Calzone
Gear Whore #1
Sadly down the block on the corner they are tearing down "The Church of the Holy Agony" (I'm not making this name up) with a crew of men, no machines. My guess it is cheaper to exploit cheap hand labor to demolish a building, rather than use machines. This is a brick and stone building with a flat roof, and perhaps looks more like a comercial building rather than a Church.
I suspect an 8-12 story modern apartment building will be built to further gentrify East Harlem. Right across Third Avenue are the Washington Projects, and on the next block is a halfway house for ex-felons newly released from prison. In fact these men hang out and smoke on the opposite corner from the Church that is getting demo'ed. Nearby is a Pawn Shop.
Welcome to my neighborhood. On the next block is East 100th Street where Bruce Davidson documented the extreme poverty that existed there in 1969.
Cal
I suspect an 8-12 story modern apartment building will be built to further gentrify East Harlem. Right across Third Avenue are the Washington Projects, and on the next block is a halfway house for ex-felons newly released from prison. In fact these men hang out and smoke on the opposite corner from the Church that is getting demo'ed. Nearby is a Pawn Shop.
Welcome to my neighborhood. On the next block is East 100th Street where Bruce Davidson documented the extreme poverty that existed there in 1969.
Cal
MrFujicaman
Well-known
I hope you got a picture of the sign! ( sounds like the name of a dentist's office to me...)
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
GEAR ALERT: I just bought a SL2 and saved about $525.00 avoiding NYC Sales Tax (0.0875% on $5995.00) and got free shipping.
The SL2 will be delivered to my dealer this Friday, and I expect delivery either Thursday or Friday of next week. I'm O.K. with the standard 5-day ground shipping after waiting perhaps 4 years for this camera.
Pretty much I had GAS because I had an insider's look and knew all the smut on the design about 4 years ago.
"NDA," I say. This is the most GAS I have ever experienced. I'm really excited to keep the APO 35 Cron on the SL and utilize the 50 Lux-L on the SL2. Both cameras fit in this leather bookbag I originally bought to house the SL five years ago. Now I'll have two fully rigged full frame cameras as my kit.
"BRUTAL," I say. Happy-happy... The SL is still a great camera, but from the one-day launch event at the SoHo Leica Store for the SL2 I already know the SL2 "crushes" the SL.
That Maestro three processor is mighty speedy, and I was surprised on how I saw the increase in resolution and the added depth I saw on my 27 inch EIZO. I was expecting to only take notice on big prints, but this was not the case.
Cal
The SL2 will be delivered to my dealer this Friday, and I expect delivery either Thursday or Friday of next week. I'm O.K. with the standard 5-day ground shipping after waiting perhaps 4 years for this camera.
Pretty much I had GAS because I had an insider's look and knew all the smut on the design about 4 years ago.
"NDA," I say. This is the most GAS I have ever experienced. I'm really excited to keep the APO 35 Cron on the SL and utilize the 50 Lux-L on the SL2. Both cameras fit in this leather bookbag I originally bought to house the SL five years ago. Now I'll have two fully rigged full frame cameras as my kit.
"BRUTAL," I say. Happy-happy... The SL is still a great camera, but from the one-day launch event at the SoHo Leica Store for the SL2 I already know the SL2 "crushes" the SL.
That Maestro three processor is mighty speedy, and I was surprised on how I saw the increase in resolution and the added depth I saw on my 27 inch EIZO. I was expecting to only take notice on big prints, but this was not the case.
Cal
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
MFM,
I have many shots of Christ displayed on a cross in Limestone with the engraved odd name in different light.
I think I even have shots of when they defaced the Church by removing said crucifix.
Further uptown is another Catholic Church they closed because it did not turn a profit. I find this distasteful because instead of serving a poor community they displayed greed instead. It is said that this congregation still meets on Sunday in front of the now abandoned Church.
Do you know the scene from the film "Marathon Man" where Dustin Hoffman is being tortured by a dentist who formally was a Nazi war criminal. "Is it safe?" he would ask, and then came the pain of a root canal without being anesticized.
So I was "minding my own business" and was told to make another appointment for a second visit with "Kate" the dentist's very young, perhaps 20 year old daughter who was working as a receptionist.
