Possibly some more rain… and cool and damp to start. There were patches of blue sky at dusk so I’m hoping for some clearing today. It rained a bit yesterday, but was mostly just threatening, after raining overnight. Actually storming overnight would be a more accurate description, with power loss for some time too.
Did a couple of pickups. No drop offs this week. Had a chat with a couple of my auctioneers. New guy is actually from the next biggest town to my BOL, the nearest town with a Lowes. He took the job down here to “get out of the sticks.” I bought the BOL to get out of the city. Every successful transaction has two parties who each think they’re doing the right thing… life is like that too.
The other guy I chatted with we were talking about the future of the reseller industry. I think we’re at peak mom and pop, like house flipping when all the people with no experience or applicable skills got involved. I think there will be consolidation on the seller side, with more bigger players. There will probably still be a place for the mom and pops but it will likely be more focused. I could be wrong. The demand for low cost stuff should rise as the economy worsens, but balancing that, the really big guys, the sources, will likely be feeling the pinch and may want to limit the returns, and maybe even recapture some of that revenue- more than they currently do by wholesaling the items to resellers.
It’s a bit like thrifting. Thrifting as sourcing depends on people being willing to give away valuable stuff. That doesn’t happen in poor countries. If amazon or other big retailers limit returns, or if they want too much for all the middlemen involved in reselling to make money, supply may dry up. Then I’ll have to find something else to do, I guess. Several new players have entered the game, and several that I’ve been watching or buying from have exited lately. Change is the only constant.
Headed to the BOL today. Wife has a GS thing up that way, and will join us later. Kids and I will go up first. I hope to meet with a tree service guy and get the pruning and removal underway. I’ll ask him if there are cost savings if I cut it up myself. And I’ll see what he wants to do with the smaller stuff or the rotten stuff. If the difference isn’t dramatic, I’ll have him do it. I’ve got enough to do just stacking it.
Last week I got some seed potatoes in the ground at the BOL. We’ll see if they got dug up and eaten. I hope not, and I’ll put some wire mesh in place this visit. Some other gardening activity may take place, depending on weather and motivation. More storage cleanup and organization will definitely take place. Gotta shift out of the ‘construction’ mode and into the ‘we’re using the place’ mode. All while continuing with improvements, repairs, remodel, and stacking…
Kinda like everyone everywhere, just more so. Stack it up.
nick
Don’t forget to enter “enjoying having it” mode a bit too. It’s good for one’s motivation…
“New Coke” was deliberate and not regarded as a failure since the real goal was to switch Coca Cola to corn syrup from cane sugar in the US without a revolt from the consumers.
Lots of new players just put cr*p in a Priority Mail box. Whether or not EBay defends the vendors from returns, PayPal and the credit card companies still offer a route for buyers to recoup losses if they push hard enough.
The rule of thumb for a long time has been that half of all online sales end in returns. Taking Amazon’s returns trashed the local Kohl’s stores pre-pandemic.
The UPS store on the corner can hide the Big River return merchandise in back, but, on some days as of late, the staff is looking a little fried and the back room cluttered.
Amazon isn’t even trying with small purchases anymore. I’ve had a couple of returns recently where the instructions were to discard the item after a certain time period. The $100 blood pressure monitor was really surprising.
The Whitney Houston bio pic hit Netflix today, but, sadly, the Super Bowl segment does not have any more footage of the digitally re-created original Tampa Stadium than what is seen in the trailer. Sony wanted to sell CDs — the original Whitney Houston album is an audio engineering masterpiece which was *never* meant for vinyl.
RIP Old Sombrero.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NeZZtW1Rv4
Up and moving. Wife has departed for her thing. Cave troll has been poked. Coffee is in the cup and eggs will be eaten.
Then we’re outta here.
@denis, yep, gotta find the time to enjoy it. For me, that’s the half hour here or there that I throw plastic bait into the water (can’t call it fishing) and pull it back out, and the hour or two with the radio, ginger ale, and fire at night. And the happy dance when I cut out the last copper pipe connecting to the system!
It’s a cool, relatively dry morning. All evidence of rain is gone. Sky is blue, clear, and sunny. Awesome day to head out of town.
n
In the near term, prices won’t matter because the Taco Tuesday crowd soon won’t be able to afford the maintenance on their stucco sarcophagi.
