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Leaving out from AZ today. Had to delay an extra day to file my divorce paperwork. Basically driving the I 10 to FL. I'll check in from time to time. J

Same argumentation and trap as fast food. It is easy AND addictive so if you start you continue.I eat fast food too, but to me that is a baguette, some saucisson, cheese and a tomato. Takes seconds to grab and is yummy. Same argumentation and trap as fast food. It is easy AND addictive so if you start you continue.I eat fast food too, but to me that is a baguette, some saucisson, cheese and a tomato. Takes seconds to grab and is yummy.Again, location, location, location. Add inyour ability to say 'hey I have 10 mins before this starts lemme run out the door real quick.' And its easier for you than me. Reguardless, I will be making that shit change very very soon.JThe location is my house. There are always tomatoes on the counter, par baked bread in the freezer, fresh cheeses and usually a few varieties of dried sausages. Instead meal whenever it is needed. WAY faster than going to order shit somewhere. The only delay is warming up the oven to bake the bread for 5 minutes, but that isn't a huge deal and if necessary I have pretzel buns which actually can be acceptably dethawed/heated in a microwave.And for me when it's snack time its at the office, or on the road. No real prior planning done or anything else. J

Matt, also congrats on your news as well. J

Thanks for the well wishes guys. I'm looking forward to the new line of work, and the trip across country. Hopefully the dog likes it too. J

Same argumentation and trap as fast food. It is easy AND addictive so if you start you continue.I eat fast food too, but to me that is a baguette, some saucisson, cheese and a tomato. Takes seconds to grab and is yummy. Same argumentation and trap as fast food. It is easy AND addictive so if you start you continue.I eat fast food too, but to me that is a baguette, some saucisson, cheese and a tomato. Takes seconds to grab and is yummy.Again, location, location, location. Add inyour ability to say 'hey I have 10 mins before this starts lemme run out the door real quick.' And its easier for you than me. Reguardless, I will be making that shit change very very soon. J

It is a fresh start period. I just hope this is more successful than before. Specifically in the areas of finances, mental and physical health, and most importantly personal satisfaction. J

Great thing about a 5 Hour Energy (or a myriad of other similar products) is that you can throw it back fairly quickly and be done with it. Tastes like shit, but when you really need it, it helps a lot. I'll take the unhealthy choice if it means energy quite often. Sadly it is an unfortunate side effect of this job. Side note, I take my final vacation from this job as of the 20th. With 2 months and change in fully paid vacation. Add in starting the new job (as of now) on 1 July and I should be making decent money with full benifits. J Que? do tell...Not trying to jinx myself, but I should be signing contract to work as the Music Booking Agent for Outbreak Entertainment in Tampa. Just gotta get down there and iron out some more details. Unfortunately that is all I can say at this time. J Fuckin' A brother. Congrats... Thanks guys. Until the contract is signed, and the checks are hitting my account its just words at this point. While I trust and believe in the words I am being told, I know enough to know not to put all my money on this horse just yet. J

Lookin good man. J

Great thing about a 5 Hour Energy (or a myriad of other similar products) is that you can throw it back fairly quickly and be done with it. Tastes like shit, but when you really need it, it helps a lot. I'll take the unhealthy choice if it means energy quite often. Sadly it is an unfortunate side effect of this job. Side note, I take my final vacation from this job as of the 20th. With 2 months and change in fully paid vacation. Add in starting the new job (as of now) on 1 July and I should be making decent money with full benifits. J Que? do tell...Not trying to jinx myself, but I should be signing contract to work as the Music Booking Agent for Outbreak Entertainment in Tampa. Just gotta get down there and iron out some more details. Unfortunately that is all I can say at this time. J

No Sean is right. It is a cop out. Its the accessability of it. When you cannot leave due to a meeting starting in 10 minutes and that sweet cafeine is calling your name, it's what keeps your ass awake in 95*+ offices while doing death by powerpoint for 2 hours with no breaks. Hopefully the new job will allow for some flexability with time, and will allow for a better diet and exercise too. J

Glad to see shipping going down for you, and that you are still satisfied. Thanks again!!! J

Need your user name nd date in the pics on a piece of paper.

