Don't feel bad, Adam. They always do that image touch up thing now a days. After my g/f saw him without a shirt I thought I was gonna have to throw a bucket of water on her. He may have a nice six pack but I got me a keg ...
HAH !!! 
Nice knives, guys. There was a thread about knives (all sorts) a few months back. I'm always taking the hone to mine. For me the tomato is the test of a blade. As soon as I encounter anything but slice on the red fruit I do the hone trick and violin! ... sharp again.
So far I'm pretty lucky not to have cut myself ... my g/f? ... not so lucky. It's like she never had sharp knives before and doesn't know that she has to pay attention but she has learned to be more careful.
Black Friday sales have Cheryl all up in a tizzy. She doesn't know that every nickle spent is a nickle separating me from Swerd's speakers because I haven't let her in on the master plan which is to be sweet as pie and support her in any and all decisions/purchases until about a month after Christmas and then
BAMMM !!! ... new speakers: Dennis Murphy designed MB-27's with snazzy looking PE cabinets. I need a local buyer for my BR-1's with their loved up cabinets. It's amazing that I know so few people that are into audio. They're all listening to Utube on their iPhone speakers talking about how great these songs are and shoving their retarded phones in my face saying look, look ... one of these days I'm going to snatch one of those phones and whip it at a wall ... look, look ...
"My contacts ... my pictures !!!
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