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I got the first Black Sabbath album when it came out circa 1970. I had not heard of Black Sabbath until I saw the album cover. The band name and album cover interested me enough to buy it. I was disappointed when I played it and my opinion was that they were trying out a gimmick to see if it...

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Same age as mine. He's a redhead version named Milo. Birthday was Feb. 12.

Beautiful Lab. How old?

I agreed to try fixing a friends Akai AC-3800 music center. It consists of a 25wpc receiver, cassette deck and turntable. As those things go, this one isn't god awful. She got it from someone else and it did not work when she got it. It does not power up. No lights, no functions, no...

It makes people look?

And for after the friendship blossoms.

Yesterday I crossed the border to get a package at a US mail and package depot I have an account with. Normally, it has been one of two border officers in attendance. Both were pleasing to interact with. Whoever was there yesterday, was new to me. And what a dick! He certainly enjoyed his...

I had a look inside the 23** (something, something) that a friend bought just after he got it around 2010. 130-ish watts per channel. There was only a single large cap inside that one but it had two layers. Despite that, not of a very impressive size. That pretty much summed up my...

In the early '70's a friend going to university was involved with putting a mens floor hockey team together. There was already a women's team. His suggestion for the team's name was the Nads. The objective being that if the men's team ever played the women's team, men's team supporters...

In case your 5300 shares the same transport as my 5100, I'll be following your investigation of the drawer switch. With my 5100, the drawer opens after I push the switch but retracts again immediatly afterwards. It takes 3 to 5 attempts before the drawer stays open. And once it does stay...

If I cleaned out my bank account, I'd stll be some thousands short for that one.

The exact same thing happened 10 or so years ago when I took a very well packaged TEAC open reel deck to FedEx for shipping. It was going from Vancouver, BC to Montreal, Quebec. I asked for some "Fragile" stickers and was that told they no longer provide them. The clerk said that the reason...

When it was being broadcast on TV, I did not watch a single episode of House. I couldn't think of Hugh Laurie as any character other than George in Blackadder which I was addicted to. Several years later, I binge watched every episode of House on Netflix. There were severeal scenes in...

A quarter of a century went by fast.