Speaking of toasty, I just got one of these baklavas today. Quite nice, ’though I could’ve really used it earlier this week when windchills were down in the negative ’teens.
Stick it on your head, fully down is a neck-scarf of sorts, fully up is like a ski-mask, take down the hat part and wear just the face mask to keep your mug warm, or take down the face mask and wear just the hat as, well, a hat.
Seems lightweight but fleecy, so should be warm without being stifling.
Kinda wishing for some c-c-c-c-cold days to give it a good workout, see how it fares.
The bald spot is a little annoying, but if it's my biggest complaint, then it's a good mask for the money.
By the way, the mask has a nice heft to it and looks like it's made well.
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Near the holiday of Halloween, sometimes I try on masks at retail stores, and they're always too small for me, except for the hockey masks which will fit anyone.
Æons ago, I got a Kirk/Myers mask in a shop in the West Village. They’d advertise on teevee right before Hallowe’en and sell costumes, make-up, the usual Hallowe’en accoutrements. Actual H1 mask, plain and no “scars” like on the one you got.
Gawd, wearing that for even 5min drove me nuts. Hot, stifling, the works. No idea how actors who get latex prostheses to play aliens, etc., could stand it, when it’d take 4hrs just to put it on, another 2hrs to take it off, and who knows how long shooting for that day.
I love this darn thing. First non tube AM radio I have enjoyed listening to in a long time. Shows every darn speck of dust and fingerprint though. Drives me crazy.
Nice glass. I know Leupold make some mighty fine optics. I have a pair of Bushnell that look very similar to those. Of course the quality isn’t close to those Leupold’s. Big eye openings make them a joy to use and a fairly large field of view. Xtra Wide is what I think Bushnell calls them. I might have to save my pennies for a Leupold one day. They make some nice rifle scopes too.
Ironically, I’ve been considering some new binoculars myself. I have a pair from Montgomery Wards that I got as a Christmas present when I was a teen… decades ago! The eye cups are gone, long ago. These are ultra wide angle and while they are still a really nice pair of nocs I have interest in something closer focusing and power powerful with larger optics. (7x35mm with an 11.8º field of view, 620’ at 1000 yds are what these say on them)
My knowledge of binoculars is quite limited. The two pairs I have were given to me by my brother in law that upgraded. Both are Bushnell’s, one pair is 5x25 Xtra Wides, and a pair of 10X50. Aspherical Optical System it says on those. They get you good and close but aren’t so great at shorter distances. The 5x25’s will easily focus to about 6 to 8 feet or so. Both pairs are probably 15 years old. I just keep them in cases so they don’t get all dusty. I’m know for sure there are much better quality ones than I have. Figured if I just keep them clean and don’t beat them up, they will last me forever.
