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Great to hear you are happy with the speakers and the deal, Springhalo. Thanks for buying! Glad to know the speakers have found a happy home! All the best.

Spent an August through December taking care of my late wife, as she progressed with Malignant Melanoma. Doing fine to bedridden to Glory in four months. We had hospice care for her, from Thanksgiving to the end, which was an incredible help. Last month and a half I was off work and home with her. Bruce ps I tried the Keurig filter you use to put in your own coffee, but it's a real pain to clean the filter (unless the make little paper filters to go in the wire filter basket...). Bruce . . . an amazing act of love.

Organ envy? That looks like an organ transplant to me.

Alright . . . based on poll participant majority (mom was a "no decision" too because she is smarter than me) going with multi-colored lights. Of course, they were the hardest to get to! I have two strands on . . . I suck at this. Got twenty more strand I can put on there. Is there such a thing as too many lights on a tree? I called and asked permission to go buy a fiber optic tree . . . the Mrs. just laughed and hung up. From experience, I know that means "no." I am going to wind up with the world's tallest Charlei Brown Christmas tree!

Bonding time . . .

POLL: Put all white lights or all colored lights on the tree today? I need a non-scientific community poll result to blame today!

Anybody use a French Press for coffee making? Thinking about asking the wife for one for Christmas, but I have never used or tasted the coffee from one. Though once, years ago, while I was in Paris, was this beautiful mademoiselle . . . wait a minute, that is a whole different story. Back to the French Press . . . anybody using one?

I like the Denon/Klipsch setups I have run and am still running for HT and 2 channel. If you like the features on the Denon3100W, then it would serve you well, and you can add a second sub later. I have some Apple products, so the Airply feature in the DENON gets frequent workouts for me.

Don't ask! I did and the wife said, "yes." Spent 5 hours digging the 9 ft artificial out of the boxes, and setting it up and fluffing it out every single branch one at a time. I did not even get one light on it yesterday . . . just have a 9 ft green blob in the den now. I have to put lights and bulbs and accoutrements on today still. After setting up the tree with no lights, wife walked into the house after work and took one look at the tree and said, "That is the old one, I have a new Christmas tree in a box down there in the basement too. It looks much nicer!" I said, "OK, well, we will just go with the once I just setup and throw it away after Christmas so I will not be confused next year!" I asked, "Do you want white or colored lights on the tree?" Her answer? "You decide." I could be in trouble at the end of this day too. So, I am throwing Mom under the bus . . . I am going to make mom decide on lights color! :-) Christmas is Hell! I gotta go get a second cup of coffee as I strategize.

For the Trekkies at Christmas . . .

Went down into the basement yesterday evening to test out my workshop K-horns with Mom in the house. Kept turning the volume up a little, then run upstairs to ask Mom if it was too disturbing for her. Must have been up/down stairs 10 times. Each time she said, "No, not too loud at all. My ears gave out before her's did! Ha, ha! Good for me . . . I can work down there while she is watching some of her morning programs on TV. Our TV programming tastes are somewhat different. ;-) We do love watching a good movie together in the HT. With Mom in the house and my wife together, I do not think I have laughed so much in years! Having a blast even through her physical struggles.

Morning all . . . Went down into the basement and drug out all the Christmas gear. I have not looked in the boxes yet. Looks like a tree is going up today. This is the first Christmas since 2007 we are putting a tree up. With an 8-year-old grandson, every Christmas we have traveled the 10 hours to be with him for Christmas. This year we are staying home. I hope not all of the bulbs are crushed . . . they have had a rotation of speakers and audio gear stacked on them for several years! Ha, ha!

Welcome back! Heat? You for heat! RF63s over Cornwall IIIs?!?! ;-) They are your speakers . . . so prefer what you will! I encourage you to be on the lookout for a used RC64 for the center channel too. Other will certainly chime it with suggestions.

Hot water is a good thing! Merry Christmas!

Got my tripod at Goodwill for $2.

+1 I even used Audyssey on a tripod multiple times . . . could not get the result I liked. Then I ran Audyseey one more time on a tripod; then I leveled with the test tone all of the speakers with a RS SPL meter . . . turned out exceptional.

Wow! Thank is some rough schedule . . . maybe instead of just a pot, you can put your coffee in an IV bag and make it last all day when you get called!TV with remote . . . check!

