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Wrong comment button, but take care just the same.....

No problem. Wrong button, right message. And thanks.

So many kind thoughts here :)

Sad news indeed, as I though kitty was on the rebound, and a redemption arc against those wild dogs...

You guys bring tears to my eyes!

This place may have, and sometimes seek to cultivate, a rough-tough reputation. Actual truth is that it is full of people who are just too nice for HF!

It's kind of quiet around the house. Everybody grew up fast. With only one youngster now, kitten play has come to a sudden end.

:( Sorry to hear this. Our furry friends are the best.

God bless God for making cats! I hope everything works out.

The other Kitten (Priya)... vet said get an xray. But had to go a different clinic die to his decorating. Different vet sad, not much wrong with her, x-ray fine, take her home.

Due to all that, missed seeing post-op Venki today. The news bulletin is that he's still alive. Will see him tomorrow.

Sending out good kittie vibes from the Ringingears household. Cats are tough human beings. Our 19 year old is hanging tough, even though she’s skinny as a rail.

It's good to have friends! :D

@geniekid, I'm not good at 'Exciting.' Can you make do with 'occasionally surreal?"

PM - I can give you some evasion tactics.

Well, earlier in the day I was confident about my youngster. Now I am not. In fact I'm very worried. Back to vet tomorrow. I'm /hoping/ for another telling off for worrying too much. But... his state is not good.

I went to sleep with sad doubts, but young cat very much alive today! More so than yesterday.

Still sufficiently concerned about below-skin swelling, and lack of eating to take him to the vet later.

Too early to count my chickens. Err... Cats.

Cat is, as people say here, admitted. At least overnight. He is much better in himself, but vet wants to further investigate this refusal to eat or drink, and think a bit more about whether or not to lance the fluid build up.

Oh... Yes, "Cat" has a name: Venki. Which is short for Vencat. Which is like Venkat, but not quite the same, because... he's a cat.

I shall say a prayer for its safe return, lol.

I miss my old Cyrus CD Player. Prayers for you.

Sorry mang.

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<--- Let this fellow into garden. Although the same water was available in the house, first thing he does is drink a lot. So I guess I'm glad I let him out.

Then he has gone to his hiding place, which is not accessible to me, but at least I know where he is

Update on...
<-- This Fellow's Health.

More-or less all healed up now :)

I'm with you. I've only heard good speakers out of a proper vinyl rig a handful of times in my life so far but they thoroughly beat headphone audio, and those were store demos. Hope the repair man revives the integrated :)

I've heard a few good speakers in my time, some of them very good :)

I do not include the pair on my desk :(

lol

My possibly-fried Cyrus integrated amplifier has been checked into the local hospital today. As the controls have gone crazy, and that's all digital, I really fear that a proprietary chip may have fried.

Anyway, it couldn't be in better hands than those of Sayeed of Chennai --- who sends his regards to @Koth Ganesh

Great to see you again! Don't think you missed much that's interesting, save perhaps for someone not recognising Marvey :))

Hope you had a relaxing holiday. 6 weeks! My wife can take about a week, maximum. Once a year if she’s lucky.

Folks, I had a great holiday, although, for me, it is quite a long time for a home-lover to be away.
@Lyer25, I caught that yesterday. The LH Labs Droid doesn't know who Marvy/Purin is. The only thing that is not hilarious about that saga is the real money that real people are loosing

Wearing extra layers early in the day, but after that it is warming up nicely to low C 20s.

Getting warmer and warmer.
UK seems to have relocated to the tropics!

Let me put it another way ;)
London was not hot for me. It was almost my ideal temperature, and mostly ten C degrees less than Indian home!

In fact the 26/27C days, which made Londoners grumble... That is the temperature I set my Aircon to at home!

I did break into a sweat when I ran for a bus on one 30C day. Otherwise, fine. Lovely! Even 30C is comfortable.

Have a ball!

Cheers all.
Currently London shoping mostly. Met with an online friend from another forum this afternoon and evening and ate good food.

@Deep Funk, yes I have a towel.

It's a soft, fluffy, pink microfibre towel, such as Ford Prefect could not have imagined in his wildest dreams!

I'm ready for anything!

Needs to burn in a bit first for maximum flavor

I am ashamed to admit that whenever I see "stock", I either think markets or store inventory. Argh, I need to cook more!

@FallingObjects: Lightly browned?

@Biodegraded , what a genius comment!! Lol

My cat gets shit all over herself regularly and then does the butt scoot on the carpet to get it off.

Today, I could even say yes to the litter tray.

Tomorrow, I hope to be able to say no to that. But maybe ok sicking up grass on the floor. Especially as we have a maid to clean up after cats!

As to kissing after she takes a crap, Well... now you come to mention it, I'm not so sure about the tongue stuff. But kissing is academic today.

Hoping for a better tomorrow!

I'm reading it as "E No B." So part abbreviation and part acronym? (I'm pedantic about maintaining the difference).

@9suns: "but living in the atlantic." Are you a whale?

@rtaylor76: EABOD is a new one to me. My keyboard had another narrow escape.

I gained some extra pounds this year (now working out to get back to shape), so you may be onto something LOL

I will say the card scanning is significantly faster than my Pono, and actually shows the progress it’s making, unlike the ZX2 which gets to 35% and stays there until it magically finishes scanning.

Also I believe you can immediately access the files on a card without scanning it, but it only shows you folder and file names and can be hard to read.

I'm not too outraged either way- the SoC in there must be tiny and stupidly low power- plus it doesn't seem to be able to do card I/O all that fast- can't expect miracles.

If it was a 1K A+K thing, I'd be way more salty about it, of course.

My aforementioned Cowon Brick (in size, not as in paperweight: it might even still work today) had a hard disk inside it. I don't know the relative access speeds compared to sd card? But when I think "How fast does access have to be for audio," I remind myself that I can play music direct from a PC CD drive.

And I still prefer the electrode with a USB-c port in my brain

I find stem cells to have wonky treble anyway

stem cells just wave around in the wind too much.

Too young indeed: 71.

I know he was around a lot of places, but I only really encountered him on hydrogen audio. It is going to feel like that site has lost part of its soul. Lost one of its balls even!

Krueger. With two Es.

Sorry.

This is how you moisten a mf cloth for that sort of cleaning:

run a little water into the sink and let it run away. Just lay the cloth on the wet surface.

More aggressive cleaning: mist with IPA/water/detergent-drop mix.

For years I used isopropyl alcohol at work. Not long ago I discovered “drinking IPA” actually meant “India Pale Ale”. Careful not to get them confused.

lol, @murray! I don't think that drinking IPA would be good for you, but beer would be even worse for records, with or without microfibre!

It's not so much the gear, as the fact that they have proper houses, with matching furniture, suites, carpets etc.

Somehow I just never made it that far.

I plan to have that. Something like this: http://www.audioheritage.org/images/jbl/photos/home-speakers/paragon-color.jpg
When I get my own place after college, it will be a mid century/60s/70s style like that.

Or something like this... Alex had it right http://www.cgarchitect.com/content/portfolioitems/2012/03/47424/CWO-Night_large.jpg