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Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!

I have used a Synology DS211J for a few years now and have had a very good experience. It looks like it is one generation old now, so no longer offered, but it uses the current OS. It is a 2 bay system with a 2 x 3TB capacity. I currently have 2 x 1TB HD's, I think they are Hitachi models of some sort - there is a large compatibility list they maintain and they recommend buying from that list. Doing this, mine has 1TB of storage and they back each other up with some sort of redundancy via Synology's proprietary system, some sort of almost RAID 0 hybrid something or other. I have two external portable 1 TB hard drives and back up the NAS nightly to that and store one of them off site in my office, rotating them once in a while. Maybe overkill ... Anne laughs at me. But I'm anal, and it makes sense to me. I use it to store and serve 600-700 GB of music to my PWD (via DNLA) in the basement, and my (formerly your) SB Touch (via the Synology SB server) in the dining room. It backs up my wife's MBA wirelessly, and my Dell laptop, and stores all of our photos. I don't use half of what else it can do. It seems to me it is almost a mini-computer running some form of Linux, so they can write their own apps to make it do what they want. One hard drive failed at some point, it beeped and flashed an LED at me. I looked up the LED flashing pattern, which informed me of a hard drive failure. I bought another HD, installed it, and in an hour or two, it had rebuilt the data on the new drive. They've stayed mostly up to date with Apple's stuff. Once, when Mountain Lion (or was it Lion? -- 1-2 yrs ago) was released, its Time Machine app couldn't back up for a few wks until they updated their app, then it started working again when they updated their OS. Not sure if they were slow to update, or if Apple was slow to release info so that they could update. Otherwise, they seem to keep up pretty well. Sometimes for some reason, I have to log Anne's MBA back into the Synology the Time Machine networked hard drive. Not sure why. Maybe there was a power outage when I wasn't around? Otherwise, it's been all good. Highly recommended, though it's the first and only NAS I've ever had. So I can't really compare it to anything.

Sorry, Ken, that sucks. I don't care for TJ's produce or meat. Love their packaged stuff, though. I know a manager at TJ's around here, and he says it is there policy to always refund an unhappy customer, even if they return a package of something half eaten. I'd think you can return the smelly, nasty, cooked piece of meat for a refund. Shelly, yummy ... sounds good. Interestingly, as Al pointed out, I can't say I've ever passed through Houston!

I doubt I can turn this into a whole weekend deal in light of my recent weekend trip. But I can probably plan on one long day of something. Maybe Sat afternoon and night? Or something along those lines ...

yummy. yummy. and yummy.

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That would make sense, since that's where the marrow is ...

Congrat on your student! AFAIK, bone marrow is usually obtained from the hip, so that would make sense. Wouldn't make sense to destroy your surgically repaired hip while making a voluntary donation!

Late congrats to Emily! Weird, Shelly! But then I can't imagine donating marrow would be much fun.

I've had good luck damping the corners and the first reflection off the side wall. You can buy the fancy stuff, but I just threw some rolls of home insulating material in the back corners behind some drapes. I did get an inexpensive acoustic panel (can't remember the brand now) for the side walls and located the position on the side walls by holding up a mirror on the wall and seeing at what location I can see the speaker from my listening position. Probably there's much more sophisticated things you can do, but this was cheap and easy, and it worked pretty well for me in terms of controlling bass, cleaning up midrange, and improving soundstage. Or maybe I'm just crazy, which is what my wife thinks ...

Knew a guy named Tri Trong in residency. I know a shrink here named Dr. Couch. And another one named Dr. Brilliant! Anne has a colleague named Dr. Love. Too bad she's a family doc, and not a cardiologist!

Seafood risotto while my son is playing laser tag at a birthday party.

Congrats, that's awesome!

This! O-H--I-O! Congrats! Dayton, I suppose? This. Good luck, Al! Feel better soon!

Garlicky Spinach/Chard with creamy polenta. Nice, thanks Shelly! Chicken sausage with Sun dried tomatoes. Damn ... memory card problems ...

I use parallels on my work machine mostly without issues. I sometimes have to reboot because it won't print from a program running in the virtualized xp machine. After I reboot it is fine again. But then I had to do that in native xp as well, on Windows xp machines.

Happy Birthday, to my HC sponsor! You've changed my life forever!

Thanks! I had good luck with this easy recipe: Roasted Swiss Chard with Feta http://allrecipes.com/recipe/roasted-swiss-chard-with-feta/

Jacob, you mentioned a while ago that your fave vegetable was Swiss chard. I've taken a liking to it recently and was wondering if you have an easy recipe that you like?

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I've had a good experience with the Plantronics Voyager 510. I tad on the big side, not too cool and fancy looking, but great sound quality and battery life, very reliable. A bit under $60. Edit: looks like it's an old model now. I think the Voyager Pro is the closest to that one: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AFGPHKW/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&keywords=plantronics%20bluetooth%20headset&qid=1358280249&s=wireless&sr=1-2

Thanks all ... belated very much appreciated, also!