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Not just today, but an all-around fantastic weekend. Beautiful weather, fantastic food, fantastic friends and a great nature walk. Then today I got to top it all off by watching Tom Brady go down in flames. It doesn't get much better!

Pregame meal should be acceptable.

Brunch

I've been shitting bricks at figuring out whether or not everything would actually fit in the case these past few weeks and it turns out it does (or at least it should in theory), just barely. There is no empty space at all in this thing.

Yup. My amps have Neutrik 32A Powercons on the back, then 32A cable to 30A NEMA connectors on a distribution block. Got to keep that mains impedance low

That is a 30 amp nema connector.

Did Jacobson die from liver damage? Did he die from alcohol induced dementia? No. He continued working as a freelance journalist and writer after an illustrious and prize winning career in war journalism, pretty much until he died age 79 - from meningitis. But wow - did he live a classic Fleet Street life!

Pressure Cooker Corned Beef Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

12 and a half minutes of knife porn? -- okay....

I have a nearly universal footprint. It pretty much confirms that every vendor is slightly different. The board looks like crap - plenty of nearly overlapping drill hits.

RIP to a family friend's son Jake. Not 100% sure of age, think early 30's. Parents are incredible folks who adopted two kids, both of whom had inherited mental issues from birth parent(s). Older daughter went through some deeply troubled times, drugs and sex. Now is more settled, back with parents, and single mom holding down a job but still a bit tenuous. Son was a sweet big lump of a kid in the years I knew and saw him. But also had issues as he got older, never finished High School, was barely holding down a landscaping job. Met this cunt of a woman who got him hooked on several drugs including heroin, and had a kid with him. Woman had I think 3 other kids taken away from her by the state, and spent some time in jail while married to Jake. The kids got kicked out of their low-income apartment due to rent non-payment, and his parents ended up getting legal custody of the child (who BTW has Cystic Fibrosis) while in their 60's. Apparently Jake and wife were driving, Jake asked to be dropped off as he didn't feel good and wanted to walk back in the fresh air. Hours later, having not found his way to where they were staying, wife calls police. Someone had found Jake just leaning over a fence, dead. Autopsy to come, but they think overdose given his history especially with her. So RIP to one of the victims who never got the help he needed, and became just another statistic. Fuck drugs, fuck mental illness, fuck the systems that don't help these people; and fuck the cunt who got him hooked and took him off even the lowest rung of the ladder.

From the same people who brought you Roy Moore.

Current mood:

Fucking hell. This is the Vineyard AFTER I upgraded to a DOCSIS 3.1 modem. DOCSIS 1.0, adopted in March of 1997 allowed for 40MBPS down/10 up.