#styxspins Leprous - Pitfalls Opeth - Morningrise Porcupine Tree - Recordings Arch Enemy - Stigmata (That last one now playing to start getting some hours onto the brand new tubes in this phono stage)

#styxspins Tonight's listens: Beatles - White Album Jeff Wayne - Jeff Wayne's Musical Version Of War Of The Worlds Smith Street Band - Throw Me In The River (doesn't play, but listened to spiritually) Slipknot - Iowa

#styxspins Tonight's quad: Alanis Morisette - Jagged Little Pill (Acoustic) Nirvana - Unplugged in New York Stan Getz & João Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto The Alan Parsons Project - The Turn Of A Friendly Card emotional, emotional, smooth & goddamn rockin'

#styxspins One from last night and three from today (second and third were found and acquired today too!) Metallica - Reload Session II - Session II Camel - The Snow Goose Oak - Oak

#styxspins Tonight's Spins: Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick (Steven Wilson Remix) Haken - Affinity Death - Symbolic Tool - Lateralus

"temporarily housed for their protection" didn't work out too well for this one

home loan preapproval is now submitted and accepted. time to start the hunt

Installed some illumination, so it seems fitting that first Currently Spinning below the light should be Enslaved - Below The Lights

Some packaging manufacturers don't let you have any fun

Currently Spinning (older album, new rig, longboi top shelf, 'still hot from the printer' currently-spinning-display-shelf) it'll do

I wish to disentomb my brain function with this flying chess iron board. The intelligence department? Promote it!

received my (dedicated) ultrasonic cleaner for vinyl records. This thing is ... incredible. Reviews of the technology do not begin to describe how effective this is.

Playing this one loud for Dolly

not so bad really

tonight I attempt to cook cherry roast duck. let's see how badly I can fuck it up

For fuck's sake He's gonna have moly grease on him now. Can't wait to clean that off the *everythings*

treating the suburb to some afternoon hard bebop at elevated volume

Can't be too bad a spot

It do be that time again

let's all hang out in a nicely lit but otherwise kinda dingy alleyway

Currently spinning: smoooooooth

Recently got a (reasonably cheap!) bit of audio gear to bridge a gap and pass native DSD audio to my main hifi DAC. Different source media notwithstanding, yeah is very much a different sound to PCM-based digital stuff and the music I've got in the new encoding sounds incredible SO DANG CLEAR

Local Proxmox is now HA ✅

FreeCAD going rogue again and retrospectively creating non-euclidean geometry so far back in the model feature tree that the file is effectively scrapped Hell yeah FreeCAD! Still all-round happier with it than Fusion tho.

1500 hour maintenance complete! Actually took the back off this time to properly get in to access the rear Z-axis leadscrew - well worth the small effort

It is only today that I noticed there is a theremin in the Supertramp song Hide In Your Shell

waiting at the airport after 5 irrationally long days at this shitty mine site and I am EXCITED to be homeward bound again

Sometimes you gotta trawl the back catalogue and post an old one <SOCKED BEANS ON DISPLAY>

Like a glove

Got a SAS HBA for the next drive array. These things reportedly run hot and really need forced air, so some quick printing and folding some polycarb sheet I had on hand.. All ready for a 40mm fan and should be g2g!