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No more Sense-Ation repair program

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Well, that’s pretty F’d up: One of the things I really liked about the Sense-Ation harnesses (been using them since 2009) was their repair program. Mail them a harness with one or two bad straps (frayed, chewed, whatever), for $5/strap they’d repair it and return it to you. Despite the repair form still being up on their website, they’ve apparently stopped this service, with no notice (and they have my contact info; I’ve bought several harnesses from them directly). Lame.

Chewy.com multiple autoshipments

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For my two pups, Chewy.com has been a godsend. I have their food on autoship for a slight discount but also to not have to worry about it. (I’m saturated.) But I couldn’t figure out how to have different schedules for the different dogs ... (Astrid gets about 2 scoops of Purina Pro Plan Bright Mind 7+ , daily, while Brian is currently on Eukanuba Large Breed Puppy and transitioning to Royal Canin Labrador Puppy , and the amounts vary as he gets older and larger.) It’s counter-intuitive. To my mind you should be able to click “Add to Autoship” and then, under Manage Autoship, move products to different auto shipment entries with different schedules. The fact that the one autoshipment I had setup was identified as “Autoship #1” suggested it was possible, but the way to do it was non-obvious: Instead of clicking “Add to Autoship,” click “ Add to Cart ” On the next screen, click “ Proceed to Checkout ” On the “One-Step Checkout” screen, on the left side, there’s a section to “ Star

Converging Shipments: A Headphone Synergy

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A few days ago a mass drop special, offering the Sennheiser HD58X Jubilee headphones, caught my attention at a price I couldn’t pass up ($135, less the $20 for being a new drop member). I’ve been listening to Bose QC25s at the office and QC35 IIs at home, but they just lacked a certain je ne sais quoi . (In particular: Bass. Bury a Friend just gets murdered on them.) Meanwhile, I still  haven’t listened to Fear Inoculum , as I haven’t found the right time to sit down with it, without distraction. (I named my first Labrador Maynard, y’all...) Finally, cleaning house, I found (again) my old iPod mini first generation, and toyed with the idea (again) of modernizing it. It still works, but the battery is pretty weak, and the MicroDrive is a moving part that will fail sooner or later. So I ordered: A high capacity replacement battery (750mAh EC003, 3.7 VDC, 2.77 Wh) ($17 when I ordered it, free shipping) (no reviews; wish me luck ) (I would have gone with the relative known quantity o

iPad in the Duchess

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Renting a Duchess for multiengine training. Grabbed old pieces to put together an iPad rig: RAM-B-121B Yoke Clamp Base (I can’t find my  RAP-B-400U Claw , which is more compact and a better choice; I just had the old clamp base sitting around from an earlier setup ) RAP-B-201U-A Composite Short Double Socket Arm RAM-HOL-AP20U iPad mini 4 cradle RAM-B-202U Base  (mount to the cradle) iPad mini 4 (backup to the iPad mini 5 that’s usually in the cockpit; the '4' is getting a bit long in the tooth but still runs ForeFlight acceptably well; buying new, I’d go with the 5 any day) Works well. (I also got an iPhone X RAM cradle ( RAM-HOL-AP25U (comes with screws) and RAM-B-238U base), visible in the second photo; it's better than nothing, but the iPad + Stratus is the much, much better solution.)