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A question I had when I was working on my whipclaw build for Khora was what melee weapon to use as my stat stick. The best choice is magistar, but there's a variant for the vanilla version: sancti magistar, from New Loka.

I've fallen behind on my Thattu supper club posts. It wasn't much helped by the November delivery being mid-month to avoid colliding with people's Thanksgiving travel. I imagine December will be the same, but I haven't heard yet.

Not long after my last visit, I was back at Atelier earlier this month. One of the things I really appreciate is how quickly the menu evolves: despite having been a month prior, everything was new.

The CH Distillery purchased Jeppson's, the makers of Chicago's finest product, a few years ago. I've walked by their taproom a lot, but I've never been in there, expecting it to just be the same bottles I can get at the store and a couple bar snacks.

But no: for some reason, they do omakase. And it's really quite something!

At $WORK, my team has been officially using Homestead since ~2017 as our development environment. This is a VM managed with Vagrant, and that's become a problem when we issue people newer macbooks. So I've been evaluating a new first-ish party solution: Laravel Herd Pro.

I felt burned out on GW2 in the wakes of WvW restructuring and Janthir, so I've been playing a lot of Warframe lately instead.

The Alinea Group's baby tasting menu place, Next, is doing tribute menus this year. Julia Child and Bobby Flay aren't that interesting, but I wanted to check out the Charlie Trotter menu. So: here it is!

An old friend came to town, and they wanted to check out Indienne. I'd been in May for the vegetarian menu, so this time, I had their non-veg option.

I had a planned visit to Atelier last week. But, an opportunity presented itself: Chef Hunter's Sunday supper club was back, so I had to book that too. Here's a post with both Atelier's early fall menu, plus the supper!

The FatBearWeek.org team is usually a little slow for updating their site, so here's a gallery of the bear photos from the beginning & end of the season.

This should help you fill out your Fat Bear Week bracket!