This week's t/h/r/e/e/ four things...
Apr. 5th, 2022 08:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennlkJ got a monster bonus last month (somehow, firing half the employees means that the remaining employees each get a bigger slice of the bonus pie). (I actually squeaked when I logged in to the bank to pay bills!) He promptly went out and bought a new motorcycle. "only $5K", he says. He's now spent another $1K on accessories for it, with another couple hundred to go. (It's a little buzzy bike (kawasaki Z400, red(2021) -- he really wanted the 2022 green but not enough to wait), and now he's finding reasons to ride it everywhere. sigh.)
Spring in the upper midwest is weird. That is all. We had ginormous snowflakes yesterday morning (over 2" in diameter), and they'd all melted by mid afternoon. Today was a warmer-than-you'd-expect 55F (sunny and no wind makes it feel a lot warmer), and tomorrow it's gonna rain, with possible snowflakes on Friday. Which, of course, is Opening Day for the Tigers. (hey, Roper, didja see that Schoop is back at second? :) Schoop and Baez and Torkelson is gonna be an interesting infield.)
There are blops of purple in the E garden, as all the purple reticulated irises I planted are blooming - they're really bunched up, so I should probably mark the bunches and spread them out in the fall (if I don't pull out the markers *and* I remember what they mean in September!). The white giant crocuses in the doorside garden are blooming as well.
J finally got around to balancing the amplifier in the living room, and all of a sudden everything sounds better. The old (35+ years) amplifier I'd been using died (threw a code that basically said "not gonna work no more, nosireebob"), so he replaced it with the one he'd been (not)using in the basement. Which was fine, except that it's a 'newfangled' smart amplifier that balances the signal it sends to the speakers based on the room/speaker arrangement. Even unbalanced, it was as good as the old amp, so I really didn't notice, but he actually listened to something in the room and was all "urgh, this is horrible. Wait! I don't think I balanced the speakers...."
Spring in the upper midwest is weird. That is all. We had ginormous snowflakes yesterday morning (over 2" in diameter), and they'd all melted by mid afternoon. Today was a warmer-than-you'd-expect 55F (sunny and no wind makes it feel a lot warmer), and tomorrow it's gonna rain, with possible snowflakes on Friday. Which, of course, is Opening Day for the Tigers. (hey, Roper, didja see that Schoop is back at second? :) Schoop and Baez and Torkelson is gonna be an interesting infield.)
There are blops of purple in the E garden, as all the purple reticulated irises I planted are blooming - they're really bunched up, so I should probably mark the bunches and spread them out in the fall (if I don't pull out the markers *and* I remember what they mean in September!). The white giant crocuses in the doorside garden are blooming as well.
J finally got around to balancing the amplifier in the living room, and all of a sudden everything sounds better. The old (35+ years) amplifier I'd been using died (threw a code that basically said "not gonna work no more, nosireebob"), so he replaced it with the one he'd been (not)using in the basement. Which was fine, except that it's a 'newfangled' smart amplifier that balances the signal it sends to the speakers based on the room/speaker arrangement. Even unbalanced, it was as good as the old amp, so I really didn't notice, but he actually listened to something in the room and was all "urgh, this is horrible. Wait! I don't think I balanced the speakers...."
