Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven
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Yep still got it ... it's my Kodi server now.
I didn't know there was an 8-bit version of Kodi
Yeah, I really need to get back to my 20-something philosophy - keep a camera with me at all times.
Exodus Burped?... Is that part of the Atlas Shrugged series?
Speaking of books, has anyone read 'The Greatest Generation' by Tom Brokaw? I haven't yet, but... On our latest trip to see my MIL, her neighbor gave me a copy. He and his wife are remodeling the house next door. Over the course of 3 days, he and I helped each other with projects, and they ate supper with us the night before we left. Despite being half my age, they shared many of my own ideals and philosophies, and we had a very stimulating conversation over a very good meal (and a couple of Blue Moon Belgian White Ales). Next day, as we loaded the car, they came over to say goodbye, and he brought me a brand new paperback copy of the Brokaw book. Said he had bought his own hard-copy, later someone had given him the paperback, and he was passing it on... a really nice young fella.
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Looks and brains, what a combo! Nice!So proud of my Hank. 21 weeks old.
He tested out of basic obedience and is going into intermediate.
I wonder what makes us have flashbacks, out of the blue and totally unrelated to what's happening right now?
Just now had one, back to the early days of my 'yoot'
Our local TV station used to sign-off at midnight. Just after the station ID blurb, and just before the test pattern came up for the rest of the night, they played the National Anthem while a powerful male voice read the poem 'High Flight'...
High Flight
John Gillespie Magee, Jr
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, --and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of --Wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air...
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark or even eagle flew --
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
Just now had one, back to the early days of my 'yoot'
Our local TV station used to sign-off at midnight. Just after the station ID blurb, and just before the test pattern came up for the rest of the night, they played the National Anthem while a powerful male voice read the poem 'High Flight'...
High Flight
John Gillespie Magee, Jr
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, --and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of --Wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air...
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark or even eagle flew --
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
Well I got a call from a doctor here last night at 9pm. I went in for xrays on my back where I fell and I thought OHOH they found something in kidney. But no he told me I have a fractured rib in my back which also bruised my lung and caused a hemotoma which is the lump I feel. I told my doc about it 3 weeks ago but she was so worried about getting everything typed in to the computer she must've forgot. Now they are concerned I might have or get pneumonia. I've been coughing up a lot of stuff so will probably have to have labs Monday. I had a shot for it last year 2015. Nothing like a doctor calling at night to wake you up.
He is beautiful! And he just looks so intelligent! Good boy Hank!So proud of my Hank. 21 weeks old.
He tested out of basic obedience and is going into intermediate.
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And, you need to leave the woodwork exposed until your daughter's friend sees what it takes to do the job right.
It's a good thing he called, Legs. How bad could it have gotten? And you trying to get ready for your stomach surgery?
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Yep got my stuff ordered should be here Monday. Got a 20 day supply first. Will be making smoothies like crazy, sounded like a better deal then a feeding tube. Will work on dog situation later. I think it's cheaper to take her along and get a pet friendly room that gives you a medical discount. They have doggie daycare there if need be. It's only about a 1 hour procedure and then a week or so in the immediate area. Have to take the car to my trusted mechanic and have him look it over and make sure it is up to a 2000 mile RT. If it wasn't a Ford it would be. Only 75000 miles on it but rear seal leaks. I'll never buy an American car again.
There was only one TV station here back then.
At the beginning of the shutdown production, the recording of a bored sounding station announcer, "This concludes another day of broadcasting by WXYZ-TV. WXYZ is owned and operated by Rich Guys Broadcasting Co. and operates on an assigned frequency of [and so on] using a studio to transmitter link of blah blah ..."
... yours didn't play the National Anthem accompanied by patriotic images like the Thunderbirds, Mount Rushmore, the Grand Canyon and a US Flag waving in the breeze? And after the test pattern with its accompanying shrill test tones [the duration of which varied according to the needs of the station engineers], they'd shut down the transmitter. If the tones didn't motivate you to get up (no remotes) and turn the TV off, the white noise which followed the shutdown would wake you from a sound sleep.
And after all of that, there was nothing left to watch. No optical disks, no computers, nothing to entertain other than the radio, an AM station which fought for dominance with a propaganda station from Cuba, Radio Havana. Might as well hit the sheets.
Hmmm, maybe that last bit was unique to the Southeast US.
I ~think~ we had two? Albany GA and Tallahassee FL (if lucky).
You got the shutdown procedure just right, musta been the same on all the stations 'back then'.
Believe it or not, after dark we could pick up WLS-AM (rock) out of Chicago... in So. GA!
Of course, the feds have 'ruled the airwaves' ever since early on when they realized the power, both economic and social, of broadcast. Again I ~think~ I remember hearing the reason we could get WLS was that the govt. let them turn their transmitter up to full power and 'go directional' - pointing the signal toward the mid/southern-east coast. I do know that with one transmitter connected to three towers, the signal can be tuned to 'lean' toward whatever direction chosen.... on paper, the signal looks like an long skinny oblong.
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Yes, WLS was pretty much available east of the Rockys. We also received KAAY-Little Rock (Beaker Street with Clyde Clifford), WWL-New Orleans, and on occasion WCCO-Minneapolis. These were 50,000 watt clear channel stations. While the reception was iffy, some nights pretty good and other nights no-so-great or maybe even missing. The reception was a function of atmospheric skip, something AM benefited from in DXing and FM lacks entirely. On rare occasions we'd be able to pick up a station across the Gulf of Mexico, in Tampa.
My friends and I were REALLY into KAAY's Beaker Street, although 500 miles distant it's propagation to our location in Panama City, Florida was entirely dependent on skip and it would fade in and out.
One of our local AM Top-40 stations was required to sign off at sunset, the other had to reduce power and go directional at night to protect some other station on the same frequency. Naturally, Radio Havana was free to ignore the FCC regulations. On some nights they completely obliterated the little local station with their massive transmitters which were rumored to be 100 kilowatts, double any legal US AM station. Aside from being annoying, I failed to understand their motivation since none their broadcasts were in English. Maybe their target audience was south Florida Cuban refugees who could pick the transmissions up with their dental fillings. I worked at that small Top-40 station for a couple years from 1975-76.
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So proud of my Hank. 21 weeks old.
He tested out of basic obedience and is going into intermediate.
Magnificent!
Even down here on da south side of Tampa Bay! Fond memories of my SIX transistor Sears Silvertone leather cased radio that I'd put under my pillow each night. Mowed many a yard to buy da six C cell batts fer that 'hungry' puppy!
Thank goodness for the atmospheric skip from WLS Chi-town down to Florida!!! Our local stations were at least two weeks behind da top pop charts...
I grew up on the west coast. Late night after TV signed off I could tune in to radio from CA and every now and then, though I couldn't get Chicago, I would be able to get a rock music station coming out of Oklahoma City.
I've lost track of how many times I've tried to explain that my nocturnal leanings have nothing to do with staying up all night watching TV...to people who don't even know there was once such a thing as midnight sign offs and test patterns...
I've lost track of how many times I've tried to explain that my nocturnal leanings have nothing to do with staying up all night watching TV...to people who don't even know there was once such a thing as midnight sign offs and test patterns...
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