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R5s arrived:

Muddy Waters - Folk Singer (AP 33) the rs1’s really make it pretty magical sounding

DIY Bookshelf Speakers- Ambrosia Maple, Black Walnut & Brazilian Cherry.

Salton Sea history from an awesome series highlighting So. California.

Last night I figured something out. Kyuss, the metal band credited with spawning the poorly named genre "stoner rock" released their last album in 1995 "...And The Circus Leaves Town." The album cover art is a bit hard to make out. It's a fisheye shot of a flooded area, that is upside down and mirrored. I thought it was a weird winter scene for years, which is odd for a band from the southwest. Here it is with the proper orientation: Last night I discovered that the photo was shot in Bombay Beach, which on the Salton Sea and, to but it delicately, a complete shithole. The same spot, 5 years later. The area is the inspiration for a similarly decaying area in Grand Theft Auto V called Sandy Shores:

These days I take a somewhat pessimistic attitude toward major software updates - I wait a bit for it to mature before jumping on board given a choice. Software vendors no longer test the new release as thoroughly as in the past before releasing it to the public and I speak from firsthand experience. The early adapters are more like beta testers these days. I did not have a choice and had to upgrade my office-owned iPad to the latest iPadOS version recently. While I am sure the new OS is more secured (main reason for the upgrade), many things just do not work right and will likely take a few patches to rectify.

Nope, no need for Abyss but may need the resistor if you have a lot more sensitive planars.

I'd still switch. Just because I hate Microsoft. If the issue was formatting, the originator could've exported the file to Excel v2013 format. I don't know if there's an equivalent for functions, though. But if you do switch and run into the problem again, something to keep in mind. We actually have it set as default to save Word as .doc files and not .docx files at work to make sure no-one ever runs into compatibility issues, especially the client.

And as secondary advice I'd hedge on the Surface Pro as well. We're using some Pro's and Books at work, and there are some hardware/firmware issues we face....I use mine docked and with external KB/mouse mostly OK, but when I un-dock the keyboard misbehaves, and getting out of hibernate mode has been selectively difficult (which it jumps into randomly when it shouldn't, thought not in the middle of use). My colleague has many issues with hers, docked or un-docked; she is possibly looking to get a new one as it is still under warranty and she's had SO many issues..... FWIW, I've been keeping up on firmware updates, and it IS getting a bit better for me....but colleague still has a lemon. And finally: another colleague has a relative who works at MS I think in their HW group - and expressed sympathy when told we use Surface laptops/tablets.... ?

Art Blakey - Moanin'

Agreed. The biggest difference I find is in Excel VBA support. I use a pc at work with Office 365, and have Mac Office 2011 and 2016 on my Mac(s) at home. It is getting better on the Mac but still not at parity. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

We use office for mac at work and I also use it on my PC at home when I'm doing work on the weekends. The features ARE NOT the same. They are more than 95% the same, but that last 5ish% can vary between the two platforms as the Mac version usually gets new features a bit later than the windows version. It is hard to say for sure whether she would or would not mind the platform switch because the Office apps have so many features that what really matters is if the if ones she specifically uses are or aren't there. There are thousands of features in these office apps and every user tends to use a specific set of them. Unless she is an extreme power user and macro god though, I bet she'd be fine on the mac version.

I've been rewatching Black Books on Amazon Prime because ... well ... because it's on Amazon Prime. This led to this Dylan Moran short which I'd completely forgotten about and is absolutely terrific.

Rachel Maddow interviewing Lev Parnas. Compelling stuff.

At the Chelsea Wine Cellar (retail space in Chelsea Market, NYC): Also at the Chelsea Wine Cellar, in the "expensive room" (next to the 50 y/o Glenlivet):

And I finally made some cast-iron-skillet cornbread. It at least looks good, actual taste testing to commence shortly with the white bean chicken chili that Maura made.

Enjoy the trauma...