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Taco Tuesday Steako de Mayo!

One of mine

I just weighed myself and I'm under 200 lbs for the first time in longer than I can remember, definitely over a decade(!)

Arch Rock, Joshua Tree. Click for slightly larger. True words seldom spoken. "...and just like that, Blue Lives didn't Matter anymore." Taken with a pinhole camera. Fully-restored 1958 Golden Sahara II with Goodyear's Illuminated Neothane Glow-Tyres.

Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend (Legacy Edition)

Got good news from PCBnet - they will remanufacture the PSU main boards to the spec'ed 2mm thickness. Expect to be shipped next week. PCBnet has truly been a top notch company to do business with. Their product quality and customer service have both been excellent!

In this two months of confinement has given me time to rediscover things like this:

^ Saw Sweet play the album in full a few years ago. Was fun. Molly Payton | Mess

We finished the Valhalla Murders. Very good, seemed ordinary for 1st half but they did wind it up with a twist at the end.

Dusk is pretty great. I don't know why I never played through it when it came out, but I finally played it now. It starts off a bit like a Quake clone - a very slick and polished Quake clone but a clone nevertheless - but it doesn't stay that way. The feel of the game really changes as you get further into it, and it feels more inspired by the atmosphere of immersive sims like Thief and System Shock, and occasionally horror games like Amnesia. The level design has clearly learned some tricks from Half Life and Portal, and plays with verticality and sense of scale quite a lot. Above it all, the game feels almost like an exercise in narration that uses old-school FPS mechanics but is much more about what it makes you feel. Considering that the developer has a history of making atmospheric horror games, I'm not surprised. Don't let the low-fi primitive graphics fool you, there is nothing primitive about this game. Oh, and of course it has a movement system. Simplified, not quite full-on Quakeworld/CPM but at least it's there. Highly recommended.

Not only own - built from first priniciples. The bridge and baffle are traditional hammer veneered using hide glue, and then French Polished. The dark wood around the forward tweeter and the baffle support is Cocobolo, and the bridge feet are Goncalo Alves. The bass unit is spray painted satin back, and then coated in buffed in wax polish. I was going to just paint the whole thing black, but Mrs S said she'd like wood finish - so I used that as an excuse to learn traditional veneering and French polishing.

Posted on the “Exploring Virginia” Facebook group.

Deck lunch Home made oat porridge loaf, home made fermented pickles, home made kombucha.. 😋

Yes! My biggest familiarity with woodworking is through luthier friends, I have a bud that makes cellos and another that is an accomplished guitar maker. The guitar guy uses hide glue construction exclusively, and typically his solid tops and backs are perfectly bookmatched to ensure that nice consistent look. Cheers!

My maternal side grandfather would have been about 13 years old, living in fairly squalid Bayeswater London at the time that movie was shot in Paris.

New Woodkid!

New Hazy Sea! (Instrumental Rock) https://hazysea.bandcamp.com/album/coast-of-the-immortals

Salmon Vindaloo with black rice (on purple plate) from a jar, so...yes, basically the Manwich(tm) of Vindaloos

Oh no, now I'm aroused.

Thank you! Using hide glue is actually a darn sight easier if you make a mistake - plenty of water and a clothes iron (I have 2 really cheap ones in the workshop) re-liquifies the glue and the veneer can be peeled off. If you use regular white wood glue, the only way to recover is to sand the veneer off with a belt sander. If you look closely you'll see the veneer is book matched too. That involves making an invisible seam right down the middle of the baffle. That is standard everyday practice for a professional cabinetmaker. It is more of a difficulty for me as a trained amateur who veneers infrequently.

and nice IG....

Room treatment to speaker size ratio champion, 2020.

I'd say if you liked, and followed, season 1, then the second is a natural extension & worth your watch. S2 had some amazingly beautiful episodes (the one's that centered on Shogun World & the native American Ghost World, come to mind), culminating in a finale that provides a satisfying payoff for your efforts, imo. I just finished season 3, and I can't recommend it to anyone, sadly...

WIP: Angle bracket for my cfa amp.

Plenty more down this rabbit hole. RIP Dave Greenfield.

Bone-in and boneless short ribs went on the smoker at 11:30, wrapped at 2:30, will be ready to unwrap shortly.

Today's batards. They (well, the one I ate, anyway) turned out very nicely.

The Great Empty: Photographs by The New York Times

Florian Schneider of Kraftwerk. Cancer.

Stanislav, husband of one of my Russkie friends since childhood, Anna Tchursin, “lost his lifelong battle with depression”, as she put it. I still blame Covid-19, albeit indirectly. I only met him once, but he was quite the character.