Small Bear - State Of The Cave 2015

[smallbearelec]

http://smallbear-electronics.mybigcommerce.com/StateOf2015

[Kipper4]

Thanks Steve.

[hymenoptera]

Thank you, from a new customer. I couldn't help but smile reading this.

[bloxstompboxes]

Good share Steve. Glad all is well.

[Cozybuilder]

Thank you Steve- a very nice read, well written.

[Ben N]

Happy 5776, Steve - Shanna Tova.

[Frank_NH]

Thanks for the update, and I look forward to more future purchases (I never have enough 22 nF capacitors...).   

[Groovenut]

Thanks Steve! Great update on things.

[jubal81]

Trip looks amazing!
I'm really digging the new interface, too. Much improved.

Placed an order yesterday and noticed a lot of pots are out of stock. Any ETA on restocks?

[Mark Hammer]

Nice to put a face on suppliers.  We forget that behind every pot and switch and chip, there are actual real people, going to work, and doing a job.

It would be great to take a group photo of the thousands of us who would like to thank them for what they provide to us.  I think they'd appreciate seeing those faces too.

Thanks for the pics, Steve.  An easy fast to you and Judy.  (Mary-Anne had her gall bladder out this past Friday, and is resting as comfortably as stitches permit).

[smallbearelec]

Happy 5776, Steve - Shanna Tova.

I did not know that you had made Aliyah!; one of my brothers also did, and he lives in Ramat Hasharon.
(Translation note for the group: Aliyah is Modern Israeli for "immigrated", from the verb for "To Go Up".)
Yes, Shalom and a sweet year!

[smallbearelec]

(Mary-Anne had her gall bladder out this past Friday, and is resting as comfortably as stitches permit).

OMG! Refuah Shelayma!
(Another translation note for the group: "Speedy Recovery!)
IIRC that surgery used to be very difficult but is now done minimally-invasive, right? A hug from both of us!

[Mark Hammer]

OMG! Refuah Shelayma!
(Another translation note for the group: "Speedy Recovery!)
IIRC that surgery used to be very difficult but is now done minimally-invasive, right? A hug from both of us!

No great emergency or anything like that.  It was pretty simple.  Out-patient surgery: check-in at 11AM, discharged (but groggy) by 5PM.  Will pass on your good wishes.  I'm sure the scars will be adorable, once the gauze pads come off.

[Ben N]

Refuah Shelayma, indeed. Best to her, and to you, Mark.

[Ben N]

Happy 5776, Steve - Shanna Tova.

I did not know that you had made Aliyah!; one of my brothers also did, and he lives in Ramat Hasharon.
(Translation note for the group: Aliyah is Modern Israeli for "immigrated", from the verb for "To Go Up".)
Yes, Shalom and a sweet year!

Yup. It probably escaped you because I use my sister in NJ as a shipping address. . Ramat Hasharon is near my bro-in-law (Ra'anana), although, let's face it, it's a small country. I'm "further" at 1/2 hour, in a small community outside Modiin.

[Mark Hammer]

Ra'anana?  I don't know if you've ever seen the comedy/food show "Bitchin' Kitchen" (a Montreal-based offering) but one of the characters on the show is an Israeli ex-pat who goes by the name of Yecheskel Mizrachi (the running gag is that the host of the show can't pronounce his name so the voiceover announcer does).  His hometown is Ra'anana, which he always describes as follows: "Exit Ben-Gurion, past K'far Sa'aba, turn right, turn left, can't miss it".

It's one of those TV show rituals, the same way Homer Simpson drools over doughnuts, or the baby on the old show "Dinosaurs" would get excited watching the Mister Lizard show and wait for him to say "We're gonna need another Timmy".