We bit on the upstairs AC system this week. I don’t even pretend that we will make up for the cost in decreased power bills as was kinda-sorta the case with the downstairs unit when we replaced it six years ago — two grand less than then new unit for variable speed AC vs single stage heating cooling this week.
Even stucco gets pricey to keep up properly.
This popped up in my YouTube subscriptions feed today. I used to have the South Florida PBS to get Star Gazer, but I haven’t watched that since the latest host took over for Horkheimer’s successors.
The picture of the club founders made me laugh. Big smile!
The rocket guys went to Alabama, but the jet engine engineers got stashed at Pratt and Whitney in West Palm Beach. A lot retired as part of the previous wave that built Naples to the point that some shopping centers down there still have signs in English, Spanish and German.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNGfhjIuQYA
Not crazy, Show Ya.
Serious question — Does the seller tremble slightly in person?
>> “New Coke” was deliberate and not regarded as a failure since the real goal was to switch Coca Cola to corn syrup from cane sugar in the US without a revolt from the consumers.
Back in NYFC you knew when Passover was coming when the cane sugar Coke appeared in the supermarkets. All the non-Jewish soda aficionados would stock up with the ‘good stuff.’ Here in the desert the ‘Hecho en Mexico’ with cane sugar stuff is regularly stocked at Costco.
IIRC, corn syrup is not kosher in some way. I don’t know the rules, but, yeah, in Florida, we would see the yellow cap Coke in Publix in December and again in March.
I’m not sure what the reason is for not making the switch to corn syrup in Mexico — well, beyond the influence of the Corn Lobby in the US — but the taste is definitely different.
Corn isn’t kosher for passover, for some sects. Other sects say it’s ok. Makes no sense to me but so long as it doesn’t bother me, I’m not bothered by it.
(Tautologies for the win!)
re the corn lobby, ethanol in gasoline, and HFCS in every manufactured food, move the Iowa caucuses away from “always first in the nation” status and the corn lobby would lose 80% of its power. Good reason to do it, but their entrenched power and money is why it won’t happen until everything’s collapsed.
The big ethanol plant located on the freeway between Kansas City and Council Bluffs/Omaha stopped showing up on Google Maps satellite view. I don’t know if that is because the facility closed or the images were deliberately pulled for security.
Maybe it is back. I haven’t looked in a while.
If you ever want to understand the power of the Corn Lobby, seeing that plant in person is a fast education.
I thought that the Dems moved to replace Iowa with South Carolina at the end of December/beginning of January as their first primary/caucus state.
>> re HFCS
I saw some packaged food recently (don’t recall what specifically it was) that had “NO HFCS” on the front of the package. Checking the list of ingredients though revealed it was made with plenty of regular corn syrup.
I remember being a kid in Brooklyn and my grandfather who lived above us (first generation US) saving every bread wrapper and turning it inside out to reuse it. Paper clips and rubber bands went into a cigar box. Any mail to be discarded was flipped over and used for scratch paper and pencils used down to the nub. Those that are too young to have seen these practices will be informed by the current generation very soon now.
My maternal grandfather in Freeport was a massive coffee drinker. He bought a #10 can of Folgers every week and percolated it. Those #10 cans were everywhere and full of screws, nails, parts, etc. He had been raised on a 4,000 acre ranch south of Wharton with 8,000 head of cattle. They saved and reused everything for use by the 30+ cowboys.
Passover Rules: there are two major sects of Judaism; Ashkenazic, in Russia, Poland, Germany and Europe, and Sephardic in the middle east, north Africa and Spain. When Jews migrate from one place to another, they generally keep their sect traditions, so in America, there are lots of Jews from each tradition. One of the differences is the pronunciation of one letter of the Hebrew alphabet. For example, the word for Saturday, the Jewish holy day of rest, in Ashekenazic is pronounced “Shabbos”, while in the Sephardic tradition is pronounced “Shabbat”. Same Hebrew spelling; different pronunciation.
