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contextless qotd

Posted on April 21, 2021 | Leave a comment

My contextless quote of the day:

He hangs onto those children all the time as some kind of desperate proof that he’s not homosexual.

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hear dem bells, 78 rpm

Posted on April 20, 2021 | Leave a comment

The things that The Internet Archive have are mind blowing. I have this 78 RPM record in my garage somewhere. It was a favorite of mine when I was a child. I enjoyed singing along.

This actually predates my parents a bit, so it was probably my grandparents, possibly great grandparents.

https://archive.org/details/78_hear-dem-bells_harry-c-browne-peerless-quartette-mccosh_gbia0016730a

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when I was briefly named tim

Posted on April 19, 2021 | Leave a comment

I like this thread on Reddit. What is the pettiest reason you refused to date someone?

I guess it was the weirdest reason, not really the pettiest, but I was the receiver.

He was the sweetest thing, I really liked him, but strangely he started calling me Tim, the wrong name. I let it go a few times, then with each recurrence, it was getting harder and harder to bring it up that he was using the wrong name, so I just let it go. I finally determined that I really liked him calling me Tim. It made me feel special.

Then he called me by that name in front of a group of my friends, and of course they all had to jump in and correct him.

He was so embarrassed that he never spoke to me again. Just broke my heart. 💔

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/mtwhe1/what_was_the_pettiest_reason_you_refused_to_date/

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gorging on food while zooming

Posted on April 19, 2021 | Leave a comment

Zoom loveliness.

I was doing a social Zoom on Sunday for a certain organization. It always bothers me when people eat during a Zoom meeting, especially if they have the camera inches from their face, but there’s nothing I can do about it except whine online.

One of the participants ate a Jethro bowl of cereal (the term comes from an old TV series where the character Jethro ate so much breakfast cereal that he put it in a large mixing bowl.)

She gorged on that cereal with the camera right up on her face, then she picked up the bowl and drank what was left of the milk, then she gagged on the milk.

I thought about injecting some levity by saying, “I know how it is to gag like hell on something like that.” 😆

There are quite a few that don’t have any self-awareness during a Zoom.

Image from old TV series Beverly Hillbillies where Jethro is having his signature giant bowl of cereal

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solid state digimatic

Posted on April 18, 2021 | 1 comment

I’m always noticing peripheral things.

While watching a 1972 episode of the TV series Columbo, I saw this “Solid State Digimatic” on a nightstand. That would mean it’s a Sony, but the name is not visible on the plastic front due to the camera.

It’s an AM/FM number-flipping clock radio. I loved those things and thought they were swank. The design is elegant.

To the right of the minutes, there was a colored flywheel so you could be sure it was running.

Television screen capture of the device

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ebony is home

Posted on April 17, 2021 | Leave a comment

Our Small Dog Club added a new member today.

Some friends notified us that a local rescue had an elderly dog that needed a home, so now we have Ebony. She came home with us today. 💗

She’s an oldie, maybe 15. She’s settling into her new home and feeling loved.

We’ve had practice with geriatric dogs and feel like we can help her have some nice golden years.

She will get a lot of love, good food, medical care, and a great human and dog family.

Ebony has to wear a donut for a little while because of a scrape on her head.

Brian holding Ebony

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dates

Posted on April 16, 2021 | Leave a comment

Dates! Product of Iran.

Different sides of a box of yalam dates

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secret soviet communication device

Posted on April 16, 2021 | 2 comments

This is one of the items from my Ukrainian package. It’s called a straight key, CW key, or Morse code key.

It’s been about 40 years since I regularly used the code. It’s time to get back in shape for those special communications. 😉

I’m sending real code in the video, but it’s sloppy because of lack of practice for so many decades.

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Vintage Soviet military telegraph key. The material of the platform is Bakelite (Russian carbolite), the mechanism is steel. Used in the past in the radio bureau of the USSR Ministry of Defense.

Video of me sending code on the key

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ukranian secrets

Posted on April 16, 2021 | Leave a comment

This package just arrived today from the Ukraine. We have another one coming next week from Russia.

This contains my national election influencer kit. I paid a little extra for the deluxe kit that includes state and local, but I got a discount with the shopping code: VictoriaNuland.

Showing off the packaging with Cyrillic lettering

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sandwich selfie

Posted on April 16, 2021 | 2 comments

Posing with a giant sandwich. 🥪

There’s not enough to keep me busy today.

Selfie in front of a giant depiction of a sandwich on the side of a truck trailer

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