Hopstretch

Built a fairly epic snowman.

As a kept man, my negotiating leverage is somewhat limited. I settled for a nooner.

I built two separate and rather spiffy home theater systems this year and hardly ever watch or play anything on either of them.

Happy Birthday!

Free your minds from the shackles of audiotheism. No (gear) fate but what we make!

6HP, 24" Ariens snowblower.

Some spiffy new UPOCC speaker cables.

No apologies necessary. It's like Mel Brooks said: "Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die."

If someone had been sitting on that can, the coroner would have taken lots!

According to APC, they are unopened returns and carry the standard 5-year warranty, so I can't see too much cause for concern.

This is clearly the season in New England for things to become over-encumbered, fall down and break other -- quite important -- things. My wife had apparently gradually accumulated so much cosmetic and pharmacological shit in our (large) medicine cabinet that it finally tore off the wall today and exploded on the floor. I use that word advisedly -- I was in the basement at the time and I thought a plane had hit the fucking house. It also managed to take out the toilet, straight across the s-bend. Clean-up was a real treat and as I was gloomily inventorying all the new things we need (storage, tiles, throne etc.) the unrepentant perp further improved my mood by saying: "I hate this bathroom. Call the builders after Christmas and let's get it completely redone!"

Maybe clothes next? It'll be getting pretty cold soon.

Damn that's a good deal! I am severely tempted to buy another one at that price. Such a good, no-BS unit. Was it direct from APC, Pete?

I'm finally on the mend. That was like a truly epic hangover -- lasting five days. Now my wife is taking the ride.

Yeah, got it bad right now. This one is nasty, haven't felt this shitty in years.

You will be cleansed in the holy fire.

Got really sick really suddenly. Fever, dizziness, muscle pains, migraine. I feel like a pig shat in my head. Hoping against hope I haven't already given whatever it is to the kids, 'cause that will be a horror show. Also, thank you God for TV and its emergency childminding abilities. Poor poor pitiful me etc.

Relevant to the original direction of the thread, if not the current course. Agon -- Green Mountain Europas Nice price. Good seller.

Get behind me Satan. I'm already struggling to not buy that 3-channel Stratos for the HT room.

Thanks, but I do like to be able to move my arms, should the mood take me.

Mountain Hardwear Downtown Down Coat. 650-fill. Sick of freezing my skinny Southern-hemisphere ass off up here in winter wonderland.

Is that how you do all your victims, Reks? Bludgeoned to death with the proffered olive branch?

Good news! We got home tonight to find no ice on the roof or water in the basement either, which is always nice. The 55 degree temperature swing was a bit of an adjustment. Brr.

Peter Gabriel -- 3/Melt

Damn holiday grind.