When the Jews left Egypt during the Exodus, they left so quickly that there was no time to allow bread to rise before baking it. So they baked it “flat”. During Passover, Jews are forbidden to eat anything from the five grains that might “rise”, in commemoration of fleeing Egypt. Those grains are wheat, barley, oats, rye, and “spelt”, which is a type of winter wheat. In Ashkenazic tradition, Jews do not eat “kitniyot” or “small things”, like rice, beans, lentils, peas, corn, soybeans, green beans, peanuts, sesame, poppy, mustard, fennel, coriander, caraway, fenugreek, and anise. Sephardic Jews MAY eat these things. Yeast is forbidden by both sects, so beer is off the menu, but wine is allowed. Corn syrup is forbidden for Ashkenazic Jews, but allowed for Sephardic Jews.
During Passover, we eat unleavened bread or “matzoh”; made of wheat flour that is mixed with water and baked to dryness with 18 minutes, which doesn’t permit it to rise at all. Once the wheat flour is baked into matzoh, it can be ground up and used to bake other things. But once baked into matzoh, it WILL NOT rise. People make matzoh of oats as well.
In appearance and taste, matzoh is a lot like a saltine cracker with no salt. It’s utterly bland without much flavor, but is delicious when spread with butter.
Photographed a high school baseball game last night. Pictures are located here: https://www.raymondthompsonphotography.com/Midway
Many of the games, baseball and softball, I select an image that involves a close call and post it on Facebook for people to view. It is my “You Make the Call” post. I enhance the images by zooming in on views of the critical parts of the play. It is surprising how there are different opinions of the same play. I don’t do it to criticize the officials, but instead to show how their job is not easy. No instant replay in high school.
This is one such image: https://www.raymondthompsonphotography.com/MakeTheCall.jpg
Now aren’t you impressed with my Photoshop skills?
“In re: Facebook, Inc. Consumer Privacy User Profile Litigation
Case No. 3:18-md-02843-VC
United States District Court for the Northern District of California”
https://facebookuserprivacysettlement.com/
“If you were a Facebook user in the United States between May 24, 2007, and December 22, 2022, inclusive, you may be eligible for a cash payment from a Class Action Settlement.”
Ok, everyone line up for your $0.18 check. The lawyers are all in Rio. They got their checks first. No, you cannot know what their checks were.
I already applied. I don’t really expect that $0.18.
“New Coke” was deliberate and not regarded as a failure since the real goal was to switch Coca Cola to corn syrup from cane sugar in the US without a revolt from the consumers.
A couple of years after that, Imperial Sugar here in Sugar Land went bankrupt for the first time since the formation in the 1860s. All of the sugar cane fields here in Fort Bend County were converted to maize, cotton, and corn. The sugar factory changed to sugar beets imported from Hawaii.
The UPS store on the corner can hide the Big River return merchandise in back, but, on some days as of late, the staff is looking a little fried and the back room cluttered.
Our UPS store has a line constantly of returns. The people are definitely frazzled by 3pm. They throw everything in a box in the front, sides, and back of the store now. It is a tremendous amount of volume that cannot be sustained.
Sugar beets also originate in the Midwest. The harvest is one of the “Workamping” gigs as shown in “Nomadland”.
The big harvest is in North Dakota, but the producers couldn’t get permission to film there so the one in the movie happens in Nebraska.
Serious question — Does the seller tremble slightly in person?
Don’t know, he runs away every time I see him. He is a thin skinny who cries on the phone when he calls me. When he calls me he acts like he is drunk or stoned.
UPS corporate must have cut a good deal with the ‘Zon, the UPS Store franchisees be damned.
Not crazy, Show Ya.
Show Ya is crazy.
>> My maternal grandfather in Freeport was a massive coffee drinker. He bought a #10 can of Folgers every week and percolated it. Those #10 cans were everywhere and full of screws, nails, parts, etc. He had been raised on a 4,000 acre ranch south of Wharton with 8,000 head of cattle. They saved and reused everything for use by the 30+ cowboys.
For my grandfather it was cigars. Last I was in Brooklyn (my brother still lives there in the house we grew up in) most of the cigar boxes full of ‘stuff’ were still there, literally hundreds of them stacked on wooden shelves, most I guess over 50 years old.
