HDen Posted July 29, 2011 Report Posted July 29, 2011 Keep frosty Monkey. After struggling for an hour diagnosing a loose cart wire, set up my first turntable in 2.5 decades. Pops and surface noise returns! Like the look with the Luxman. That looks very nice, congrats!
morphsci Posted July 29, 2011 Author Report Posted July 29, 2011 Damn, I do like the look of the Regas. Nice Ric.
Pars Posted July 29, 2011 Report Posted July 29, 2011 Avoided being made redundant once again (I think...)
Voltron Posted July 29, 2011 Report Posted July 29, 2011 Ooh, glad the TT is running well now Ric! Enjoy it. Also glad that you are not redundant Chris!
grawk Posted July 29, 2011 Report Posted July 29, 2011 started a motor swap on my lawn mower. I will need help to get the pullies and clutch moved from the one engine to the other, and I'm still waiting on my recoil starter, since there's no battery on my mower.
shellylh Posted July 30, 2011 Report Posted July 30, 2011 Just learned that Pence was traded to the Phillies. :supersad: I guess the Astros are competing for the worst team in modern baseball history.
Salt Peanuts Posted July 30, 2011 Report Posted July 30, 2011 ^ I think the move was a good one, long term. They're going into a complete tear-it-down-and-start-over rebuilding mode, so it's better to get something for Pence than hang onto to him and hope he'll still be producing (and cheap) in few years when the team (hopefully) will be competing again.
shellylh Posted July 30, 2011 Report Posted July 30, 2011 It is true but it still makes me sad. I don't think they are going to become a competetive team before he becomes a free agent. I am glad to see that Pence will get a chance to play on a team that has a very good chance at the WS.
Augsburger Posted July 30, 2011 Report Posted July 30, 2011 Just returned from LAX after dropping my daughter off for a one week service project in Costa Rica. This will be a great opportunity for Emily and a few classmates to be totally immersed in another culture speaking Spanish exclusively, helping with service projects and tutoring children in a small village. A good way to prepare for HS senior year and starting those college applications. We are already missing her. :
n_maher Posted July 30, 2011 Report Posted July 30, 2011 Started sorting and packing up all the DIY spare parts. Holy shit I do not want to think about the $$ tied up there...
Aimless1 Posted July 30, 2011 Report Posted July 30, 2011 Spent the day with online friends from Israel. Had a great time and sad to see them go even though we met in person for the first time today. He is a retired airline security chief and international airline security consultant with interesting views of our TSA. From his perspective we need to stop putting out security fires, stop treating everyone the same and begin addressing the source of our security risks. In other words stop worrying about guns in pilots shoes, stop making 90 yr old women removing their depends and begin realistic threat profiling. Much like my limited experience here, always great meeting someone you "know" online.
manaox2 Posted July 31, 2011 Report Posted July 31, 2011 I attended a local audiophile group listening session and cookout with some people I've met in the past. Good guys, sadly I didn't stay too long. The gear which isn't eliciting much excitement for me these days. Plus, I hope these guys don't typically listen to that "audiophile" music they were playing. Many yawns were had.
boomana Posted July 31, 2011 Report Posted July 31, 2011 Spent too much money on shoes, socks, sports bras (stupid expensive for good ones), and cat stuff.
CarlSeibert Posted July 31, 2011 Report Posted July 31, 2011 I, on the other hand, updated my wardrobe at the local thrift store.
CarlSeibert Posted July 31, 2011 Report Posted July 31, 2011 (edited) Dupe post. "Saving post" bug, I think. Edited July 31, 2011 by CarlSeibert
Dreadhead Posted July 31, 2011 Report Posted July 31, 2011 Home Depot for some light bulbs first thing. Then Vlad came over to hang out and talk about music which was fun. Then went for an ungodly hot bike ride. All in all a good day.
