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A good dessert wine has enough acid to balance the sweetness. An unbalanced dessert wine is just a sweet, cloying disaster. Ports and Sherrys are different things altogether.

Considering Jim's history, I was going to say "in S. Dakota". There are a lot of places starting in Texas and going up the plains where it fits.

This could be the official HC tattoo.

The pictures of the food at Red Mesa made my mouth water. I'm sorry I missed it. Of course, had I made it I would have been sorry that I missed the Refinery. So many restaurants, so little time (and money).

My gift from Gene arrived yesterday. It consists of the following CDs: King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King Eddie Cochran Somethin' Else, The Fine Lookin' Hits of Eddie Cochran John Hiatt Greatest Hits, The A & M Years '87 - '94 I'm listening to the King Crimson album now on my speaker system. They are really interesting. I have no idea why I never got into them before. I'll listen to the Eddie Cochran and John Hiatt albums later. I had never heard of either of them before, so it's great to get something new like this that I probably wouldn't have tried on my own. Thanks Gene, these are wonderful gifts. Also, thanks again for your effort and generosity for everything TamJam.

Burger was good. The french fries were really good. Agree with Peter.

You already have a great way to lower the bass. It's called a "volume control".

I don't know the first three, but Gone Like a Train is fantastic.

Try uppercase STRIKE, like this.

Jacob, you probably already know this, but just in case I'll mention it anyway. I'm assuming that they've given you a narcotic-based pain killer. A side affect of most (if not all) is constipation. I'd suggest keeping the Metamucil handy and taking it "regularly".

Mike, are you getting a shirt for Ray?

Do they have these for parrots?

Wow, this sounds worse than having 11 broken ribs. Really sorry to hear about all the pain. Hang in there, eventually it will get better.

Happy Birthday! :prettyprincess:

Happy Belated Birthday! :prettyprincess:

The record appears to be in AFlutter.

That's what I hated about winter when I lived in Paris. You go to work in the dark. You go back home in the dark. If you don't get out at lunch, you see no sun. Of course, I did like the fact that the sun didn't set until about 10 pm in the summers. You get some, you lose some.

They are using the old Pioneer pricing model: 1. Give it a ridiculously high "Suggested retail price" 2. Discount it like hell so the suckers buyers think that they are getting a fantastic deal. I have no idea if this is a competitive amp or not, but I really dislike this pricing model.

Carl, it's great of you to do this. It may be easier for you to keep track of requests if we (i.e. a moderator) splits the shirt posts off into a separate thread.

Happy Birthday.

My Xmas gift to myself. Since I'm such an unintelligent solderer, I figured having an intelligent soldering iron couldn't hurt.

Carl, I'm in for a large. Mike, sorry about the bad aspects of your weekend. The ticket and, especially, the dent are real downers. Maybe you could include the ticket costs on your insurance claim for the door? Edit: I'd prefer a red tshirt but can live with blue.

Me too. It turns out your mom was right, drinking is bad for your health. Congrats Bryan. The weather is really weird right now. When I passed through Denver yesterday, it was 65.

Damn Jacob, I missed your post last night. Sorry about you leg and am glad that surgery went well. Now you just get well soon.

I'm home after a long day of traveling. What a great meet. Many thanks to Gene and to Matt for making this happen, and with great beer. Thanks also to Alex for getting out of bed to take me to the airport this morning. Hope to see all of you soon.