Subj : Re: Various Things To : Daryl Stout From : Brian Rogers Date : Tue Jun 15 2021 11:10:00 Hello Daryl; -=> Daryl Stout wrote to Brian Rogers <=- DS> Well, I will have some stuff about the hobby. Yet, hams do like to DS> ragchew about things besides ham radio. I just don't want to upset the moderators... sometimes they may get crabby :) DS> I was surprised when I went into a restaurant earlier...they finally DS> got rid of the mask requirement. I am full as a tick right now, from DS> the heavy grazing. Again, H.A.M. stands for H)ave A)nother M)eal. With DS> all I ate (garlic cheese sticks, salad, chicken parmasan with angel DS> hair pasta, mozaralla cheese, and tomato sauce...all washed down with DS> 3 glasses of sweet tea), I won't need to eat again until tomorrow. Sounds like you went to OG... not old guy (but would be fitting :p ) DS> I can write a batchfile for the BBS, but my programming ends at DS> setting the clock on the microwave oven...I'll starve to death if I DS> forget how to do that. It comes with DOS, and Warp 4 comes with voice commanding. I played with it back in the day. Was sorta neat. Kept having the urge to say "Computer, fire phasers!" DS> At a restaurant today, I was telling some ham radio pun humor to this DS> 14 year old girl (her parents were right there), and it all depended on DS> where your mind was. All of it was strictly ham radio terms and puns... DS> and the FCC would've strung me up had I used vulgar language on the DS> air. My brother said it was vulgar language, and I said "it just shows DS> where your mind was". The other night a latina came in wearing something like a sweater coat with nothing on underneath except a very see through bra. It kept her front pretty much covered except when she was cashing out she casually used her fingers to hook the inside edges of the coat to pull it wide open. Gave me full view! I didn't DARE say a peep and did what I could NOT to stare but I did sneak a peek. If you're going to show in public... I almost used the classic Bond line he used in Diamonds are Forever to Jill St. John "that's a quaint almost nothing you have on" but nope... keep it professional. DS> No one has any respect for anyone else's stuff anymore...or very few DS> do. I blame the parents for that... and other factors I won't get into. DS> On the local station, KMJX, an Arkansas DJ legend, Bob Robbins, is on DS> the air Monday through Friday from 5am to 10am. He gives the time, DS> weather, etc. -- but there's a lot of stuff that's obviously DS> pre-recorded. He also heads up the yearly Toys For Tots campaign around DS> Christmas. A lot of morning shows are live. That's considered "prime time" for radio. DS> Speaking of which, would you believe that an area Hobby Lobby ALREADY DS> has Christmas stuff available?? I've heard of Christmas In July, but DS> that is ridiculous. A few years ago, there was a commercial for DS> Staples, that was using the Andy Williams classic "It's The Most DS> Wonderful Time Of The Year"...running in late July. I thought "Gad!! DS> Not Christmas Stuff Already!!" Well, you see a little boy and girl, DS> walking sullenly with long faces, like they're about to get the DS> spanking of their lives... and it's Daddy with "It's Back To School DS> Time!!"...and I went "YES!!" . No different than Amazon's Prime Days... which are going on now. DS> It's a double standard. "They" are right, but everyone else is wrong. DS> So, they can say whatever they want, but you don't dare speak any DS> dissent. That's what totalitarian despot dictatorships have. Agreed. DS> I'm pre-type 2...the highest my A1C has been is 6.1 (the threshold is DS> 6.4). If I remember right, there is a medical net on D-Star on Saturday DS> mornings, but the info escapes me offhand. One of the area hams loves DS> CW, and did a segment called "Health Talk" on one of the local radio DS> stations years ago. He has retired now (age), but he would go down to DS> Florida in the dead of winter, and work CW on the HF bands...telling DS> folks in Canada how warm and beautiful the tropical climate was. You DS> could almost hear them telling him to STFU. My last one was 14.7 and rising. They can't get it under control. I've had some strokes already. The side effects of having such high A1C are really getting to me now. If they ever vote in "right to life" here, I'm signing up! DS> The only consolation that I have is that on Judgment Day, everything DS> will come out in the wash...even for those hams who really did me dirty DS> years ago...and I nearly quit the hobby because of it. We have to go up, the politicians are going to fill up the south DS> Same here. While I hardly consider myself as "Fresh Meat", to me, DS> there is nothing left in the sea anymore. Pretty much my attitude. I'm set in my ways, don't need or want that to be disrupted now DS> I've had sinus issues for nearly 50 years, and they still have no DS> clue on how to treat it. I feel your pains! I've had horrid allergies since I was little. Took shots for 5 years, if anything it made my spring allergies worse! The specialist told me my best place to live would be Atlantis - but with my allergies I'd be allergic to seaweed :\ .... Old programming wizards never die, they just recurse. --- MultiMail/Linux v0.52 þ Synchronet þ SBBS - Carnage! *73 de N1URO* bbs.n1uro.com:2300 .