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that my now wife and i started dating that was before i got back to my dorm and turned on the radio to find the reports about the berlin wall i was a wee bit distracted you know blaugust2025 posted by redbeard at 6 00 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blaugust2025 adventures over the airwaves radio shortwave saturday august 31 2024 nothing lasts forever i don t know what life is like where you live but we ve been in the middle of a drought that s gone on for about two months we did have several days worth of rain right in the middle of the drought but it wasn t enough to actually break it the occasional thunderstorm hasn t exactly helped much either since the rain simply rolls off of the hardened earth and down the storm drains the heat hasn t been unbearable save for this week it s just been dry so with that in mind there haven t been a lot of reasons for me to work outside much i ve been taking a couple weeks worth of break from working on the deck because i needed to recover from helping my oldest move and i wasn t planning on baking outside in that heat this week so what have i been up to cleaning and organizing not exactly fun work per se but it is satisfying to see some of my stuff finally get organized we also have an electronics recycling coming up in a couple of months so i finally decided that it was time to clear out some spare parts and whatnot that i won t be using ever again such as 15 year old graphics cards from our old microsoft vista machine that is also going away that pc missed the last recycling day because i hadn t properly wiped the hard drive so i m not going to take any chances and will do that work sometime in late september that cleaning was how i rediscovered my old scanner and i ve also found some of the doodads you need to set up a shortwave antenna outside as i organized the parts i noticed i was missing a few items so i hopped on to my go to site for all things shortwave universal radio to see what the prices were to fill in the gaps on my supplies universal is in the suburbs of columbus a couple of hours drive away so i always felt good about supporting the semi local economy when i bought items from them alas this is what i found when i went to their online catalog you have to expand it to read it properly i knew that this day might come but november 2020 how did i not know this before now this isn t the first store that i ve supported that has closed its doors for the owners retirement boardwalk hobby shop on the east side of town shut down in 2020 2021 and if i had the money i would have loved to have bought the place to keep it running since i knew i didn t know beans about actually running a business let alone a game store i had to pass i first walked through that door in 1991 not knowing what to expect from davion m via yelp it hurts seeing this from the mt lookout business association but still i spent a lot of time in that store my kids grew up going there with me and marilyn one of the owners used to hold the kids when they were infants myra s dionysus a small mediterranean inspired restaurant near the university of cincinnati was a fun place to eat at from this article by citybeat that came out a year before myra s closed in 2014 it was in the storefront of a century old building a hole in the wall place really but it was one of the first places i d ever eaten at that had a heavily vegetarian menu when my youngest decided to become a vegetarian myra s became more than just a place to eat at but an inspiration when myra s closed because she was in her 80s and wanted to retire that hurt i couldn t begrudge her retirement years but i really miss that place at least myra s daughter has begun posting some of myra s old recipes at myra s kitchen legacy i ve made the hummus and it is dead on for what we used to eat at myra s these are all memories now i never quite understood when people my grandparents age used to talk about places that don t exist such as some of the theaters downtown but i do now it s both a blessing and a curse of aging i suppose to see things change and long for what once was but time does move on and new memories are always made we don t live forever so we shouldn t expect our world to remain constant either blaugust2024 posted by redbeard at 6 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blaugust2024 boardgames musings restaurants shortwave tuesday august 27 2024 just an ambulance chaser working away one of the things that i ve been doing since my oldest moved out is clean part of it is simply cleaning the areas where the guinea pigs once had their cages but beyond that i ve begun moving stuff around as i clean so that i can finally give the house a thorough cleaning it s not had in at least a decade normally this is a spring cleaning sort of thing but since i m taking a short break from working on the deck and given the heat this week that s very much a good thing i ve channeled my energies toward making my space that much cleaner instead alas for me that means i ve been hit with nostalgia of a different sort right now i ve got this out of the basement cleaned up thank you isopropyl alcohol and currently scanning away it s a radio shack pro 2035 i acquired that from a yard sale before i began playing wow so probably sometime around 2006 2008 for the grand total of 35 considering the original list price of 449 99 in 1995 that was a pretty damn good deal for a while i wondered why the person was selling it so cheaply but a few years afterward i discovered why he sold what was at one time the top of the line scanner that radio shack had cincinnati police and fire were moving toward a trunked system which this scanner could not receive still there are quite a few broadcasts in my local area that can be received by this scanner so this afternoon i ve been hearing about all of the paramedic and fire department activity within several miles of my house i was never really a scanner listener although when i did that 8 month stint at radio shack we did have our then top of the line scanner up and running which made for very interesting listening when there was nobody in the store there was a mcdonalds about a football field away and the things people said into the hot mic while waiting to order at the drive thru made me realize i should keep my mouth shut while in a drive thru lane for a while these scanners used to be able to listen in on old style cellular phone calls that became a bit of a political problem early in the 90s when a scanner listener happened to listen in on a conversation between top level republican congressmen discussing strategy via cell phone and as a consequence of that leaked conversation a law was quickly passed banning the cell frequencies from these scanners that s not an issue now given that digital communications have advanced significantly since those days but it did highlight digital privacy issues even way back when i don t really have a listening station in the house these days since i no longer work out of the basement but i ought to consider making one somewhere right now if i want to listen to shortwave i bring the radio upstairs with me and place it in a room away from my home office as the computers there interfere with reception no this is not me i only have a couple of radios from wikipedia and this is the attribution by mw0rkb own work cc by sa 3 0 https commons wikimedia