Hopstretch

Hey hey! Happy Birthday! Don't blow any fuses...

Dew eet. They're definitely a bargain in Sterling!

Oddly enough I don't mind eating small bugs, but am not too keen on giant ones. Lobsters FTL.

Four business class ATL-JNB return. Not including connecting flights. Thank God it's not my money, either.

Woot woot! Don't forget to thoroughly clean your records beforehand.

This.

Does it say anywhere in the founding articles that said tweaking has to be infrequent as well as modest in scope? If not, you're probably good to go.

$33,466.38 worth of airline tickets. So who wants to nip on down for a South Africa meet next year, then?

Happy Birthday!

No, you won't have any problem.

Little bit of schadenfreude here for Wayne and any other accounting policy aficionados.

The Soundsmith Denons get real spendy real fast. You start to get into some pretty nice alternatives at those price points. Soundsmith / Denon

It was sunny and relatively warm (40s) this morning. Then it rained. Then it snowed quite hard for a bit, before tiring of that and throwing in some sleet. Now it's drizzling again. If you don't like the weather in New England, wait half an hour.

toe -- the book about my idle plot on a vague anxiety It's toeriffic! (The kanji and katakana characters in the track names break Amarra's spirit, though.)

Well, a lot of people don't even eat offal over here. I guess in a cuisine of plenty, there wasn't much incentive. I love that stuff generally, but do draw the line at brains. My French friend in DC always used to order some on toast at this little bistro where we would bunk off work on Friday afternoons. Said they're like creamy scrambled eggs.

Welcome to Team Brass-In-Motion.

Haven't had enough time with the 90s to rate them fairly. Of the others, I like the 800s over the 60s for comfort and soundstage and otherwise think they're in the same league. Wouldn't even consider the 6X0s again now for anything other than budgetary reasons. As far as the 800's character -- one man's sterile is another man's incisive. Good Grados are more fun, but they don't match the out-of-head experience you can enjoy with the big Senns.

I see what you did there.

The ULN-8 bangs every other interface in every other available orifice. It is said.

Morrissey -- Bona Drag

You've always been a young fogey and are good to go.

Lloyd Cole -- Antidepressant God I love this album. Anyone else dealing reluctantly with middle age should check it out in the box. The rest of you youngsters can go pork each other on MyFace, or whatever it is that you do.

She's a woman, prominent in the local community and (as we've already seen) probably has a fair shot at a diminished culpability defense. IANAL, but probably Club Fed, at worst?