Ripper2860
Headphoneus Supremus
Not really a Michigan fan unless they are playing OSU. Then I'm a huge fan!
Come on - you gotta admit Wolverines is an awesome name!
Come on - you gotta admit Wolverines is an awesome name!

Haha! As real OSU fans will tell you, we cheer for Michigan to win every single game... Except one. I moved to California and somehow married INTO a Michigan family. I don't know how that happened here but there was definitely some Romeo and Juliet going on.Not really a Michigan fan unless they are playing OSU. Then I'm a huge fan!
Come on - you gotta admit Wolverines is an awesome name!![]()
You're smart for that. Don't let anyone tell you it's crazy. The real estate and financial industries (who are the only ones that really benefit from it) have succeeded in normalizing that everyone pay tens (if not hundreds) of thousands in interest in home loan interest over the course of their lives.(who I still live with because I'm a lunatic who intends to come in with a ton of money down on my first place if I don't buy it outright)
Consider that your parents might be moving to get away from you? No offense intended, but COVID may be more manageable in 6 months and you have friends and work in California - much more attractive than Houston, IMO.
You're smart for that. Don't let anyone tell you it's crazy. The real estate and financial industries (who are the only ones that really benefit from it) have succeeded in normalizing that everyone pay tens (if not hundreds) of thousands in interest in home loan interest over the course of their lives.
You'll absolutely come out ahead by refusing to accept the status quo.
I'm really glad that you arrived safely ! As I live in Quebec City, I can relate to your experience....2021, Chapter 2:
The Unexpected Is, Er...Unexpected
But this is a heckuva way to arrive in Texas!
Here East, we just say the number "took 287 to 684 to 84" unless it's a named road "and then after 84 I got on the pike/masspike"Is "the" exclusively a SoCal thing? It is not used in Northern California. Is it used elsewhere in the US?
I had one, now I have two more in the mail. Not sure I will run all three, but will be using at least two of them once all the stuff comes in (need a new case for one and I am getting a new HAT and case for the other. My original would probably need a new case and maybe a new HAT if I wanted to put it somewhere, but I do not know where I would want it... maybe the kitchen with a portable speaker).I know I'm tempting fate here.........
But, I have 7 or RPis as streamer end points and they all work very well. No real issues at all.
Stand back and waits..........
Interesting. I found Roon (on a NUC, with addition of Tidal and Qobuz) to be the definition of simplicity. Just works. (For me). Other streaming set ups have driven me bananas. Ymmv but if you can get past the build phase it’s just so much better - and gets back some amount of what I like about perusing record covers / liner notes etc.I love specking out a computer. I love the built too. But, after the O/S is installed and working, I absolutely hate the rest. Configuring software and setting up a network is a pain in my AS*. That's probably the reason I still listen to CD's, and don't stream at home. When I want to hear music, I want it simple. No B/S just to play a song.![]()
Interesting. I found Roon (on a NUC, with addition of Tidal and Qobuz) to be the definition of simplicity. Just works. (For me). Other streaming set ups have driven me bananas. Ymmv but if you can get past the build phase it’s just so much better - and gets back some amount of what I like about perusing record covers / liner notes etc.
Would be bad enough in a car :/ But maybe the roads are a bit wider and straighter since our 5 years in Scotland several decades ago...
Do you know how many recordings of Vivaldi's Winter there are? And all the different artists doing it?
It's worse than all the versions of Auld Lang Syne, for sure.
'Maybe' I'll look into it. But, I hope it's simple, and works the 1st time. I'm getting too old and grumpy to fight software...!
Plus, I think I had an epiphany. The thought of ripping my entire CD collection, kind'a creeps me out. It'll make me feel like I'm back at work, when I worked at a CD pressing plant. All those discs will make me feel like I'm transferring CD-R masters, and getting them ready for glass mastering...! By the time our plant closed, we had roughly 65K master tapes; 1630 U-Matic, DAT, 8MM, CD and CD-R, plus an occasional reel to reel. A lot of work, and I handled a great many of them.
Whoa, things are sure rough in Texas right now eh
Now I appreciate Singapore's constant sunny weather (except for the seemingly random rain sometimes) and public transport network a lot more