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Got my new Samsung S22 Ultra and I'm learning the new features. So far I'm really liking it.

Were there pictures? Finally have a build date for my ‘rex, 3/31. Can. Not. Wait. Hopefully gas is still under $20 a gallon by then.

Well with the $700 loyalty discount and the $400 trade in for my old Note 9, this phone was $100. That made it a no brainer for me.

Y'all remember slow posts? Older news but to be fair I've been laptop-less since this happened. Meow. Couple at an outdoor swimming pool. Original colour photograph. Stockholm, Sweden in 1941.

I didn't take any as we were freezing out butts off and most the cars never got off the trailers. I really suck at taking pictures I have to admit...LOL Great to see on the TRX. Hopefully won't sink at sea (horrible story...apparently 20 of the Porsches were for Houstonians). My friends had two out for the rental: red one and a black one. Love those trucks! HS

Some new stuff from Tears For Fears and Johnny Marr. Both pretty darn good, especially the new TFF....

It’s alive… https://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/latest/photo-news/sigma-three-layer-image-sensor-camera-development-160972

Happy Birthday, Naaman. Here's to hoping your day is filled with ping pong and family fun.

We had a track rental for today. Weather got the better of us...need to swap back to the street tires on my piggy. Bummer... The good thing is I can start my drink a bit earlier...LOL. This cold and wet weather is overrated for most things, but brown liquor compliments it. HS

Happy Birthday Naaman!

Yeah, I had the Note 9. This S22 Ultra is as big as that phone and has the pen. It's essentially a Note.

As much as he annoys me as a person, god DAMN did he write some great songs as a solo artist, as well as his contributions in Pink Floyd. Such a great song.

(Not sure why the updated the album cover) Amused to Death Roger Waters 1992 Example: Don't think I will make the upcoming tour, but I am sure it will be a good show.

Bellows for the Ode arrived. I think it’ll work great.

I'll be there showing off our new amp Stop by. We're in the Majestic room.

Chris Rea – The Blue Cafe:

RIP sally Kellerman.....beautiful woman, good actress, and loved her voice as well.... Didn't realize she had Dementia 😪

RIP Exogal the company.....really too bad....the Comet was one of my all-time favorite DAC's, and the mindset behind this company was pretty great (some ex-Wadia folks included).

Yikes. I just heard that one of my mum's oldest friends (named Susan, like half the women from her generation are) died of Covid. Her husband was very sick with it, but has survived so far. Neither were vaccinated. Robert, the husband, was a Vineyard native. He was a good friend of my father's growing up. He was an odd character for his entire life, but very mechanically inclined. He fixed everything from 2 cycle lawn mowers to large yacht engines. Over the last ...35ish years, he withdrew into right wing media, mostly via AM radio. In a less divided time than our current one (that post-9/11 idyll known as 2005) he confided to my mother that his only source of news was "right wing radio." I hadn't seen either of them in over a decade. Certainly not in the Trump or "post" (MFer ain't exactly gone) Trump era. At no point going back to the 1980s did I ever discuss politics with Robert. I strongly suspect he was hugely anti-vax and therefore Susan had to be as well. This marks the first time that someone I've known personally (and for my entire life, I might add) has died to covid due to their anti-vax stance. I'm gonna be "Knuckles at the end of his radio show" real here for a second: I can be friends with people with whom I have massive disagreements. We can have irreconcilable differences on tax or military policy, gay rights, what the fuck ever. As long as I don't have to hear about it, we're good. I'd like to ammend one my precvious statements:" This anti-vax bullshit isn't "pants-on-head" retarded. It's beyond that. It's "what are pants?" Water boils at 212 degrees Freedom and 100 degrees Communist. Reality is what remains when you stop believing in it. Get fucking vaccinated, you are a danger to yourself and others. When did we collectively lose 2/3 of our IQ points? Good fucking LORD.