LBS didn't sell me the bike, it's a custom build on which I did as much work as I could/had time for myself but decided to take her in for cables as I wanted to ride the bike sooner rather than later. They asked if I wanted them to put anything else on while at it so I brought my seatpost figuring it would save me some time and there wasn't a ton to be learned from the experience - I was wrong on both counts, but at least learning the hard way sticks with you I had developed a good relationship with one of the LBS mechanics who seemed knowledgeable, but I had to leave the bike overnight and someone else ended up performing the work, in a less than stellar fashion (I won't go into more details, but I had to correct other things as well - a person without extensive knowledge of bicycle mechanics would have had to go back multiple times). I actually saw him install the seatpost right in front of me and remember thinking "cool, they have an assembly paste gun just like they do for grease!" Needless to say, that wasn't assembly paste

Decided to skip the Simple Green - I cleaned both with detergent and rinsed with water, about to smear on some assembly paste and torque to 5 N·m and see how it goes. Thanks for your input guys, you rock! One more thing to be thankful for.

Happy Thanksgiving!