Before I build the big Kat, I have a 1/12 Ducati 916 to finish. I bought it as a “practise” kit to get back up to speed with. Then my OCD kicked in. If it gets finished this year, a miracle will have occurred.
I’m quiet.
I saw all the details on FB already. 
Yeah, and I was reading my SO your discussion with your SO last night… Something about a pie hole? Sounded a bit dirty.
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We went to a bakery in LA called the Pie Hole. My girlfriend made it inappropriate because she does that. 
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The only thing I could think at the time would have been crass.
As long as it’s not forced out of business.
'Cause then it would be, ya know… shut yer…
A brand new stove and refrigerator.
Now I have to figure out how to get them out of the way when I replace the paneling and the flooring.
Google Nexus 6 (Shamu). I got fed up with OnePlus’s mode of business, which appears to be ‘wait forever, we’ll let you purchase our phone, eventually, maybe, oh wait, we ran out of stock again’. Nothing but rage and heartache over at their forums right now cause even the folks who got their phone have a multitude of overheating issues.
A new Logitech M570 trackball mouse. I’ve been using one at work for a few weeks now and loving it, so I bought one for home with some birthday money I was given. 
It’ll be great for using at cons I’m doing custom buttons at, where I have limited real estate at the my table.
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@TechnoMistress, wholeheartedly agree. I have been using trackballs since I got this beast back in the mid-90s:
I’ve got a 570 as well at the moment and the convenience of a stationary placement in a tight working environment can’t be beaten.
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Ha! I used to run that one, too! I haven’t used a trackball as my everyday pointing device in several years, though.
The joy of USB is easily having as many pointing devices as you want. I usually have a cheap laser mouse as backup (and for 4-year-old Siglet Secundus), but my primary is a Logitech M570. It saves me from having to clean the desk nearly so often.
I kind of miss my old Kensington Turbomouse. The old ones (as pictured in the link) were a ball early the size of a standard pool-ball. The new ones just don’t seem the same.
On the other hand, USB is slightly less annoying than ADB.
I had a laugh last night, I was digging around in some old kit and ran across my all time favorite trackball… the Logitech Marble FX… I wish they made one as wireless in the same style. I loved the absolute fine control allowed by use of both thumb and fingers for motion.
Of course what sucked most was the fact the rollers inside gathered crud like no tomorrow. I can’t even begin to count the times I had to disassemble and clean it before I finally gave it up as lost.
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I had a Logitech Trackman FX built in a similar vein.
Loved it. Still have it and I ‘think’ it might still work. I was having issues with the wireless receiver last time I had it out. I’d buy a new one except even the used ones go for something like $350.
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Yeah, I had a keyboard for an old PC that had an integrated trackball. And that was the last time I voluntarily used a trackball.
Same experience here… the ball would pickup finger oils, which grabbed the dust, which would then stick to the rollers. And don’t even think about eating chips while playing Quake, because it would get dirty and start sticking in no time.
Yeah, back in the ADB mac era I think I had a minimum of two mice-like-object attached most of the time. My one college room-mate had some sort of skin oils or something that made the trackball get covered in skin-dust if he used it, which as gross. So he used the cheap-mouse if he borrowed my machine to play Day of the Tentacle or whatever.
Took a while, but My MBP is running El Cap. So far…dunno what to think. I guess I have to read the reviews & find out what I’m supposed to be looking for.