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Spent the afternoon at Aardvark Baguette's house listening to his nearing finished setup. Took a camera to take pictures of the system but spent to much time in the listening chair to get the camera out. Sounded excellent with everything I put through it. Was there for another of Chris' patent pending "Deal of the Century Sales" at which I picked up the Hyper Spike rack for my work system and all the Dusty approved purple power cords needed to power the gear for about the price of the original sales tax on the rack.

Happy Birthday Nate. Hope it is a great one. 39 is the new 21, I feel younger by the day.

I am glad I have you to guide me along the way Stretch. I probably should have a big watch sell off soon.

There is a good looking one on WUS for $3100 I think.

I think 1mm but it is still lighter and I thought wore about the same in size overall.

I got to see both the Pelagos and the Black Bay today. In all honesty, I think the Pelagos build is up there with my Rolex Sea Dweller and I would definitely own one of those. The Black Bay was nice but did not really impress me nearly as much and it appears to plummet in value so quickly after purchase. I have seen several less than year old going for around $2k. I did actually really like a Chopard Monaco Historique that I looked at today. All in house from the movement to the really overbuilt Ti case.

Yeah, it is a 46 and it wears BIG. I have been trying to wear more of my tiny little 40ish watches Sea Dweller and Seamaster as my wrists are a hell of a lot smaller than the last time I really bought watches and I think 40 makes more sense now. This 46 seems pretty huge and unwieldy at this point.

Decided $25k for a pair of Omega's seemed a bit nuts.

Went to a nice shop over at the mall and the Omega Boutique tonight. Lots of things I need to buy, including a pair of Dark Side and Gray Side of the Moon Speedmasters.

Croc strap is pretty great as well. Don't know why I do not have more deployant bands.

Happy Birthday Naaman.

Mesh is much nicer than I had expected. Very comfortable.

Yeah I know. I went to a recommended place here locally and they had nothing but Rolex. Evidently there is a place at the high end mall that I can find Blancpain and Panerai. Can't find any of my watch tools anywhere to size this giant mesh or put on the crocodile deployant. I did however find some Panerai and Bell & Ross accessories to take out to Al in June though.

Got sick of being the only person on HC not buying watches lately. Went out looking for a Blancpain Fifty Fathoms or a Tudor Black Bay Blue but found neither. Ended up with another Superocean. Got the mesh and the gator with deployant clasps.

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Happy Birthday GA

Happy Birthday Steve.

Thanks for the concern. Fortunately, my blizzard seems to be cleaning up after itself.

I hear you. My deck was clean before our big storm blew through last night.

Nikon has rebates on a lot of lenses now as well. $200 off of the 24-70 would be nice. http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/promotion/10323/deep-discounts-on-nikon-lenses.html

10% off refurb products at Nikon this weekend. Inventory seems to be changing regularly but there might be some nice deals in there. D810 for 2499 plus tax is not too bad.

Went to the bike shop to get my rip-off vector pedal pods installed to fix a problem with Garmin's shit design only to find out the $100 the shop charged me was just for one pod, I would need to pay $200 to fix a fucked up design to be able to use my $1700 pedals. Garmin is quickly passing Samsung as the company I am most likely to show up at their HQ some day to express my displeasure with their shit.

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One of my favorite songs. Really a good song for learning one of the more common chord progressions in rock n' roll. Strengthening the hand is a huge part, especially when you start on the barre chords. I have been meaning to buy some books but have not gotten around to it. Would make it a lot easier to practice the songs as my memory is not what it used to be.