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Thank you, it was a good one. Oldest daughter brought a whole ribeye, we cut it up and grilled for everyone with asparagus, stuffed mushrooms, and sweet potatoes. I'm done with food for today. It was very nice of her, she knows what I like. I'm getting old faster and faster it seems..

Okay my friend.....just a little weary from the storm and clean up at two houses. Tackled the road to get to my house with a pitch fork and then a blower.....looks much better! Wanted to do it before we get more rain. Can travel on it in the Z4 now. The tab for LF's tree clean up was $9700. Now the roof (minor), fence, and gutters to be repaired. $4500 deductible. Now that I can get to my house I will have to hire some help with my clean up. Got up on the roof (1.5 stories) and dragged limbs off and used the blower on it. Neighbors pier on the creek washed away with the surge. Lot of frayed nerves in the hood! Going to a steak house for a friends birthday tonight so a steak and some drinks should mellow me out some☺️

Also saw a lot of wild horses on the river.

Now your right since it's not really morning anymore, extremely happy morning people are aggravating. Not saying you were Everybody around me knows they can skip the big goodmorning thing, and just let me wake up and drink coffee, they can take there excessive cheer for early mornings somewhere else, it's wasted on me. ------ old person

Hmmmmm's... Just a few so far... Then to put the piles away??? Ugh!

Finally....a break from the heat. High today of 64, low of 50 tonight.

Went six and a half miles down the Salt River in kayaks with my wife. I got bored waiting as my wife drove back to the launch point to switch vehicles. Ended up stacking rocks on wood pilings. Wife sez I'm odd, but she still loves me.

I always liked the Santana - Abraxas album

........and now, Side TWO on the Dual, directly into the Dyanco preamp phono stage.........

............Ok, here it is!! Brand new Diana Krall with Tony Bennett !!

I've already installed 2 layers of half inch Styrofoam foil backed insulation to the door.

At first glance I read that as "Best sports bar."

Maby, but you do a good job stacking rocks, well done. Looks like fun, the river part. There is a place about an hour from here that we go but we rent equipment. When we started we got a canoe, then we tried kayaks, never again with a canoe it's not nearly as much fun and harder. I have only tried the sit on kayaks, never a sit in like in the pic, I'm a little scared of those. Since I haven't put a pic here in awhile this is the kind of kayaks we rent , the basic sit on type. Olympus waterproof tough camera

They can handle it in 8th grade, you just need to find the right topic/issue. It is simple. Either get them to help you select them, or you select them. They have to post in one topic, and respond to 2 posts of other students (agree or disagree, and why). Topics Best artist/singer Best movies of the summer Best song out right now Best place to go visit Favorite food Best sports star Ethics don't come into play, in the classical sense, manners do. Don't they call that "citizenship"?

@dirtmudd I MAY have a second copy of Al Stewart. I get things in order someday and do, you'll have it. Remind me in a couple months cause I'll forget. lol Great LP. The tube schiit??? PrimaLuna integrated and now I'm craving the BIG Primaluna integrated! Sounds incredible!

I have to remember... too get time passages..

Warm it up. My tubes are GLOWING!

@KROCKCoffee pots a gurglin and I'm thinking about waking up the hood too... lol EVERYthing is sounding sooo different on this system!

Saturday mornin jam.

Mornin, Happy Saturday!☕

Peeks in... 😂 😎 I'm sittin here in total disbelief and have been the past couple days... Late nights listening and early morning walking around here like I've just had a double frontal lobotomy. Have thought about sharing some pics but decided that would be too much work so have made a pile to spread sometime so ya get my "drift!" Had to slip into a Goodwill the other day to nose... Only one 3' shelf of mostly garbage but DID find some old show tunes like West Side Story... I even plopped down some hard earned cash ($.50) for an old Frank Sinatra LP, which blew me away when I played it. So far the sound??? WOW, gas IS totally the way to go imo! The PrimaLuna sounds wonderful in EVERY way paired w/the Schiit Mani. The LS? Incredible sounding w/Deang's Jupiter network. He made these puppies truly sing! PWK? One word: GENIUS! The PrimaLuna? Ha, that slippery slope... GIMME MORE!!! Here? Sure but maybe NOT here (Temporary) Ha... Paul, hope your buddy gets better REAL soon!

End of my session. Good night all!

......rear cover art........

.........Here is my Side A play on the Rega using the Marantz phono stage out of ZONE 2 into the Dynaco preamp....

Good evening friends..............Paul, I hope your pet is doing better SOON, and do keep us informed won't you? OK, it's Friday night.........and TONIGHT is a real happening over in RTM at this moment in time.... 3 of us PRE-ordered a brand new album last month and it was JUST released on Wednesday..............wait for it..............

