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I forgot to take any pics, but today Al and I made smashburgers on the flattop, and they were phenomenal! I'm going to transport the griddle to work this Saturday (customer appreciation day), and I'll recreate the burgers for the crew. Customers will be eating hot dogs grilled by another employee on a Treager, but I thought the employees deserved a little better. The burger used was Costco's 4lb. Organic beef packages, and the 80% was just right. I'm going to follow suit with grilled mushrooms and grilled onions, exactly as Al did them, because his research was spot on! I'll have a choice of cheeses as we did today. Just absolutely delicious burgers, and an epic time with my besties! Followed up with a walk through Roy's Redwoods! Great day all around.

I'm never going to say "no" to new Arcade Fire, but this is kind of underhwleming by their high standards. A few good tracks but over way too soon (42 minutes).

I didn`t check the schematic. However, the input resistors(Signal input) shouldn`t be a probably if you go with 15k or 20k.

AROK, the future we were promised

17k smd resistors are quite hard to find. Would you recommend 20k or 15k ohm resistors?

Tonight's Culture This one goes to 11 It's a lot easier to follow in English. Quite the performance.

https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/八十八ヶ所巡礼/八＋九/ New (?) 88kasyo junrei double album -- I recognize several of the tracks, probably because they were released as singles and I ate them up, but I'm still not sure (because language barrier, and they're weird anyway) if this is a compilation or entirely new music, but whatever, I'm loving it.

Nice design!

That's awesome of you Nate, and I love the antique piece. Takes one to know one. 👴🏼

^ Looking forward to. Just a clip in case it gets anyone interested in The Rehearsal. Nathan attempts to learn what makes a strong pilot from becoming Sully.

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!