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Crate digging- don't do it!

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Just waiting to get my MAC, and then I'm shifting over to Be. £8 a month till the end of the year! Even with the £24 cost of changing to Be I should save a few quid, even by the end of the year. This may go to replacing my back-up external hard drive that shit the bed the other week.

I like the fact that MH has in one section little boxes making fun of useless statistics ('people hit in the head remember less!'), yet every page that isn't advertising cars, clothes or jewellery has about eight different bits of stats that are pretty much just as useful.

I've recently realised that it's a good idea to switch off my bike's flashing LED lamps while taking an excessive-alcohol-induced piss in a dark alley or corner, as it probably looks a like some kind of a weird disco.

My PC isn't fast, as it is now about 4 years old, but I know that contention ratios can impact the speed of downloads, so I'll bear that in mind.

There are so many ISP's, that checking adslguide.com or whatever is just confusing. Plus there's no company capable of ensuring all of its customers are happy, so you always hear horror stories about a firm.

I'll check out o2 and Zen. Thanks!

I've been with a small indie called Skymarket for probably about 5 years, but their £22 service 8mb capped service (I think it's 2 or 4gb) now seems a bit steep compared to some of the deals I've read about. I'm tempted to change to save a couple of hundred quid a year, but know that the big name ones have shoddy customer service (I know first-hand that Tiscali are a massive heap of shit, for a start)- can you recommend a decent ISP that might know what Linux is when I call to speak to them?

Some kid in a car told me I had nice legs while waiting at lights in Stratford last week. That was nice of him.

Got shorts from them in the USA the other week as the black 36" waist ones are only $65, and I own a belt. Act now before the pound sterling becomes even more enfeebled!

I thought you couldn't choose which sorting office stuff goes to? I've opted to send my stuff to my mate in East Ham, because he said there's rarely a queue at his office, and his wife is usually in with their sprog. Whoop!

Anyway, I actually got a call from the Emma St nincompoops, and one of them finally managed to bring my lovely new Swrve windcheater over to my neighbour's place. I tried it out last night on the bike and then just now while on a sausage roll run, and it's great! Very light, great for when it's not hot enough for a softshell, super assymetrical zip action, and it is gold in colour.

Now I just need to find a way to get the sorting office monkeys to hand over my new record player cartridge that the customs bastards taxed me for.

1. MA3K
   
2. Tomasito
   
3. hippy (pending dates)
   
4. Superprecise
   
5. Mini..Cooper (not 21st though it is track day #2)
   
6. Sam
   
7. Rik
   
8. gabes
   
9. Brainflick
   
10. Shoot
    11.eyebrows
    
11. teddy
    
12. skully
    
13. livingasleep (75 miles?! fuck it, im in)
    
14. lucky7
    
15. hillbilly(its my sisters b-day but she'll have another one next year)
    
16. Dropout pending date
    
17. pajamas
    
18. harold
    
19. runtime
    21.Jacqui
    
20. Kipsy
    
21. tikastefano
    
22. mikec
    
23. dancing james
    
24. Danzel
    
25. guy_ho
    
    

Blimey!

It's called a Mesia Zoom. I bought it about 6 years ago for around £200 off ebay. It's obviously a cosmetic rip-off of a Mesa Boogie, but apparently it sounds more like a Fender. I just wanted something tube, and not horribly pricey. I can never find any info on it, but it's a cream coloured combo, like the one on top here-

I only ever gigged it once or twice, and it never really got used that frequently at home. Arsecandle!

Twas a jest! Unless I can get some decent clear instructions on how to change tubes I think I'll be taking my Mesia Zoom to a specialist. I get nervous wiring plugs...

Where was the fuse? In plug connected to mains?

Might I die if I do it wrong? Read a post by a guitar geek pal on a forum years ago that involved 'power caps' and 'enough volts to kill you easily'.

Philippe! Bingo! If he's the same repair guy I took my old Gretsch to, that guy rules. I was hoping he was still alive. He's up on the first or second floor, right?

As for Andy's, I still have bad associations with the tossers who used to run that place; selling a guitar sale or return for me, and then giving me a bouncy cheque. Bunch of charlatans. Strange how they went under...

Thanks folks!

Do you know where I can get my ancient tube guitar amp fixed in London? I turned it on the other day and it made a loud humming sound, while kicking out a fierce stink. I've decided, based on some years of guitar-playing experience, that this just isn't right, and that I should probably pay someone to look at it.

It was fun! Great to meet everyone.

I've been hitting the Jazzman, Soul Jazz, Numero Group and BGP funk comps pretty hard lately. That Midwest Jazzman one is killer, though, as is the Texas one. And the Florida one. Jazzman!

Thanks again for the voucher!

Great funk LP's are hard to find- 45's are where it's at with some genres! Watched a killer Stax documentary last night called 'Respect Yourself'. Awesome!

Funk 12"?

Am still waiting for the fuckheads at the Hackney sorting office to get my windbreaker to me, because I refuse to wait in a massive queue that is so long that it constantly goes outside the building! I'd like to find out which asshat decided to combine the sorting office for 3 postcodes, and then staff the place with ONE PERSON.

I live in the flats opposite Oslo House, and I plan to go to the east drinks this eve. I'm somewhat excited and relieved that we're going to get another kebab shop, as I was finding the 50m walk round the corner to the other one a bit much. If I still worked for LBH I'd have been quite happy to find the planning team for a quick game of ro sham bo.

I've been lurking on here for a few weeks, and I'd like to come along. Hurrah!