The Monkey

Rats.

Yay Fitz! Happy Birthday!

Al, like. Not as much as the Hop Rod, but definitely good. I also got the XP.

Shitty day at work, but at least got things done. It's amazing how difficult it is to get people to (a) make a decision and ( b ) do their fucking jobs. As a result, I'll be working this weekend.

2007 Bodegas El Nido Clio Jumilla Too young, but still good and an unbelievable preview of what it will be with some age. EDIT: Dan, I think you would like Spanish reds a lot if you have not yet tried any.

Racer 5

Um, pics please of teh awesome.

Sounds manly.

My father-in-law and I went to a wine thing at the Palm. It was good. I already have a headache. Need to pick up some more bourbon tomorrow.

Glad you told us, mike and I'm sorry about the bad news. Stay strong, gang.

Christ. All I can say is that I know this group is special: intelligent, sensitive (sometimes), generous, and caring. If any of you are ever feeling desperate, please call or PM before doing anything rash. Everyone here is valuable no matter what baggage (i.e., not tom bihn) you're carrying. That may be obvious but it's important to say it.

Sorry to hear that, Nate. I can't even begin to imagine.

What are you using for storage purposes? A bunch of external HDs?

Good info here, Amos, thanks. Trying to figure out which one to go with, if any. Sample rate switching on the fly would be very nice. Are the OS X audio effects filters at all useful?

Makes sense. I've been thinking about NAS, but maybe I should just get a Mini and use that with external drives hanging off of it. The NAS boxes still seem awfully expensive.

Dan, what's the date of that 'puter?

Justin, what are you building?

lol. I was going to preemptively tell you jokers I had already done that.

Rogue John John Dead Guy Ale.

That reminds me that I need to find some Pappy.

That was probably the green label. The Private Stock is what you want.

The Johnny Drum should be ~$30. I think I got it for $26.

Ugh, I think I've got Grattle coming from the left driver. I can't see anything obviously hairy, though. Do I need to open them up? I thought Grattle was one of those things that only happened to other people...

Those Sam Adams pint glasses that say they make beer moar awesome, but probably don't do squat.

Cherry Coke. I have to say that I was very, very pleasantly surprised by the Hop Rod Rye--never had it before. I will definitely be getting more.