“Halfway to Success by Thomas Kendall”
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2023/04/22/halfway-to-success-by-thomas-kendall/
“I think what’s dead clear at this point is that half the takes about the Starship launch indicate that people don’t know what Starship is for, or how the program around it within SpaceX operates. In 2021, Everyday Astronaut did a tour of Starbase guided by Elon Musk, and interviewed him the whole time. Even if you’re not a fan of Musk, the whole interview should be required listening for people who are serious about understanding Starship. The second part especially is the juiciest in terms of understanding some key points that I will condense down here. The below quotes by Musk are pull-quotes from the video. I have in some cases used ellipses to condense down some beating around the bush, and used bold to emphasize what I feel are critical statements, but you are welcome to hear the un-retouched statements and form your own opinions.”
“First, Starship is designed to be a rapid prototyping program that throws things at the wall as quickly as possible. Musk sees it as explicitly a program designed around aggressive iteration to the exclusion of all else, describing it as the “polar opposite” of Dragon. He says:”
““We have just a fundamentally different optimization for Starship versus say the polar extreme would be Dragon. Like Dragon there can be no failures ever, everything’s gotta be tested, to, you know, six ways to Sunday. (…) That’s like extreme conservatism. Then Falcon is a little less conservative, it is possible for us to have say a failure of the booster on landing, that’s not the end of the world. And then for Starship … is like the polar opposite of Dragon. We’re iterating rapidly to create the first ever fully reusable rocket… Orbital rocket. And fully and rapidly reusable, reusable in a way that is like an aircraft.” (5:34)”
Cool. Musk wants SpaceX to be the Boeing of space.
Obviously, a viable launch facility with appropriate infrastructure to mitigate collateral damage from a launch fell into the “all else” category.
Even LC-39B at Kennedy isn’t rated for that much thrust.
“Chile Stuns Markets And EV Makers By Nationalizing Lithium Industry Overnight”
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/chile-stuns-markets-and-ev-makers-nationalizing-lithium-industry-overnight
And this is just one of the reasons why lithium is a bad source for batteries.
xkcd: Helium Reserve
https://xkcd.com/2766/
“The Strategic National Helium Reserve is a reserve of helium in the United States, which holds more than 1 billion cubic meters of helium. Apparently, in this comic, Cueball was hired to manage the reserve, and due to the fact that the caption says that he can not explain anything out loud, it can be inferred that Randall used all of it by repeatedly inhaling the helium supply, so speaking would instantly give away where the helium has gone since the helium would make his voice squeaky.”
Explained at:
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2766:_Helium_Reserve
“Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, 4)” by Martha Wells
https://www.amazon.com/Exit-Strategy-Murderbot-Martha-Wells/dp/1250191858?tag=ttgnet-20/
Book number four of a seven book series of science fiction novellas, short stories, and full length novels. I read the well printed and well bound hardcover published by Tor in 2018 that I bought new from Amazon. The first novella in the series won the 2018 Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus awards. The series won the 2021 Hugo for the best series also. I have the next two books in the series.
Murderbot is a SecUnit, similar to a T-800 Terminator with a cloned severely modified human head. There is a human brain in there but it is run by the AIs embedded in its genderless torso. There are lungs, there is a blood mixture with a synthetic, there is human skin over the entire body, there is a face. Everything else is machine. Somehow, the blood is enriched with electricity as there is no stomach or intestines. But, there are arteries and veins to keep the skin and brain alive. All of the major arteries and veins have clamps to stop bleeding in case of damage. There is a MedSystem computer with an AI, a HubUnit computer with an AI, and a governor module that can force the SecUnit to follow orders using pain sensors in the brain. It has a energy gun in each arm and several cameras, all directly wired to the brain. The SecUnit can sustain severe damage to everything but the head and still survive.
Murderbot is a self named SecUnit due to an unfortunate circumstance with 57 miners on a remote moon. It has hacked its governor and no longer allows the governor to give it orders or inflict pain. It prefers to internally watch its 35,000 hours of downloaded media such as episodes of “The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon”. Even though it has a face, it does not like to interface with humans, yes, very introverted. It will follow human orders if it see fit to do so.
