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I knew that she was at the end but damned if she didn't hang on to life and buck the predictions of her impending death years ago. RIP Rhoda. Oh yeah, and fuck cancer!

Condolences Knucks! I hate plumbing. Sometimes I think it would be better to carry water up to my house in jugs on my head and shit in the yard. (Other times not so much.)

Wishing you good shelter from the storm, Jim! And safe wishes to all in its path. My mother-in-law just sold her home down in Boynton Beach last month. I'm happy she won't have to deal with anything there anymore.

The first of a quartet of tribute bands At the Sausalito arts festival

I'm always delighted to see Selling England getting some love around here! On a different note,.. My latest contribution to putting a strain on your auditory tolerance!

Steven: Good evening Stephen: Good ephening Steaphan: Good eaphaning

Finally, well, I have fixed the "KG Carbon - more carbon" ......,in beginning I wanna make a "more carbon and lots cheaper version",but see what I got: DN2540 and IXCP10m90s I have bought from taobao.com......are fake, now show you guys photo: Fake DN2540(yes, I have bought all of them for testing): simply them didn't work ,that's all , I can read 455V from multimeter though probe touch the headsink,but....nothing happened, until I replaced the replica silicon: Mouser version: Taobao - Save your broken heart also bit expensive version: Now the IXCP10M90S time: Left: mouser Right:You don't know who I am version

Made some fairly large steps to figuring out my financial future for the rest of the year (more or less). I'm not entirely out of the woods yet, but I'm in much better shape than I was a week ago. I don't often mention this on HC (or anywhere else), but I haven't had a real day job since February of 2001(!) That means (A) I haven't had a real boss in over 18 years and (B) the only person responsible for making sure my dumb ass is fed, clothed and housed is me. It ain't always easy, but I have grown to enjoy being my own fuck up. What has changed in the last nearly two decades is that the cost of living has gone up hugely. Under two terms of one gibbering, war mongering Republican fuckwit, two terms of a centrist, corporatist DINO who could speak in complete sentences and now half a term of deranged, sunsetting, Russian-backed shitgibbon covered in Cheeto dust, the cost of living for non billionaires marches on like a rally of disgruntled citizens down Pennsylvania Avenue. This has made the paradigm of one man living alone in a 1967 five bedroom house increasingly unsustainable. In the next year, I'm leaving scenic western MA. After 40+ decades here, I don't think I'll miss it. Of course where I'm moving to is like a foot above sea level so I'm fucked when the ocean rises, but aren't we all? Also, I am really REALLY in need of a new mic preamp. My current one is 16 years old and has a host of issue. The company (Symetrix) discontinued the model I use (528E) which has been the industry standard in radio for decades. I found a company called Revive Audio that repair and upgrade 528Es for a reasonable price. Being a small company, they don't answer their phone. I've just finished an email to them, but I imagine the turnaround is measured in weeks if not months. In the interim, I need SOMETHING so I'm idly looking at $100 Behringer mic preamps. Wait, how did this turn into a Jacob's Mindless etc etc post?

http://hse-econ.fi/tervio/MediocritiesAndSuperstars.pdf Basically, firms are risk averse. They would rather hire someone who has done something before, even if they did it badly, than hire someone who has never done something at all.

Woke up to burst pipes (again) and a flooded basement (again). This time the water got into the wiring. The good news is I'm not dead and the house didn't burn down. The bad news is more or less everything else. I've already shop vacced up maybe 100 gallons. There's parts of the basement I can't easily get to (FML) and two outlets are dead. One is a ground fault and it won't reset its breaker. My first reaction is DON'T FUCK WITH IT. Luckily I ran a lighting business for 15 years and I have some big, fuck-off extension cords. I'm running on fumes right now, but I've got more work to do this evening. Did I say FML? FMMFL.

RIP Valerie Harper ?

Hurricane preparations and checking supplies, i.e. water, liquor, beer and ammunition.