Somehow when I tried to make another appointment, instead I ended up on a date with the dentist's daughter instead. We went to see a film that she kinda twisted my arm to see "Welcome To The Doll House."
So pretty much I learn that this gal kinda hates her dad, and that she is kinda crazy. We see the film and that was that. Seems like I have a great talent for meeting crazies.
So pretty much I made an appointment for the follow-up visit, and I was reminded of Dustin Hoffman in the film "The Marathon Man" because numerous times I was asked, "How old are you?"
I was perhaps 35 at the time, but I could hear the dental drill, and no matter how many times I answered with the same question, "How old are you?" I got asked again.
Sadly most recently I heard that "Kate" commited suicide from another dentist who knows my old dentist.
Sometimes it is not so easy being a skinny good looking bitch like me.
Cal
icebear
Veteran
You could have traded in your old SL right away and get a 2nd SL2 body, you know - you gotta have back-up ... non-crushed
Enjoy!
PS: When is the launch/arrival of the SL2M?
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
You could have traded in your old SL right away and get a 2nd SL2 body, you know - you gotta have back-up ... non-crushed
Enjoy!
PS: When is the launch/arrival of the SL2M?
Klaus,
Right now I'm happy-happy to just get one SL2. I pretty much was even willing to pay the NYC sales tax as a premium just to get one. The supply is UBER small, and then there was the Christmas to New Year's shutdown...
Even if I could afford a second SL2, none are available. I was on the VIP list at the Leica Store SoHo, and I thought this was my best bet. I also contacted my dealer PopFlash and was on a waiting list there. I even got on the B&H waiting list. Pretty much I would call the Leica Store in late afternoons as directed by Eli the owner. "It's O.K. to annoy me," he said. LOL.
So here is the deal. The APO glass is likely "future proofed" to 3-4 generations meaning 100MP to 120MP sensors and is likely Leicas' most highly corrected glass. Because of a lack of size and weight constraignts over M-bodies Leica pulled out the stops with the L-glass.
Who else makes APO wides? My APO 35 Cron has 5 ASPH elements, and the rendering is kinda crazy-good.
The 50 Lux-L is surely a beast and does not have that fast of a focus, the APO 35 Cron is mucho fast. But the 50 Lux does have a really great "Mandlar" signature with great bokeh and a mucho smooth OOF. F1.4 looks wonderful.
Know that the APO 50 Cron is said to be not only a faster focusing lens, but also a better lens for landscape due to better edge and corner performance, but for shooting people the 50 Lux is the better lens.
I await a SL2-M. I find it interesting that the M10M is "only" 41 MP. My thinking is Leica sacrificed some pixel count as not to burden the Maestro 2 processor with too much data. With the SL2 I speculate because of the Maestro 3 processor that a 47.3 MP sensor seems like the way to go, no data bottleneck. I imagine a 47.3 MP sensor without a Bayer Filter Array to have the resolution of say a 64 MP color sensor with a Bayer Filter Array.
As for glass I think I can do lots of photography with just the APO 35 Cron and 50 Lux-L. Already I saved about $1.2K because luckily I bought both these lenses before the Trump Tariffs caused price increases. Because the 50 Lux-L has F1.4 I don't think I need an APO 75 Cron or APO 90 Cron.
Perhaps one day I would get a second SL2 of a SL2-M...
Cal
Phil_F_NM
Camera hacker
If I make it to the beauty contest, I'll bring a killer wrist strap which was formery on a Fujinon EBC B4 mount news camera lens. It'll go into the free grab bag. These ENG straps are no joke and are much better than what camera manufacturers provide for their still cameras. You could easily hold up a 35lb camera with this strap because that's what it's designed for. I've always thought integrating a wrist splint, like a bowling glove on the lightweight end or like a physical rehabilitation splint on the heavyweight end would be amazing for some cameras like the F3HP with MD4 and a 180mm ED. I should team up with one of the occuppational therapists I work with and see if we can invent such a beast.
Phil Forrest
Phil Forrest
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
Phil,
Not in the Grab-Bag are your Suntour XC Pro cranks (175mm). If you don't make it to this event I'll ship them too you.
Also in the Grab-Bag will be some Answer "Taperlite" bars, a XT Deore rear derailure, and some other bike parts.
Cal
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
Another possible free vacation is brewing. I don't know if it will be a "Plus-One" that includes me to Finland in late March.
