3 minutes to Miller Time

[fini]

Not so good.....tubes for my HK A500 have been out of production for many years and replacements are scarce as hell.

Ugh! Perhaps someone who's good at such things can modify the circuit to allow you to use more readily available tubes. Might be worth a jingle to Craig.

Giants won! I know, it's still pre-season, but it's nice to see. They do have the best pre-season record in baseball...just sayin'...[]

I still haven't done my taxes, although I did take the bold step 2 days ago of buying TurboTax at Costco.

Salmon turned out great. I cooked the whole fillet in foil. It was covered with a mixture of low fat sour cream, lemon zest, chopped garlic, chopped fresh dill, spread evenly, then topped with lemon slices (I cut off the rind, as I find it to make the salmon bitter). It was delicious! I cut the parsnips into french fry shapes, tossed them in olive oil, then baked on a cookie sheet (lined with foil, as I was doing the dishwashing, too!). Everyone loved 'em, even the slightly burned ones.[]

[jacksonbart]

Yeah!!! Its Friday!! Gonna have a few pops tonight and play poker. Not too shabby!

[winchester21]

Just got off the phone with ZU concerning balancing the heavy Zu 103R on my tonearm and adding weight. Pulled the trigger on the PS audio pre and the 103r today. The zu mod adds 6 grams to the cart. Gotta be a heavy mother to try and counter balance.

Sipping on a WONDERFUL super tuscan -Rodano Poggialupi- 2008- at less than 15 a bottle- WOW. Find and consume - you will be amazed at this for a cheapie. Boss gave me a pound of Maytag Blue cheese today- love the stuff- snacking on it as we speak- Killer!!!!

We shipped 19 truckloads of metal today. Bringing in temps to try to stay above water with the volume. Loking foward to 2 wonderful days of no phones or pissed offf customers.

A great weekend to all- Cheers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[fini]

Boss gave me a pound of Maytag Blue cheese today- love the stuff- snacking on it as we speak- Killer!!!!

Are you on spin cycle yet?[]

[winchester21]

Not yet- but after a ton of sushi and a bottle of wine who knows[D]

Maytag is an excellent choice of cheese for personal comsumption or Christmas gifts- Not real expensive but extremely high quality. I send it to customers each year- they love it. Check it out on the internet.Served in some really fine resturants here including ,my favorite high end burger joint.

Listening to Mark knoffler- Emmy lou Harris- all the roadrunning- studio version on the tubes- un believable.

packing more stuff to ship out tomorrow- testing wine tomorrow for the buying group- tough duty but somebody has to do it- whites tomorrow for the summer.

Fini- sounds like the medicine is effecting youe sense of humor- in a good way- hope you are feeling better.[Y] [Y]

[BigStewMan]

Hello Everyone: Been a while, a hope you are all doing well. Hanging out alone watching the Fender Strat Pack on the Palladia channel. Been feeling like crap lately--this acid reflux/erosive gastritis is just out of control. i've been eating more sensibly, have lost 16 pounds (first time I've been under 200 in over 20 years), been taking my medicine regularly--yet feeling worse. Sure hope it runs it course soon--this is getting real old. Alright, enough whinning from SoCal. Fini glad to hear you are feeling better. Chuck--hope the wife is doing well and I hated watching Duke winning against Purdue (finally changed the channel). Ace, Winchester, Ben, JB--always good to read from you guys. Have a fun and safe weekend my friends, and may this bar never close! Regards, Steve.

[Tarheel]

Took your advice fini. Emailed Craig and he promptly replied telling me of another tube that could be used in place of the scarce 7355! He even gave me the link and told me the tubes are inexpensive. Ordered a quartet of matched tubes from PartsExpress for less than $50.00!

Thanks fini.....and many thanks to Craig.

Welcome back Stew.....thought you might have been having some decaf tea with Ben[] Good of JB to stop by and dust off his bar stool.

Sunny, windy and 60 degrees here. Will be having some Knob Creek on the rocks in a little while and dinner at the Bonefish Grill later and maybe a little Chet Baker on the hifi afterwards. Life in the slow lane but thats about as wild as this boy gets these days[]

Cheers gentlemen!

[winchester21]

Steve- congrats on the weight loss- it will get easier- you will feel better-the reflux may get easier to control eating less-

TH- nice solution to your problem- Craig is the man- love talking to him- a real treasure in the industry and an all around great guy.

