Subj : VE To : Daryl Stout From : Brian Rogers Date : Thu May 27 2021 08:54:00 Hello Daryl; -=> Daryl Stout wrote to Brian Rogers <=- DS> I sent back all my ham radio license exam items to ARRL/VEC DS> yesterday. In the local area, I doubt we'll be able to get to use DS> facilities until August...and by then, kids coming back from summer DS> vacation, will bring COVID-19 with them...and we'll be right back where DS> we started. While it cost a good bit, I sent it all in one big box. DS> Now, if it turns out I can do a session, they'll just send the needed DS> items, and I'll send the stuff back afterwards. A good friend of mine who's in the U.K. now was a VE before he left the states to go back home to England... he also worked as QSL Manager at ARRL HQ. That place is more pathetic than one can shake a Jpole at. When he got word that licenenses are now going to contain a $35 fee, and he doesn't get reimbursed for LEAGUE EXPENSES, he had the league drop his VE status... and he won't be renewing. As for me, when mine expires I will not be renewing either. BR> Mug and A&W are my two favs :) DS> There used to be a restaurant in the Miami, Florida area years ago, DS> called "Royal Castle" and they had a drink called "Birch Beer". It DS> was non-alcoholic, but it wasn't what you'd call root beer, but I did DS> like the flavor. We have a hot-dog place that sells Birch Beer. I'm very familiar with it. I'd say it's like a vanilla root-beer. Had one the other day as a matter of fact. We also had some actual A&W restaurants too years ago. DS> I remember a deal on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In years ago (I'm DS> really showing my age now ), where it noted "I wish someone would DS> turn off Farrah's Fawcett". I believe she married Lee Majors, who was DS> "The Six Million Dollar Man"...and I think Lindsay Wagner was "The DS> Bionic Woman". You are correct sir! Now do you remember in 1968 when they did an episode of "Future News"... the year I think was 1980, then president Ronald Regan... they were off by months! DS> I have a 15 page medical list, with all my doctors, surgeries, meds DS> (OTC and Rx), conditions, etc. The only thing it doesn't have is a full DS> front and back nude photo...then, it would be "everything you wanted to DS> know about me medically, but were afraid to ask". One time, when I DS> went to the ER, and they asked me my medical history, I handed it over DS> to them, and said "Read This!!". I thought the nurse was going to kiss DS> me!! She said "This makes it so much easier for us". Been there, done that, got the T-shirt, mailed out the post cards. It does help them because today's medical staff is very sloppy. You should see how bad it is here! DS> I'm considering changing PCP's, because one local area hospital DS> system has no idea how to update their patients data files. I was DS> repeatedly told I need certain procedures, which have already been DS> done...and I can't see the need to do them again...never mind Medicare DS> won't pay for it if it's sooner than a year and a day between them DS> (unless it's absolutely medically necessary). Even their IT department DS> has no clue. Here they seem to have very selective hearing... you say one thing, they translate it to something else which usually involves receiving more pills to swallow or more needles to inject myself with. I only keep a PCP because my insurance requires me to carry one. Most times I can't even get through to them when I do need them. I just fired my endocrinologist because in 2 years they refused to let me see an actual doctor in the mean while my sugar rate is at coma levels and rising. I don't need to practice the definition of insanity I was livid at them my last visit. I told the prep aid that I was firing them. She still insisted on taking my BP. 170 over 130... no crap! I was steaming and trying to be civil! Finally I started to let loose when the P.A. came in... and told em that they've succeeded on raising the level of integrity shown by used car salesmen! I'm tough when it comes to doctors. They've caused me a volume of injury, and I catch them lying all too often. Pretty pathetic... and their faces when you do call them on it is priceless! .... Old laser physicists never die, they just become incoherent. --- MultiMail/Linux v0.52 þ Synchronet þ SBBS - Carnage! *73 de N1URO* bbs.n1uro.com:2300 .