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Those tomatoes look fantastic, Al!

I got routine blood test results. My triglyceride levels were 489 mg/dl, right before I became a vegetarian. Two years later, it's at 160. Still a little higher than I'd like (high triglyceride levels run in the family; for instance, my mother weighs a hundred and twenty pounds and has as pretty low calorie diet, but has a triglyceride level over three hundred, despite statins), but I think that's a pretty darned good result. Everything else in the lipid panel were squarely in the "normal" zone. Fasting blood sugar is under 100 (everybody on both sides of my family over the age of 30 has diabetes except for me and my mother, so I think this is a triumph!), my resting pulse has fallen under 75 (again, still higher than I want, but it was over 100 two years ago). Blood pressure has been good despite reducing the amount of medication I take. I think I'm doing pretty darned well.

Well, I mean, there is no guarantee that a time traveling dinosaur won't sit on your bicycle tomorrow. Old watches can be made waterproof the same way new ones can. The watchmaker fucked up. That sounds shitty all around, though.

The brown lume plots put my teeth on edge. I do hope whoever serviced that watch paid for repairs.

Well, Pieces of Time, who I bought the watch from, is going to take a look at it for me for free. That's a load off my mind.

It was a small amount of water ingress, but it needs to be serviced post haste.

Well, so much for the Omega. Condensation showed up inside the crystal, this morning. Having the watch sit in silica gel with the crown open didn't fix it, so off to ABC Watchwerks. They are going to let me pay whenever I'm able to, which is awfully nice, but it means I won't have it on my wrist for at least a month. My guess is a gasket is already going (seems kinda soon, since it was serviced when I bought it, Spring 2015). I was soaked by a sudden rainstorm a few days ago. I dried the watch off completely before activating any of the complications (I think I timed something Friday, so it was perfectly dry), and that is the only time I know the watch encountered significant moisture since I bought it.

Have you looked at Ikea? They have rubber mattresses that don''t have any foam, or at least used to. Well, it probably depends on what you call "foam." Most mattresses probably have some foam on the top and bottom, for the quilted layer.

That kinda sounds like a "traditional" mattress, unless I read that wrong. Do you want something without any of those?

You aren't weird. Omega makes wonderful watches, and this '69 is as good as my '68 Rolex. I have always had trouble with this watch, though. Obviously I love my pre-moon Moonwatch, but it has always been an issue for me, having it fit just right. The bracelet that came with it has been problematic (it grabs arm hair), and I never found a leather strap that I absolutely loved, even with custom straps, and I never found a Milanese style strap I loved with it. I love this strap. I think it's perfect, like you say.

Thanks Steve! I'm rather fond of it myself.

I don't think I'll be taking the Speedy off the NATO anytime soon.

Thanks guys. Not much else to do but keep on trucking.

Thanks man. I can't be too irritated: I've been on the other side of the situation.

I'm pretty disappointed, but it is what it is.

Didn't get the job. I was brought in last week for a first in-person interview, and they hired somebody yesterday, so I'd say that they already had somebody chosen, and were just wasting everybody's (theirs and mine) time due to organizational rules. This would have been an exceptional fit, and I honestly thought the phone call was going to be setting up an interview for the next round.

I told you that it was probably reparable.

Well, it's not a good sign. It's probably reparable.

The point was that their demo system is impressively ill suited to the job.

Damn. That's almost impressive!

An hour of random pattern would probably have cleared up the image retention, but I believe the B7 is an upgrade, so fist-bump.

Happy birthday, Tom!

Well hell, 180 degrees will do that, if you leave it on long enough.

That would be a good temp for anything you want to cook rare.