Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Beat The Odds

...And stayed mostly asleep until ten ayem. Ha-ha! (With a short break, eight-ish, to feed the cats and change their litter). Sure, this will be reflected in the day's hit total but if I haven't mentioned it yet, I'm on vacation this week. So I get at least one sleep-in.

On today's dance-card, hauling Tam by main force to the World War Memorial (pix to follow, with luck), doing some odd things to improve air-flow at Roseholme and starting to at least reassemble the desk upon which to set up my ham station. (That latter? WANT. Majorly). Plus one mission o'mercy for work.
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5 comments:

  1. AlanJune 18, 2008 at 12:10 PM

    I was struck by the size and number of war memorials in Indianapolis. You people sure take your memorializing seriously.

    What hardware are you setting up for your station? I mostly use the 2 meter radio these days although I was heavy into television (NTSC) a few years ago.

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  2. Turk TuronJune 18, 2008 at 12:20 PM

    The Indy War Memorial Museum has a PRISTINE Sauer 38H on display, plus some Navy HF radio gear and a supercharged Allison V-12. Lots of Croix de Guerre on display, too, for some astounding feats of bravery.

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  3. AnonymousJune 18, 2008 at 12:32 PM

    You ever get the basement waterproofed, or is that in your future? I can offer some cost effective reccomendations, if you'd like.

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  4. Roberta XJune 18, 2008 at 1:55 PM

    Indy has more war memorials than any city in the US save Washington, D.C. Why? I dunno. We started with the Soldier and Sailors monument in the Circle and just went from there.

    I have not seen the museum at the World War Memorial for many years -- and with the way my sinuses have been today, I may not see it today, either.

    Ham station? I dunno. One of the HROs, either the 5 or the 7, plus whichever Ten-Tech xcvr is working. Then I need to get the Harvey-Wells Bandmaster or Johnson Ranger AM transmitter going. All HF; if it's over 30mc/s, I get paid for it. ;)

    Basement waterproofing: the City is very, very busy redoing our sewer main (they have torn up and closed the street in front), I have rerouted the downspouts, and that leaves the three spots known to be "springs" when we get a huge lot of water. Despite heavy rains, we have had nothing like the flood again, nor has the sewer backed up.

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  5. HunterJune 18, 2008 at 8:13 PM

    War memorials in Indianapolis...
    also the National Headquarters of the American Legion.

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