Seems like other brands of travel and touring liked the way the river cruise worked out.
Anyways I can expect business class and luxury accommodations. Likely only 4-5 days not including travel days, and the trip is advertised as an Arctic Adventure that involves snowmobiles, cross country skying, and Reindeer.
BTW I'm glad that my SL and new SL2 are weather proofed.
For drama I currently have 145 hours of vacation banked, and I'm allowed to bank a maximum of 195 hours. So far they have not hired anyone to back me up. President's Day will add 7 1/2 hours and pretty much 6 hours gets added per pay period (bi-weekly), so sometime in March my vacation bank will be maxed out.
Presently I can't be sick or take any vacation, so it is a matter of time before I max out. Oh the building conflict due to poor planning, bad management and lack of foresite. They knew How-Weird was retiring last year in late September or October. Oh-well I say.
Only about 1K Cyclotrons in the world, and finding experienced engineers is not so easy. Know that the ad that they placed is mucho crazy and unrealistic. I laugh at this situation. Who would want this job? LOL.
Oh-well. It is not like on TV where people who work at hospitals are all great friends and having sex together. LOL.
Cal
Seems like other brands of travel and touring liked the way the river cruise worked out.
Anyways I can expect business class and luxury accommodations. Likely only 4-5 days not including travel days, and the trip is advertised as an Arctic Adventure that involves snowmobiles, cross country skying, and Reindeer.
BTW I'm glad that my SL and new SL2 are weather proofed.
For drama I currently have 145 hours of vacation banked, and I'm allowed to bank a maximum of 195 hours. So far they have not hired anyone to back me up. President's Day will add 7 1/2 hours and pretty much 6 hours gets added per pay period (bi-weekly), so sometime in March my vacation bank will be maxed out.
Presently I can't be sick or take any vacation, so it is a matter of time before I max out. Oh the building conflict due to poor planning, bad management and lack of foresite. They knew How-Weird was retiring last year in late September or October. Oh-well I say.
Only about 1K Cyclotrons in the world, and finding experienced engineers is not so easy. Know that the ad that they placed is mucho crazy and unrealistic. I laugh at this situation. Who would want this job? LOL.
Oh-well. It is not like on TV where people who work at hospitals are all great friends and having sex together. LOL.
Cal
Prest_400
Multiformat
I don't think it may be the case, but let me know if you ended up in Stockholm.
59 degrees north in latitude but winter ain't here or seems like won't anytime soon, hasn't snowed at all. Neither seems like in Helsinki. Locals are baffled, I'd have expected some winter paradise instead of gray 35F days.
No hinderance north from the Arctic circle, March is actually a good season to visit there, being warmer and it has more daylight vs the no sun-winter.
I would guess you'd visit some of the nice Hotels and do the usual tours, there is a glass igloo place up there. If free as +1, no objection! Although I'm relatively close, 1000km, haven't really planned to get there. Know I went to NYC that time instead of going up the Polar circle.
I've done some quick "Forensics" on that ad for a Cyclotron engineer, LinkedIn shows 8 applicants.
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
Jorde,
Thanks for the smut. Evidently I'm not in the loop and won't be part of the interviewing process. "Oh-well," I say.
I'm counting down to August 2024 where I'll have 25 years on my pension and be at full retirement age.
From what I glean from the recruitment ad is pretty much this new employee will have to learn how to function in two groups: one that is at one large dysfunctional institution; and at a second large dysfunctional institution. This person will also have to be trained to run two different machines.
I say, "If we knew what we were doing, we wouldn't call it research." LOL.
This is good for me. Pretty much I can be a "lazy slacker" and be a "short-timer" who is mucho close to retiring. No added stress for me, and I avoid the politics and the crossfire by just laying low and "minding my own business." Pretty much no sweat off my balls.
My concern is that the major cause of death of Cyclotron Engineers is electrocution. My main magnet draws a current of nearly 500 Amps, the high voltage on the RF is 50 Kilo Volts. Basically you can get "French Fried" two different ways.
Know that the other Cyclotron gets serviced and maintained by the manufacturer at a high cost that is hundreds of thousands of dollars via a service contract that has to get renewed every year. The current "Cyclotron Engineer" I don't think has enough background to repair the machine, so they just call for a service call. Also this is a smaller machine that has less power and less capabilities. I call it "The Playschool Cyclotron."