Good luck with your mother, I know what your talking about. I watched my mother for her last few years, she only had use of one arm and had lost one leg from diabetes so she had to be helped to be moved anywhere. We promised her she would not go in a home so it was up to me to help with everything except showers, a nurse would come to the house for that. I helped with her going to the bathroom but I didn't with showers. It took a while for both of us to get use to it but turned out to be more of a problem for her which I can understand. It did take a while to convince her she was not a burden, be sure to always be positive and never make it feel like anything is a problem, I say this because when some one is in that predicament it really easy for them to get depressed thinking there a problem to be cared for. Even if it is at times really inconvenient or aggravating never let them see that whatsoever, they are having a tough enough time as you could imagine. The last years having her here ended up being good for everyone, she got to see the grandkids everyday and the rest of the family and felt useful. Good luck That is simply great advice. She is one of the world's sweetest ladies. I will print your advice, put in in my desk drawer, and read it from time to time. Thanks!

Thanks. The procedure is a cake walk. The prep the night before is a beeaatch. That stuff is NASTY!!! Glad it went well and you are back on real food and drink again!Annoying procedure. I had it done this past summer for the first time. I think the worst part for me was when I was waking up (kind of) in the recovery area, and the doctor came in. Then he shoved about 10 different color pictures in my face of his completed camera work while explaining things in graphic detail about how well it all went . . . that was . . . well creepy, sickening, bizarre, paralyzingly . . . Or just provide your own adjective! Snapped me out of my blissful post-operative state. A very rude awakening and the worst part for me! ;-) Those pics are not on my iPhone!

First cup was really good to the last drop! Now on number three . . . Finally installed two trapeze hand holds for mom over her bed yesterday. Turned out really good and is already helping her gain a little more independence moving around in and getting in and out of bed. As I was tweaking the final install yesterday, I had mom lie in the bed so I could adjust he lengths of both ceiling mounted trapeze hand holds for her . . . I was on a ladder leaning over her at an awkward position while she was prone (with her two little toy dachshund/chihuahua mixes) as I was adjusting the length of each of the two trapeze handholds at the eye bolts in the ceiling. The ladder wobbled as I was leaning directly over her . . . I almost fell off the ladder and would have landed on her from 8ft high! Would have been some kind of headline . . . "Freak (Show) Accident: Large Man Crushes Own Mother to Death (and her two little dogs too) in a Fall from a Trapeze!" Please pray for my mother . . . I am her temporary full-time caretaker! I just want to get her well enough to return home in a few months . . . before I accidentally become her doom! Ha, ha. It is an extended family circus!

The use of the word "goal" resonates with me in association with this thread topic, and a welcomed idea especially in multiple setups . . . from 2 channel, to HT, to the bedroom, workshop or porch. In each of my setups, I had a different goal in mind. I never the goal with each since starting out with nothing (not a speaker or an amp in the house) in 2008 when I set up my first HT as 7.1 RF 82. I reached the goal of setting up the HT with a satisfying system while I was wheelchair bound for 1 1/2 years (the impetus for the first Hat setup was knowing I would be down for a good while with a lot of required elevation of my lower limbs.). My goal was reached and was very content. In January 2011, I bumped into a freshly recapped pair of KG2s. My goal shifted. Two pair of KG4s were found. Then . . . I got a chance to purchase my first La Scalas knowing they would need some parts. A few parts later, I heard my first LaScalas . . . not only did my goals shift again, but so did my musical worldview! Fast forward . . . I now have three Heritage setups (HT, 2 channel, home office) and a porch system. Each setup was comple and done forever . . . well, until my goals shifted . . . now I have more goals specific to each setup, preciously as Shu as articulated . . . because we learn as we go.

I do it all the time and love it.

Now I know where the tip money came from last time, thanks. "Tips" you say? Reminds me of the old story. Did you hear about the rabbi who circumcised elephants. (Wait for it . . . ) He only worked for tips!

Funny! For old times sake, I sometimes get out an old used OD green wool sock, put coffee grounds in it, tie a not in the top, and drop in in a pan of water and boil it on the camp stove . . . drinking a cup brings back bivouac memories . . . and makes you appreciate not being in the field anymore!

On the second cup of Starbucks beans. Got 3 hand rails up for mom yesterday . . . 2 in the bath and 1 in her room for mom. I could have used a contortionist in the bathroom. No I need some paint to hide the flaws in my handiwork around the handrail in Mom's room. Another trip to Lowes on the agenda for a pint of paint. Making a sandwich for the lovely to help her get off to work.