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Just in from work time for some coffee.... i see you there Chuck....

Cables, Coffee, and Cocktails . needed a 14" cable tie today, was looking for one 3/8" wide, settled on rope... Coffee - 3 cup's, rinsed the pot, swore I'd never buy that brand again, gotta do that for about another month till it's used up.... Cocktail's - check yes - one large Jose Cuervo blue agave margarita for lunch

Better than a cup of coffee to wake up to

On my way!

I was just having an internal conversation about this. "Are we asking these kids to do something that they aren't developmentally capable of?" Methinks the answer is yes. So I think maybe I should bring my focus back down a bit to be more about the building blocks for them to get to that point in a few years (personally, I don't think it happens until that prefrontal cortex wakes up at around 22-25, or at least that was my experience). Being self directed is one thing, but having the cognitive ability to create your own argument is quite another. Thanks for validating my thoughts.

They're all big numbers at his age. That's exactly what I was thinking when I read that. When your a kid you look forward to your birthday, when your old you don't really look forward to it, just happy to make it there. 61 Thanks it was good

ALL versions of epic cf3 & cf4 are known for their clear sound & excellent articulation, IMO.

Yes, it would be a much easier task if my content weren't chosen for me. But for now, I have no way to get around that. I have however created a Steven Crowder-esque "Change My Mind" poster for all 8th grade ELA students to participate on. I choose a stance that I'm certain most students will want to argue against. This week I did "Listening to music while doing assignments is distracting. Change my mind." This has gotten them more engaged in the idea of argument, so I be plan on continuing it. The idea is that they just add their reasoning to a sticky note and add it to the poster in the hallway. The kids are not starting from scratch, but sometimes it feels that way. I'm having a hard time figuring out what background knowledge is actually in those little hormone filled brains. We will definitely not be doing anonymous online discussion with 8th graders. They must be held accountable for their own content. There are ways for them to be anonymous with the teacher having access to whodunit I'm sure, but Google classroom is not set up that way.

Finishing up the second pail, listening to light rain and monitoring the leaks. I will be doing something about that this fall for sure.

Happy Birthday once again Eldon! Sounds like ya pulled another one off w/o a hitch. Well stuffed is also a good place to be! Well, kinda! Glad you enjoyed!

......ok, the album JUST CONCLUDED for all THREE of us, but, here is a photo of the record itself complete with all those factory dust particles which were washed away before the first play.. A really top notch recording and Tony's vocals are still in TOP form.. He saved his highest notes for the last track which was very impressive!

..And here is Mossy's current play.........(with nice VPI )

I have a KV-4 sitting around that I'd be willing to part with, great center and a perfect match for your CF-4's. I'll send you a PM with more details. Jesse

You might consider enrolling in Mangofirst's class for a refresher.

You might think that graduate engineering students are significantly different in this respect than 8th graders, but my experience has been that getting everyone involved in online discussions or even in a face-to-face classroom environment is basically unobtainium. There are always those that are either intimidated or indifferent--even at the graduate level (incredibly). I often think of the vision of live mice piled up in one corner of a cage while the pet snake is staring at them from the other end as a good analogue. That seems to sum up my experience with individual participation in class exercises--even if there is a big carrot dangling to entice them. Group exercises are always a different story especially when groups have to present and defend their work/ideas (which is also possible to set up online in forum fashion). This always seems to flush out many more active participants without required cajoling by the instructor. The students then take responsibility for teaching--like graduate teaching assistants--and all seem dig-in in some way or another. This can also be encouraged by the instructor in incremental fashion (e.g., weekly) to shake loose the hold outs by rotating lead presentation duties each week of the group's weekly output--with the requisite motivation supplied by their group members to not drag their team grade down. Then the weekly logs of individual forum postings online form the artifacts for metric use. Spread the good (i.e., already vocal) students across the groups. At the end of the semester, grade the individuals, not the groups. (Don't tell them until the end, however.) I call this "let the microphone do the work for you" (a line from The King's Speech), otherwise known as applying social pressure. This has the side benefit of teaching students how to work in groups for performance at the same time--a required skill nowadays, especially when building writing assignments for larger work products. Online on real forums, you see the same thing happening with different cliques spontaneously forming over almost any subject, and "us vs. them" debate usually ensues. This seems to make up the greater portion of any online forum discussions on controversial subjects of any real value. Chris

Everything is done on a computer these days. They may as well learn how to swim by getting into the water. 30 years ago a word processor was required learning.

Flew to the East last weekend for a nieces wedding. Since my birthday was that weekend, my wife took me to Niagra Falls. Most impressive. Got a shot of my Mom and all surviving siblings, with most of the spouses. (Two brothers in law were camera shy) Also got to go to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Awesome.