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Worst Weather in the World

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I flew up to Maine to see my sister and cousins for a few days. As part of the trip we went up Mount Washington in NH. We went up on the Cogged Railway. It's A unique old vehicle system that only uses a large cog underneath the engine hooked into a ladder type of rack on the tracks all the way to the top. The modern engine uses a 600HP John Deere driving a hydraulic pump which in turn drives several hydraulic motors turning the large cog. Mt Washington is known for the extreme cold and highest wind in the world. Yes, the world. That was not the case when we went up. The winds were 3 MPH and the temp was 62 degrees. the highest ever temp ever recorded was 72 degrees and a 3 MPH wind is generally unheard of. So, the weather was quite kind for us.
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Work commences on the house. "Ready, begin." The "Fall landscaping haircut" is revealing a lot of nice plants as we knew it would. The neighbors are all nice. I have an interior designer coming over this weekend. I had the basement garage door replaced and I am nibbling at organizing stuff and what-not. I obtained some Peavey PV 115 commercial speakers to be driven by my vintage Mcintosh MC 2105 PA and C26 Preamp. I am going to drive the "fill in" speakers with the Dynaco ST 80 amp. With this setup you hardly need a sub-woofer since the main speakers are good down to 46 Hz. But, I am looking for a suitable single-channel DC-coupled vintage amp to run the sub-woofer. I may have to resort to vinyl records to get the low frequency input. Good thing the house is brick. It doesn't shake much. You may ask where I am taking pictures of Korean stores. I am in Duluth (of course). These stores are within walking distance of my house. Great food. I had an awesome...
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I flew up to NY and drove back down to Duluth with a rented truck filled with stuff. In the last two days I have been in Georgia, Michigan (flight layover), NY, Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, South Carolina and North Carolina It takes about 14 hours to drive the route. Today is unloading day.
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