorry to ask, but could I have until Monday the 24th? If that breaks the print schedule I can send…

- flight: tues 2/11, MSP 6:05am -> DEN -> SMF 11:40am. back wed 2/19, SMF 1:15pm -> MSP 8:50pm direct. 512.40 on the card. mom wants to pay, said no - hana picks me up - funeral sat 2/15 11am at the temple, then the lunch after in the hall - wed + thurs: help…

mom called at 6:50 my time. I knew before I picked up because she never calls before noon. he went back into the hospital wednesday. it was the pneumonia again and then his heart. she and Obaachan were with him. she said it was quiet. she said he asked what d…

"ah, Theo." are you eating. yes. is it cold. yes, very. then he asked how many radiators I have in the apartment. I said three. he said "count again." I walked around with the phone. living room, bedroom, kitchen. and the bathroom, the little one under the wi…

Gerald came out in his robe and boots with jumper cables over his shoulder like a man going to deal with a snake. he's seventy-four. he would not let me hold the cables. "red to dead," he said, and then told me about a 1971 Dodge for the whole five minutes th…

1. red to DEAD + 2. red to GOOD + 3. black to GOOD - 4. black to bare metal on the DEAD car, NOT the battery start the good car, wait 3-5 min, start mine, off in reverse. then drive 30 min Hamza: battery's from 2021, weak but ok. ~$160 when it goes

checking 611 savings 240 credit card 1,180 owed (limit 3,500) student loans 19,640. payment 187.34 owed TO me: Burr Oak 900 (nov issue, due any day), 4 portraits unpaid second halves = 220 rent 1,050. shop is ~1,100/mo till spring. jan and feb only work if tw…

phone 25 internet 45 adobe photo plan 9.99 cloud backup 9.99 music 11.99 website host 16 (billed yearly, 192 in march) domain 18/yr invoicing app free tier renters ins 148/yr in june movies: Hana's account = about 119/mo w/ the yearly ones spread out cancel c…

called at eleven. Obaachan answered and said he was resting and then I heard him say something and she said "he wants to know if you have heat." I said yes, radiators. she relayed it. a pause. "he wants to know what kind." I said steam, one pipe. another paus…

- a real savings number: 1,500 by december (have 240) - one personal project finished, not started. FINISHED - call Obaachan + Jiichan every sunday - go home at least once - stop saying yes to "exposure" - learn to true a wheel without Ines standing there - f…

video call at ten their time. everyone at mom and dad's except Jiichan, who has been in the hospital since sunday with pneumonia. they say he's responding to the antibiotics. Obaachan held the phone too close so I mostly talked to her forehead. she had on the…

declared by 6pm -> DAY 1 (9pm that night to 8am): no parking on snow emergency routes (the ones w/ the red signs. Lake, Minnehaha, 27th) DAY 2 (8am-8pm): no parking on the EVEN side of regular streets. 3318 is EVEN. move it off my own side on day 2 DAY 3 (8am…

but. the man who came for Mr. Henry today. old lab, grey face, died in october. he'd sent me photos from all fifteen years and said pick whichever. I drew him at about eight, in the back of a truck, squinting. the man stood in my doorway holding it and didn't…

- the knocking is water trapped, normal-ish. if it's LOUD the radiator isn't tilted back toward the valve. he shimmed the bedroom one w/ two wood shims under the far feet - valve is all the way open or all the way closed, never halfway, halfway makes it bang…

mom: the heron print framed. frame from the thrift store, cut a new mat dad: wool socks hana: drawing of her dog-patients wall? ask for photos. + the hot sauce she likes from the co-op obaachan + jiichan: a drawing of their persimmon tree from the photo on my…

texted Gail. Rolf thurs. the gap where the gas line comes in steel wool till then, food in jars 12/20 nothing since

1. Biscotti (greyhound) - done, mailed 2. Pickle + Relish (two cats, charged 150) - done 3. Mr. Henry (old lab) - done 4. Juno (husky) - sketch sent 5. Taro (shiba) - sketch sent 6. Waffles (rabbit!) - photos are terrible, asked for more 7. Dolores (cat, one…

Colleen looks like dad around the eyes when she's listening. she asked about Jiichan's fall before I brought it up, so dad must have told her, so it's a bigger deal than Hana said. the squash with miso butter was all gone. Marcel's sister asked for the recipe…

