Booked in the car for new tyres after losing two to road debris in two days. I guess the combination of 160mm rain in four hours and someone dropping the contents of their toolbox in gravel on the road wasn't ever going to end well.
@teepot I was born & raised in Duluth and still live in the area but not on Lake Superior in NW Wisconsin. Lake Superior is majestic no matter what season it is but in the winter it is something special.You should see the Lake Superior shoreline in winter. The ice was like flowstone in a cave. I was up there with the Boy Scouts many decades ago.
Why does that look like it should be buried on the moon and dug up in 2001?Yesterday went and bought the Mirage M3si speakers, nowI have to find someone to get them out of the back of our SUV, they are 135lbs. each
Take the grill off and post a picture. What's inside?Yesterday went and bought the Mirage M3si speakers, now I have to find someone to get them out of the back of our SUV, they are 135lbs. each
Model of procaine (Novocaine)?
10" woofer, 5" midrange, dome tweeter on the frontTake the grill off and post a picture. What's inside?
I maxed out my accrued vacation already so I'm on a forced week long vacation. 6 weeks and I get 3 days per month. I'm going to get another forced vacation in another 2 months.
Yeah. 21 years at the same company has benefits. I get 6 weeks paid every year plus I can roll up to 4 weeks from last year into this year. Plus pension and 401k matching. Rare in companies now.with pay?
Her first shot? Good deal.We're going into Vegas so my wife can get her Covid shot at the VA Hospital.
Even if they decide to downsize me, the company policy says my severance package would include the next year's bonus and 1 year salary plus any accrued vacation is paid out. Plus they do out-placement assistance (help you write your CV, teach you how to interview, etc.). They also give you preference when applying for any internal job postings.You are very fortunate. I had 2 big companies, Owens Corning and McDonnell Douglas both tell me, "You're grandkids will retire from here". Didn't happen.
Isn't that the awful place where they cut ships up for scrap with guys using no fall protection across rickety catwalks, using burning torches with sandals on, minimal if any PPE, etc.?22.469026969767043, 91.71941213000886
exactly. and all for teh princely sum of $5USD a day!!Isn't that the awful place where they cut ships up for scrap with guys using no fall protection across rickety catwalks, using burning torches with sandals on, minimal if any PPE, etc.?
I want to stay until retirement for a few reasons but one of the major ones is as part of our health insurance plan, any company med you're prescribed is free and that continues into retirement. A major part of our portfolio is oncology meds (cancer meds) which are crazy stupid expensive. If I retire as an employee, myself and all my dependants get all company drugs for free. In retirement, drug costs can eat up a significant part of the monthly budget.With a severance package like that it's almost be good to be laid off. If one were close enough to retirement then one really might be hoping for it. I work for one of the world's biggest railway manufacturing company, and I got the next year's bonus on a lay-off it's be a $25 gift card to the local supermarket. (No, really, not kidding.)
those were a square box versus a tall tower, I never got to hear the KossLooks a lot like the old Koss Model 1 electrostatic speakers.
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Can you tell how excited I get about Hi-Fi?
I wish I could go back and be able to work in a hi-fi shop, I really had my priorities screwed up in my confused adolescence.I was really lucky in that I got to work at a high-end stereo shop when I was in college. I got to listen to some of the best stuff in the world (at that time - late 70's).
I used to have a great system years ago, and always liked listening to music on good quality sound systems. My wife likes listening to music on her mobile phone, using the tinny little speaker they have. It drive me bananas. She has had the Bee Gees Greatest Hits on loop for the past two months ."Contentment is Destroyed by Comparison" is the old saying I use. Only after listening to a speaker system that you can FEEL, instead of just listening to, do you realize how good speakers can be. Being a musician all my life and playing in all kinds of groups, I want to be surrounded/immersed in the sound, not just have 2 polite small speakers up in the front of the room. You know, the kind you can be brought into the room blindfolded, and point right to where the speakers are? You need to be enveloped to try and give a 3-D effect with a good bottom end too. "It's all about that BASS"
Can you tell how excited I get about Hi-Fi?
My wife likes listening to music on her mobile phone, using the tinny little speaker they have. It drive me bananas. She has had the Bee Gees Greatest Hits on loop for the past two months
She declined the offer.Why don't you offer to get her a new playlist?
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