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I immediately went to OMA's website after you posted those first pics of Imperia, Al. All I can say is... I think the OMA Mini is my new, semi-realistic, semi-practical, dream speaker. I'll never be able to afford the others, but damn. Maybe the Mini could be a gift to myself when I get promoted.

Sorry to hear, Archos. Best wishes to you and your family.

John - were you on Lake last night? Just saw your post. I was hiding behind a car with the trusty old binoculars.

Scheduled an eye appointment for Thursday afternoon. Not related to the whole "bug-flew-in-eye-and-fucked-my-cornea's-shit-up" fiasco. I'm going to switch back to glasses after going with contacts exclusively for the last 11-12 years. Might split time between the two, but I hope to really use the glasses more because I'm getting tired of contacts.

Happy birfday Ari!

Happy birthday Shelly!!

Thanks Vicki, Gene, and John! We'll be on Washington, right between Harvey and Lombard. It's a vintage courtyard building. Got a call from the property manager, everything looks good and we are signing the lease tomorrow morning.

That's lame Shelly, kinda sad that cheese spread is deemed too dangerous for flight. Allison and I viewed three apartments this morning and put in an application & earnest money on the third. Two bedroom, corner apartment with an actual dining room. Has french doors that open into the master bedroom from the living room and the kitchen has a cool little open pantry that might work well for the beer fridge. Hopefully we can sign the lease sometime next week. Ideally this will be our final apartment and we can save up for a condo/single-family home down-payment over the next 3-4 years. Would be nice to actually pay into an investment instead of plain old rent. And I'm still in Oak Park and more than capable of stalking John whenever I wish .

Lol, even when something so ridiculous happens my HC gang is still there for support. Thanks everyone! I did indeed have a small scratch on the bottom-let quadrant of my eye, so they prescribed an ointment for the next three days. And Mikey - already have plans to crack some beer during lunch today to help the recovery.

Mike G - I need to borrow the eye patch big bro.

Sitting in the emergency room. Bug flew into my eye in the middle of a 5K, pretty sure it scratched some shit up. Be careful everyone, apparently running is dangerous.

The Publican. It's pork and beer, how can you go wrong? I've only ever went there via car though, so unsure how public transportation-friendly it is.

x2, best wishes fellas.

OMG you got it. Fuck yeah!

Thread of the day here, stay dry Jeff!

Fingers crossed Jeff, wishing ya the best. If you ever need help getting to Chicago for a meet up, please let me know.

Good shit. Eagerly awaiting pictures.

KG don't mess around, time to bust out the Cognac from the '30's. Have a great bday dude!

Bring some good bottles and start hunting for the ticket winners around 4-5. They'll be drunk and likely ready to make deals that should clearly be put on hold until sobriety kicks back in.

Jeff - If you win the scratch-off this year, go for the Cognac or Cognac de la Muerte version. Gonna be pretty sweet I think.

Boss. Nice grabs Mike!

Saw some great news on the Eclipse ordering page for everyone who missed out on Rebel, Bernheim, and EW - Next Monday, 8 a.m. Pacific/10 a.m. Central/11 a.m. Eastern - be ready guys!

Jeez, glad you're okay Jacob. Take care mang.

I think it's because Rebel was the most limited. 6 bottles/person and only available through futures. Lots of traders/eBayers will likely use this limited availability to their advantage once the bottles are ready to go.

Bernheim is now also sold out. :/