"Thanks for asking! Here's how it works: I send 2-3 rough sketches within a week. You pick one and can ask for one round of changes. Then I make the final. Payment is half to start and half before I send the final file or mail the original. Personal commissio…

bringing the squash w/ miso butter + a pie (order by tues) garage code is her birthday

studs on (700x35, 30 front 35 rear) wet lube, wipe the chain every ride lights: charge sun + wed pogies under 15F. under 0 take the bus albuterol 15 min before if it's below 20

clinic stays Millrace CAN'T FIND THE CARD. member services 877-555-0109, new one in 7-10 days (jan: never came. call again)

OD (right): -2.25 sphere, -0.50 cyl, axis 175 OS (left): -2.75 sphere, -0.75 cyl, axis 10 PD 63 exam $79

I'm so proud of her I don't know where to put it. she's the one who stayed. I left at eighteen and call on sundays and she drives Obaachan to the eye doctor. she also said, at the end, fast, that Jiichan fell in the garden last week. not hurt. he was reaching…

- draw the thing nearest my left hand - miso, 10 poses, 30 sec each, no erasing - one object from the shop from memory, then check tomorrow - the view from the 21 bus, one stop's worth - copy a Hasui print, badly, to see how the snow is done - a room from the…

Lu took me to the climbing gym to "get ahead of it." she means the dark. she's from Tucson and her first winter here she says she didn't understand that you have to make plans against it, like it's a siege. so now she schedules me. tuesdays, climbing. I fell…

the thing I didn't expect: a woman bought the radiator zine and came back twenty minutes later with her father, who had been a steamfitter for forty years, and he read the whole thing standing up at the table and then pointed at page six and said "that vent's…

zines: birds 31 x $6, radiators 22 x $5, shop 9 x $5 = 186 + 110 + 45 = 341 prints: 8x10 14 x $15 = 210, 5x7 11 x $8 = 88 total 639. minus table (30 my half) and printing (about 190) = 419 for a saturday. best seller: the heron print, third year in a row

- zines: birds I have been wrong about (60), radiators (40), the shop one (40) - prints 8x10 (50) + 5x7 (30), in the clear sleeves w/ backing board - price signs. PRICES ON EVERYTHING - cash box, $60 in ones and fives - card reader + charger - tablecloth (the…

the radiators came on today. first hiss of the year at about four, while I was inking, and Miso went and sat in front of the one in the bay like it was a television. Gail said october first and the building decided the sixth. the wrist is fine. two months sin…

digital prints on 100lb uncoated: 5x7 0.45, 8x10 0.70, 11x14 1.60 zines half-letter, 16 pg + cover, saddle stitched: 0.94 each at 150, 1.20 at 50 giclee on cotton rag: 8x10 6.40, 11x14 11.00, 16x20 19.50 risograph: 2 color 11x17, 0.85 each at 100 but a $40 se…

me: thurs 11-6, sat 10-5. 14 hrs, was 22 first on the list for overhaul season (jan-feb), 6-8 extra oct to march the shop is ~1,100/mo before tax

boil whatever noodles. save a mug of the water. bowl: 1 big spoon chili crisp, 1 spoon soy, 1/2 spoon black vinegar, 1 tsp sugar, 1 grated garlic clove, spoon of tahini or peanut butter "if you're sad" noodles in hot, splash of the water, toss till glossy top…

Dez, 11pm, about noodles.

- 3 spot illustrations per issue, 300 each = 900 an issue, 4 issues a year - Imogen sends the three essays ~5 weeks before. due the 12th of feb / may / aug / nov - black + one color, the color changes each issue, she tells me - 1500px square, they shrink them…

miso: salmon dry food (the 7lb bag), turkey cans

- circles 10 each way - prayer stretch 30 sec x3 - flex/extend w/ a soup can 2x10 - putty 2 min twice a day. no stuck bottom brackets for 2 more weeks

PENICILLIN: yes. rash all over at 4 (amoxicillin, ear infection). never retested. say yes nothing else. ragweed aug/sept, cetirizine works blood type: mom doesn't know tetanus 8/3/24

snake plant: once a month fiddle leaf: dying since 2022. moved to the bay jade from Colleen: south window, every 2-3 weeks spider plant baby from Annika. miso eats it. not toxic, checked

"it only makes the noise when I pedal" (it is the pedal) "I don't need gears, I'm not that kind of person" kid, maybe 6, to Walt: "are you the bike's doctor or its dad" guy returning a helmet: "it made me look like I was going to be careful"

