OK - I give up on day numbers

 Off to Charlotte on a beautiful winter day here.  The weather was gorgeous but someone messed around with the temperature which varied from 20 to 58 in the old money on the way.  Nice to be snugly tucked up in Susan's Subaru listening to (and occasionally joining in with) the Christmas stations on the radio.  Particularly enjoyed Dean Martin pretending not to be pissed out of his mind and cringing at Have Yoursself a Merry Little Christmas.  We even scored a few of the spoof songs.

Test results were all jolly good - some are off the end of the chart but at least don't say "PTO" on the end.  I've now got to set up a page in Desmos to handle the graphs.  If you have kids in high school and don't use Desmos - www.desmos.com - for their math, you are doing them a huge disservice - and it's free though I did send them a couple of bucks a while back)  

I woke up early this morning courtesy of my tiny dose of dexamethazone - highly recommended if you can't stay awake but probably illegal and expensive.  So I was able to make lunch to nosh on the road (in the car, not literally on the road).  Full of energy when we got home I decided to Venmo a couple of Peavey 18" bass guitar speaker cabinets I really don't need for my regular rest home gigs.  (Nonx - pay the postage and Murph can have them)

And having lugged them around the house I will now sit and wonder how the heck I used to cart their much bigger brothers around clubs in the 1960s.  Google "Selmer Goliath" - no understatement, I had one of those and a much bigger cabinet from Wallace of London


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