Dirty Harry, eat your heart out

600 nitro express revolver

50 BMG revolver

Believe it or not both of these do *not* require special permits from the ATF.

good & bad

Well, the apartment was supposed to get inspected today. I hadn't been able to sleep so I wound up taking a nap from about 11 to 2. Either they looked in while I was sleeping or they postponed the inspection. <sigh>

On the plus side, I got things re-arranged to be better (in the long run).

Got a "desk" (two filing cabinets with a door blank for a top) set up in the bedroom. That required moving the pair of *big* speakers that Lin and Kermit gave me when they upgraded their s years back (maybe 5 years back?). And since I had to shift the stuff around my stereo and speakers in the living room, that meant I could swap them for my older speakers.

One of the old speakers had a torn cone on the bass element. So it's set aside to see if it can be fixed some day. That let me make the other one the center speaker. And while doing laundry the other day, I saw that someone had set out a couple of small "bookshelf" speakers on the "up for grabs" table in the rec room. I grabbed those and now that I have also found the speaker wire, I was able to set them up as the rear/surround speakers.

So I now have a full 5 channel setup. While the stereo could support a subwoofer, I'm not interested at the moment. Aside from money, subwoofers are *not* a good idea for folks on the second or higher floor of an apartment building. they tend to irritate the neighbors on the floor below. :-)

I've dug out the DVD config DVD that came as a free "extra with my first DVD player. Still going to be doing a bit of messing around shifting configs and trying sample stuff to show off what the system can do. Hadn't realized that my current DVD player supports DTS 5.1. My old one didn't.

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