so the other day i was wiring up my 11yr old kenwood stereo in my
music room along with its CD player only to find that it's dead.
it'll play like 2min and then everything goes black.

so i pulled out my 20yr+ old Onkyo integrated amp and an old panasonic
DVD player to use to play music. man it sounds 100X better than the
kenwood or any of the newer systems i have. they knew how to make
amps back then. so rich and warm. for speakers im running 2
15yr old ENERGY bookshelvs and a 10" ENERGY sub.

now if i can find a NAD CD player i'll be all set. i had one long time
ago but thanks to british engineering (just like our MINI's) it died after
3-4yrs use.

 

since im running lower-end right now in the HiFi world, something like this would be nice.

http://nadelectronics.com/products/c...C542-CD-Player

 

I got these from Lee Valley.




One is a flush cut, no set on the teeth, the other is a general purpose saw.

Oh and I got a lifetime supply of these.



Mark

 

Ken, I had a NAD tape deck decades ago, it was a great machine. I need to get my older Sony 5 disk surround sound system up and running for my shop area. First I need new speakers for the new surround system.

Mark

 

Washed two MINIs today and QD'd the other one.

I'm tired and sore. Winter has me out of car-washing shape.

 

lotsie-that's a nice saw. my pops long time ago had something
like that.

this is the one i was looking at.



CR&PW&BJ- LOL ive been working out with swapping out
wheels and delivering it to people the last week or so and so im in
'wheel' good shape.

 

It's drizzly here today, which both MINIs have managed to miss even though they have been out and about. May QD them tomorrow if the weather clears.

Mark

 

it's been not too cold but the wind makes it feel 22F and it's going to
rain/freezing raing tonight so i passed on washing the dd's.

i re-torqued the FitSW's lugs since wife came back from running errands
for us. i asked if she noticed any difference with the snow tires on
the dry roads and she said 'no.' which is a good thing.

 

[quote=kenchan;2613567]lotsie-that's a nice saw. my pops long time ago had something
like that.

I have one of these a Dozuki folding fighting saw


Mark

 

But what I really want is one of these. Just have to figure a "cottage industry" to pay for it.


Mark

 

dang a leap backwards to basic handtools yet a huge leap forward to
the future.


im cracking partition passwords on my old powermac i locked 15+yrs ago.
i have 5-6 more partitions to go, but i 'cracked' 3 of them so far.

trying to remember wat i was thinking 15yrs+ ago...

 

yesss, i cracked all the codes and got access to the parititions.

man, i need to cool my brain a little. was thinking too hard.

 

i hear it's going to get a little icy tonight. can't wait to
try out the new snow tires on the FitSW.

 

It's 58F and fog is rolling in here now, then 40Fish tomorrow.

Yeah, I'm all over time/space when it comes to tools

Mark

 

ahh, sounds like a good day to stay inside.

today i think it's going to be in the mid 30F's but no washing or anything
for me. i haven't washed my FitS since end of Nov. i think i'll start
washing it every other week at the touchless. such a waste of time and
$ at those touchless. never gets 'clean.'

 

We're watching football (switching to the Food Network at commercials) and starving ourselves in preparation for a huge dinner at Fleming's

 

ML- i just noticed. you moved back to WI?

 

No I've been here since mid-December for the holidays. I go back home on Tuesday.

However, I had a flukey occurance while I was here. I just happened to be browsing the classifieds, and found what is my DREAM job in the Chicago north burbs. So I sent in a resume, thinking I'd never get an interview because it's too perfect and life just has not been going that way for me lately.

So of course, they called the next day, requesting an interview. I did that on Friday, and it went very very well, and I'm scheduled to meet the doctor I'd be working for tomorrow evening. If all goes well, I'm hoping to have an offer by the time I'm on my way home late Tuesday, otherwise by the end of the week. Then I'd have two weeks to get my stuff packed and get back.

Sort of a whirlwind, but I've been wanting to get out of California and this puts me closer to my family while still having a little distance, and the job is perfect! So I hope it all works out and I'll have an idea in the next 48 hours of what's going on.

 

ML- goodluck with that!!! it would be awesome to have
a detailing buddy close by.

 

Thanks! It would be fun. I'd miss all my CA MINI friends but there are always new ones wherever I go!

 

ML- You would be closer to St.Louis too, we have some great MINI roads around here, and there is always room for one more MINI in our driveway, oh we have a spare bedroom too

Mark

 

well, the best part about NAM is you can keep in touch!



dang, im back off to work again in about 30min... im dreading
how many emails i got stashed when i turned the bb back on.

 

I'm heading down towards Chicago in 3 hours or so. I want to avoid rush hour (I have a 5:30pm meeting with the doctor I'd be working for and his clinic manager) and kind of want to scope out the area a little.

Not driving a MINI today, driving my mom's big honking Escalade - which probably isn't too bad, because the driveway is a hockey rink!

 

hey GL out there ML!

when you're on 90 and pass by Roselle Rd (no exit from west)
think of me.

my office is like 2min from that exit (like 2min from Patrick MINI).

 

check this out... griot's now has shower caps for our expensive wheels!