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I'm setting a goal of riding Haleakala in Feb of 2022. I've gotta build up my climbing a lot now.

Finished my latest composition.

Yesterday. A guilty pleasure :

Well, he’s flying to California today so I’m sure things will be better quickly. Also why did Melissa slow cook beans last night if we can’t open the windows?

My friends and I did our century yesterday on Cape Cod. The weather was mostly great, 70d and sunny but the wind was strong out of the east and instead of helping as we'd hoped it would on the way back kicked our ass for a solid 10 miles. Still, much fun was had and the two guys who were only planning to do 60 stuck with us for the whole ride. We went a little slower as a result but it was well worth it to have all 6 of us hit the mark.

Come at the king, you best not miss. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Looks like an Elegia rebadge.

monday \m/ Of Feather And Bone - Bestial Hymns of Perversion

This is a crossover, because it's speaker porn too. This is my dream system...Vivid Audio Giya G1speakers and Luxman B-1000f monoblocks. Yes please!

@ Home Brunch (because: 2020 (pandemic, poor AQI outside))

But there's LEATHER

Day 5 of 200 plus. And no real fires around us. ..but we put a temp ban on beans regardless.

Yes, especially in Florida, as it is not significantly cooler.

Is it still good to listen to in September?

FAKE NEWS! Nice riding, Dan, you are racking up the miles.

Trump did say he was going to bring back coal...

Assault on precinct 13 recording session. Moog 901s in full effect.

I read Cape Cod's beer and pizza joints have a lot of stairs.

Looks good to me counselor. No need to appear!

Vava brand air purifier, the one with UV light for bacteria. They are cheap silent so get multiples to spread around your crib. For masks look for three layer cotton preferably with pockets to allow for insertion of non woven poly propylene fabric (Etsy, Admathagifts). As for locust hords and boils I recommend Ortho Home Defense Max and a topical steroid cream.

Lips | American Head

T2 first listening impressions. wow..... erm.... wow..... erm..... wow The first thing that strikes me is marco dynamics are amazing, on recordings that are not that dynamic the amp does not exaggerate the dynamics, but on dynamic recordings like full orchestra the dynamics are so powerful but not overdone. This is backed up with bass is far more defined, less mushy, more full than my other stax amps but the bass is not not dry or hard or overblown Stereo images are more solid and tangible and more precise than any other stax amp I have, its so close to the experience my Quad 2805 speakers..... Detail is amazing, but the detail is not thrown at you and its therefore not tiring to listen to. But I do notice tape edits, dropped violin bows, musical score page turns more... but it just adds to the experience that tens of musicians in a room can't be totally silent all the time. when music gets complicated there is far less tendency for sounds to just clump together into a messy mushy ball. However you still get the feeling of musicians playing together and the detail is not analytic. The amp just says here is all the detail let it wash over you and you decide how much you want to listen into the detail and how much you want the whole music. This is the first time I have been satisfied with the bass and dynamics from my sr007a mk2. I think it shows that my stax sr007a just need as much drive as they cant get. My journey: stax srm006 (piece of mushy yet bass light and less bass the higher the volume, undynamic, undetailed, poorly constructed, stereo thick soup, gloop with the sweetness of a lemon), hi-amp alpha centauri (improvement in every way over the srm06, its an upgrade but you still feel there is music missing. Overall you get the impression is nothing special and has but poor bass, slightly deeper than the srm006, but mid and upper bass is almost non existent. Bass loss with volume is far less), blue hawaii (murders the alpha in every way but maybe slightly hard sounding for me and a bit of a tiring long term listen. It was a very enjoyable build and a considerable step up from the alpha but I rarely could relax into the music), Mini T2 (better micro dynamics, smoother and more refined more listenable than the hawaii but lacking in some drive and macro dynamics, detail and bass. I still got the feeling with it that it was struggling with the sr007s a bit) and finally the T2 (im sure I will eventually find something wrong with it... that's just the way my brain works but for now im content [which is rare])... So whats next after the T2? (other than building a second one).... Many many thanks to Kevin for the T2 and joamat for the modified T2 and mini T2, spritzer for providing the nos transistors and everyone for their encouragement and help.

https://youtu.be/wsOHvP1XnRg not sure why preview not showing, but it’s “Cities in Dust”, dedicated to my West coast friends

try not to kill the user until AFTER they have finished paying for it Equal rights for electrons! they should be allowed to travel freely and not be constrained by insulation... If they want to travel through your heart it just their way of being loving and friendly.... they are so misunderstood.

The whole shaving off the top of the main transformer scares me. Insulation is there for a reason. 1st order of business, try NOT to kill the user.

Neither do I, so I listen to those who do. I suppose the other approach is to just not care about things you don't understand.

I was able to get mostly round holes lined up. These two holes will have bolts and room in the larger hole to accommodate a 15/16” deep socket. I tested them out this weekend and they hold the heavy tandem kayak well. I am going to build a second level with another pair of hooks. Pretty pleased so far. Now just need to avoid mistakes for the smaller holes Also, this alloy seems to be considerably harder than what I have used in the past. This is 6063. All my previous circle hole cutting has been 6061. With this, is the carbide saw is the tool of choice. The wood-working bit was a bit... “scary” (though it did produce a cleaner hole) experiment on scrap: No luck with a Punch.... or I am just not strong enough. This is 1/8” wall.

Ross (un)Common* Chocolate (embedded bar) Brownie * breezy, but with decent AQI

Bel Canto – Renée Fleming

Simple Minds

the feelies | good earth

RIP Diana Rigg, aged 82 from Cancer In her pomp: BBC obituary for Diana Rigg https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27986272

RIP Lou Brock. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/09/06/us/lou-brock-obit-spt-trnd/index.html