Murderbot has been called a rogue SecUnit by the news feeds. It has been hitching rides with AI Bot Cargo and Transport spaceships by sharing it’s 35,000 hours of downloaded media. It has researched its responsibility in the deaths of 57 miners on a remote moon and decided that somebody else caused the deaths and then blamed it. It has researched GrayCris Corporation’s behavior in banned alien artifacts and the murders of several research scientists. And now GrayCis has kidnapped Murderbot’s best friend, Dr. Mensah, and is holding her for ransom.
Warning: The violence is graphic and extreme. Books one through four are a series of novellas, not regular length books. There is a short story “Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory” between books four and five. Book five is a regular length novel, book six is back to the novella, and book seven is a full length novel. You can buy collections of the first four hardbacks or all six currently available hardbacks.
https://www.tor.com/2021/04/19/home-habitat-range-niche-territory-martha-wells/
The author has a website at:
https://www.marthawells.com/
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (17,158 reviews)
If I were to build a resource extraction facility, such as a lithium mine, I’d secretly build it to fail catastrophically unless regular maintenance was performed on it. I’m not sure I’d go so far as to install self-destruct charges on one-week timers, reset daily, but I’m not sure that I wouldn’t.
@SteveF, doesn’t that really apply to any business venture subject to government confiscation?
Not just industrial, but even completely soft ventures. For instance, if I were Elon Musk, I’d have a plan to disable Twitter via a backdoor, and recreate it in a friendly country, if I could find one.
Ok. Call me stupid. But I can’t figure out file sharing between Win7 Home(?) and Win11 Pro. There’s something in Win11 that is breaking stuff.
Once upon a time I’d just share c:\. Since then, I just share the Desktop on the various machines. Ala \\emu\desktop and that worked fine for years and years, from W95Se onward. I get this new Win11 box, do all usual stuff and it works. One way. From the other machines, I don’t have permission to Desktop on this machine.
Did Win11 decide letter case matters?
I’m missing something simple and I can’t figure it out.
And what’s got a burr under my saddle about this is that Moa was being weird the other day. Like 4MB free of disk space. On a 500 Gb drive. Resource Monitor had the memory pegged. Some kind of Windows Reporting thing, I forget the exact name but I did write it down. Then Windows Update, yeah, it gets to all of 11% and stalls.
Ok. Turned Windows Update off. Doesn’t work anyway. Ran disk cleanup again, for system files, and it took a long while but it deleted 360 Gb of stuff on a 500 Gb drive. All this while Resource Monitor showed memory maxed out. I went and checked it today and it’s all fine.
I’m figuring it’s about time to replace that PC. Just for age. But then here we go with the file sharing thing, again, and how do I fix that?
Looks like it may rain. The sky is getting that “thunder storm” color.
I would. Not the reset daily part. I’d go with one-month timers. “Industrial Accident” is a thing.
IIRC, SMB1 was deprecated with Windows 11 so that may be the issue, but there are security protocols which are considered unique to enterprise needs not included in Windows “Home” editions which manifest in odd ways. Google around using the keywords and see if something pops up.
My HP 8610 wouldn’t talk to my home server for months until I figured out that Samba had deprecated SMB1 support as well, requiring an explicit setting in the configuration file to support the older protocol “out of the box”.
Printer sharing to Windows 10 still isn’t working on the home server, however.
That is correct. However, SMB1 can still be added to W11 by adding features to Windows. My router only supports SMB1 so I had to add SMB1 to connect to the sharing system on the router. Such being separate from WiFi.
Ok. Call me stupid. But I can’t figure out file sharing between Win7 Home(?) and Win11 Pro. There’s something in Win11 that is breaking stuff.
Once upon a time I’d just share c:\. Since then, I just share the Desktop on the various machines. Ala \\emu\desktop and that worked fine for years and years, from W95Se onward. I get this new Win11 box, do all usual stuff and it works. One way. From the other machines, I don’t have permission to Desktop on this machine.
Did Win11 decide letter case matters?
I’m missing something simple and I can’t figure it out.
Try disabling the firewall in the problem machine.
“Blame rice for global warming!? ‘Rice is to blame for around 10% of global emissions of methane’ – ‘Rice cannot be ignored’”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/04/20/blame-rice-for-global-warming-rice-is-to-blame-for-around-10-of-global-emissions-of-methane-rice-cannot-be-ignored/
“AFP: “Rice is to blame for around 10 percent of global emissions of methane, a gas that over two decades, traps about 80 times as much heat as carbon dioxide. Scientists say that if the world wants to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, rice cannot be ignored.””
