Happy to hear that Bugsey is going to be safe and sound.

Ran some errands in the morning, played a few hours of Dragon Age, now listening to some tunes.

he seemed to be recovering nicely

right on!

Glad to hear bugsey's surgery went well and he is recovering nicely. It'll be nice to get him back home Monday.

Dressed as Santa with the neighbors

in order to film Santacon / Santarcy 2009 in San Francisco

Where we witnessed scenes like the following.

Much fun.

That's hilarious, Grahame. Claire saw some of your number cavorting earlier in the day and when we were headed out for the evening there were packs of drunken Santas walking down Market. Had no idea there was such a thing as Santacon.

Hurray for Bugsey! Glad he's recovering well

Grahame, your pics remind me of this:

Went to karaoke and discovered I can't count worth shit... stupid dice drinking game

Part yesterday, part today: finished stuffing the eXStata amp pcbs. Started mocking it all up in a potential chassis and it looks promising but may require non-conventional mounting of the transformer. :S

Also took the EAD DAC pcb out of the chassis and removed what was hopefully the offending, buzzing transformer. The replacement trafo should arrive either tomorrow or Tuesday, assuming the USPS isn't in full on panic mode. This was way easier than expected although one fail point is awarded to EAD for putting a mounting screw below a daughter board in a nearly inaccessible location.

Monkey's Santa pic reminded me of the movie, The Silent Partner. Which was a very influential movie on me. (And no, I don't rob banks.)

in order to film Santacon / Santarcy 2009 in San Francisco

Much fun.

It was Santa Speedo Run in Boston this weekend. And it was about 20 degrees.

Your dog is awesome, I'm glad everything went well with the procedure and I hope he'll recover fast. I really miss having a dog, they're such a comforting presence in a house, it feels empty without them.

Agreed. I miss having dogs more than I can say.

Glad to hear bugsey is on the mend!!

David, good to hear Bugsey is ok!

Just got into Portland for a training session I am running. B-fast and pints at Horse Brass Pub then a pop over to 32 ohms (Ken Ball's) new retail store.

Oh I missed 909's post~

It is very nice to hear that he is ok

All my photos are now available at

Picasa Web Albums - bushyreport - Santacon 2009

(picture 2 is a hint in case you couldn’t work out which Santa I was in picture 3)

Many more santacon pics over at

Flickr: Santacon San Francisco 2009

(440 pics and climbing)

Plenty of reason for Hopstretch (and others to view) e.g.

I recommend the sideshow for the lazy pervs amongst you

http://www.flickr.com/groups/santaconsf2009/pool/show/

P.S.

Good to hear that Bugsey is ok

took the bug-man home!

Yay Bugsey!

Yay! Go Bugsey! I hope he feels back at 100% soon!

Cool beans! Glad to see you and Bugsey reunited. Now for a rapid and complete recovery.

Excellent news!

Excellent news!

x2

I think I managed to import about 1000 songs into iTunes yesterday.

Also hooked up my Luxman and finally fired up the Feel HP 200se for the first time.

That thing can go crazy loud. I think I could start a dead car with it.

Reconfigured my router from my 1.5 meg DSL modem to my new 20 meg cable modem.

It's only been recently here where I live that you can purchase high speed through cable, without having to subscribe to cable TV.

*long sustained whistle*