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Bit of a side bar... But what's amazing to me is how we all gravitate towards new technology to the point that it eventually becomes a necessity. I don't think I'm alone in terms of my tendency to at least make an effort at resistance while I still can. I remember what my parents said when one of their neighbors got a car with these new, fancy, electric roll up windows! "Can you imagine that? Paying $300 more because you're too lazy to roll them up yourself?" Such was my thinking when cell phones came out. For a couple of years, I resisted, and continued to stop at pay phones when I really needed to make a call and I wasn't at home or work. Same with the iPod. No way was I going to cave in! But of course I did, and again, couldn't imagine not having one, or two, or... An eReader? You've got to be kidding me! In fact, you've all got to be kidding yourselves! I mean, who really reads 500 books per year? Or even 50? Most of you schmucks haven't read a book since Winnie the Poo in 6th grade. Or maybe today's fine young gents are just a tad more sophisticated (being electrically charged and all) than the folks from my generation. More to the point, perhaps if I were to cave in (once again) to this newly created "need" to have instant access to hundreds of books that I can upload for anywhere at any time, I'd actually read more than one book per month? I don't know. I'm not yet convinced. This reminds me that I need to finish that John Lennon biography that I put down 2/3rd of the way through about 6 months ago. He dies in the end, no?

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Funny, ha ha? Funny, ain't that strange? Or funny, gender confused?

Yes, small is good. I'm waiting for the JH13 reader! Where are you when we need you, Jerry?

When is Matt's meet, exactly? I'm waiting to hear from the guy at the storage place whether they're arrived yet or not. After that, I can arrange to get them in Matt's hands (which will probably require that Matt go out to pick them up).

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Happy birthday, Peter. Hope you have a blast doing whatever you decide to do.

Oh ya, there's that too. Here's a pic of Mike from DanJam with his martini glass manscape.

Mike doesn't care who likes him or who doesn't. He could care less. He doesn't need to care. He doesn't even have to think about caring. He eats nails for breakfast, and uses Chuck Norris as his punching bag.

Mike doesn't need a cool meet name to be cool. Mike is a beer drinking, cigar smoking, marathon running, gear churning, lawyerly Dead Head kind of guy. What does he need a cool meet name for?

Lazy certainly is pleasing. I'm pleased to hear that. Happy last hour of your birthday.

I sent them to the storage place, my new receiving department. I'd have to arrange for you to pick them up from the manager out there. Would be no problem if you're interested. I'll give him a call tomorrow to see if the package has shown up yet.

I hope that's the case, assuming that they'll bring a pair of LCD2 which is probably a safe assumption.

Any sense of when the LCD2 will be available?

Sounds like a good time, Pete. Plus, improvements to your system, which is always a good thing. Funny though, I had always pictured Grover looking more like this:

Happy birthday, Al.

Wheels chucks front and back of rear tires with bungies holding them together, then ratchet strapped around rear axles into d-clips on e-track, if that makes any sense. But I was dead tired and didn't bother set it up right, thinking that it was a short (100 mile) trip and that I'd be Ok. I've got a much better system in place now that I've really thought about it more carefully. Thankfully the truck was far enough behind the car that it barely made contact with the Atom. What really stunk was that I had at least 8"-12" behind the truck, so I could have loaded it further back than I did. Had I done that, I would have been the luckiest dog in the world. To have a vehicle break loose and yet not cause any damage at all. As it was, the emergency brake helped hold it back such that the contact was minimal and the damage was minor.

When did you order those, Colin? Mine should be on the way to Tampa, if not there already. Matt, do you want to borrow them for a while?

Looks like I'll be able to make this one, almost for sure. I'm going to have to take a road trip up to Virginia in late November to get some work done on my Atom, but I should be back in time for the meet. I blew out my muffler during AtomFest which caused a bunch of stuff to melt, like my speedo sensor (completely fried) and O2 sensor (hanging on by a thread). Then I loaded my pickup truck into the trailer like only a true idiot could, and it broke loose under hard braking (when the GPS lady told me something completely unexpected) and slammed into the back of the Atom, causing more damage. Nothing too serious, but they'll have to replace a few gizmos like my reversing light and a brake light, and then re-check all of the geometry on the rear end to make sure that nothing has shifted too badly. I'm hoping the weather will cooperate such that I can get some track time at VIR after Humpty Dumpty is put back together again.

Any word on when the LCD-2 will be available? I'll probably pick up a pair to compare them to the HF-5 and a bunch of other cans. The headband gizmo is butt ugly for sure, but I don't ever look at myself when I'm listening to music (and as little as possible otherwise).

Congrats, Mike! It just amazes me what people can do when they don't sit around on the couch all day. I sat around on the couch all day.

We can use those Shure PTH devices to talk to each other while still listening to JH13s, and just sit around on couches surfing the internet and posting about what a great time we're having. Kind of like DanJam, except nobody bothered to use the PTH mics.

That sounds good to me. That sounds good to me too.

It must be the broadway thing. Orlando is one of their 5 permanent show locations, the others being NY, Boston, Chicago and Vegas. They do silly bits with Cap'n Crunch and Twinkies and toilet paper, etc. Quite entertaining, I've got to say, but probably something that you would only need to see once. I'd love to see a Blue Man show that is all about the music.

I'd come up for it anytime except for the first half of November. The Atom is in storage there, so any excuse to get to Tampa works for me.