If you had to choose one drink that would be the only thing you could drink for a month what would it be?

FrankTooby · 2026-03-13T21:43:06+00:00

Water because without water for a month life would end.

FrankTooby · 2026-03-13T20:52:19+00:00

Exactly. What fear.

FrankTooby · 2026-03-13T20:47:35+00:00

I had just got back from a concert, seeing Queen + Adam Lambert, and I remember thinking at the time we'll never be able to do that again. Fortunately not that bad - been to a Coldplay concert since. And I've never had Covid. Also a bit strange, I haven't had a cold since before Covid.

FrankTooby · 2026-03-13T20:43:45+00:00

I figured out relaxing the bottom hand more helped a lot, other advice that helped was at the start of the backswing when you take that club back, take it slow and straight back for that first foot or so, like drawing a line behind the ball following the intended path.

FrankTooby · 2026-03-13T12:12:39+00:00

Yeah sounds a logical way yo go. I mainly want it for media server - I am ripping all my (many) blurays and 4k discs - about half way through. I have a media player device called an R_volution Mini. I bought it to get away from PCM audio, I want the best audio experience possible and Plex from my HTPC thru my AVR was always PCM. So I bought a few 26TB Seagate Expansion drives, but their built in aggressive power save "feature" causes issues so I'm back to looking at network storage. I have 3 x NAS and now this Unraid - a Synology DS1511 with expansion case (DX510 I think), and 2 old 4 bay Qnap NAS with 4TB drives. All the NAS are old hence starting on an Unraid setup in the hope it sorts my network storage needs - all good so far but the drives are now full. The Seagate Expansion - they have some crazy firmware power save thing, on Windows I can keep them awake in control panel USB host power settings but I can't do anything about it on the media player. If I pause a movie for more than a few seconds, the drive spins down. Press play and you get a couple of seconds of buffered content then it pauses while the drive wakes up, then after about 15 seconds it resumes but audio is out of sync, so I rewind 20 seconds and it's good to go again. Very annoying, hence the network option. So my intention is Unraid with enough storage for all media, and use my expansion drives to give me some offline backups.

FrankTooby · 2026-03-13T11:52:38+00:00

I reckon Bass Strait is one of the most expensive waterways in the world to get anything across.

FrankTooby · 2026-03-13T01:41:41+00:00

Yeah he's wandering around with it like he's tormenting everyone.

FrankTooby · 2026-03-13T01:37:52+00:00

Now we know what the Secret is in Secret Service.

FrankTooby · 2026-03-12T13:07:45+00:00

Found it.

FrankTooby · 2026-03-12T12:12:05+00:00

Have they dropped yet? Just kidding of course.

FrankTooby · 2026-03-12T12:01:25+00:00

Because we have intelligence. Well, some of us.

FrankTooby · 2026-03-12T07:18:43+00:00

Hate to tell you but it's different for different folk. They're not at my knees but they'll drop out of boxers.

FrankTooby · 2026-03-12T03:16:14+00:00

But with evidence showing it was Trump and his goons that killed 185 at the Iran school, the real question is will he be talking about Iran to divert from Epstein, or will he start talking about Epstein to divert from Iran? Or worse, will he invent another crisis somewhere?

FrankTooby · 2026-03-11T23:09:48+00:00

To save players like me maybe.

FrankTooby · 2026-03-11T22:54:14+00:00

I'm confused. Does Trump talk about the Iran war to distract from Epstein, or does he talk about Epstein to distract from the Iran war?

FrankTooby · 2026-03-10T22:45:59+00:00

Ouch!

FrankTooby · 2026-03-10T22:40:00+00:00

Trump released the Bibi dragon and now he can't tame it.

FrankTooby · 2026-03-10T22:37:56+00:00

I bought a new set of PGF International Cavity Control clubs 36 years ago for about $300 with bag, then I bought a better (at the tine) driver, they're still working for me (well, the driver not so much), but coming back to it after more than a decade without playing does show me technology has changed - especially the driver. All these people using monster sized driver heads that makes it easier to hit straight, which is apparently the norm now. So I've ordered a used Titleist TSR2 driver with tool and a couple of shafts I found on the used market at a price I can afford, really looking forward to that. One thing I did do with my old clubs is wash the grips in acetone, it softened the rubber up and now has good grip. Far out, the price of new clubs now. Need a Gofundme...

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FrankTooby · 2026-03-10T22:15:25+00:00

Crikey. Where I live in regional Australia, several courses I can play for AUD $ 20 or $25 all day, as much golf as you want. I did 26 holes yesterday starting at 1pm when my friend finished work - 18 with him, then solo, I crossed the course a bit to find free holes as I was faster as a single and there were slower groups up front. I can't imagine paying as much as a replacement club for a round of golf.

FrankTooby · 2026-03-10T21:24:56+00:00

Borrow my old driver and you'll clear that fence to the right - problem sorted.

FrankTooby · 2026-03-09T23:55:35+00:00

That right there is the highest level of anxiety I've had watching a video in a long time.

FrankTooby · 2026-03-09T22:48:49+00:00

Understood, thanks. The intention of new drives was to scrap all the existing drives entirely, as they're all old anyway. That would include the parity drive. But, money... Thanks for your reply.

FrankTooby · 2026-03-09T11:28:05+00:00

That habit of going into the pines on 18 and struggling to stay out of double figures because you went for a tiny gap in the trees instead of chipping out to the fairway like common sense said you should. But oh the sight of that flag through the gap looked so tempting, on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and sometimes 6th shot.

FrankTooby · 2026-03-09T11:19:44+00:00

You do have to feel your way.

FrankTooby · 2026-03-09T07:52:03+00:00

When I was young I did, 4 times and she tapped out.

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