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Well, my Harman Kardon Award Series A30K (A300 from kit) integrated 30 watt tube amp is a little over 5 decades old, and didn't come with HDMI inputs, either. Now, this is old school, baby. What joy it has brought me, but it needs some tlc. Tell me about that thing! What is the ambience knob? Some sort of artificial reverb?

I can certainly relate, and I'm not a musician. I often drive 2.5 hrs to lose time and money. The life of a salesman.

Wow! Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park: Jack DeJohnette: Special Legends Edition with Muhal Richard Abrams, Larry Gray, Roscoe Mitchell and Henry Threadgill; 6:30 p.m. Do what???

Do you have to have your tv on to play music?

I like your spirit. You've got friends here if you need anything!

Damn dude. I had no idea. You seem to be taking it in stride...

Fuck. Hadn't thought about this in a while.

Until recently, I had been debit for everything for at least ten years. For the past year, I pay cash for everything except to fill up my car. It all comes from the same place, but I appreciate it more when I see it disappearing.

I don't know anything about it, really. I haven't owned a video game since Sega Genesis! I'm terrible the few times I've played Madden or FIFA on PS3! Ridiculously flustered! It's hilarious. I do know a bunch of people who are ready to trade up though! My kids will be getting into games over the next five or six years. Looking forward to all of it. Learning video games. Buying a new fielder's mitt. All of it.

I'd imagine PS3s will be very cheap very soon.

With all due respect, who buys marijuana on the street? Most of what I have seen in the past twenty years living in NC was grown in NC; some of it outdoors, some of it indoors. I'm sure the shit we smoked in high school came from Mexico. Hell, it was probably grown a decade prior for that matter! I'm not a habitual smoker, but it is not hard to find freshly harvested semi-local, or local marijuana. I remember friends of friends making the cross-country trip to Oregon for harvests. They were the most popular kids in town for about three days!

Volvo?

Or Leland and Castle Hayne.

Too much to consider, considering it won't happen. Could Bob Cranshaw hook up with that?

I love the idea. Sonny seems pretty comfortable with his path at this point, but yeah. Or is it "yeah!" ? Or is it "Yeah" ? I love it regardless.

Who would be the plus one? Adam Rudolph? Michael Zerang?

Hey she's only three! The drum kit comes on her fourth birthday.

Jim, is there a way to contribute via PayPal? I'd like to contribute $40.

Lon, what made you decide not to watch?

That's my daughter SS1. Strange to see this here! This was spontaneous. I had never seen her do this before, and I haven't seen her do it since!

Agreed Quincy. DC and N VA are two very different places. I just can't see leaving the beach for the sprawl.

Guys... 0.8 BAC would kill you.

It really did come down to the traffic. Dealing with that piece became the conversation. We have two daycare-aged kids. The logistics of commute and daycare drop off and pickup and amount of time we would spend in the car instead of the backyard, park, or BEACH really made the decision. Not to mention, literally every person I have spoken with about living up there has had the exact response that you gave me. It's a bummer. I want to be excited about the opportunity, and am grateful for being considered. I just can't bring myself to do it.

We've decided that this opportunity is not for us. Thanks for the input guys.