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Nice work, Nate. You are a good man.

All this deferred resignation stuff has meant the departure of a few key staff members, one in particular I've worked with for nearly 15 years and deserved something more than an Irish goodbye. So I made him a little something for his retirement yesterday. That's the blank walnut, engraved/machined with the cnc machine. Finish applied, awaiting infill bits. Finished project. The middle bit is an original survey boundary marker for the island that I rescued from a demo project. It's likely way more than 100 years old. I thought he deserved to take a little piece of the place with him even if it's a little tarnished and scarred. I prefer things that way actually, probably because I resemble the description.

Have not had much time to consume TV lately but family vacation finally offered a chance to check out: Thoroughly enjoyed this, looking forward to Season 2 this fall even if a very different story arc is proposed.

Flew through Adolescence in two days. Yeah, it’s good. I’m not as blown away by it as some seem to be but it is obviously good. I am glad I gave it a shot.

Apologies for the lateness - a very happy birthday to you, Shelly!

Does reheating lunchtimes leftover pizza by the pool count? With extra sauted garlic mushrooms

Happy Birthday!

In the summer of 2007 I hiked up Mount Sugarloaf in Sunderland. I went up there many times in the '00s, both with and without a camera. The view from it is spectacular and really shows off a pastoral and idyllic perspective of the Happy Valley. The weather was fantastic and there were some hot ail balloons floating around merrily. Unfortunately for me, on this date I took the always terrible Canon 75-300mm lens and I did NOT know what I was doing. The photos came out terribly. I sat on them for nearly 18 years until last month when I sat down and processed them with some modern apps. I had to make deft use of Luminar 4, Topaz Sharpen AI and Photoshop to extract remotely decent results. The sharpening was key, and a faustian bargain. The 75-300mm is never sharp. I wasn't smart enough to up my 30D's ISO to improve shutter speed so a bunch of the shots have lens motion blur. The 30D isn't the most sharp thing to begin with in the best of circumstances. Too much AI sharpening makes for weird and very obvious artifacts. There is no perfect solution. With all of this said, the end results here aren't half bad. I rate this set a solid "Crank up that ISO you dumbass" out of 10. I did take a few shots with the 17-85mm, which is is a Leica rangefinder lens in comparison to the 75-300mm.

Wild and Clear and Blue by I’m With Her (2025) https://album.link/kkwxgxxchdbdn Example: Finally released today. First listen was at 2am before bed. Did not disappoint. Happy to have more I'm with Her music.

Happy birthday!

Celebrating a few beautiful female trios.

The happiest of Birthdays young Shelly!

Happy Birthday, Shelley! Wishing you a great year.

Happy birthday! (party favour noise)

Happy Birthday, Shelly!

No reason I should post this now.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday Shelley!

Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday!

Been running my CFA3T at 150ma bias current per CFA2 board for quite some time. Just cranked it up to 200ma. I'm mounting the transistors direct to heatsink without an intermediary L bracket or such. After a few hours of on-time, I'm seeing about 55C on the cases of the hottest output transistors, so well within safe range once the junction>case temp math is done. Heatsink around 40-45C. Some of the bc555/6 are getting a bit warmer than I'd like though, so going to throw heatsinks on the hot ones as well. Sound wise, I think I hear more "speediness", highs/mids that are a bit more pleasing/engaging, and some increased weight and definition in the low end. Could just be my brain though. I've had been driving my Ascend Sierra Luna V2 monitors directly from the CFA3T to great effect. I added a sub line out via voltage dividers from each + terminal, and ground taken from PS ground to feed a small sub for this desk setup. And it's been bliss.

Happy Birthday Lil Sis!!!

Happy Birthday!