What's everyone up to right now?

[DodosAreDead]

If we were consistently satisfied with things, we wouldn't be as successful as a species as we are.  That's the answer in a nutshell.  It's nature's way of getting us to keep trying.

I'd be a lot more motivated to try if the satisfaction I got from trying lasted longer.

[Angrboda]

Half watching the Red Sox / Yankees game. The Red Sox are behind, which only lessens my interest. Getting ready to cook a frozen pizza. Putting off chili making for yet another day.

[no one]

Drowning puppies, and putting kittens in the Robo Coupe. Being evil is so much fun.

[brewer]

Last stroll thru here then off to bed.

[Minimalist]

Watching the ball game.

[Rev. Rye]

Got Joseph Frank’s biography of Dostoevsky at the HPB educators sale (using my Dad’s card to get 20% off).

We also talked with one of the best amp guys in Chicago for help with the Vaux amp I’ve been talking about. We talked about potentially putting in a switch to bypass the stock Baxandall tone stack in the power amp (the AC-tone has a 3-band EQ and there’s no point in a second one, especially if, if the tone stack app is any indication, this one will actually wind up with a big lower-mid hump at the “neutral position” (assuming that they don’t need to change the stock Rin and RL values, because those I can’t calculate from the schematic I posted here earlier.)

We talked about the design, and here’s my (very precise) blueprint for what the amp should look like.



Note: we’re recomsidering the “kalimba channel” proposal, and it may or may not end up in the final amp. At any rate, Dad has bought some Vox grill cloth and I’ve got some hardware for the amp (including new knobs, box corners, and the handle.) My “Voice of the Vox, portability of the Pignose, but still potentially loud enough to be a stage amp” idea still stands, and it may end up working. Hopefully, we’ll write down the instructions for how to build it and share it with the world. Presumably, it’ll still work for Fender, Mesa Boogie, And Marshall fans because Joyo makes cheap, but good, preamp pedals like the AC-Tone for those brands, and those will still be familiar enough that what works with the AC-Tone will work with those pedals.

[Astreja]

Got a head start on Sunday dinner (it's Canadian Thanksgiving weekend) by baking my legendary orange cake [link to recipe].

Tomorrow morning, or afternoon, or whenever I deign to get up, I have to see what stores are open and then get some celery for some stuffing that I want to make.  There's a duck to roast, cranberry sauce and yams to cook, and -- eventually -- a bottle of sparkling wine to drink.  Nom!

[Joods]

1:23am. I should be sleeping. But I'm not. So I have YouTube on the TV listening to a bunch of Phil Collins greatest hits.

[ignoramus]

Lying in bed.

Can't sleep.

Bit early innit? Not well?

[Little lunch]

1:23am. I should be sleeping. But I'm not. So I have YouTube on the TV listening to a bunch of Phil Collins greatest hits.

You can't hurry sleep, you just have to wait.
Sleep don't come easy, it's a game of give and take.