Where is Ace tonite?

Fini---WINE ALERT- 2007 Juan Gil- Spain- Monastrel grape-Jumilla region- I paid 15.00- Worth 30 easily. Find it and buy it. I let this open up for 2 hours. I would easily give this a 92 upon trying it for the second time- Find- buy- consume

3 huge ribeyes are waiting on a ride to Pittsburg later on. Cant wait. Weather is nice- Tomorrow is a washout.

Cheers to all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Tarheel]

A nice day weatherwise clouding over just now. Two neighbors stopped by and sat for awhile and shared gossip, a knobs creek, and some Powell and Stokes Blister Fried Peanuts. Tennessee lost.....Baylor ahead of Duke. Wife fixing oxtails and a rich sauce to put over pasta with a nice glass of red. Then off to the music room to listen to some Mapleshade jazz discs.

Hope all the regulars are well. Where is Ben?

[winchester21]

The ribeyes we ate last nite were the best ever. Huge 1.75 inch thick from the Fresh market. marinated for several hours in olive oil- garlic-salt pepper at room temp. Dried off and patted down with paper towels to soak up the excess oil. Seared to carmalize on the Weber side burner. Then 8 mins at 450 in the oven. OMG- they were great. Washed down with a bottle of 2000 Piaga Italian Classico cab. My weekly treat on this diet. I amy just sell my charcoal grill. No contest.

Cloudy here today but warm. Supossed to rain cats and dogs tonite. My lawn looks great thanks to some Scotts a few weeks ago.Beer and Burittos at Chipoltie grill earlier today. Sipping on a Ketel and tonic. Smoked a wonderful Cohiba Siglo 6 earlier. had to throw the last 1/4 away. Kicked my @ss. Corporate cigar out of Sydney Australia has some goood ones at present. Savoring the last few hours before the Monday morning grind at the dungeon(work).

Listening to some mark knoffler on the tubes. Waiting for the Dennon 103R and the PS audio pre to arrive. I should have my TT up and running in 3 weeks if I am lucky. Trying to decide to keep or sell my yammy PX2 with the Grado. Finally got all my sold items packed up and shipped to happy new owners.Gotta spend 2 days at a range officer class next week and maybe try to bag a Turkey nest week. Hunt is in Montana with his GF and 2 other couples- 5 miles from Hank Williams Jr's house near the canadian border. He has seen hundreds of Elk and mulies. Bighorn sheep are down from the mountains feeding in the lower elevations. Six of them nearly ran them off the road yesterday. Miriams wild turkeys are so plentiful that people are having to chase them away from their yards and horse barns.He has his non resident license. Do I envy him?? Maybe just a little.

Cheers to everyone- have a great week- Cheers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[germerikan]

Been feeling like crap lately--this acid reflux/erosive gastritis is just out of control. i've been eating more sensibly, have lost 16 pounds (first time I've been under 200 in over 20 years), been taking my medicine regularly--yet feeling worse.

Hey BigStew, what meds are you taking? I had the same thing which started in November 09 and I feel for you! I went to the doc here and he prescribed a med called Pantozol, the medication in it is 20mg Pantoprazol. I take one after breakfast every morning and have been taking them for a month. After 2 days they kicked in and I have been without problems for a month now. As long as I dont hit the sauce to hard or eat real fatty everything is ok, if I know I will be sinning I have drops I can take, sab simplex (69,19mg Simeticon), and I have absolutely no problems. 4 months of stress and not bieng able to eat or drink what I wanted was a pain, not to mention not bieng able to sleep right due to the stomache pains and the feeling in my throat. I am sure you understand!

Hope everyone else is doing well, it is a little to early to be drinking here now but tonight I will be drinking a nice 2008 Dirmsteiner Schwarzerde Grauer Burgunder from the Pfalz only 10€ but very nice. This will be served with an Argentienien Rib-Eye and small salad. The American Rib-Eyes are going for about 10€/lb. here the Argentienien around 4,50€/lb. Sometimes the cuts of "American" beef we get here would make a real American slap his butcher for offering something like that at that price, I guess we are getting the rejects.[]

Prost...

