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Yesterdays smoked pork belly burnt ends. Smoked ribs from a few days ago. Smoked ribs from a c

Summer is over but this still brings back good summer memories.

I've found a checklist of possible causes of single-channel hum in Stax e-stats in a 2009 HC post by spritzer. Long story short, if the culprit indeed is the headphone itself (and not some defective output tube in the energizer) then he states that debris inside the driver may cause it through bias leakage, or perhaps a faulty bias connection. Taking into account my previous diagnosis steps listed above, it all points out to debris having entered the right driver, which means a full inside cleaning of said driver was in order, together with checking the dust covers for punctures and/or tears. Luckily for me, I do have some experience in disassembling SR-007 drivers for cleaning (I also have a SR-007 Mk1 which got mold inside the right driver through a dust cover tear about 9 months ago, but that's another story... 😔 ), so I did just that. Curiously (and fortunately), there were no holes or tears in the dust covers, but the cleaning really did the trick. The hum is gone! Yay!

Fall is upon us, so chili verde. Not pictured, another entire pan of peppers.

Happy cocktailing today and many more, Jim! Cheers!

Thank you once again. Appreciate you getting it back up before the big event. https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/to?msg=Countdown+to+the+Rapture&

There is ever always room at the conspicuous side of the price envelope.

I think this video could interest the early 15 adopters

Just for documentation's sake, "Bridgeport" is alive and well. Doug obviously knows the details better than I, but I expect to have her resettled here in the holy land before too long. Thanks again, Doug!

The recipe says to remove the skin and suggests doing it in water or stock that gets strained and used in cooking. I was confused at first, but I think it's meant to be removed and tossed.

I think Alexsander will appreciate it. 😆

When I read this recipe, I thought of you and your chile verde and enchilada habits and how it would meld them. I'm going to try it with chicken but pork would work too... https://www.seriouseats.com/the-best-chicken-enchiladas-recipe?hid=afbcd5ec2924e6f4f4e9ae4ec9315e2afffcdd9a&did=10340377-20230923&utm_source=seriouseats&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=serious-eats_newsletter&utm_content=092323&lctg=afbcd5ec2924e6f4f4e9ae4ec9315e2afffcdd9a

iPhone photos while I was in Seattle for business...

I appreciate the heads up. Unfortunately, taking a half or full day off work on the last day of the month might be tough. Jason Isbell on Sunday might would be interesting too 🤔

This popped up in my feed - interesting gadget (Teenage Engineering TP-7 field recorder) from Sweden:

So is the amp made by Craftsman or Snap-On?

Kingfish is playing next Friday at 2:30pm at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass...

I listened to Redman's album too. Really liked it. Was expecting it to be more experimental from Mikey's comments. It was pretty straight forward to me, and I did like the singer. Bummer that she sounded so off live. I also listened to this: I saw some YouTube videos of him but didn't think I'd like a whole album. I was wrong. The sound quality was surprisingly good, and this song blew me away, especially the solo. The 8+ minutes is well worth your time, but if you don't want to invest in it, the solo starts at 3:20.

Water Falls Sara K. 2004 https://album.link/i/6333184 Example: I continue to grow in my appreciation of Sara. As always a very well recorded set of tracks. Not as clean as the Chesky releases, but few things are.

mini T2 one channel lsk389 replacing 6DJ8/6922. Still on drawing table.

A colorful Thai green curry

I’m on the road with the Flair Pro 2, the Bellman, and the Orphan Lido OG grinder. Not a bad setup for a little latte in the morning. I’ve found soaking the brew chambers in boiling water to be the most effective way to go.

I found out today that a close friend from Chattanooga, Jimmy Burgess, passed away on August 16th. I met him through Mensa, but he was a bit atypical of the people I normally come across. He had more stories than almost anyone I've come across, including being a pit boss at Harrah's, carrying duffle bags of cash to deposit at a bank after a big day at Ringling Brothers, stationed in Hawaii during a stint with military intelligence, and he'd always join me after meetings for the after party, which sometimes involved a few, but often involved the two of us going somewhere and drinking/talking for hours. Most of the time I've known him, though, he was working at a recycling center. He'd often have people drop stuff off which was still in good working order, so he wound up liberating it from a sad fate. He lived across from my grandmother's house, and I had a ~cousin who lived next to him and found out they would barter/trade all kinds of things. There was a time we were at a dinner and I'd mentioned that my receiver had a channel die earlier that week. At the end he was like "follow me to my car, I have something for you." (No, Steve, not that.) He had a 1200$ Denon receiver that was pre-HDMI, so it was being tossed. The audio section, however, worked flawlessly, and continued to power my Rega Jura speakers in TN until I moved out. Last year, I had a friend who had been abused by her then-BF with whom she lived. She didn't have anywhere to go, so I called up my buddy Jimmy and he got ready and went and rescued her from a bad situation, took her out to eat, talked and drank for hours, then got her set up in a hotel for a couple days. Today, she's doing great, has an amazing new job where she's even been able to pay for her mom to get two surgeries she's needed. When I moved out of TN, my house had been a wreck, and all the packing/boxing up/getting rid of stuff that was supposed to be done by the kids' mom hadn't been started. We spent hours and hours while I was there for 4 days working on it, and he kept going over and taking care of anything that needed to be done over the next month while I was 2500 miles away. He was a good friend, and I'm so glad we got to hang out in July when I went to Chattanooga to visit, just didn't realize it was going to be the last time I saw him. RIP, Jimmy. 1943-2023