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Happy Birthday, Knucks!

Happy Birthday, Renato!

Happy MerryBirthdaymas Ric! Belated as it may be.

Happy Birthday, Ken!

How did I miss this?!?! Well a very belated Happy Birthday wish, Todd! I hope New Orleans was/is fun. One of my favorite cities to visit.

Happy Birthday, Bryan!

Sounds spot on to me. 🤣

A belated but Sincere Happy Birthday, Mikey!

I’m with Kevin on this, Koss Pro4a

Happy Birthday, Peter!

Thanks for the birthday wishes. Pretty low key birthday. I don’t teach non Tuesdays but I had two meetings right in the middle of the day so I did not do anything much. Went for a nice Sushi birthday lunch on Wednesday in Montpelier. Today we are heading up near Jeffersonville to do a little fly fishing before they weather starts getting colder.

At my age, I am happy if I don’t bust anything.

So if you have been in the Drinks 2024 thread (where I live) you know that we had three University events on Thursday and Friday. One was the Women Kicking Glass Gala where Karen and I had to wear our Prom outfits

AGREED! I will stick with my iPhone 14. Yo Apple! You are becoming Microsoft.

RIP to a great talent.

Saw this on a new Ford Bronco and never knew it was a thing. They actually sell these on Amazon I discovered.

Done!

So I finally received my 5m RCA cable so I got the KEF subwoofer hooked up to the LSX ii's It took a bit of moving stuff around as well as doing other shit like updating software on my two NAS. But this seems like a good initial location. I will definitely be moving it around over the next few weeks. I am also very much more impressed with the KEF Connect app. It made setting up the sub very good and provided initial crossover points and the crossover curve. All it required was the name of the specific KEF sub I was using. It does allow for changing all of those which I may end up doing later. Definitely makes the miniDSP less important at this point. The only thing I do not have is the measurement ability in my specific room. I guess I will use my ears for tweaking for a bit. EDIT: Actually the hardest part of the setup was finding a place to store the shipping box.

Agree with all of the above. It’s great when good things happen to good people.

Berlin was good. Lots of good beer and we both like German food. It was a work trip and that part also worked out well so overall the trip was good except for the last leg.

So we finally made it home from Germany this morning. Brent must have had a huge biscuit this weekend. So we were supposed to fly out of Berlin to JFK on Saturday morning around 11 am Berlin time. Shortly before we were to board the flight was cancelled. It seems the plane we were to take to JFK arrived from Amsterdam the previous evening and sucked a bird into one of the engines on its landing. The plane landed fine but they needed to check the engine internals for damage. There are only two ways to do this. Tear the engine apart and then put it back together or use an endoscope designed for the task. Unfortunately the nearest endoscope was in Amsterdam and was set to arrive later that day. So the flight was cancelled and they put us up in a hotel until we could get another flight out. Unfortunately the Delta website and app was not operating very well and it took us most of the day to get a flight booked for Sunday. We finally boarded our flight and made it to JFK where we remarkably landed on time, which was 2:45 pm NY time. However we had to sit on the runway for over two hours since we did not have a gate as no planes were permitted to leave their gates because of thunderstorms. We finally got to our gate, got through customs and got to the Delta lounge where Karen had several beers and I had a Bloody Mary and two Martinis as well as some food. We had a fairly long layover as our flight to Burlington was not scheduled to leave until about 11:00 pm. At approximately, 9:30 pm Delta canceled our flight due to weather. At least this time they scheduled us for another flight to Burlington on Monday morning. At this point we had no confidence that Delta could actually get us home so Karen called her sister, who lives in Forest Hills, to see if we could borrow her Jeep Cherokee and drive home to Northfield. We took a taxi from JFK, picked up the Jeep and drove home arriving here around 2:00 am this morning. Delta was not finished with us, I actually canceled our flight this morning on the way driving back to Northfield. I received a boarding call for the flight on my app this morning. So I say, “Fuck you Delta Cunts” and again I blame Brent.

My parents were friends with Gene Krupa and I saw him play at various events when I was a wee lad.

OK, that pushed me over the edge.

That is exactly where I am at this point. I have until December to decide. I also agree about Roon support. My longest running problem was getting Roon Arc to work for me. To be fair it was basically a network configuration issue so not sure they could have done more for me than the few clues they provided. My other disappointment is that they only have IOS and Android versions of Roon Arc, not even an iPad version so I do not get to use the screen real estate on it. Pretty minor for me but still the lack of support is a negative point for many. The community is pretty helpful though.

I kinda like Roon Poon. I would probably buy one just for the name.