I helped a guy put up a 100' antenna. He was a true aficionado. I remember talking to some Australian on his radio.View attachment 18987711
My neighbor is into shortwave radio and has quite the antenna system rigged up.
Talks to people all over the world and speaks multiple languages fluently.
Never know it by looking at him as he looks like a inbred hillbilly with 3 teeth.........which he is as well.
Really nice guy who has been a fantastic neighbor over the years and always offers help if he thinks anyone needs it.
I enjoy the people here generally always nice and polite.........till they aint.
Hey, @kaochiu It's been more than half a century ago, so my Mandarin is as rusty as the Titanic.I've been there a few times too, probably due to my chic lifestyle and the odd cancer, but at 58 still I don't qualify as old fart, so I just came to say best luck to Gypsy, and a speedy recovery. And the same goes for all others who are through critical medical conditions.
I will dedicate you all a nice asturian poem:
If viagra doesn't work
cos you have misread the label
get a piercing in the willy
and a magnet in the navel.
Too many of those types of jokes will put you in the fifth dimension.
Well - tomorrow at 12.30 pm - they will start the drawing and quartering - <hacksaw symphony music> in the operating theatre - and I did have a good look at how this A.I. software can edit/enhance the written word - 'cos a friend of mine swears by it - (and not at it) - so after I've been chopped up - then stapled up - and recovered from the thorisine or whatever mong-out meds they give me - and find meself in a comfy contemplative head-space - I shall Sally-Forth - and try get my scribblings in good order -@Gypsy Nirvana -- Damn! I wish I had thought of this sooner. It is mid-afternoon here in Floriduh, and too late to give you two ideas:
1. Go buy/steal a voice-to-print app, and...
2. Also buy an auto-editing app.
OR NUMBA THREE, GI!! Added becuz you will be able to do the following while laying there recuperating and looking like Dr. Frankenstein's first attempt.
Just sit/lay anywhere and audio-record your life experiences by stream-of-consciousness and stream-of-memory. I recorded my entire novel, "Faerie Diamonds" so my beloved, newly blind father-in-law could still hear the story. The recording gadget I used was the equivalent of a hand-crank phone to what is available today.
Fargin things nowadays -- jeez -- forty bucks gets you a paltry
72GB Digital Voice Recorder: Voice Activated Recorder with Playback, Audio Recording Device
on Amazon.
That way, you can hear yourself (while taking notes -- or directly modifying what is recorded then and there) and know exactly what you want to keep, what you want to rephrase, and what you want to expand on.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You can do none of these things while typing. Especially when you look like you just hatched another fargin alien.
Nope - 'fraid you are wrong - I've got a very nice and respectable young nurse from Eastern Europe (Romania) - with the misfortune of having the name of a heavy goods vehicle - Lorry - nice pleasant gal anyway - just kinda sad about the name her parents lumbered her with -That's what he thinks the nurse is going to look like that'll be taking care of him. Here's what the nurse is really going to _look_ like:
View attachment 18987659
Nothing says "boner be gone" than this!
You better hope she's the one who's taking care of your post-op and not Nurse Diesel:Nope - 'fraid you are wrong - I've got a very nice and respectable young nurse from Eastern Europe (Romania) - with the misfortune of having the name of a heavy goods vehicle - Lorry - nice pleasant gal anyway - just kinda sad about the name her parents lumbered her with -
Ohmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1Well - tomorrow at 12.30 pm - they will start the drawing and quartering - <hacksaw symphony music> in the operating theatre - and I did have a good look at how this A.I. software can edit/enhance the written word - 'cos a friend of mine swears by it - (and not at it) - so after I've been chopped up - then stapled up - and recovered from the thorisine or whatever mong-out meds they give me - and find meself in a comfy contemplative head-space - I shall Sally-Forth - and try get my scribblings in good order -
The real Kaochiu or Gao Qiu is a XIIth century guy, but the choice comes from a 70’s series that only myself in the western world has seen, “The Water Margin”, and he played the baddy, always harassing Lin Chung and Hushanian with his troops. I can't remember lines or anything, and blurry characters too, black and white tv. Google translator is a rip off, also tried translating it and closest I got was “grilled chicken skewer”. Fits too.Hey, @kaochiu It's been more than half a century ago, so my Mandarin is as rusty as the Titanic.
But your handle, kaochiu <-- "depend on leaving"? That's whut this ole sojer thinks it sorta translates to. How far off am I? I'm curious.
Im startin to rethink the getting a plane idea.
You definitely qualify to hang out with us o'l farts.....stick around.The real Kaochiu or Gao Qiu is a XIIth century guy, but the choice comes from a 70’s series that only myself in the western world has seen, “The Water Margin”, and he played the baddy, always harassing Lin Chung and Hushanian with his troops. I can't remember lines or anything, and blurry characters too, black and white tv. Google translator is a rip off, also tried translating it and closest I got was “grilled chicken skewer”. Fits too.
Lorry is not an usual name, but Lori is a nickname for Loredana and she might have translated that to english..Nope - 'fraid you are wrong - I've got a very nice and respectable young nurse from Eastern Europe (Romania) - with the misfortune of having the name of a heavy goods vehicle - Lorry - nice pleasant gal anyway - just kinda sad about the name her parents lumbered her with -