A couple of Updates
Mar. 14th, 2012 01:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
banjoplayinnerd* I went to a hamfest over the weekend and picked up a couple of things for my station. A hamfest is sort of like a gun show except the items on display don't go bang unless you hit them with lightning, or maybe with one of the things you would get at a gun show. I had a great deal of fun pointing out radios to my daughter and telling her, "Yeah, I used to have one of those." "Oh yes, when I was a young ham that one there was the top of the line." And on and on until she was probably bored out of her mind. Fatherly duties and all that.
Pictures of the pretties in a day or two. I have something I need to do with one of them first.
* I was putting the Igors to work yesterday. I had them help me measure stuff for an antenna I'm building. Igor the Younger is fascinated by the tape measure. He loves that you can roll it out 30 feet and watch it retract back in. I'm not sure he fully understands why I won't let him use the X-Acto blade, but I don't care, he still doesn't get to use it. I did let Igor the Older cut a length of coaxial cable for me, but she did that with a pair of nippers. You can cut yourself with a pair of nippers, but it takes a lot of work.
* The weather here has been weird lately. I don't think there's a better word to describe it.
* Speaking of Igor the Younger, he found one of the spare air hoses to my CPAP yesterday and turned it into an improvised didgeridoo. That one is too smart for his own good.
* I started another song today! The more prolific songwriters out there are probably saying "So?", but I have had a devil of a time coming up with ideas lately. I managed to write two during FAWM, and the second wasn't very good. I'm excited about this one. It's a funny song. I think people will like it.
* There was probably something else but I'll be switched if I can remember what it was.
Pictures of the pretties in a day or two. I have something I need to do with one of them first.
* I was putting the Igors to work yesterday. I had them help me measure stuff for an antenna I'm building. Igor the Younger is fascinated by the tape measure. He loves that you can roll it out 30 feet and watch it retract back in. I'm not sure he fully understands why I won't let him use the X-Acto blade, but I don't care, he still doesn't get to use it. I did let Igor the Older cut a length of coaxial cable for me, but she did that with a pair of nippers. You can cut yourself with a pair of nippers, but it takes a lot of work.
* The weather here has been weird lately. I don't think there's a better word to describe it.
* Speaking of Igor the Younger, he found one of the spare air hoses to my CPAP yesterday and turned it into an improvised didgeridoo. That one is too smart for his own good.
* I started another song today! The more prolific songwriters out there are probably saying "So?", but I have had a devil of a time coming up with ideas lately. I managed to write two during FAWM, and the second wasn't very good. I'm excited about this one. It's a funny song. I think people will like it.
* There was probably something else but I'll be switched if I can remember what it was.
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Date: 2012-03-14 09:14 pm (UTC)