[fini]

Steve,

Sorry to hear the GERD is still so bad. I've probably mentioned this to you, but my 18 year old daughter had it so bad there were no medications that helped. The fact that virtually the only time she felt relief was when she was eating, she gained a lot of weight, which threw fuel on the fire. A reeal viscious circle. She had a 24-hour acid study (with a probe down to just above her stomach) which showed she was in reflux 22.5 of the 24 hours. For her, the absolute godsend was RNY bariatric surgery. She has NO MORE reflux. Basically, her stomach is now divided in two, her "food pouch" being about the size of a golf ball. The other part of her stomach (the part that makes the acid) is disconnected from her esophagus, but empties into her intestines a little further down. She lost an amazing 165 pounds (she was very big) and now (1-1/2 years past her surgery) feels better than she ever has. She would definitely do it over again. I'm not sure if this, or some other type of surgery would be appropriate for you, but it may be worth asking your doctor. If you'd like to talk to me or my daughter about this, just let me know.

[jacksonbart]

I just broke 200 lbs. I am heading in the wrong direction.

[BigStewMan]

Germerikan & Fini--thanks for the thoughts. Yeah, I've been taking Protonix for the past year; just doesn't give me the results that I'd hoped for. That's why I just had the recent endoscopy. Moderate Erosive Gastritis and small hiatal hernia. The gastritis is what forced me to stop drinking beer. I'd feel lousy the day after drinking, so I finally just gave it up. I meet with the stomach specialist again next week. He was blaming it on the Motrin I've been taking since my accident; but, I haven't had any Motrin for five weeks and am not feeling much different. It's been a long time since I was called "thin" but the lady at the donut store (I get a diet coke there each morning; but no donuts) asked me how I stay so thin.

Hope everyone is doing good today. Talking to a co-worker today, he was bummed because he owes $6K in taxes. As we talked, another co-worker walked by and asked us what we were talking about. We said taxes and she moaned, saying that she owes too. I know more people that owe than are getting refunds.

[BLSamuel]

Enjoying a diet ginger ale after a long day with out of town rheumatologist appointment and working late. Did get a bit of walking in on a nice spring day. To work from the muffler shop after dropping off my daughter's Saturn and back later to pick it up.

Steve - hope you get to feeling better.

Fini - hope you continue to improve.

Chuck - hope your wife continues to improve.

Ace - good luck on the job front.

Winchester - hope the long work days don't drag you down too long.

JB - heading up towards 200.... sound like you're doing top notch ... I need to be heading down towards 200.

Cheers to all.

[BigStewMan]

hey ben, believe it or not, i'm drinking a diet ginger ale too. enjoy.

Steve

[BLSamuel]

Hey Steve. If you like strong ginger ale track down some Blenheim.

I had a diet Blenheim the other night. Our daughter had a regular and it is much better - the diet lost too much flavor but was still wickedly strong. She loves the stuff. Blenheim Shrine

It comes in HOT and medium. (I hope it's the hot we've had... as it's potent stuff).

Ordered some as did my daughter when we went to Some Guys Pizza in Indianapolis for the first time a few months ago (just around the corner from the House of Klipsch). I was expecting normal harmless ginger ale out of the tap and they bring out a bottle of fire water.

I think they claim to only quit putting cane sugar into each bottle around 1994.

[BigStewMan]

thanks for tip ben--i'll check around and see if any stores out here carry it. i've never heard of it till now; but, i do like something with a little kick. I can pretend it's a bottle of tequila.

[BLSamuel]

thanks for tip ben--i'll check around and see if any stores out here carry it. i've never heard of it till now; but, i do like something with a little kick. I can pretend it's a bottle of tequila.

Good luck in your search.... it's pretty hard to find according to the Blenheim Shrine web site. If you're ever in Indianapolis they have it at Some Guys pizza. Really good food too.

Just a diet ginger ale tonight. Big K the Kroger store brand. Like (barely) flavored water compared to the Blenheim. Washing down some amazing pork tacos made with boneless pork chops (butterfly?) our youngest duaghter marinated in key lime juice (very little) and Tabasco sauce and I'm not sure what else. Not at all hot but very flavorful. (burp)

[jacksonbart]

Starting off early since I am off tomorrow and its beautiful out. Listening to my new speakers enjoying a La Gloria Cubana R and a Corona. Cheers