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Thanks so much for the birthday wishes, I’ve successfully made it half way to 90! Spent the day at home not grading exams!!! Actually got time to set up the Roon music server and 6Gb RAID networked storage so that was fun. Yumi and I watched Becoming (about Michelle Obama), ate fajitas, and drank margaritas. So a pretty awesome day!

I do my pork shoulders sort of like Naaman does briskets. Dry rub, cook till ~150ish internal, wrap (I add apple juice to the foil), cook for a few hours that way till the internal gets pretty high but no real target, and then unwrap and cook until it hits 200. The rub I use is brown sugar, salt, pepper, cumin, garlic. I did a 4lb shoulder last weekend and it took a solid 9 hours and probably could have gone longer. It still pulled ok, and tasted great, but I let it go too long before i wrapped it. Basically I'd budget around 2hours per pound, to be conservative. More if the but is partially frozen like mine was.

It's currently sunny and snowing with the wind gusting 20+mph. In other words a totally normal, pleasant, spring day.

Test Tone @ Home live right now: http://mixlr.com/illuminator/chat

Thank you. Them pins looks very interesting indeed. Regarding my current project. Goal with it was to build a T2 on an original board with all modern components. After a visit in the ditch I returned to the narrow road. Rebuilt the batteries to original LED version on the board. Had to change some resistors as I reduced voltages - battery is 640V instead of the original 740V. Furthermore the change to fjpf2145 instead of 2sc3675 called for a Darlington par out of pair of fjpf2145 in batteries. Very easy to make a Darington pair on the original board. Yellow Teflon wire from base to a via on the board – perfect and the via has a perfect diameter. Some components (ksa1220, ksc2690,ksc1008 and j112) have different pin out as the original ones so I twisted their legs to fit the board. Thanks Michael (mwl168) for how to bend legs on the ksc1008. Bottom line: I believe I’ve built a decent version of DIY T2 with all modern components. I’m satisfied and am about to make myself not so sober (it’s Friday evening). P.S. some problem with one channel, unwanted noise and hum. Happens now and then if you have T2s…

RIP, Mr. Horn. Godspeed, Little Richard... You paved a way for many a performer. Thank you for all the entertainment. HS

I know we're extremely late to it, and never read the books or saw the 2004 movie, but man, oh man, is Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events Netflix... ah, series, with Neil Patrick Harris fuuunn.

Have a stupendous day!

They put this video online again recently, I think because it kind of feels like the ride we are all on at the moment?

Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes One of the most intense war novels I've ever read. It's a gigantically thick-looking hardcover, but easily devoured regardless.

Happy birthday Shel! So glad you get to shelter in place with the woman you love. Cheers!

Happy Birthday, Shelly!

Went to the locker this afternoon. Among others there was this

Okay all those 'musicians' out there trying to record at home... This is how you record at home.

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Yeah you do. Mine was considerably cooler (nearly 50F).

Happy Birthday, Shelly! Have a wonderful day.

Yup. It's finally starting to cool off here. Down to 82.

^^ Your daily affirmation; Current mood vv

RIP “Little” Richard Penniman. "A-wop-bop-a-loo-bop-a-wop-bam-boom!" -best line in all of pop music, IMO.

That is so weird. Snow in May? WTF! We haven't had a single flake of snow (at least where we live) in this winter just gone. Lots and lots of rain, named storms, and flooding - but zero snow. That means insect heaven with no cold weather to kill them off. So flies, wasps and ticks will be abundant as the year goes on. Can hardly wait. Watch insect repellent being the next hoarding bulk buy. 75 degrees here just now.

Snowing here too, Todd. What the actual apocalypse is going on?!?!?j. Also, my parents who live about an hour further north have 2" on the ground.

RIP Roy Horn, 75, of Sigfried and Roy fame, lost to complications from COVID-19. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/08/obituaries/roy-horn-dead-covid.html