Promised update. Not only is Equal Exchange priced right and ethically pure in so many ways, but the coffee is really good, too.

Last night I tried the pods, and they were the best I’ve ever had.

This morning, the real thing fresh-ground and french-pressed, and while I can’t issue the same universal accolade (having had many fine coffees in my time), it’s top-shelf all the same. I’m enjoying it very much today, and will be for foreseeable future too.

And by the way, thank you sincerely to my Patr(e)on crew. You covered the budget for this expense with January’s payout, and now I can think of you fondly each and every morning whether I remember to naturally or not.

I plan to do a little raw filming today, for what will become the first video.

I also plan to pull the rack off the truck, partly for painting it and what’s beneath it, but also because taking it down will allow me to get a proper unvarnished Gross Vehicle Weight for the beast on my way into Prettytown tomorrow.

After the rack itself and the parts beneath it are touched up with paint, I can reinstall it and weigh again, to get legit payload numbers as I go. This won’t be an issue soon, but when the day does come to pull a trailer, in a month or a year, knowing all that will be critical for proceeding in a way, as they say, that is safe, sane, and consensual.