My Aunt Betty Hollie, Uncle Herman’s wife of many many years, passed away last night. He says she went fairly quickly. I had only met her once, at the 2010 Family Reunion, but she seemed like a really nice lady. We seemed to get along pretty good.
SWMBO and I are staying home, as usual. We’d rather not chance getting creamed by a drunk driver on the way home. Besides, there really isn’t anyone else I’d rather celebrate with anyway… 
Not much going on around here. Finally not too wet outside but way too cold for me to get out much. Poop Dog and I have been going for our walks but not staying out much. Heard it may snow some Thursday…
Spent the day mostly on the computer with a short foray into dishes and laundry. So exciting! Started using GNUCash to keep track of my meager finances. Moving things around on my hard drives. FSX for awhile. Watched the news. Joined Tumblr to just try it out and see what it does. (So far it looks like another Twitter thingie.) Listened to my radio some but didn’t make any contacts.
Still not getting any serious questions about the RV, my Digger or the MIL Apartment. I figure everybody has spent all the money they can for the Merry HallowThanksMasYear season and are too broke for anything else. I know we are!
Things are starting to get a bit tight financially for us lately. SWMBO is doing what she can with this company she’s contracting with and I’m still looking for work. Selling the Digger would do a world of good for us right now. Getting out from under that RV would also even though we owe less than $3k on it. Selling the dump truck is more a convenience thing than anything else. Sure, the grand could come in plenty handy; but the thing is paid off and it doesn’t cost anything to let it sit where it is.
Trying to lock down this site so it doesn’t get hacked again. Installed a couple of plugins that are supposed to make it harder for the hackers. Getting tired of the spammers and have decided to post their e-mail addresses hoping that some spambot will pick them up and send them spam. Of course, most of the e-mail addresses are bogus but maybe the spammers will send a million e-mails to a bogus address. Tie up their systems for awhile.
Anywho, that’s about it from WaRshington. Another cold and cloudy New Years Eve Although I did get out on the deck very early this morning and got to look at some of the stars for a minute or two. Nice!
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The Geminid Meteor Shower is supposed to peak tonight and there could be 50 or more meteors per hour. AND we’re passing through the path of another asteroid that could produce 30 or more meteors per hour itself. Combined it could be quite a show tonight. Except it’s frakkin’ raining here and I won’t be able to see a thing! I *HATE* this frakkin’ place!!! |
Wow. Where did the time go? Was I having that much fun? Yep! That Hobby has filled in many hours and, I believe, has helped to keep my mind “freshenedâ€; what with building my own antenna’s and such. Running the Sunday MC-ARC 2-meter Rag Chew also. It has been fun making contacts all over and seeing how far my signal gets and remains understandable. Hope I can continue to do this for another 800 years! 
Everything else if pretty much SSDD. 
Had a meeting of the MC-ARC over in Shelton yesterday. Finances are all straight if not especially detailed. We’re thinking of combining the MC-ARC & NMARES web sites since we are, in effect, one club now. It really would make sense. I just can’t figure out what domain name we’d call it. Gotta keep it short and fairly simple so folks can remember the url. If you call it MC-ARC you leave out the NMARES people. Ditto for calling it NMARES. Hmmm. Maybe we should change the club name completely. Maybe something like: The Mason County Combined Amateur Radio Emergency Service Club? MCCARES? Sounds like something you’d order at the Golden Arches…
Personally, I’d just close down NMARES. When my Presidency comes up for renewal next May I’m just not going to accept the nomination. Two years is enough. Actually, the way I feel right now, three years of this “club†is enough. It would be different if they actually DID something; but it’s just a social club. Hell, “they†even voted to co-club with MC-ARC so they wouldn’t have to pay for insurance to do anything. Why not just disband NMARES and go totally MC-ARC?
We finally got the last of the glue that used to hold down the tile in the mother-in-law apt up. Man-o-Man, what a job. I’m too old to spend that much time on my knees! The other morning I tried scraping the floor just bent over at the waist but kept ‘re-eating’ my breakfast! Accidently sat down in a pool of goop and had to take a quick shower when my ass started burning!!!
But, we finally got that part of redoing the floor done. Next is a general clean-up and mopping. That should take a day. Then let it dry for a day. Then spread the sealant, etc etc. I’m sure you’re bored to tears right about now so I’ll skip the rest of the itinerary.
Had a young couple and their 2 kids come over and look at the apartment. Say they’ll let us know. Seemed like nice folks though. Don’t know how they’ll take to me and the dog taking off all our clothes and going for a walk on a nice sunny WARM day. 
Just not much else going on. I keep getting older and SWMBO keeps getting better looking. She’s still looking for a job. I’m still looking for a part-time job! I’ll be digging a trench for a neighbor Monday or Tuesday and that’ll put me $100 closer to a Nexus 7. (I’ll only need another $200!!)
Y’all be sure to visit my Gallery; otherwise you’ll never know what you missed! I also updated my regular site with new links for finding me on Facebook, Google+ and some others.
Semper Fi!