Great thing about a 5 Hour Energy (or a myriad of other similar products) is that you can throw it back fairly quickly and be done with it. Tastes like shit, but when you really need it, it helps a lot. I'll take the unhealthy choice if it means energy quite often. Sadly it is an unfortunate side effect of this job. Side note, I take my final vacation from this job as of the 20th. With 2 months and change in fully paid vacation. Add in starting the new job (as of now) on 1 July and I should be making decent money with full benifits. J

So its boston beers? J

Wow. Just wow. J

You gotta blame that on the manufacturer and not the outlet. A smart manufacturer would have a good rep firm to dictate who gets to carry product without watering down the brand.They don't have a rep firm, those sites are approaching them directly.I understand your plight, but if they have the resources to do so in our capitalist economy, then what is the problem. I have to agree with Quentin. Rep firm or no, it's the manufacturer's responsibility. If Zed or Sundown don't want their products sold on other sites, it's up to them. Unfortunately for SSA, you're too small to matter in the grand scheme and we all know how people love a cheaper price.Oh yeah, I fully understand... whore it out is always > loyalty I don't understand this comment on all. Please expand.That's better discussed over drinks. Almost any topic is best discussed over drinks. J

I try and show loyalty as much as possible, but sometimes it just comes down to dollars. J

Considering I'll have to wear polo's more often, I'm in too. J

Crosswords are great, but other areas need to be stimulated as well. Puzzles, photo hunts, and just general brain training are huge helps. J

Perhaps have one of him sitting opposite of how grandma was? So it can look like they were there together? J

happy birthday!!! J

Hopefully no one as that is a stupid way to set your gains. Of course if you read the thread you'd understand that. Umm, no. It's a POS that does nothing useful. I've even thrown out the challenge to Steve himself to offer up when it could be useful and he ran away and only wanted to discuss where he could edit or remove posts. I had no problems with Steve until he started to profit from misleading noobs. That sucks. Anyone who does that deserves no respect. As for the DD-1, what job is it that it does "well"? Fucking sucks for gain setting. I realize you learn the hard way, but come on. Don't close your eyes to thinking. You can ruin stuff with any settings. Your choices make no sense. Train your ear. It will greatly improve everything. And things can go way wrong before measured distortion too. Amusingly the DD-1 nor a scope can measure distortion. Ok, sure $50k Nicollet scopes can but I don't think we are discussing those here.Your methods lead to the same conclusion. If you don't take the time to train your ear and to actually listen then your shit can fail. Use your ears, teach your ears, enjoy your stuff, don't blindly do something idiotic. I can hear just fine. My methods make sense if you put 2 and 2 together. The levels music is recorded at varies greatly. With my smaller setups, it was much easier to detect audible distortion. But I'm not running "smaller" setups anymore. Also everyone is leading off track, this has to do with gain setting, nothing else. We're not talking about other components failing. Just one part. Stop weaseling the conversation in direction that benefit your argument, which is not the actual topic itself. So many of these topics get skewed because some of you try soooooo damn hard to be 100% right. When you're not. There's other methods. Except that and move on. Way too much closed minded thinking. If you constantly shun away other ideas, you'll never better yourself. There's no point in reading all the replies honestly. Over half are bitching about Steve. I swear it's like talking with democrats in here. Everything turns into ripping someone else down and basically calling their ideas bull shit. And why on earth would Steve accept a challenge from you? Cause you're "mr SSA tech team" You're like a pringles can of bull shit. Steve has turned himself into a whore. Pay the man enough and he'll do anything. Nut huggers funded his every move for quite sometime now. Do you think he TRULY gives two fucks about how useful the product is if the money still shows? Fuck no. Trust me when I say this......he is earning a shit ton more off people who do not fully grasp audio, or who are impressed by glass eyes popping out in a week than most people do in a month. J

Mexican moving day in AZ. J

Tucson has enough sloots to keep new content all the time? J It's not targeted toward Tucson. It grabs images off other blogs and tumblr accounts (avoiding copyright issues), posts to my site, then submits the images and my site url to other sites for traffic. They see the tits on tumblr, reddit, stumbleupon, sex.com, etc and they click the image/link back to my site. From there I get earnings off ads.Rather genious. Respect that idea man. J The extra money is cool, but if I can actually make enough to pay for classes than I'll literally die laughing my ass off at the idea.This could be your meal ticket for good man. Well played. J

Tucson has enough sloots to keep new content all the time? J It's not targeted toward Tucson. It grabs images off other blogs and tumblr accounts (avoiding copyright issues), posts to my site, then submits the images and my site url to other sites for traffic. They see the tits on tumblr, reddit, stumbleupon, sex.com, etc and they click the image/link back to my site. From there I get earnings off ads.Rather genious. Respect that idea man. J