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  1. musicman

    MacBaren Navy Plug-SPC 20th Anniversary Special Release

    Rule number 1: Keep your options open. :ROFLMAO: Also, I feel shame every time I hit the purchase button. Deep shame. But then, I see something else that looks promising, and forget all about it. Then the cycle re-starts. :ROFLMAO:
  2. musicman

    The First Blend That Got You Into Pipe Smoking

    SPC Plum Pudding. Back when I dabbled in the pipe, I enjoyed McClelland's Classic Samsun the best, but it never clicked enough for me to make it a regular thing. Then, I was buying some cigars and noticed this well reviewed tobacco that was supposed to be sweet and smoky. Tried it, and I was...
  3. musicman

    MacBaren Navy Plug-SPC 20th Anniversary Special Release

    Cool. Thanks for the response Jim!
  4. musicman

    MacBaren Navy Plug-SPC 20th Anniversary Special Release

    So this just appeared this morning at SPC. Anyone have a chance to try it pre-release? Jiminks, perhaps? I'm a fan of Navy Flake so I'd likely enjoy a plug version, but I wasn't planning on making any more purchases this holiday season because I've pretty much maxed out the TAD budget lately.
  5. musicman

    The Great Conjunction

    No kidding! Although some of them are pretty decent mirrors. The mechanics of the optical tubes, however, are terrible, and the best examples I've seen are all rebuilt scopes built around a Coulter mirror. Back in the 80s though, if you wanted to see a lot of deep sky objects, those Coulters...
  6. musicman

    The Great Conjunction

    Here in Tucson it's sunny for at least a portion of the day 350 days of the year. It's a great place to live if your hobby is amateur astronomy! I paid my dues though. I grew up in one of the cloudiest cities in the country (Portland, OR), and then lived for 15 years in Minnesota, where the...
  7. musicman

    The Great Conjunction

    Actually, it's not! I bought it used and was thinking the same thing when the guy on Astromart first wrote me about it, but it was actually home built by a master craftsman. The builder even ground his own mirror and then sent it to Galaxy Optics for finishing, testing, and coating. The mirror...
  8. musicman

    What Are You Listening To? (Dec. 2020)

    My earworm lately. Seasonably appropriate too!
  9. musicman

    What Are You Listening To? (Dec. 2020)

    I can remember the first time I heard that song. I was 10 years old, in a restaurant in Wichita Falls TX on a road trip from Oregon to Louisiana to see relatives for the holidays. My dad is an old time country kinda guy, and he really got a kick out of seeing us kids get a kick out of it!
  10. musicman

    What's Your Favorite Drink While Smoking Your Pipe?

    Water, tea, or coffee if we're talking non-alcoholic. For alcohol, aged spirits. I like to match the beverage with the smoke. For a good sweet Va or VaPer, cognac, bourbon, or aged rum. For an English or Balkan, a good peaty single malt (Lagavulin 16 yr being my #1)
  11. musicman

    The Great Conjunction

    If you have any interest at all in astronomy, physics, or just a curious mind, I'd encourage you to look to the SW portion of the sky tonight 30-60 minutes after sunset to see the great conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter. A conjunction, in astronomy, is when two celestial bodies appear from...
  12. musicman

    ***What Are You Smoking, December 2020?***

    Earlier tonight, while walking the dogs with the wife, I enjoyed a bowl of Watch City Simply Voriental in a Chris Morgan Blackjack bent bulldog. Now enjoying a bowl of HH Magnum Opus in a pre-Cadogan Comoy Pebblegrain Billiard. This is really good stuff! A real "under the radar" Balkan, if...
  13. musicman

    A Quarantine Christmas

    Unfortunately, they are not. They did let her use all her sick time, which amounted to 9 weeks of paid leave, but now it's unpaid. She requested an ADA accommodation to allow her to teach from home with a proctor in the classroom, but they wouldn't even entertain the idea. Here in Arizona it's...
  14. musicman

    A Quarantine Christmas

    Hang in there, and get well soon! My wife is also a teacher, and she’s immunocompromised as well. She’s been on leave since her school went back in person and hoping to return in early 2021 after being vaccinated. My best friend is a teacher too, and he had in in October. He was fortunate...
  15. musicman

    The (Un)Official Secret Santa 2020!

    This man right here is a very smart man.
  16. musicman

    ***What Are You Smoking, December 2020?***

    Just finished a bowl of Gawith Sweet Coconut Twist in a K & P Peterson bent billiard. When Ash sent me a number of these twists to try, he also sent me two very small bowled Petersons, which are perfect for tobaccos such as this! The past few days, my palate has been a bit fatigued, and I...
  17. musicman

    Tracking Has My Order Stuck On Go

    I had the same problem with a recent order (not from a site sponsor, but another seller with a good reputation). The package was in "pre-shipment" from Tuesday to Friday of this week. I wrote the seller, and was assured that the package was indeed in the hands of the USPS, but that they...
  18. musicman

    The (Un)Official Secret Santa 2020!

    Thank you for making me feel less concerned about my ridiculous jar collection. Based on yours, I’m just getting started! Just tonight my wife commented that “we have a lot of tobacco”. She also said “you really can’t comment about my shoe collection any more”. She...has a point.
  19. musicman

    The (Un)Official Secret Santa 2020!

    Well, according to the USPS, my package was delivered to it's intended target at 12:09 local time today!
  20. musicman

    Best Bourbon For An Old Fashion?

    Yep. 7-up. And pineapple juice. And muddled cheap Maraschino cherries. pretty much an abomination to add to any good whiskey or brandy. I've got a friend from Milwaukee and every time we'd have dinner at his place he'd make 'em. To his credit, he did keep a bottle of Maker's Mark on hand...
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