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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedWhere does the sun go at night? You fade, you fade as you go, dipping lower, low in the sky. You glow, you glow, shifting from bright to light to dusk to dark, but you are still here with us, and the wheel keeps on turning. Where does the sun go at night? Are you ducking under clouds, hiding shyly, standing back?

Welcome to the first issue of meryenda Monday. For the sake of this newsletter, ube and ubi are used interchangeably.  Unfortunately, resisting a trend only to succumb to influence leaves you at the tail-end of the masses. I scavenged the aisles of multiple Seafood City stores for halaya and almost pried the last bag of frozen ube from an indecisive shopper who ultimately decided that bag was hers to keep. Ube halaya and ube powder were backordered online for weeks at a time.

Buffalo Restaurant Week began Monday, and ends Sunday, April 21. That gives you a few days to pick a place to explore the possibilities of Western New York restaurants. The complete list is here, with 120 outfits from Indian Falls to Grand Island to Orchard Park and lots of places in between. Here’s some of the places I’d head during restaurant week. Marco’s Fine Italian Dining, 1085 Niagara St., offers a three-course, $25 dinner.

The question I have been asked most often since I’ve been in Maine this week is…where is the real Fellowship Point? Or people have told me they know where it is. Somehow saying it exists only in the novel doesn’t go far toward dispelling the notion that there is a real place that could be visited. Every time someone asks I think of the the answer newspaperman Francis Pharcellis Church gave to a child named Virginia when her friends told her there was no Santa Claus.

It's hard to believe but it's now been over a year since I put down a deposit to purchase the Nimbus EV. I thought it was time to give an update on the Nimbus specifically but also the autocycle/enclosed e-bike/kind of a car but not quite a car industry as a whole. If you're not familiar with the Nimbus, I'll give you a little background. Over the past few years, it has been marketed as a revolutionary transportation solution.

As you know, there have sadly been a raft of camera thefts in San Francisco of late, putting a spotlight on places you might want to think twice about hauling expensive camera gear with you the next time you visit. The news reports on the thefts usually aren’t very specific about the exact location of the heists, so I thought I’d simply point them out h… ncG1vNJzZmiilZuzpr7SqKWgqpGdrq560q6ZrKyRmLhvr86mZqlno5a7brLRmqWcoaOYvG7Dx56pnmWepMFuwM5mmauhnpw%3D

i love la. i’m not sure i could really live there but i love daydreaming about living there. i remember there was a time last year where i wondered if i could start my life over in la. i thought about finding a quaint little apartment somewhere in los feliz or silverlake. it was a shallow thought but i felt maybe being able to eat pasta at bestia any time i wanted would save me just a little bit.

**Before we get into today’s newsletter, I’d love if you could take a quick poll. It’ll help me see what y’all like reading about most here. Now, on to the goods.** Despite living two hours south, I can count on one hand — and honestly, I wouldn’t even need all five fingers — the number of times I’ve visited Mi… ncG1vNJzZmiZop6vprrDnqmso6ljwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89opKKkp5bCrLHEZp6uoZSa

The other day a friend who recently relocated to Chamblee was telling me about a coffee shop in his neighborhood and how he was so excited to try it, but then the coffee wasn’t great. “It tasted burnt, right?” I asked him. And he was like, how did you know? I mean I haven’t been to that specific place, but burnt coffee seems to be the overarching issue with many shops in and around Atlanta and I can’t really figure out why.