Long delayed update
Jul. 18th, 2015 08:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
necturusThe last of the great South Boston snow pile finally melted on Thursday, so we can say it is finally summer in Boston.
I've been running around dealing with work situations from Dover, NH, to Gardner, MA and Exeter, RI. Today I made a trip to Cape Cod to set up an off-air monitor for the Brazilian station there that is owned by one of my clients.
Yes, there is a Brazilian community on Cape Cod. It's fairly new, but it now has a radio station to serve it. The tower it uses as an antenna has an osprey nest in it.
Up in Dover, NH the other day I had occasion to do some nighttime work in the antenna field behind the studio building, and there were hundreds of fireflies flashing away in the darkness. It was spectacular.
One of the best things about doing what I do for a living is that one never knows what creatures one might encounter.
My girlfriend wants me to take a vacation, but I was so stressed out by the one I took last October that I am in no hurry to schedule another one.
I am, however, going to Long Island with some friends for a few days later this summer. I'm still trying to work out how to deal with emergencies in my absence. There is a ferry from Montauk to Block Island, but I'd be hard pressed to get anywhere else easily.
Choir is on hiatus for the summer. I haven't had much occasion to sing much these days.
There is, however, "the Applecrap song", which I devised one day while I was having trouble getting some cloud-cased applications to work with a Macintosh at one of the stations. The song consists of the words "Applecrap, Applecrap, Applecrap crap crap" sung to the tune of Johann Strauss, Senior's Radetzky March. I've found Apple's fascist attitude toward its customers pretty frustrating lately.
I miss alt.polycons.
Oh, crap; my phone is ringing...
I've been running around dealing with work situations from Dover, NH, to Gardner, MA and Exeter, RI. Today I made a trip to Cape Cod to set up an off-air monitor for the Brazilian station there that is owned by one of my clients.
Yes, there is a Brazilian community on Cape Cod. It's fairly new, but it now has a radio station to serve it. The tower it uses as an antenna has an osprey nest in it.
Up in Dover, NH the other day I had occasion to do some nighttime work in the antenna field behind the studio building, and there were hundreds of fireflies flashing away in the darkness. It was spectacular.
One of the best things about doing what I do for a living is that one never knows what creatures one might encounter.
My girlfriend wants me to take a vacation, but I was so stressed out by the one I took last October that I am in no hurry to schedule another one.
I am, however, going to Long Island with some friends for a few days later this summer. I'm still trying to work out how to deal with emergencies in my absence. There is a ferry from Montauk to Block Island, but I'd be hard pressed to get anywhere else easily.
Choir is on hiatus for the summer. I haven't had much occasion to sing much these days.
There is, however, "the Applecrap song", which I devised one day while I was having trouble getting some cloud-cased applications to work with a Macintosh at one of the stations. The song consists of the words "Applecrap, Applecrap, Applecrap crap crap" sung to the tune of Johann Strauss, Senior's Radetzky March. I've found Apple's fascist attitude toward its customers pretty frustrating lately.
I miss alt.polycons.
Oh, crap; my phone is ringing...
