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We went to my favourite pub, caught up with a couple of our favourite people, drank some excellent beers, and... won the meat tray.

Contracted to sell our house. Now have to find a place to live.

First 2 chassis just arrived. Getting it tested!

Is that made by RebelAmp?

Me: Looking at plans for an ark.

Trying to burn through work bench scraps still so I built my first, rather boring end grain cutting board.

In today's snake related news, a pacific gopher snake. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pituophis

Looking to move to Maryland or possibly northern Virginia.

as Al would probably say, better sooner than later

Stereo Mind Game Daughter 2023 https://album.link/i/1659524944 Example: Newer release from Daughter. I know that they have been around for ten years or so, but I have not been following them. I really appreciated the overall mood and vibe of this album. Not standout songs, But takes me on a slow journey that I really enjoyed. I will have to go back and take a look at the lyrics to see how the messages match-up. I am not great with lyrics for the most part on a first listen.

I'd guess far away from this guy.

#toosoon

I tried the Intelligentsia coffees for the first time. Very good! I will be buying from them again. HS

Maybe get your own White House? https://abc7news.com/western-white-house-hillsborough-california-home-oval-office/13438168/

So Canada in 2024?

That's a pretty girthy, gravity-defying, fuck-me-sideways snake, Grəm. (I happen to currently be wearing my "snakes on an inclined plane" shirt, no lie.)

I call this dish Batchelor Stovetop Casserole. It's a dish my Father and I developed together when I was around 20, and we were roommates for the first time.

I disagree. I think that's a pretty cool design.

Squeak squeak. Apple's energy efficiency is nothing short of amazing, but their marketing is crap. Squeak.

The portable CD player was pretty cool too. It had a docking station for AC power supply and a remote control sensor. The powered Roommates had nice mounting brackets. A pretty nice rig for the fishing boat. My room was one of the more popular party places.

I got my Walkman back from repairs. The muting module had issues and it needed a new belt. Sounds great again.

I know you like to pretend otherwise, Knucks, but you are a saint.

I have exactly one neighbor. His name is Gary. He's a genuine boomer, turning 70 this year. He is some kind of special needs. In his day, on Marthas Vineyard, there wasn't much in the way of diagnosis so he just kind of got by. He lived with his mother until she passed on my birthday this year at the age of 93(!) Now Gary lives alone, and I live here on MV. Gary does okay, but my (sainted, octogenarian) mother does have some worries about him. He mentioned to her that his electric bill was over $200 this month. She said to me "you have an awful lot of spare LED bulbs, you should see if Gary would let us replace some of his incandescents." She wasn't wrong. For reasons not entirely worth explaining, I have 3-4 boxes of LED bulbs I brought with me to the Vineyard. My father was a hoarder of antique furniture. He built barns to hold it all: In spite of the thousands of records and CDs I own, not to mention the nightclub's worth of lighting gear (and all the stereo equipment) I own, I have always rejected the notion that I am a hoarder. Except for lightbulbs. I have to cop to it. I compulsively bought CFL bulbs when those were a thing, and then moved on to LED bulbs when they arrived. I have done some pretty neat things with them. I restored a bunch of antique lamps: (For colored bulbs, CFLs are better than LED. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.) Even with the lamps above and many more, I have a vast excess of LED bulbs. Today, with Gary's permission I went through his house and wrote down all of the bulbs I thought he could use. Then I went up to my attic where it was 115 goddamn degrees and dragged down a few boxes. I then spent an hour replacing the bulbs in most of Gary's house. I did most of the living area, and discussed with him a few spots I could not get to (the garage and basement.) He seemed pleased. Also I have (slightly) fewer bulbs kicking around now.

Good news, everything appears to be working normally now. With some help from georgep and joamat I managed to track down what seems to have been the culprit: one dead 2SC3675 in one of the triplets of 2SC3675's. Probably the reason two of the LEDs nearby were dead too. I just need to plug in some stax now and have a listen... All batteries now measure +200V/-539V, and R42 measures 6.55V just as it should.

Complete disaster for my Alpine boys this weekend. Not only did both cars DNF (Ocon’s car broke, Pierre and Stroll collided), our rivals, McLaren, seem to be back in business. Otmar better get things turned around quick or the guillotines will start coming out!

Did that bastard Emooze steal it from you? 😡