The new recruit I suspect might be foolish enough to take the job and then later learn that on my machine there is no "service contract" and pretty much it will be expected that he will be expected to maintain and fix the machine.
I don't see a young person having the analog electronics background that I enjoy, also I have mucho experience working on partical beam accelerators at Grumman, Northrop Grumman, and two National Labs (Los Alamos and Brookhaven National Labs). I have over 4 decades of experience working on big time industrial equipment, and that also includes rail gun technology (60 Kilo Jouls of energy).
My concern is that I come back after taking a vacation and discover a charred body extra crispy. When I worked at Grumman this guy I worked with had 30 Kilo Volts arc from a high voltage rack. The point of contact was his left arm, and the exit path was through his forearm, through the palm of his hand, and into the cable for his headset.
If the path was the other way through his arm towards his heart, he would have been killed. He was in the hospital for a while. The inside of his forearm internally was burned, cooked from the inside out.
From what I read from the ad is they are looking for a young person with limited experience and the pay is not so much considering the job is in NYC. Nowhere do I see in the job description the mention of high voltage and high current experience that would be required to do my job on the big machine.
Anyways I hope no-one gets killed, especially me by some possible fool who might lack experience and appropriate training.
BTW both of the institutions I work for do rather extensive TV promotions claiming that they are the best hospitals. Not so well managed, but if I work for the best, I would worry if I had to go to some not so highly rated.
I laugh because I know and realize I'm a Dyno-soar, and that when I retire or move on that pretty much I'll get my revenge for the bullying, hostility, and demoralization that I put up with. Oh-well. Even How-Weird who they hated, even though they put the squeeze on him, in the end they realized that they took a hit and are at a loss.
Kinda funny that I got the smut from How-Weird that they asked him back, and even offered to hire him as a consultant. Howard of course ad- Da-mently refused.
"Ha-ha," I say. "Time is the best weapon," is a famous Chinese expression, and I do believe that revenge is innate and part of my Cantonese genes.
Cal
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
Next week "Maggie" has a gig in Paris that is not part of their Fashion Week. She is pretty excited to use the CL now that she knows how to use the camera manually for creative control.
When she gets back to NYC I should have my SL2. The SL with the APO 35 Cron is a really great rig. The SL2 though is the faster shooter and also the best platform for using MF lenses.
The Noct-Nikkor and 50 Lux "E60" are well suited. The movable zoom in does not recenter after an exposure, and this allows for easier use to bracket the focus and speeds up composition. Pretty much in use it is like having a rangefinder patch that is movable even though you are using a magnified image to focus.
Imagine just taping the toggle to zoom in and not having to recompose like one has to do with a rangefinder. Pretty much, even though a mirrorless camera, I use the SL and SL2 as if a rangefinder.
The Noct-Nikkor being a slightly longer 58mm FOV along with F1.2 works well as a great portrait lens. Also low coma for nght shooting. No "lava lamps" from bright light sources.
The 50 Lux-SL is likely has the slowest AF out of all the native SL lenses, but the Maestro 3 processor noticeably speeds up the AF. There is also a "depth" setting to the AF that provides higher AF accuracy.
The continuous shutter mode is crazy fast on the SL2. On the SL the buffer maxes out at about 36 shots, but on the SL2 about 78 shots. The crazy speed of the processor clears the buffer really fast also.
Lately I have been writing DNG onto one card and JPEG onto another. Maggie likes downloading images directly into her cell phone. Having dual card slots is an asset for me.
Although the SL2 has only three buttons on the rear display, over the four buttons on my SL, the menus and functional layouts are so similar that it is seamless. In fact it seems that having fewer buttons actually has made navigating the camera faster. Pretty much since I'm a lazy slacker now I'm spoiled.
Layout and controls are even better than on my CL. EZ-PZ. Love how I can dumb down the camera and customize all the functions, favorites, and menus.
Cal
When she gets back to NYC I should have my SL2. The SL with the APO 35 Cron is a really great rig. The SL2 though is the faster shooter and also the best platform for using MF lenses.
The Noct-Nikkor and 50 Lux "E60" are well suited. The movable zoom in does not recenter after an exposure, and this allows for easier use to bracket the focus and speeds up composition. Pretty much in use it is like having a rangefinder patch that is movable even though you are using a magnified image to focus.
