Leaderboard

Yesterday, removed half the sod to clear a 14' x 16' tract of land. For context, that took about two and half hours. This morning, continued to remove sod to clear the rest of the area. Took about an hour since I'd already used the edger to cut the sod into roughly 1' square pieces. Project then moved from demolition to construction, which involved raking and grading the area. Then moved approximately 5,000# of crushed stone by hand along with installing permeable paving forms to make Lily a parking space beside the driveway. Grandma and grandpa chipped in. The somewhat rough finished project. I did a bit more raking/sweeping to level it out and smooth the high spots. The paver box-out in the back is for an irrigation control valve that was annoyingly just at the edge of the excavation.

After a long day of manual labor (see other post) I decided that calories were irrelevant. Detroit style pesto pizza. There was, of course, a pepperoni version as well but I was too hungry to take two pictures.

Indeed it is. She got her license in June. Time flies and all that. Works good though.

Greensky Bluegrass https://archive.org/details/gsbg2024-11-10.4015gs

Sam's Anchor Cafe deck, Fish and Chips with a side of downtown San Francisco skyline.

Happy birthday Mikey! Cheers!

Awesome work, Nate! But oh, my: "...make Lily a parking space beside the driveway." Is time flying that much?!

Hope you had a great one.

Happy birthday! BTW I thought at one stage to buy a bottle of 1956, and realised that it was either that or a new car 😁

Happy Birthday, Mikey!

Birthday dram: Mortlach 1942/50yo 40% {book of the kells label}

Happy Birthday Mikey. Perhaps a wee dram?

Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday, Mikey! Hope you have a nice bottle ready to pour!

Happy Birthday!

Belated Happy Birthday, Mikey! Hope you had a great day.

Belated Happy Day! Hope it was grand!

That is some hard yards! Nicely done.

uuummm ... nope...

I was thinking he was just aging backwards... ¡Feliz cumpleaños , mi amigo de escocés!

Happy Birthday, Mikey!!!

Happy Birthday, Mikey!

Heck yeah! Happy Birthday, Mikey!

fixed. glad someone is paying attention.

but you have connected negative traces to trim pin on layout above... or am I just confused?

you are going to need a pile of floating filament transformers. although now that SumR has finally produced transformers that are the right voltage and run cool this is easy. this one has regulated 300v and RCLCC high voltage supplies each with tube diodes. that is 2 more transformers. This one is 211 watts. A standard T2 is about 250 watts. replacing the current sources with tubes will add another 80 watts. and lots more physical space. and more filament transformers This modified to fit amplifier board will not be published and would be useless to everyone. The standard amp board should be used. The 300v regulated tube board with the tube hv diodes would be publishable once i put all the tube sockets back on standard distances. The hv power supply board would be publishable if people are interested. both of these would only be released to people who promise not to let them fall into the hands of FUCKING INCOMPETENT MORONS.

It’s over 10 years old man and condition wasn’t great to begin with (got it used from Justin). What I wanted to say was the HD800 is a very durable workhorse and it sounds wonderful to me for much cheaper. I normally use a headphone traveling case with it too but lately I got lazy so just put it in my backpack without using the case.

Now after only 7+ years of the T8000 being a fairly shitty amp... Stax have made extra input boards for them. No word on pricing yet but yeah... who fucking cares