Hi-ho the radio!

[vakkotaur]

The trip wasn't bad, but hours on the road are hours on the road and even sitting down for all of them is tiring. Tried one restaurant in Stoughton, WI that won't be tried again. Not outright bad, but simply has nothing to recommend it.

The Great Laptop Experiment worked well enough. I finally finished writing up the February 1996 issue of Looney Tunes (#21) and even updated the writers and artists files relating to it. All that after supper Saturday night.

The hamfest was smaller than I remember it being, but it pretty much filled the space it had. At least one vendor I was used to seeing wasn't there, but I'm not sure I would've bought anything from them anyway. Jay found someone to talk with for some considerable time, and I found my folks there. Pa bought some circuit board, Jay bought a couple UHF duplexers and some connectors, and I almost walked out without anything but then went and bought a little 6 meter (that's 50MHz) sideband radio. I've wanted to play with 6m in one way or another for some time. Now I can, once I get things set up. Oops, another project...

After we left the hamfest, the four of us went to a different restaurant and had a late breakfast. This place is worth going back to if we're in the area again. The food was good and the service was good, and not a little amusing, if perhaps unintentionally so.

And then was the long drive back. Supper was at a drive-in in Blue Earth since the place was open. Once home the unpacking began. I haven't done anything with my new (new to me anyway) radio. I did get shan back on the network and FTP-ed the modified COLT files back to belgian. This evening was spent going over the interesting and the annoying bits in LT21 and then uploading stuff to thebrain. Now, at least, I'm finished with 1996 for COLT. That's the good news. The bad news is that I've got 1995, 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003 to work on yet... but at least I'm less behind than I was before.

Comments

[pharwarner.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to see that you had a pretty nice time, and got to do the things you wanted to. I just can't bring myself to try any new restaurants just now after the last few that I've been too. It's almost becoming a vast wasteland of overpriced mediocrity on the new dining scene, all of which culminated in that nine buck plate of four small pancakes..

The new 6 metre radio sounds very interesting indeed, and it should be fun to set up and get going. And hearing that the COLT is coming along well always makes for good news. It's steadily moving on towards completion, and when it is, it'll be a valuable and powerful reference tool. Even now it's a great resource!