HeadphoneAddict Posted July 31, 2011 Report Posted July 31, 2011 (edited) Really shitty day today : My brother-in-law had called me about half an hour before I was told father-in-law died, and he was concerned about their dad's health and needing advice about what to do - he'd been sick for a week and although we all told him on Thursday to see the doctor they gave him an appointment for next week. So when my brother-in-law called to check on him today he found that their dad had slurred speech, altered mental status and incontinence. I told him to call 911 for an ambulance since he was at least 45 minutes away, but when the paramedics arrived he was already down for the count and CPR was no help. At first my son was okay with staying with the rest of the boy scouts while my wife returned early, after my wife encouraged him to stay with them (I guess she thought it would help distract him from the death, and there were no refunds for the trip which he needed to advance in the scouts). But once my wife made it to Denver the severity of what happened sinks in and he starts freaking out and wanting his mother. He was anxious and scared and decided that he was not going to canoe without his mom, and we'd have to come pick him up if she doesn't go with him. By that time she's been driving for 11 hours and it's too late in the day to turn around and go back for him. Meanwhile they are scheduled to paddle down the river at 8AM, with or without him. I wouldn't have left him there if it were me, but I can't say this to SWMBO if I want to live. He is young and immature, but trying to put on a brave face; and the fact that he lasted as long as he did surprised me. So I volunteered to drive up tonight and get there by 4AM, but I've been up since 7AM myself and my wife was sure I'd end up dead on the side of the road. I have just enough portable oxygen for 16 hours in the high mountains, and I'd only need oxygen for 3/4 of the 16 hour round-trip. I can fill my tanks at home, but it wouldn't really work on the road without a hotel room for a few hours. If I turn down the oxygen to stretch it out longer my O2 sats stay okay, but I start having pulmonary edema and coughing up blood. (I should sell the WES for a portable oxygen concentrator that plugs into the cigarette lighter and runs on battery - I should also lose 60 lbs). Instead of driving I spent all evening on the phone with my son, the scoutmasters and my wife with my piece of shit iPhone 4 that dropped at least 25 of my 40 phone calls today, so that I could get them to put my son in the second group that paddles out Monday. This gives my wife time to drive back to Moab Sunday to calm him down, and maybe they will both canoe with the second group and still return next Saturday, the day before the funeral. They could skip the canoe part and return Monday AM - but she doesn't want to pull him out of the trip if the rest of us can pitch in and help with the final arrangements. I suspect that she wants to just get away from everything and try to forget about this for a few days, but I don't know how well that's gonna go. Again, still not sure I should contradict her orders. Meanwhile, my almost 18 year old daughter has been working the past 3 weeks at a summer camp, and we had RSVP'd for the church service and brunch this Sunday before the new set of campers arrive. So my 16 yr old daughter and I have to drive up to camp and break the news to her, while she still has to work 2 more weeks away from home. I'm worried how she'll handle it when we have to leave after just 3 hours, but we'll make arrangements to pick her up in a week for the funeral and then return her for the last week. If she doesn't stay then the camp will be shorthanded, and she's not as likely to freak out as her younger brother. We also get to inherit grandaddy's cat, which doesn't like people, but there is no way we'd let it be sent to the animal shelter. It's an outside cat, and might not last long with the coyotes and mountain lions around here, so we have to see how that goes with locking him up in the house with the other cat that just doesn't like boys (girls are okay). Sorry for the rambling post, but I don't have anyone to talk about this with right now, being up by myself and can't sleep. Edited July 31, 2011 by HeadphoneAddict
blessingx Posted July 31, 2011 Report Posted July 31, 2011 (edited) Just returned from LAX after dropping my daughter off for a one week service project in Costa Rica. This will be a great opportunity for Emily and a few classmates to be totally immersed in another culture speaking Spanish exclusively, helping with service projects and tutoring children in a small village. A good way to prepare for HS senior year and starting those college applications. We are already missing her. <img src='http://www.head-case.org/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/cry.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':'(' />Sounds like a possibly great experience. Hope it is. Hope the situation ended up better with your son HPA and the talk with your daughter went as well as can be expected. Edited July 31, 2011 by blessingx
shellylh Posted July 31, 2011 Report Posted July 31, 2011 Sorry to hear about your father-in-law HPA. Hope things get better. If I were you, I would seriously think about selling gear to buy necessary medical supplies.
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