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I work in an office in a building where there are also 3 or 4 other companies. Yesterday, our doorbell rings. The people who normally answer were out in a group meeting, so I and one other went to the door, to find a flower delivery man. My colleague is saying that the name doesn't sound familiar as I'm walking up. But he's newer, and may not know everyone, so I ask the name. Flower man tells me, and I say, "Hmmmm, not here, but I actually used to work with someone by that name....." [though it was a different spelling for first name]. Anyway, flower man checks one other company on our floor, not there....so I decide to help, and check it out on LinkedIn. Ah, OK, she works in the company downstairs....and then, I realize it IS my old colleague (and I had the spelling of her first name, Stacey, with no "e" in my mind)! So I went down to see her, but she was stuck in meetings. She contacted me online, we'll get together next week.... Haven't worked with her since 2002/2003, and then last saw her maybe 2.5 years ago at a concert during a Summer Folk Festival in Lowell MA.....and I find out she's been working on the floor below me for over a year! Small fucking world......

Thirty years ago today, Carl Sagan showed images of the earth from 4 billion miles taken from Voyager: the "Pale blue dot" He said: "Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."

I will be getting both sets of pads and naturally... I take everything apart so expect pics. 🙂 No doubt the normal bias SR-X is a bit bright as they were tuned like that. Stax wanted to bleed off a lot of the bass so the end result is a bright set. My point was more with the importance of the pads as they matter a lot with the close proximity of the drivers. Also when they have arc'ed...they get even brighter.

Today’s mini project. Timer 555 with a few other components. When IN (the empty pad just below left leg of the two color LED) is low then RED, if high then GREEN. Standby/On indicator.

My mini T2 amp boards. Note the screw terminals on the top to make troubleshooting easier I know JoaMat does not believe in screw terminals but I do. 😉. If you are careful its even possible to orientate the terminals so the silkscreen voltage markings are still visible 🙂 . I take a 2 terminal and cut it in half and put the original smooth side parallel to the silkscreen markings. There is not space for screw terminals for the heaters of the el34s so I (possibly temporarily) have soldered in a header pin at 45 dgrees I have used nylon m3 standoffs for the first layer so that there is no chance of the standoff shorting against anything and brass standoffs for the remaining layers to get to the required height. SMD soldering was done in a three step process. 1 apply solder paste to the pads. 2. melt the solder using a hakko 888D station at 330 degree C using a fine tip until the paste has migrated to only be on the pads. 3 Hold the component with twisers onto the pads and with my other hand use a Quick 861DA hot air station using the smallest supplied nozzle with airflow setting all the way down to 5 (even then its possible to send one of the small diodes into orbit with that air flow)... to reflow the solder onto the component. the reason I soldered this way was, 1. I could collect any excess solder with the hakko, since I dont have an electronic solder paste dispenser... 😞 2. I could be reasonably certain there was no solder paste left under a component. I use the same method for soldering Kevins' synchronous rectifiers. this is the schematic of the v0.2 pcb with valves from the silkscreen. The red components have changed since the last published schematic.

Took Mary and Lance to the airport at 3 am for their flight to Columbus OH. This will be Lance's last Junior Olympics. It has been a good ride all these years but the next phase of his life is about to begin. 🤨 A season of "last's" tournament wise. Hopefully this one will bring great memories and a whole lot of fun as national points and standings do not matter at this point. Glad I have a place here to unload because fencing is stressful...for the parents. Hah!

Klipsch Belles.

Friday - Bake Day for Sonja - Week 4 of Test Bakes for tafoni bakehouse -- getting closer - 4x4 different loaves. Still have paperwork and website work to go - and then setup equipment for the farmers markets.... inching closer. the breads --- Farmers flour from Cairnspring Mills: 67% sifted Yecora Rojo wheat 18% whole-grain Expresso wheat berries from Cairnspring Mills (home-smoked & milled): 15% smoked Gazelle rye with honey, black pepper, and chocolate rye malt Smoky Mocha flour from Cairnspring Mills: 67% sifted Yecora Rojo wheat 18% whole-grain Expresso wheat berries from Cairnspring Mills (home-smoked & milled): 15% smoked Gazelle rye with honey, espresso, and chocolate chips Rustic Rosemary all flour from Cairnspring Mills: 80% sifted Yecora Rojo wheat 20% whole-grain Expresso wheat enriched with honey and oil, flavored with rosemary Yecora Rojo Sourdough flour from Cairnspring Mills: 80% sifted Yecora Rojo wheat berries from Cairnspring Mills (home-milled): 20% whole-grain Yecora Rojo wheat

Met my former college roommate and his kids for breakfast this morning before work. In my memory college doesn't seem that long ago but it has already been 13 years since we graduated in '07. Time sure does fly!

Please hurry on! I've run out of money to get them myself.

...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Madonna I've been all in on these guys lately.

already ordered a set hah.

At the Close of a Century – Stevie Wonder

Well, I’m back with the original pads and nothing wrong with them. Besides, I don’t like to comment on sonically differences on things I change or modify. On the other hand I like to tell (to much) all here what I’m doing.

With the SR-X series the pads make or break them. The current pads Stax stock are actually SR-30 units as the originals haven't been available for a long time. Now for the topic at hand, I have one of these incoming so it will be fun to play with. 🙂

good to know. luckily my head is ok with the heavy weight, i have a pair of lcd-4s also. i'm in nyc also hah

Obviously, a new singer, new album. So, I figured I'd listen on Quboz, hear a few power chords from a past their prime band, get bored, and move on. Well, no power chords on this album. All of the songs are mellow, acoustic, and frankly, pretty enjoyable. I've never really been into Stone Temple Pilots, but this may as well be another band with another name. A definite feeling of brooding throughout the album.

I wish this song went on for an hour.

Parenthood. "The sub was rattling."