- paint the bedroom? yes if it's a "normal color" and I paint it back or she likes it. she wants to see the chip first - shelves on the living room wall? yes, into studs, patch when I go - candles: fine, not in the windows (curtains) - plants on the back porc…

want: a quarry. someone at the shop knows a quarry

routing 291975043 checking 7700418826027 savings 7700418826035

- ss card + birth certificate: NOT HERE. mom & dad's, grey filing cabinet in the hall closet, folder THEO - IMPORTANT - passport: desk drawer, left, the envelope w/ the yen - car title, signed lease, miso's adoption papers: flat file, top drawer, blue folder…

apt 2: Mireille + Tobias + baby Odile apt 4: Annika. nurse, nights. likes cats Gail's desk is in the basement, tuesdays

- 3318 Brackenmere Ave S, Apt 3, Mpls 55406. june 1 2024 to now. landlord Gail Hedlund, Fourgable Properties, 612-555-0106 - 2609 Wexcombe Ave S, Apt 204, Mpls 55408. aug 1 2022 to may 31 2024. Corbel Residential, leasing office 612-555-0172. rent 1,480, my h…

7 on 27th/minnehaha: downtown in 22 blue line: 14 min walk, airport in 15 shop: 9 min ride, 31 walk

if it drops unplug the WHITE box 30 sec

trash: thursday morning, bins in the alley, black = trash, blue = recycling (every OTHER thursday, the even weeks), green = organics, I have my own little green bin from the city laundry: basement. washer 1.75, dryer 1.50, quarters only. the left dryer is the…

living room 12'4" x 14'8" + the bay (5' wide, 2' deep). ceiling 9'1" bedroom 10'2" x 11'6" kitchen 7' x 8'6", counter height 35.5" bay windows: 3 of them, each 28" wide x 62" tall, inside mount depth 2.5" bedroom windows: south 30.5" x 58", north (painted shu…

- kitchen: burn ring on the counter left of the stove (size of a mug). cabinet under sink, door hangs low. one cracked floor tile by the fridge - bathroom: chip in the tub enamel near the drain. medicine cabinet mirror desilvering at the bottom edge. caulk is…

[x] boxes from the shop (bike boxes are too big, parts boxes are perfect) [x] dez + his roommate's van, sat 9am [x] electric in my name, starts 6/1 [x] internet: Loonwave install thurs 6/6 (window 8-12) [x] renters insurance, send Gail proof [ ] change addres…

--- Hi Theo, as promised, here are the main points of the lease in normal language. The signed lease is what counts if this and the lease ever disagree, so please read that too. WHO AND WHERE Landlord: Fourgable Properties LLC (that's me, Gail Hedlund). Tenan…

- rent 1,050. heat + water included, I pay electric and internet - DEPOSIT: one month's rent, so 1,050. she said it comes back within 30 days of moving out as long as nothing's wrecked. "normal wear is normal wear, I'm not that kind of landlord" - cat is fine…

1. 26th & something, garden level studio, 895. no 2. the Corbel building on Lyndale, 1br 1,240 + 50 pet rent + "amenity fee". no more Corbel 3. Powderhorn duplex upper, 1,150, owner's son downstairs. no 4. BRACKENMERE. 1br in a fourplex, 2nd floor, 1,050 heat…

parts + accessories 30% off complete bikes cost + 10% labor on your own bike free, after close friends & family 10% one pro deal order a year, ask Ines in february

ME: miso (adoption is in my name, and she said it herself, miso is mine). flat file. drafting lamp. the green chair. my bikes. records A-M that were mine before. the rice cooker. half the plants. MAREN: bed + frame. couch (she paid 300 of the 380). record pla…

- prints: 100lb uncoated cover, natural white not bright - zines: 70lb text, 80lb cover, saddle stitch, half-letter - originals: hot press 140lb for line, cold press for wash - sketchbook: the grey ones from the place on Lake, $9

ink line: the dry ink one, size 9-14%, streamline 22, pressure curve pulled down a little in the middle wash: my custom "tea wash", multiply, 35% opacity, grain = the scan of the back of the Arches pad texture pass: gouache brush at 100% w/ the layer at 18% c…

jan 27 dad jan 30 kofi feb 11 maren apr 12 obaachan may 16 aunt colleen jul 19 dez aug 30 jiichan sep 3 mom oct 2 priya nov 9 hana dec 14 lu mine mar 22. miso "june 1" (made up by the shelter)

co-op: white miso (the tub), tofu, scallions, dried shiitake, kombu cat: turkey pate x12, litter maren wants: oat milk, the crackers w/ the seeds

