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Yesterday: Finally had a clear "two person" day, so Out with the Old. Well 💩, that explains a lot. No time to tilt the the house, so In with the New: Good enough for one day. I must say using a laser level is a game changer ensuring that things are level and line up, even if the building is out of true. Just remember: And then today, some finishing touches, and cable management. And then finally voice automation. Because: Of course. Some non ideal / contrived syntax commands because: reasons, but that's balkanized home automation. Looks nice though (Marin OLED 2 time club)

new to me. Pretty melodies plus soundscapes.

I am smitten -- this is gorgeous, right up there with Ólafur Arnalds. Thank you for sharing.

I've always been a fan, but jiminy, this 1 minute is sublime.

❤️ Belated Happy Piano Day ∞ ∞

Tim Apple stepping down to be replaced by John Temu. Oh, sorry! I don't have my reading glasses on. that's John Ternus.

I know there isn't much interest in these amps anymore, but wanted to post my findings regarding thermals. I spent around 3 hours yesterday testing the one I have in for repair to evaluate whether these run cooler with no heatsink, heatsink only, or heatsink with a spreader bar to tie it to the top cover. @johnwmclean had at one point suggested that he thought these might run cooler without. I forget which user suggested and implemented a spreader bar, which for them resulted in lower temps. I used a thermocouple with the covers on to do this test. For the 1st case (no HS), I put the thermocouple on top of the upper right transistor in the L- channel. For the other two tests, the thermocouple was touching the collector tab. I tried to wait long enough for things to stabilize completely, which never really happened. Even after an hour or more, the temp would go up 0.1 ºC every minute or so. Here are the results: bare 91.8 (shortest test, around 45 minutes) HS only 92.6 (approx 1 hour +) HS w/spreader 87.1 (1 hr 20 min) all temps in ºC. Ambient temp 22.1 ºC. It appears that w/spreader is the winner. That temp was going up slower than the other two, so I would guess that the margin is a bit larger. i made the spreader with a couple of pieces of 1/8" and 1/16" thick aluminum x 1" stock.

Son Andrew and I saw my favorite band The Chameleons again, his third time with me. This ranks as one of their best shows for me....incredible passion and energy throughout! First opening band was my second time seeing them, Lovina Falls. Lots of great music, and got a couple nice pics: one with Reg Smithies of The Chameleons; he doesn't pose for pics that much and when he does, he points his finger at his picture partner. I got to do the same. And Valerie Forgione from Lovina Falls took a nice pic with me as well.