MexicanDragon

I hate you. **BRENT**

Oh sweet baby Jesus, I hope not! At least not the night before I do a long-for-me bike ride. Some other night? (ANY other night), I'm in! I want to say thanks to all of those HCers who've donated to the cause who saw things via email or on Facebook. I still have a ways to go, but I have a great start! **BRENT**

Thanks for posting John. I called you back last week but it went to voicemail. Call me back if you want. I'm going to try to make it... But not sure just yet. I can bring a few things if I do. **BRENT**

Strict rules. My haul Top right was a freebie (Pete Francis - Movie We Are In) that I won from winning a trivia question (Milli Vanilli was the answer) in line. FWIW, they had live music, trivia, give aways, and someone even won an acoustic guitar! It wasn't me (Boooo), but they asked if the dude could play. He said "have a pic?" Then he proceeded to play a nice rendition of some song that I forgot the name of, but definitely was cool. FLips I went back for out of habit, because I score some FLips every RSD I go to (this is my 3rd in 4 years, I think). Scott Pilgrim vs The World: The Videogame - Original Videogame Soundtrack The Dresden Dolls - The Dresden Dolls (for Grawk) Nirvana - Pennyroyal Tea (with "I Hate Myself And I Want To Die" as the B-side) Green Day - Demolicious (cassette) Skrillex - Recess (cassette) Jay-Z and Linkin Park - Collision Course (blue vinyl and DVD) Over on the left are the freebies, but the GWAR square is a patch. I need to find something to attach it to. **BRENT** Edit 2: I can't believe I bought cassettes. It's probably been 2 decades or more since I've done that. The Green Day on vinyl was 21$ more, and the CD was 6$ more. Ridiculous. I'm pretty bummed that the CAKE box set is going for over 350$ on ebay right now.

They didn't get CAKE in at all. Can someone try to nab it? Dan, think I can get your Dresden Dolls. **BRENT**

Here's a list of online stores doing discounts for RSD. A lot of 20 or 25%, and some 50% off places. http://modern-vinyl.com/2014/04/14/deal-thread-record-store-day-2014/ **BRENT**

Is the De La Soul a RSD exclusive or RSD first? Oh. Heh. 100 in the country. I'll see what I can do. **BRENT**

I'm going out and I have a friend in Nashville who is going to try to score the CAKE set (limited to 900.) Is there anything anyone wants, you know, just in case I can snag it? (Not every place gets everything.) **BRENT**

I didn't see a thread on this, but I just remembered that it's tomorrow. I NEED the CAKE box set, but there's a lot of other cool stuff too. http://recordstoreday.com Is anyone else going shopping tomorrow? **BRENT**

Riding is silly. You should ship all your bikes to the ginger. **BRENT**

Buy all of them, return what you don't like. **BRENT**

Staying home with the flu again. It seems that I may be in the 1% of people who get insomnia with Tamiflu. I'm at about 6 hours of sleep since Sunday morning, and oddly enough, I don't feel that tired, but I haven't wanted to sleep this badly in years. **BRENT**

OK, so I can't sleep as well as I thought. I think I've had 4-5 hours of sleep since Sunday morning. On the bright side, 1.5 seasons of Archer and all of Mad Men S6 consumed. Fever went down to normal and now back up over 100, so I guess I'll stay home tomorrow as well. Seriously, I'd rather be at work. **BRENT**

http://youtube.com/watch?v=TDFuSZ05Rck **BRENT**

None of us got it this year. I always get them at work, but moved to a new building this season. Never got information about when/where they were doing them on campus, so I never got one. It's one of those little things that got away from me a few months back that I'm paying for now. Luckily, I had some PTO hit today, so I have enough built up for 2-3 days now (snow days killed the nice week+ buffer I had). On the bright side, I'm pretty good at sleeping and not doing much of anything. Netflix just got Mad Men S6 yesterday, and they have the entirety of House, M.D. tomorrow. For my time awake, I shall be at least be satiated. **BRENT**

Caught the flu. Probably going to die. I blame deepak. Man, I haven't felt this bad physically since Tampa a few years back, where I wasn't sure if I was going to make it on the plane or not. 112$ worth of Tamiflu and quarantining myself off should make for an interesting couple of days. I hope the kids don't get it. **BRENT**

There is no way a Pixel will be 135$, but the Samsung one is pretty decent for light surfing. It doesn't play video too well, but it can do a lot. It runs off a fast ARM processor, but it is a 1.5 year old machine. I think a Pixel would be an amazing machine and would easily have that as my primary computer. Now I want to fix my CR-48 <3 **BRENT**

Rega Juras are in the setup and they're pretty good. Hard to play with kids trying to sleep. My buddy brought over some other stuff, including a Luxman R-113 integrated amp with phono input, so this will wind up in the bedroom rig eventually. I got the Denon DV-2900 out of storage (thought it was broken). The combo wasn't perfect, and there needs to be some tweaking, but I think it'll do Turns out he has had these for about 5 years and had loves them. WAF was low for some reason, so he wanted them to go to a good home. Done and done. We hooked up my backup thrift shop Wharfdale Diamond IIIs and listened to those too. I'm always impressed with those when I haven't listened in a while. Fantastic for 10$. He took them home to listen in his rig... Maybe he can use 'em. He also brought over an Adcom tuner/pre with phono stage. It's been in a closet for 5-6 years, so we'll see if it winds up in my closet or back in his. Man, having a house instead of apartment dwelling is so nice! **BRENT**

Being delivered for an extended demo tonight. I think he paid well over what my trade offer was, but I think (the wife wanting something else) makes up a lot of the difference. Seems these were 1700ish list and 150-600 used (world wide) the past few years. Maybe they'll be decent. **BRENT**

http://slickdeals.net/f/6809734-free-1-year-ups-my-choice-premier-membership-new-code Free 1 year UPS My Choice Premier membership. Supposedly you don't have to input credit card information. **BRENT**

I don't trust you anyways, Mike. I'm sure we could probably work that deal out. I'll talk to him this week about that when I see him. I THINK this is my light week of afterschool kid things. **BRENT**

So a friend I know from work has a spare (I think) pair of these, and his wife is wanting less clutter in their place. (I get that.) He knows I'm into gear and audio and whatnot, and we've been talking for years about stuff. He asked me if I'd be interested in this pair, and we talked about trading something, perhaps. I think he'd be willing to take my pair of Senn 580/600 grill/650 cable for this pair of speakers. I've read some mostly-positive reviews, but, well, "internet reviewers" and all. It seems these were out at least around the turn of the century. I was looking at just getting some stands for the Wharfedale Diamond II bookshelf speakers I got at a thrift shop, but with kids around, I think I'd rather have some floor standers for the high-traffic living room. I'd probably hook them up to an old NAD T742 receiver I have and use the setup for movies, and maybe games, with some music from time-to-time. If anyone has ever heard 'em, or had 'em, LMK. Thanks. **BRENT**

Nice, Ben! I got out for a few miles with Xavier Friday night. I figured it'd be a few miles only, so I was like "I'll just wear some regular shorts, I don't need to get the bike shorts out." Turns out even with a few miles, the pain the saddle caused was noticeable even with a ton of nerve damage. Next time, shorts... even if it's a mile. I've realized that I need a new cassette. 12-25 (even with a compact) just isn't going to cut it, especially in this hilly new neighborhood. I think it's time for an 11-28. **BRENT**

I can't wait to choke you the next time I see you. Dick. **BRENT**

I miss my matte black Fisher. I had one for about 8 years before I lost it Hmmm... **BRENT**