Imagine just taping the toggle to zoom in and not having to recompose like one has to do with a rangefinder. Pretty much, even though a mirrorless camera, I use the SL and SL2 as if a rangefinder.
The Noct-Nikkor being a slightly longer 58mm FOV along with F1.2 works well as a great portrait lens. Also low coma for nght shooting. No "lava lamps" from bright light sources.
The 50 Lux-SL is likely has the slowest AF out of all the native SL lenses, but the Maestro 3 processor noticeably speeds up the AF. There is also a "depth" setting to the AF that provides higher AF accuracy.
The continuous shutter mode is crazy fast on the SL2. On the SL the buffer maxes out at about 36 shots, but on the SL2 about 78 shots. The crazy speed of the processor clears the buffer really fast also.
Lately I have been writing DNG onto one card and JPEG onto another. Maggie likes downloading images directly into her cell phone. Having dual card slots is an asset for me.
Although the SL2 has only three buttons on the rear display, over the four buttons on my SL, the menus and functional layouts are so similar that it is seamless. In fact it seems that having fewer buttons actually has made navigating the camera faster. Pretty much since I'm a lazy slacker now I'm spoiled.
Layout and controls are even better than on my CL. EZ-PZ. Love how I can dumb down the camera and customize all the functions, favorites, and menus.
Cal
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
Did you know that William Faulkner, the Nobel Prize Winner and Pulitzer Prize winner, wrote "As I Lay Dying" over an 8 week period at his night-shift job as a night watchman/firefighter at a university?
I find this interesting.
I read a collection of essays by Alexander Chee, who is a very talented writer I admire who attended Iowa Writers' Workshop and won a Whiting Writer's Award ($30K).
Interesting to note him working as a waiter to sustain his writing, and though he is a writer's writer and aclaimed, that he reveals in his essays having to sell his books at "The Strand" to be able to have lunch, and how now he has to save money to get dental implants to replace teeth that were lost due to not having money to maintain his health.
Anyways I can relate to struggling, despite affording some expensive Leica cameras. The money has to come from somewhere, so one thing is I don't waste it, and then again I buy to keep.
My Monochrom is now 8 years old, and it is still a great camera, although lately I don't use it so much, as I somehow have grown to like color, AF and remarkable L-glass.
Today at work the two patient studies got cancelled. Oh-well. I'm here reading Saul Bellow who won a Nobel Prize for Literature. I'm also reading Mary Carr's "The Liar's Club." Mary Carr is a Whiting Writing Award recipient also.
I have a mentor who after three years of her teaching me about writing said that she taught me everything she could and encouraged me to get a MFA. She also told me that writing my book could take a lot of time, so don't rush it. This was back in 2002-2003. Kathleen Finneran also is a Whiting Writing Award recipient.
I got my MFA from the New School in 2005 and in 2011 I finished a MSS. I have shelved my writing since then because I needed a break. Right now I don't know what is happening. I wrote my book as a Memoir, but now I'm thinking of rewriting it as a Novel.
To most writers fiction and non fiction is kinda blurry and at times is the same thing.
Cal
I find this interesting.
I read a collection of essays by Alexander Chee, who is a very talented writer I admire who attended Iowa Writers' Workshop and won a Whiting Writer's Award ($30K).
Interesting to note him working as a waiter to sustain his writing, and though he is a writer's writer and aclaimed, that he reveals in his essays having to sell his books at "The Strand" to be able to have lunch, and how now he has to save money to get dental implants to replace teeth that were lost due to not having money to maintain his health.
Anyways I can relate to struggling, despite affording some expensive Leica cameras. The money has to come from somewhere, so one thing is I don't waste it, and then again I buy to keep.
My Monochrom is now 8 years old, and it is still a great camera, although lately I don't use it so much, as I somehow have grown to like color, AF and remarkable L-glass.
Today at work the two patient studies got cancelled. Oh-well. I'm here reading Saul Bellow who won a Nobel Prize for Literature. I'm also reading Mary Carr's "The Liar's Club." Mary Carr is a Whiting Writing Award recipient also.