org w index php curid 24682534 i guess i ought to add an outside antenna or two to the project list this was all part of my project plan i had been working on while i was figuring out costs associated with the deck as mentioned here that s interesting but it can be morbidly so i had to get up and go do something else away from my work desk when a call for paramedics for a suicide attempt came over the air eta corrected some grammar blaugust2024 posted by redbeard at 6 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blaugust2024 electronics radio scanners shortwave thursday june 23 2016 as memes go i m not exactly a great fan of memes the ones you find floating around facebook and other social media outlets often tend to reduce a complex topic down to a few partially correct zingers or they misassign quotes while passing them off as correct that said there is a place for memes of the sort that are making the blogging rounds again such as the creative blogger award they provide a means of peeling back the facade and revealing a bit about the blogger behind the site without forcing the blogger to shout look at meeeee any more than they have to before you smirk and say what are blogs for anyway if not for expressing your narcissism consider that most of the bloggers i know aren t the classic extrovert personalities they do all love something whether it is gaming writing or something else and they use blogging to share their love with the world in a relatively passive way pewdiepie we re not as much as i groaned about it when i received the creative blogger award nomination from ravanel griffon of ravalation last week i didn t mind quite as much as i let on it s not a series of truth or dare questions or even twenty questions but rather 5 facts about yourself that i can do in no particular order here are five facts about me that i m pretty sure nobody in the blogosphere knows i once had a letter to radio austria international read on the air i believe i may have mentioned once or twice that i do listen to shortwave radio but my habits today aren t what they were back in the 90 s and the 00 s before the web i would get my international news from shortwave heavyweights such as the bbc world service radio deutche welle and radio nederland among the smaller players that beamed to north america such as radio japan or swiss radio international was radio austria international or radio österreich international orf for short due to my work schedule orf s english service was often the last program i d listen to before bedtime and they managed to pack in the news from vienna as well as the program report from austria one day after listening to the news i decided to send orf a reception report as well as a comment on a story in the news something i rarely did and a few weeks later i received a letter saying my letter was going to be read on the air sure enough at the date specified my letter was read on the air with a short comment from the presenter the letter suffered from water damage dating from the move into our current house but here it is after some cleaning up sadly radio austria international is now defunct a victim of budget cuts and the changing methods of broadcasting news for nations worldwide i once had to type three lab reports in one night this might not sound so bad until you realize that each lab report was 20 30 pages long and that the only reason why i did it was because my save disk became corrupted ruining my copies of my reports i m dating myself here but i d been using old word processor program wordstar to work on my lab reports and saving the data on 5 25 floppy disks kids if don t know what 5 25 floppy disks are google it anyway i was working on cleaning up the reports before a presentation at my lab final exam when i tried saving and i heard the familiar ka chung of the floppy drive s gears screwing up sure enough my data was corrupted in a panic i realized i had about seven hours to rewrite about 80 or so pages to turn in for a grade to make a long story short with a lot of effort a lot of tea and a lot of semi insane muttering to myself i finished the reports in time and i even survived the presentation during the final which i believe was due to my being so tired i really didn t care how i sounded so i wasn t scared at all i am scared to death of needles this isn t that much of a surprise i suppose since a lot of people don t like shots but my personal reason why i could never do heroin centers around two specific incidents the first one was a shot i received when i was 13 and i d broken my collarbone at school the needle that the doctor used to give me a shot of morphine prior to setting the bone was so large about 0 25 diameter that i could see the hole at the end of the needle clearly that terrified me but because i was in such pain and was shoved down onto the table i couldn t move as the glorified morgul blade slowly moved in and punctured my shoulder i feel for you frodo from lotro wikia com the second incident happened when i was much older and as part of a life insurance application a nurse was dispatched to my house to draw a blood sample the process was supposed to be simple draw some blood from a vein in my right arm while the nurse prepped my arm i looked away gritted my teeth and waited for the needle i felt the needle prick and then a whole lot of extra well movement in my arm does that hurt the nurse asked i glanced over and saw her wiggling the needle in a wide arc while it was still puncturing my arm uh i began my brain not really registering what i was seeing ah dammit i went right through your vein i m going to have to use the other arm she yanked the needle out put it away and grabbed a new needle and my left arm after she was finished my wife said something to the effect of if you weren t scared of needles before you definitely are now gee thanks i once owned a car that had a hole in the floor seriously the car was a 70s era plymouth that had more rust on the body than actual metal and one day i realized the the place where i d been putting my left foot while driving felt well breezy i checked out the place after i parked and sure enough there was a heel sized hole in the floor with rust flakes all around all that kept my foot from plunging through the floor and striking the pavement was the carpeting and for the record i just kind of kept driving the car but just made sure that i put my left foot someplace else when i was a teen my d d collection was thrown out to save me from the fires of hell yes i m a refugee of the satanic panic that gripped the u s back in the 80s in those days many parents blamed societal ills affecting their kids on heavy metal music and d d this belief was whipped up by the story of james dallas egbert iii who allegedly vanished into the steam tunnels underneath michigan state university in 1979 the reality is more than a bit mundane but the ordeal and others such as patty pulliam s bothered about dungeons and dragons organization pushed d d into that satan is coming for your kids mini hysteria that gripped a lot of parents of that era my parents were no exception i trace my own problems with it to the time my family visited some in laws of my aunts who happened to be very much in the pat robertson fan club robertson was one of many televangelists who rode the satanic panic bandwagon constantly warning about satan s 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