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This is a my new classical guitar made by local luthier Trevor Gore. The guitar has a most of Trevors innovations incorporated, this weekend I’ll get to meet Trevor and collect my new baby. https://goreguitars.com.au/innovation/

Wrapping up the kids bathroom renovation for the boss (while they're on vacation in Ireland). I still have a third shelf to place between the top and bottom shelves, under where the vessel style sink will live. But I need to wait for the plumber to finish plumbing the sink, so I know where to cut around the drain P trap. It will most likely not go from wall to wall like the top and bottom shelves, but will most likely get cut shorter and be mitered back up to the top shelf. Kind of a reverse waterfall. These shelves are milled from rough Redwood. Not the wood I'd choose for a child's bathroom. It's just so soft, that anything will leave a dent. But that's what the boss wanted. Got the wallpaper installed, then the medicine cabinet. As well as the mirror and two floating shelves above the toilet, (toilet not yet installed). And installed the new light fixture, TP holder and shower curtain rod. Re-purposed an old door for the pocket door. All that's left is the middle shelf and putting on the shower curtain, which I've left off to give the plumber more room to do the shower trim out. Plumber arrives Saturday. Boss' wife and kids arrive Sunday. Boss arrives a week later.

Yeah, I'm sorry, I don't mean to bash on Mozart -- I think it says more about me than it does about him. I just thought it'd be funny to take those 6 words out like that. Please resume enjoying music, for Pete's sake. Yeah, obviously an overgeneralization (and I, too, like his Requiem, and I enjoy it when my girl HH plays his music -- that's when I decided I loved her the best -- she made me enjoy Mozart!).

Swapped all 15030/31’s and the bias issue is solved! Behaving nicely. I tested all the removed transistors with a cheap ebay tester and none tested “bad” but I realize thats a limited test. Thanks for the help all. I can finally try this beast in balanced mode! Still waiting on tube input boards from Dukei who had spares. Also need to wrap up dc connector details and order chassis yet.

Mozart is probably my favorite composer. His later works when he had more freedom to do what he wanted were obviously his best, but I like them all.

^ He might have tripped on the peanut shells blanketing the floor and hit his head.

Inspired by Greyhymm

R.I.P. George Winston. But I'm not done with Pat Robertson yet. May El Diablo's giant barbed penis plunder your anal cavity for eternity. Let's not pretend that it's virginal though. No doubt you've experienced more than one parishioner's cock inside it. Possibly a fist or two as well. I'm very familiar at decoding those grimaces.

I see no bacon, Who are you and what have you done with a real Mikey?

Dusty, I understood it like that, I kind of feel the same with most of his music, but there are a few works that I find very compelling. Parts of the Requiem are among them.

Nine statements Robertson made that he will probably have to explain at the pearly gates.

While I'm not where near my late 00s output, I have begun to take, edit and post photos at a rate that I have not in over a decade. Just a short walk from my house. The 17-40L is a bit silly at the wide end (TBH just about everything that wide is) but I end up using it that way more often than not. I attribute this to a lack of discipline on my part. Conversely, the 17-40 is actually amazing at 40mm. Infrared version of a scene I posted earlier (points up.) IR is never not a PITA. Out of the camera, this shot looks awful. I spent over an hour futzing with it. First I denoised in Topaz DeNoise AI. Next ran it through Luminar 4 where I made a bunch of changes and applied a lookup table. I've begun to use L4 for the conversion to B&W. It's basically as good as (my totally legit copy of) Photoshop for that task. I also applied a lookup table, which made a fairly subtle difference. Lastly, I dragged the image into PS, removed some dirt spots and fixed the [gosh darn] horizon line. I actually quite like the end result. I've been moving toward "normal" looking IR images (vs freakish alien landscape) for a while now. Other than the odd tone curve, one might not immediately notice this is an IR photo. Downtown Edgartown. Similar, but not quite as involved process as above. Luminar 4 manages to add so much noise to images with its pseudo HDR math (even when I specifically disable most of it) that I have found I need to do both "before" and "after" passes in Topaz. This is a much more obviously IR shot. I do like the strong beam of light from the late afternoon sun. Edgartown docks. Less processing than some of the shots above, but I still did a careful B&W conversion and spent considerable time on the levels. Across the street fro my house. What makes this photo for me is the tiny jet with the contrail between the clouds. I've also been editing some older photos, specifically a bunch from 2008: Two shots of the late Heidi the cat, surveying her kingdom and ...doing cat stuff, I guess. Taken with the very good Canon 85mm F/1.8 I borrowed for a few days. The 85/1.8 is a great lens that forever lives in the looming shadow of the glass Gojira that is its F/1.2 brother. Exiting a bar on Christmas Eve, 2011. PowerShot S95 wide open (F/2) 1/13th handheld, ISO200. I didn't like the photo when I took it, but nearly a dozen years later I think it captures a mood. My driveway after a blizzard, January 2009. Light source is my house + car's headlights. A few weeks earlier that same January. Cold sunset over a Stop & Shop parking lot. Back to the present day. Some odd cloud formations over my back yard. Moment app on an iPhone 13, with minimal futzing in PS afterward. I've got a bunch more to post, but this is going to have to do for now. Flickr has gone "503 Service Unavailable. No server is available to handle this request." half a dozen times while I've tried to make this post.

Let's do that, Neil. PM with suggested timing. Do you have a estat amp in the studio?

actually a krell master reference pair of monoblocks will drive any headphone electrostatic or dynamic. just need to add a bias supply. 800 volts peak to peak.

so after some fiddling around , now my CFA3 working perfectly.I replaced all my old stock BC546/556 to newer parts with roughly matching,offset still 40mV w/o Servo but no big difference switching back to 300ohm maybe my problem comes from some crooked old BC parts...? I dunno but fixed anyway lol

took this almost b&w photo last year (just a touch of green showed up. I didn't realize it's lack of color until later.

Back on the Ted Train for season three - and it is not disappointing.

In other news George Winston, pianist, has died. https://www.npr.org/2023/06/07/1180774279/george-winston-new-age-pianist-obituary?ft=nprml&f=191676894

As someone who grew up on 80s wrestling, I recognized early how important a good heel was to any narrative. Clown ass Hulk Hogan owes a huge amount of his success to wrestlers like the Sheik and Andre the Giant.