patentcad

It's largely cymbalic.

LAJ

Not bad.

Bostic

Thanks! My standard 8 piece setup. If I knew the venue had a large enough drum riser I would bring a 2nd floor tom but usually not. Lugging around a big kit like that I got it down to about 20 minutes each for setup, teardown.

zymphad

Why?

MikeyBoyAz

This

Knot no'ing the grate Pope.

rjones28 

I put carbon spacers on a hybrid today.

BillyD

Is that a bad thing?

LAJ

It was nice knowing you, rjones.

RollCNY

I had carbon spacers on my flat bar build, and there was no asplosion. I daresay the SS may have carbon spacers at this very moment.

3alarmer 

...need to know the weight savings over aluminum ones, please.

Heathpack 

Strange day. A gale rolled through Santorini, apparently very rare, they only get like 10 days a year of rain. We were socked in with clouds as you can see in above photo- no blue sky whatsoever. Dust from the storm blew into the airport, allegedly partially disabling the keyboards of the check in agents, meaning that it took 5-15 min to check in every passenger. Good thing the flight was delayed 1.5 hours, lol.

I am sitting in a window seat with the middle seat empty and at the last minute a man &
his teenage daughter rush onto the plane. The girl sits next to me, the father proceeds on to sit elsewhere. She tells me it's been a crazy two days for her, her 14 year old brother got appendicitis and had to be evacuated by sea ambulance from Santorini to Crete, he had emergency surgery (and also happened to get a watermelon seed stuck in his ear, but that's a whole other thing). Then she whips out her notebook and comments that she's got to work on her screenplay. She has written a screenplay for a 2-hour stop motion film she is making, it's a sequel to Frozen. She had also designed & is hand sewing all the costumes, shows me photos of all of her costume designs on her IPhone. I hear all about the casting & which of her friends has been cast in which voice roll. I also hear all about her first date, lol. A very entertaining 45 minute flight.

Then we get to Athens and catch a cab to our hotel. Except the cab can't get to the hotel because there are 3 bus loads of police in full riot gear blocking access to the hotel, which happens to be across the street from the Parliament Bldg. Very large number of protestors marching and waving Greek flags. Cab driver doesn't know what is going on, he gets us as close as he can, then we hop out of the cab and roll our suitcases one block to the hotel, the front door of which is lined with 15 police, all in a tight row. Um, we're checking in?! we say and they let us in the building, we proceed through metal detectors into our fancy hotel.

We ask what going on at check-in- some big European economic meeting took place today & the finance minister is staying at the hotel. It's pretty late and we just want a bite to eat. Front desk recommends we try the bar on the 8th floor. So we do, and get plunked down next to a window with a great view of the Acropolis.

So there you have it, a very unusual day

3alarmer 

...
....I bet under those conditions small, inhabited island prices are very attractive. Only if you have time, of course.

LesterOfPuppets

I have carbon spacers on my drop bar mountain bike. So light fast and cheap!

Herbie53

amazing shots Heathpack. All of those are iPhone?

LesterOfPuppets

Such intense color. I always wanted a whitewashed house with blue trim.

halfspeed

Not enough time for a decent bike ride today so I ran 5.4k. So there.

Herbie53

It rained a bit and was coldish (~60F) here so I did 50 minutes easy on the rollers. Amazing how quickly riding outdoors in less than ideal conditions loses its luster after a few weeks of decent weather.

halfspeed

The Addiction Annex got closed down.

WhyFi

Maybe it's just for an aisle clean-up.

Herbie53

That thing was like all of the 41 compressed into one thread. Convenient and compact.

datlas 

By some arrogant mod??

Dudelsack 

The thread handled waving, lube, arrogance, babes, guns and general ill will just fine, but all it took was one mention of F*x N*ws and they droped the hamer on it.

datlas 

Ok who locked it down??

LesterOfPuppets

So sad that the sun has set on the most epic waving thread.

Dudelsack 

Maybe too compressed. The density was so high it was kind of sucking material from others threads into a frightening singularity, like a black hole.