"5x7 ink + watercolor portrait of your animal, from your photos. $85, shipped or local pickup. order by dec 8 for christmas." last year 9 orders

- "birds I have been wrong about" - every bike that came into the shop in one week, one drawing each, w/ what was wrong w/ it - Obaachan's hands doing things. 12 pages. ask her first - the laundromat at night - things people said to me while I was fixing thei…

- greenway to the river, down west river pkwy, falls, back up minnehaha creek: 17 mi - lakes loop from Wexcombe: bde maka ska + harriet + back = 12 - st paul via the lake st bridge, summit ave to the cathedral and back: 22 - gateway trail to stillwater: 46 ro…

- the Berger, the seeing one (Sam) - H is for Hawk - No-No Boy, dad's copy, ask him to mail it - something about ink painting that isn't a how-to -

- tape: one wrap + 4" overlap opposite the valve, PULL it tight, thumb it into the bed - valve in, hand tight nut, no pliers - seat one bead all the way, other bead most of the way, pour sealant in the gap (60ml for a 40c, 90-120 for mtb) THEN close it. clean…

written test bc out of state, missed 3 paper temp, card in 3-4 weeks. they punched the CA one and gave it back

shirts M (L in anything that shrinks) pants 31x32 shoes 10, boots 10.5 bike shoes 44 hat: big head, 7 1/2 gloves L

salmon or turkey only. check the back of the bag, "ocean fish" has chicken meal half the time - dry: Northpaw salmon & pea, 1/4 cup in the morning - wet: half a 5.5oz can of the turkey pate at night. other half in the fridge, 8 sec in the microwave, she won't…

miso soup. meeso. the soup. soup. mrs. soup. beans. sergeant. small landlord. the tenant in 204b. gremlin. nugget (maren only)

Goldenrod Animal Rescue, the St Paul one. shelter name Pebbles (no). about 16 months, they think born june 2021. found under a porch in Frogtown w/ kittens grey tabby, white chin, one white back toe. spayed, chipped, first shots done $95, half each. adoption…

- truck: Maren's dad's pickup, sat + sun - keys from the Corbel office after 9am, need both of us + first month + deposit (1,480 + 1,480, we each put in 1,480) - bedroom 11'2" x 12'. her bed, not mine. mine goes to Jonah's cousin for $80 - living room wall fo…

1 cup masoor dal rinsed till the water's clear 3 cups water, 1/2 tsp turmeric, salt. simmer 20 min till it falls apart tadka: 2 tbsp ghee, 1 tsp cumin seed, 1 tsp mustard seed till they pop, 2 dried chilies, 4 garlic sliced, curry leaves, pinch of hing lemon…

stem faceplate 5, stem steerer bolts 5-6 seatpost clamp 5 (carbon 4 + paste) crank bolts 35-50 depending, check the arm pedals 35 cassette lockring 40 rotor bolts 6 brake caliper mount 6-8 thru axle 12-15

Ines, my second month at the shop, about a stem bolt.

kitchen - me (oct), dez (nov), priya (dec), jonah (jan) bathroom up - priya, jonah, me, dez bathroom down - jonah, me, dez, priya trash + recycling - dez, priya, jonah, me jonah's drums: not after 9. dez's 2am cooking: fine if he does the pans. landlord Ward…

1. back door, alarm panel is on the left, 45 sec 2. lights: panel by the bathroom, all the switches w/ green tape 3. compressor ON (red lever), let it fill before anyone needs air 4. till: float is $150 in the blue bag in the safe, count it into the drawer, w…

oil: 0W-20 synthetic, 4.4 qt w/ filter tires: 195/65R15 wipers: 26" driver, 16" passenger battery: group 35 gas: regular, 13.2 gal tank, ~31 mpg tire pressure 32 all around lug nuts 76 ft-lb headlight bulb 9006 low / 9005 high

4,200 cash (he wanted 4,600. rust). 118,412 on the odometer title signed over at his kitchen table, transfer within 10 days. bill of sale handwritten, both signed timing chain not belt. AC died 2019, never fixed. driver window needs a hand on the way up toast…