I Worked At A Book Bindery Once When I Was About 15…

A place where we assembled books/magazines/catalogs page by page then ran them through a machine that put glue on the correct edge and put the cover on it. Assembling the books/magazines/catalogs involved sitting at a large round table that rotated. You’d pull off the pages, in order, into stacks for the binder. The guy that had to run everything through the cutter had the hard part: edging all the books/magazines/catalogs without cutting a finger off with the guillotine blade that did the cuts! Do “they” even do books/magazines/catalogs that way anymore?

Not much going on around here. Pretty much SSDD. SWMBO is still looking for a job and taking on additional training for additional certifications to make her more desirable for hiring. I’m thinking about going down to the local community college and taking the “Flagger” course and seeing if I can get some work that way. Hard business to get in; but  once you do you can make a lot of money. We’ll see…

Just finished running the Mason County Sunday Evening 2-meter Chat Net. Had 9 people check in tonight. Not bad. The Net lasted the whole hour we allot for it. A couple of the guys want to learn more about PSK and other digital modes on the radio so I invited them over sometime to see how I do it. Heck, I may just set my laptop up to play a recorded session of psk31 and show everyone at the next club meeting. We won’t be able to actually transmit anything but they’d get the gist of what’s going on. Hmmm. I could even do the same thing with easypal to show them how to send pictures back and forth.

SWMBO got out and did some mowing this afternoon. I watched her from the deck out back. She also made fried chicken for dinner for us and it was yummy!

An older friend brought his new laptop and monitor over so I could show him how to spread his desktop over the two monitors. He likes to have his genealogy program running on the laptop screen and wants Firefox on the other so he can cut and paste without minimizing screens. So we took an hour for that and to install a couple of other programs he likes to use. He does pretty good for a guy that didn’t even want to use “one of them computer things.”

 

And that’s it from the Not-So-Great North West! 73


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I Guess I’m Just Getting Old…

Believe it or not, I used to “Type Set".” Dad taught me how when I was a kid and he worked for the Yuma Daily Sun newspaper in Yuma. Occasionally I’d go in and “help” him out in the afternoon before I got interested in other things. It was okay but not something I wanted to do the rest of my life. Even if it was replaced by “offset printing” (which I also learned how to do). Kids nowadays just wouldn’t believe you had to type on a machine that put out a bunch of heavy lead letters that you had to arrange into a holder the size and shape of a page of newsprint.  But I also knew how to read upside down and backwards!

Not much going on around here. Weather sucks for June. Even for the “great” Northwest. I hear these other Hams talking about how it’s 80+ degrees wherever they are, heading up to 90 degrees or more, then walk outside into 58 degrees and raining. Aaaarrrrgggghhhh!

On the other hand, I’ve been smoke free since April 17th. Not too shabby! This Volcano Inferno e-cig is working just great to keep me off “analogs” and, so far, has been cheaper also. And nowadays I’m into cheaper everything. Thumbs up

SWMBO is still looking for work while studying for her certification. Her test is the end of the month in Yakima of all places. She’ll have to head over the day before and spend the night in a motel but it’ll be worth it when she passes the test. I’ve been debating going with her but probably won’t. Someone’s got to stay and take care of the animals.

Playing on the radio more lately. Talked (voice) to a guy in Australia and another guy in Slovenia. Too cool!

Speaking of radio stuff: trying to figure out a way to do Field Day with the RV for a couple of days. Have to rent a small generator also as the one in the RV won’t run longer than 10 minutes. I’ll just raid the pantry for food for 2 days. That’s the easy part. Gotta figure out which antenna to use and how to raise it. Good thing I have an antenna gun! Fingers crossed

Otherwise, we’re not doing too bad. Have the RV, Dump Truck and Digger up for sale. Have a guy coming by Wednesday to look at the dump truck and an e-mail expressing interest in the Digger. Hate to get rid of either but the bucks will help. Ah well.

More later!

 

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