Off to Berkeley. Wish me luck!

@TheHorse I have no clue but your line of work and Berkley never scared me. All I have to say is Go Rancid and cool welcome my friend. You should educate us though because its a trip for me to see how things really work these days. I think people would be sad but interested in how fast things are really moving. That is what scares me.

@crossbones27 Heh heh. Berkeley WAS fast paced.

No no, the Heavy would be one of the "associates" the con man. He was a white dude from Mountain View, which is a pretty la ti da community. But he wasn't an honest man. In life, he actually REMINDED me of Saul.

I made it back home. I had to do some serious bartering. Saul and his Heavy weren't there. But a lady without a mask did come and breathe on me and the tech who were working on one of my amplifiers in the back of my truck. She may have been a Soviet Agent, tough she looked like a not-particularly-well-to-do Berkeley/Oakland local. Alas, I came home with the two main components (worth about $1500) that I went down there with. The price they offered me went up from $40 to "maybe $600" as we tested the units. What's nuanced and interesting is that the tech and I exchanged "trade secrets" as we worked, him about making tube sockets work, and me about woodworking and how to make grain beautiful. It was an interesting afternoon.

@TheHorse if you’re happy, I’m happy.

@DianneN I'm happy. I'm going to retest the units. How WAS that rack of lamb?

@TheHorse Better than this morning, but very slow now. I was ready to write a post to inform that I would have quit a few days because I could not even reply to the notifications.

I think I got only two error messages yesterday (Friday). Sorry about the voodoo curse. Any better now?

@TheHorse Not being beat up is always good. At least you know they are good.

I made it home. An interesting day. I may add to my post. Nobody has come to my door threatening to beat me up. I sold some stuff. But not the main stuff I wanted to sell. Hoever, one of the techs teted it for me. My units are basically solid.

@wolfgirl569 Yep. I'm going to test them out and bathe their knobs and switches in generic De-Oxit.

Yep, I'm happy abut that. But I more or less "gave them away." The two fancy tube units are still in my hands. I'm going to test them again and then give them both a De-oxit bath.

Thanks, Linda. I will.

@TheHorse thank you for the update. But no thanks to the teriyaki. You made me salivate.

@Alexandoy Do you like teriyaki?

@Alexandoy That's exactly what I'm grazing on this morning.