Grahame

As a friend once said, "With a voice like honey, poured over gravel". Or the M25's unofficial theme song RIP, Chris.

There may have been rain and wind in Marin, but at least there was power, so Quite the performance

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A certain 8TB drive was full, so I got a new 12TB drive, mounted it in a trusty external hard drive dock, connected by esata Ran This robocopy H:\ L:\ /E /COPYALL /DCOPY:T /R:0 /W:0 /MT:12 /XJ /LOG:C:\robocopy_H_to_L_full.log And walked away (without an explosion in the background) To get this Total Copied Skipped Mismatch FAILED Extras Dirs : 1966 1966 2 0 0 0 Files : 7172 7169 0 0 3 0 Bytes : 7.270 t 7.266 t 0 0 4.370 g 0 Times : 309:01:27 21:57:50 0:00:00 1:49:56 Speed : 101043866 Bytes/sec. Speed : 5781.776 MegaBytes/min. Ended : Wednesday, December 17, 2025 6:02:03 PM Some 22 Hours later. Swapped the drives, and now I have to play with, Matey.🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️ EDIT: Of course, if the AI Bubble hadn't made cheap storage and ECC DDR5 unobtanium, I'd be expanding a ZFS storage pool on a NAS by just adding a drive, but here we are.

But only Type 1 / Ferro ? "The cassette tape used is the latest production and is manufactured exclusively for Revox. The excellent analog sound of the new Revox cassette tape is made possible by the legendary Grandmaster formula. This Revox cassette gives the best results with the Ferro/Normal Position Type I setting on your cassette player." https://www.horchhouse.com/en-us/products/grandmaster-c90-empty-cassette Disappoint. No Metal? Compact Cassette tape types and formulations - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Cassette_tape_types_and_formulations tapeheads.net/threads/cassette-type-1-2-3-4-strengths-evaluations.2999/

Windy Folk with a Brit twist. And just to shake things up

More Vocals With Seasonal Rudolph!

No e-biking at Laguna Seca? Disappoint.

Meanwhile, in San Rafael , it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

Happy Birthday Todd!

(a human sourced) Happy Birthday!

It's the start of the Holiday Concert Season at the College of Marin

Saw that some people in Marin are making an effort with their Christmas / Holiday decorations.

Met @swt61 in the Costco parking lot. By Chance.