I have a mentor who after three years of her teaching me about writing said that she taught me everything she could and encouraged me to get a MFA. She also told me that writing my book could take a lot of time, so don't rush it. This was back in 2002-2003. Kathleen Finneran also is a Whiting Writing Award recipient.
I got my MFA from the New School in 2005 and in 2011 I finished a MSS. I have shelved my writing since then because I needed a break. Right now I don't know what is happening. I wrote my book as a Memoir, but now I'm thinking of rewriting it as a Novel.
To most writers fiction and non fiction is kinda blurry and at times is the same thing.
Cal
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
Thursday February 6th I expect a SL2 delivery.
Crazy-excited.
I'll have to stop by the Leica Store and get one of those screen foils this weekend.
"Maggie" flies out to Paris Sunday.
Cal
Crazy-excited.
I'll have to stop by the Leica Store and get one of those screen foils this weekend.
"Maggie" flies out to Paris Sunday.
Cal
robert blu
quiet photographer
Congrats for your new camera! I'm sure you'll be mucho satisifed!
LCSmith
Well-known
That's literally hysterical.
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
Robert,
New delivery update is Tuesday February 4th. Mucho excited. I also figured out Leica appropriated the undercut on the grip from Nikon because its just like on my F5.
As far as being chunky, that's a fair assessment, mostly because the native L-glass is supersized, but as far as weight goes my SL with the APO 35 Cron weighs about the same as my Leica SL-2MOT with a 50 Lux. Granted that the SL2-MOT is grossly overbuilt and the 50 Lux "E60" is a heavy lens.
By far my F3P with Noct-Nikkor rigged with a MD-4 is mucho much heavier by a couple of pounds. Remember when this was what pro's shot with, then they started making cameras lighter by utilizing plastics.
Cal
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
"Maggie" is in Paris now. She tells me the hotel where she is staying formally use to be some palace. The cost per night for her room is $1.2K.
She tells me this launch is kinda like a reality show and in a way it is like a live audition. At this level of luxury brand (mucho expensive) that is how they recruit a "brand ambassator."
This is the big time. No "plus-one" for me.
BTW Maggie is bonded with the CL. It is unlikely I will get it back. Pretty much I taught her how to use the camera manually (for exposure), and she like the 35mm FOV of the 23 Cron-TL.
So I found 180 British Pounds in among all these paid bills and bank statements that needed to be sir-red-tidd. They were inside an envelope and with the envelope were torn in half. Had a shopping bag of Maggie's papers that when made into con-fet-EE filled a 30 gallon garbage can.
Maggie gifted me the money. 180 British Pounds+ $234.00. Glad I found the money and that it didn't get scredded.
Cal
She tells me this launch is kinda like a reality show and in a way it is like a live audition. At this level of luxury brand (mucho expensive) that is how they recruit a "brand ambassator."
This is the big time. No "plus-one" for me.
BTW Maggie is bonded with the CL. It is unlikely I will get it back. Pretty much I taught her how to use the camera manually (for exposure), and she like the 35mm FOV of the 23 Cron-TL.
So I found 180 British Pounds in among all these paid bills and bank statements that needed to be sir-red-tidd. They were inside an envelope and with the envelope were torn in half. Had a shopping bag of Maggie's papers that when made into con-fet-EE filled a 30 gallon garbage can.
Maggie gifted me the money. 180 British Pounds+ $234.00. Glad I found the money and that it didn't get scredded.
Cal
Phil_F_NM
Camera hacker
It looks like I may need a rolly cart to get everything up there... I want to shoot a couple hundred feet of 4X, give away some stuff, sell some stuff, talk some trash, show off, and leave with at least a 20lb LIGHTER load than when I arrived. I have a really cool fixed lens RF that I just got working to enter into some part of the contest. I might bring a Leica but lately I'm thinking I'm going to bring my Nikon FA. Been looking at an MD15 for it which would make it like a square-ish F4s with only manual focus. Kind of perfect if you ask me. Then again, the MD15 would be more weight... Someone better take this Bell and Howell Eyemo 35mm motion picture camera, my weightlifting days are done. (We just moved to a new house, so I've been lifting a lot lately.)
Phil Forrest
Phil Forrest
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
Phil,
My grab-bag is kinda getting big. I'm downsizing and getting rid of lots of stuff.
Kinda good to have a free-for-all.
Cal