These people are absolutely crazy. First they went after the fertilizer, then they went after the tractors, now they are going after our food.
This is not going to end up well.
Global warming won’t kill us, starvation will.
>> Even LC-39B at Kennedy isn’t rated for that much thrust.
“Oops,” says Tony, as he reaches for his checkbook.
The thrust totally destroyed the concrete under the launch mount, all the way down to the sand. It blew protection panels off the launch mount, and concrete debris damaged the tank farm and destroyed a bunch of cameras belonging to various youtube channels. It seems likely the engine failures were due to concrete hitting the engines before lift off.
It’s going to be VERY expensive to fix.
>> Even LC-39B at Kennedy isn’t rated for that much thrust.
“Oops,” says Tony, as he reaches for his checkbook.
It is much worse that that. All of the launch facilities across the planet will require special launch pads. Tony wants to run Starships on ballistic 30 minute trips 100 times a day.
“… for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.”
There is nothing in our constitution that allows the federal government control of the heat in our homes.
There is nothing in our constitution that allows the federal government control of the heat in our homes.
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
There you go, TPTB justify everything on that, especially “promote the general Welfare”.
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript
After all, who cares about that nasty old out of date tenth amendment.
“The Amazon Prime “mustache” commercial: song & meaning”
https://auralcrave.com/en/2023/03/13/the-amazon-prime-mustache-commercial-song-meaning/
OK, so the girl in the commercial is a real girl. And yes, some girls have quite a bit of facial hair. And she is wearing a jacket like Freddie Mercury wore on stage occasionally.
My wife binged the entire third season of Picard today. She loved season three, said was the best of the three seasons. The scene after the episode s3e10 credits was very interesting. Very interesting.
We don’t get out much but tonight we went to see a solo recital by Emanuel Ax.
It was great. Schubert, then Liszt arranging Schubert, then Liszt, then more Schubert in the second half. And a great encore. Probably worth the $130 for tickets plus $15 parking. I learned a bit about how I was giving Liszt short shrift by idly listening before; Liszt requires focus and concentration. I was forced to do that in a recital setting.
However, downtown Houston/Theater District is not great. Homeless everywhere, poor signage, an interesting set of detour signs for I-10 West, which literally put you into a circle. And impatient and rude drivers. Hookers walking around while we were leaving.
It’s always been hard for us introverted types to go anywhere near downtown (even inside the loop), but the stress leaving was especially hard on my girlfriend.
Getting ready for bed. Had a nice fire and relaxing time on the dock. Weather was crystal clear all day, until the clouds blew in around dusk. No observing tonight, and I got chased in by a few drops of rain. Big FAT drops, but not many of them.
Thanks Ken for the details about Passover. I had a “10000 foot” understanding, but didn’t know about the “small things” or corn.
@lpdbw , that area is not as bad as some others but I don’t like it at night. Disarming to attend the performance is even worse, to the point they “checked ” my pocket knife and wanded everyone. They don’t even remember when that was instituted or why. If I won the lottery I’d donate to them then pull it back when I “found out” about the weapons ban…. that was Hobby Center though.
Time to shower to get the smoke and dirt off, then bed.
n
We attended a local band concert at the community college just a mile from us. Sousa, Vaughn Williams, Holst, many others, plus the first public performance of a piece composed by a local artist.
I counted 51 musicians. This was their first performance since before COVID. Their leader commented this is the best assembly of musicians in her experience (at least two decades.)
They played a wide variety of US and European wind band pieces, some very challenging. This is in a small auditorium that seats a little less than 300, high banked seating for great visibility and acoustics. No sound reinforcement, of course. They were spot-on on harmony and timing. What a challenge, and a pleasure to hear.
All volunteers, so just donations accepted instead of admission. There is free parking everywhere in our little town.
I try to listen to live music whenever I can. Been a while since I have heard orchestral (hand) cymbals, and I had forgotten how loud they can be. I should dig out some of my Telarc discs of similar music. Telarc usually recorded in halls using only two microphones, which preserves balance. Studio recordings with individual mics allow the engineer to play down some of the louder instruments.