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Traveling to Florence mid-November followed by 2 days/2 night in Bologna (6:30am flight on 3rd Bologna "day"). Long story short, personal life events make it hard for me to feel excited for this trip (and in general) but I'm grateful to be traveling with my godfather who knows so much about the food, Renaissance, and history.

Not many things are on my "must see" list. While I appreciate art and architecture for its skill feat and importance, seeing it -- especially without context -- doesn't do much for me. That being said, my mother raved about the guide she had for The David (how his expression and posture changes the viewer's impression at each angle, etc.) so I'm very curious to experience that.

This community would be super helpful for suggesting non-art experiences (I promise I'll get plenty anyway) and -- even better -- thoughts or stories to help me get in the mood and excited for this trip. Much appreciated <3

So far, these sound good (reality-check me if you disagree!):

Florence (Full Days Tues 10 - Sat 14)

• Bargello: former prison now museum, and I enjoy sculptures more than paintings
• Galileo museum: science nerd, hope this scratches the itch
• Boboli and Bardini gardens (or anywhere else to stroll, catch a sunrise, read for an hour)
• Christmas Market: from what I can tell, this opens Nov 14 so that could be a magical way to spend my last day in Florence. Maybe find some hot chocolate, vin brule, and pretty lights.
• Festive window shopping on Vie de Tornabuoni
• Chianti wine tour
• Souvenirs
  • Leather: I'd love to bring home a bespoke jacket (stepdad had his tailored on the spot); wild but right now this is honestly what made me keep my travel plans
  • Perfume: obviously Santa Maria; this great post has other suggestions too
  • Gold: a simple hoop I can wear forever

Bologna (Full Day Sun Nov 15 and Mon 16)

• Maybe a charcuterie and macchiato when I arrive in the afternoon before the train to Florence?
• Fountain of Neptune (water/science nerd -- depicts the 4 major rivers and some other fun facts)
• Clock tower (15th century mechanics)
• Church of the Holy Sepulchre (5th century architecture)
• Meridian line at the Basilica (at the right time, you can see why it was a sun path measuring tool)
• Cheese factory tour (see the wheels get made and aged!)
• Ducati tour / walk around
• Might be too late for the jazz festival and too early for the chocolate, but I could (hopefully) be wrong

My godfather will point us in the right direction for food, but the wine windows and charcuterie perk my ears up :)

I’ve ordered a cold brew with VSC cold foam for as long as they’ve had it. Took a break recently (hello brown sugar shaken) and came back to it. I’ve now ordered at 3 different locations and the amount of cold foam is a thin layer at best. I can literally see the coffee and ice cubes through it. So today I ordered “extra” and it *nearly* touched the top groove (not line) on my grande cup. Am I doing something wrong? Has the recipe amount changed?

ETA: The foam also now tastes plain (unflavored) not vanilla.

https://preview.redd.it/87uecodamg9h1.png?width=972&format=png&auto=webp&s=f257bc65b0c5c1a7bccd673f15449c3de682dc64

Any daytraders moonlighting as a teacher (or parent of young kid) also catch themselves saying "WOW what big feelings you have today!".

What else do you think while watching them print?

PS: I'm mid-debugging a script.

No matter what I've tried so far, Calibre won't create a TOC during a PDF to EPUB conversion. When I manually create a TOC (Edit EPUB >> Tools -- either by index files or XPath), it fails to Send to Kindle even though the regular converted EPUB sends fine and within editor it shows no errors in Check Book.

Some of what I've tried:

Structure Detection

Detect Chapters at (I've tried a lot of variations of this, they either all do the same thing or fail to do any): //p[.//b[re:test(normalize-space(.), '^—\s*CHAPTER\s+[A-Z0-9]+', 'i')]]

Chapter Mark: pagebreak

TOC

Force TOC: checked and unchecked

TOC Level 1 XPath: //p

TOC Level 1 XPath (super specific to what I'm seeing the in text pattern of my book to be): //b[re:test(normalize-space(.), '^—\s*CHAPTER\s+[A-Z0-9]+', 'i')]

This is an example of the correctly indexed during conversion Chapter 13:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Converted Ebook</title> <meta content="PDF Reflow conversion" name="generator"/> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheet.css"/> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="page_styles.css"/> </head> <body class="calibre"> <p id="page_172" class="calibre5"><span class="calibre15"><b class="calibre26">— CHAPTER THIRTEEN — </b></span></p> <p class="calibre5"> </p> <p class="calibre5"><span class="calibre9"><i class="calibre14">The Very Secret Diary</i></span></p> <p class="calibre5"> </p> <p class="calibre1">Hermione remained in the hospital wing for several weeks. There was a flurry of rumour about her disappearance when the rest of the school arrived back from their Christmas holidays, because of course everyone thought that she had been attacked. So many stu-dents filed past the hospital wing trying to catch a glimpse of her that Madam Pomfrey took out her curtains again and placed them around Hermione’s bed, to spare her the shame of being seen with a furry face. </p>

Do you have any other suggestions?

For privacy doing my lady business or changing at a campground, I like the idea of the bathroom pop-up tents but don’t really want to buy another thing. I’m thinking about this rig up, but please sanity check it or offer some other suggestions!

Requires a cluster or at least 3 trees, forming a triangle.

Taut hitch to secure line to tree A. Clove hitch around tree B (pulls the tarp back enough to have depth for privacy). Taut line to tree C. Prusiks along line connected to tarp (can be secured through eyelet a few different ways). Tarp now acts like a shower curtain.

Testing this (and any other) idea out tomorrow!