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Congrats Nate and glad to hear it came through! Tough decision, but it definitely sounds worth to take the plunge. Best of luck!

Sorry JP. Weird.

Me too! On the favorite part, but not the watching part. Just finished the World Cup final. Didn't think it was all that boring or that the ref was all that bad. Now watching some Tour de France but getting ready to go to a neighbor's pool.

Turns out I could have used one of those shotguns this morning. Took the dog out first thing and was greeted by a disturbing sight: All of the trees around our back door and patio were filled with vultures. They spread their wings to look tough and to ward off other scavengers. Either, I look worse than I thought or there was something dead lying around the yard. Two days ago our dog was rolling around in something and then brought back a hoofed leg bone. That was a fawn's carcass. Turns out another one bit the dust just over the deer fence in the next door neighbor's yard. There is a grey fox living behind our house somewhere close by. When I got home last night, it was in the exact spot where the fawn is. Could be taking down these little deer or is it just opportunistic?

Hey, isn't that the album that fantastic mastering engineer worked on?! He's so cool. Yay at Stax soon to be in effect!

Woke up early today and traveled to the East Bay for a morning at the Sheriff's Dept. shooting range. My buddy's father is a the Range Master and a long-time Reserve Sheriff. We were met by a SWAT sergeant and shooting instructor who brought some amazing weapons. That's one 40mm "less lethal" launcher, two HK MP5 SDs, one M4 carbine, one HK G36C, and two tactical pump action shotguns. Several had the EOTECH sights and those were really nice once you learned to look with both eyes. There's also a flashbang distraction device that we exploded. We also had two Sig handguns, one shorter and one longer. I fired all of them, although I did not get to throw the flashbang. With the shotguns, we used both double ought buck (8 pellets of .33 guage) and also slug rounds that is a single rifled lead slug with serious stopping power. Here is the flashbang after it exploded. Here are some action shot from my fine shooting: We also got to fire full auto and I did it with both the M4 and the MP5. That was fucking cool, and I want to do that again. There are some videos, so if I can get it figured out I will post them. Good times with lead.

Good run, Reks. I bought my parents a Samsung 6300 55" LED HDTV. They were surprised and happy and it is a killer tv.

That was quite sporting of her, wasn't it?

Forgot that Claire dropped by City Beer for me and picked up two bottles of Cascade's limited release The Vine.

Congrat JP! That sounds like fun times.

Was: Steve Lehman Octet -- Travail, Transformation & Flow Is: Steve Lehman Quintet -- On Meaning

You say that like it's a bad thing...

Bring your axe just in case they don't believe you.

Speaking of which, you need to look at the what are you drinking thread for inspiration to come out to Mayberry.

The Avette Brothers -- Country Was

What a pioneer! Congrat Inu!

Maybe he'll look a little more healthy if he eats your baked goods more often. He was playing at a record store and then signing autographs and the effort of writing his name seemed to tire his wispy little body out.

Jeremy Messersmith -- The Reluctant Graveyard

Damn my kids love that stuff. Boxes and boxes of it.

Et tu JustinB?

Or Verizon iPhone in January.

Winter Hours -- Leaving Time (Vinyl)

Fuck yeah it is.

A reprieve then!