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Thanks for wishes everyone. Always great to see. Good day including a surprise meal (hate to make people work on holidays, but ya know) at Ruth’s Chris. Hope everyone is having a great Xmas.

Porchetta and Delia's Red Cabbage (Not shown, various potatoes and veggies)

Cassoulet with duck confit and sausage.

Dusty got his Chinese takeaway, Dusty is happy.

If you like jazz, you enjoy Ella Fitzgerald and want to have some fun, this is a must: Just let her warm up. It's a pity the recording sound quality is not stellar.

Merry Birthday Ric! I hope Santa brought you lots of outdated camera equipment to make your day extra special. Cheers!

Update for our wine tasting adventure on Monday and Tuesday.

I can't help but wonder if that means that 99.9% of Russians are ready to sacrifice Putin.

Excellent! In a similar lane...

I made soup: chicken, beans (too many, they didn't all fit), chicken broth, celery, potatoes, various other soup vegetables, simple spices (black pepper, red pepper, dill weed, 3 green onions chopped, garlic (almost forgot -- had two helpings before I remembered to add), small can of hot jalapeños) and that's it. No oil this time. Smells even better than the previous batches, tastes friggin' delicious. One small can of hot peppers amongst all that food didn't overwhelm the other flavours, just added a nice little amped up bite to it.

I bought some Tequila, pepper, lime seasoned cubed beef for tacos. Once I cooked the meat, the moisture let off created a wonderful, brown seasoned liquid, that I scrambled eggs in and cooked some onion and bell pepper. Shredded some cheese and built some incredible breakfast tacos. Yum!

Ho ho ho, Slow Case!

I wish you a very merry birthday, Joachim

Have an incredible day!

Cheers and Happy Birthday -

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, Joachim! Have a wonderful day.

Happy Birthday Joachim! I hope you have a wonderful day

Hope it’s a wonderful day.

Have a great one Joachim! Cheers

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!

Very Happy Birthday!

Merry Christmas!

Belated because it is Boxing Day here - but a truly Happy and peaceful Christmas to all.

Hope you all had a great holiday. Anyone need a "charming" short video showing a visit by St. Nick and a cadre of Krampuses? https://www.instagram.com/tv/CmEggbbJ9xt/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Merry Christmas. Currently enjoying this 8hr fireplace.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Happy Birthday (Birthday) Ric!

Happy birthday, Ric!

Happy Birthday!

Merry Christmas and happy holidays. Planned to go skiing with Yumi but the snow is too slushy so we’re binging Shining Girl instead. Sophie ate too much ham…

50yo Superfly Curtis Mayfield 1972 https://album.link/i/1048472205 Example: This is a killer set of Curtis cuts for your cool Christmas.

Happy/Merry Birthday/Christmas, Ric! Enjoy the day

Happy Birthday, Ric. And Happy Christmas. https://www.npr.org/2022/12/16/1143623199/how-to-be-a-better-movie-watcher-according-to-film-critics movies brochure_2.pdf

Happy Birthday, Ric!

106 years old already? Where did the time go! Happy birthday, Ric!

Happy Birthday, Ric!

Cheers Brother Ric. May you get all the lenses and old camera bodies that you would ever want. Happy Birthday -

Happy Birthday, Ric!!! More reasons to enjoy and be merry

Makaya McCraven - In These Times https://album.link/i/1626800243

Harish Raghavan: In Tense https://album.link/i/1623374364

A couple albums with the same title and many of the same family members - American Folk Songs for Christmas by Mike, Peggy & Penny Seeger and their families and American Folk Songs for Christmas by The Seeger Sisters. "Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953), distinguished musician, noted music educator and authority on folk music has assembled a collection of songs from the old-time Christmas, before Santa Claus came to America and neatly trimmed fir trees bloomed with tinsel." Also when Christmas was January 6th. Ex. Bonus track for the Dukes of Hazzard fans. Your wish has come true - Bo and Luke singing Baby, it's Cold Outside to each other.

After watching this last night, I wanted to listen to some more ELO: I didn't know this one that well. I don't think I ever owned it. Not 50yo yet - but close. Electric Light Orchestra II Electric Light Orchestra 1973 https://album.link/i/1054523017 Example: Longer songs than most, but they also have the classic Jeff signature. From Arguably an honorary Beatle.

OK, I have been invited to give a talk at Rutgers-Newark on Monday and it seemed that Monday, Feb 28th might be a good day. So it looks like I will be heading to CanJam NY the weekend before! Please join me Travel Team 22!!!

Ukraine celebrates armed forces' "titanic efforts" with Crimean bridge attack stamp https://www.dezeen.com/2022/10/11/crimean-bridge-attack-stamp-ukrainian-postal-service-ukrposhta/

I am assuming when you say “read the second review” you “mean watch the second link?” If not, please clarify. I’ll gladly give them a shot if I can find one at a decent price or I can find a friend with a pair for me to borrow. I’m not paying some of the used prices people are asking just to try MKI when it’s later lineage didn’t wow me on initial listen. Doesn’t seem prudent when there are others out there that did. If I hear the magic in home, I’ll extoll their virtues. If not, they’ll stay in the not for me pile. I feel my system is enough to give them a fair shake.