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Mar 17

Not A Whole Hell Of A Lot Going On

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Yesterday or today. Just, mostly, SSDD. Sun came out awhile yesterday; a bit more today. But it wasn’t warm or anything. Not with that breeze blowing. Nice enough to take the Dog for a walk around the back of the property; but just barely.

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The 2-meter/70 cm antenna I ordered did come in today. And it took me all of an hour to get it up and running. Had to use that length of really thick coax I have cause all my other cables have one of the connectors cut off (for various other antenna projects). Thought I’d have to go and buy a new cable but found the thick one.

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Works pretty good, but I don’t think it works any better than the old one with the Club repeater. Maybe there are just too many trees and mountains in the way and I’m not going to get a great signal ever. Unless I get a really tall tower or something. But this one works with other repeaters just fine so I’ll stick with it until it wears out. Which will probably be never.

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Like I said, the sun was out a bit more today and I did get to spend some time outside. That was okay while I was doing things but that didn’t last too long. So I pretty much “wasted” the day reading “Alas, Babylon” for the umpteenth time. Still a good book.

Anywho, the love of my life is home and I’m gonna spend some time with her before bedtime.

Mar 14

Hell Of A Wind Yesterday!

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Trees down all over the place. Lot’s of damages to homes from falling trees. Power outages. Wires burning. Houses burning. Even a couple of deaths from trees falling on cars. Man, it was crazy here. Wind really howled around the house a few times. Don’t really like craking noises coming from the ceiling.

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We “weathered” the storm fairly well here. Lots of stuff we have outside got blown around; but we didn’t get any real damage nor lose power. Lights flickered enough for me to turn my computers and the NAS off (which is why I didn’t post last night), but they didn’t go completely out. Nor did it even reset any of our clocks. Cool!

Today has been mostly wet and only partially windy. Saw a blub where the Weather folks exclaimed “The Storm Is Over!” just as it started to hail rather aggressivly. Yeah. Sure. Tell me another. I still fully expect it to give us one more good snow before the end of April.

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Not a whole hell of a lot going on around here. I’ve been kind of lazy today; just the usual chores and took the Dog for a walk between the periods of rain. Finished off the laundry. Made some more jigglers. Talked on the radio some.

Still playing on getting the Linksis Routers to be Meshed. Tried a hard reset on one and now it comes up “NOCLL-xxxxxxxx” and won’t let me log in. Which is worse than before I tried the hard reset and just couldn’t log in. Figures. Now I gotta remember the log-in for the one I “flashed.”

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Anywho, that Sweet Young Thing I married almsot 30 years ago is home (safe) so I think I’ll go spend some time with her.

Mar 12

Row Row Row Your Boat

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Gently down the stream. Merrily merrily merrily, I’m SICK of this fookin’ Rain!

Watching "The Martian" In The Truck. Waiting On SWMBO.

Didn’t post yesterday cause, Boring! Did get to take the Dog for a tour of the back 40 but, otherwise, it was just the usual. Got to pick SWMBO up at the Ferry Landing.

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Got up early and headed to Shelton for the MCARC meeting. It went well. Way too much time talking about the “new” repeater; which still isn’t up and running and “they” haven’t figured out how to program the thing yet. Talked a lot about the coming Field Day (in June). Authorized me (the Treasurer) to buy 100 hot dogs (and associated condiments) to hand out to visitors on Field Day. Somehow talked me into giving presentations on PSK31 and HamWan.

Took a bunch of pictures along South Shore Road (not it’s real name) on the way home to see how the camera would work on a trip. Not too bad.

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Date Day so SWMBO got home from the Genealogy Library and took me to the Teriyaki Chicken place in Gig Harbor. Semi-quick stop at COSTCO for some things. Our usual Safeway stop. Home.

And it’s still fookin’ raining!

Mar 09

Anyone Want To Buy A Bunch Of Laser Discs? And Player?

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Note To Television Ad Folks: Showing me how much resolution your tv has over mine, on my tv, is wasted effort. Stop and think about it; I’m not going to see it. Just thought y’all ought to know.

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Not a whole lot going on today. Dump run for plastics. (Dropping off. Not picking up. Nevermind.) Post Office to mail off an order for a new 146/440 antenna and pick up a Thrive order UPS was too lazy to deliver.

All while it’s raining, of course. In the past couple of weeks we’ve exceeded our Annual Average and have begun working on next year’s. I’m still expecting it to really snow sometime in the next month. A good snow. Something to stop traffic around here. (Which, honestly, would be only 1/2 an inch or so.)

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Gathering all my old electronics to donate to Goodwill or Faith In Action. Lot’s of computer stuff I’ll never use (don’t know why I saved it in the first place). Couple of old 8” tv’s. Not sure what to do with my Laser Disc Player and collection of Laser Discs. (Several Thousand Dollars worth that I haven’t watched in 8-9 years or so. There’s no way I’ll ever recoup that money. And I sold my collectors copy of “Who Shot Roger Rabbit” that showed Jessica Rabbit sans underwear before I learned what it was worth.)

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Yeah, that’s me: If I bought a movie on VHS I probably bought it on Laser Disc and then on DVD. Now I’m replacing everything on Blue Ray when I can. (Although I do look for the bargains.) All in the never-ending quest for better resolution and sound. But I do convert from .mkv to .mp4 to save space on our NAS. But the quality doesn’t seem to suffer much. Did the same with audio: 8-track to cassette to cd’s to .mp3.

MCARC 2-meter Wednesday Evening Chat Net went really well with 12 check-ins. And I managed to talk to the guys on the 900MHz Net earlier. Cool!

Think I’ll go make some Jigglers before I hit the rack.