{"id":37441,"date":"2020-12-05T11:59:30","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T18:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=37441"},"modified":"2021-12-10T18:22:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T01:22:24","slug":"2020-happy-list-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/2020-happy-list-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Happy List &#8212; Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of a gift guide this year,\u00a0we&#8217;ve written\u00a0lists of things that made\u00a0us happy in 2020. Here&#8217;s my list. Kevin and Claudia&#8217;s will follow.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I\u00a0started using an <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/ice-cream-maker\">ice cream maker<\/a><\/strong> I hadn&#8217;t touched for at least 10 years, and I&#8217;ve used it every weekend to make low-sugar\/no-sugar ice cream.<\/li>\n<li>Like a lot of people, I&#8217;ve been baking more than ever. I avoid wheat, so I&#8217;ve been using <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/almond-flour\">almond flour<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to make bread, scones, and shortbread.<\/li>\n<li>Many of my almond flour and ice cream\u00a0recipes are in the newsletter I started this year, called <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/themagnet.substack.com\/\">The Magnet<\/a><\/strong>. I&#8217;m an avid newsletter reader, and I&#8217;m having a terrific time writing a weekly newsletter about things that interest me.<\/li>\n<li>My wife gave me a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/calamityware.com\/products\/landing-zone-sketchbooks\">Calamityware Landing Page sketchbook<\/a><\/strong> for my birthday, and I&#8217;ve been using it to draw hundreds of little creatures, space aliens, robots, and contraptions. For the last couple of months, I&#8217;ve been drawing in it every day. I also started <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/society6.com\/frauenfelder?curator=frauenfelder\">selling things with my art on it at Society6<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve used a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/gouge\"><strong>spoon gouge<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>to carve dozens of spoons over the years. I&#8217;ve carved more spoons this year than ever before and have given most of them away.<\/li>\n<li>My family binged through\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/watch\/80114225\">Erased<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0a 13-episode anime mini-series on Netflix about a 29-year-old pizza delivery driver who travels back in time 18 years (and becomes an 11-year-old) to\u00a0stop his classmates from being kidnapped by a serial killer. There&#8217;s also a live-action adaptation but the anime is superior.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things that lifted our spirits in 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[41],"tags":[2380],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37441"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37459,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37441\/revisions\/37459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}