Well here we sit, the beginning of another year on this blue marble we call earth. 2010 was good to us, 2011 started out a little bad, and things can get better\u2026 I spent part of the first week of the year sick and on antibiotics\u2026 Seems I\u2019m getting bronchitis now almost every year\u2026 Will see an allergist soon I have an appointment in early Feb\u2026 Nan\u2019s been a little under the weather too. I hope for all who read this that 2011 will be better than 2010 and I hope that everyone remains healthy and safe.<\/p>\n
On a sad note, a close friend of ours, Grandma Penny, passed away this past Sunday. She\u2019d been fighting asthma and pneumonia for quite some time and she\u2019s with Jesus now. I thank God that she doesn\u2019t have to fight now and my prayers are with Sueann and her family.<\/p>\n
The weather here has been strange lately\u2026 for the Florida Panhandle anyway\u2026 we\u2019re a little warmer than normal right now and we get cold fronts that bring colder than normal weather in here much like we\u2019re further north in the winter time. We\u2019re supposed to get a good bout of rain tomorrow and a front and we\u2019ll be in the 20s on Saturday morning and I guess on Sunday morning as well. I still dust off the old forecasting skills every now and then and look at some of the weather charts\u2026 the forecast models are better than in the old days, but now there\u2019s too much stuff to look at\u2026 In the old days the model we had went out 72 hours, now it goes out 384 hours\u2026 <\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been busy with a few projects\u2026 I mentioned I\u2019ve been learning Morse Code to use on the air\u2026 well tonight I bought my own morse key and keyer to hook up to the radio. I cleaned the radio shack\/computer room out and got some storage to organize stuff so it\u2019s not all out and always cluttered\u2026 now I just have to follow through and finish the job. For leisure I\u2019ve been digitizing some of my vinyl albums\u2026 stuff that I haven\u2019t listened to in years because it\u2019s kind of awkward to yank out the vinyl, the turntable and hook it up to the stereo etc etc etc\u2026 I can put it on the ipod and save space AND money because I own so many records\u2026 Over the years I bought some CDs to replace albums or cassettes that I had, but now I\u2019m finding the sound quality of a digitized (analog) vinyl record is superior to ripping a cd with a CD ripper\u2026 There\u2019s a different quality, and no\u2026 it\u2019s not scratches and pops because I have software that can clean some of that up. Maybe I\u2019ll do a how-to on how I\u2019m doing it\u2026 I don\u2019t claim to be the worlds best vinyl digitizer.. but my process works for me.<\/p>\n
Until next time\u2026 Happy New Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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