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New month, new year
December is typically the low point of my year, the time when I find it hardest to motivate myself. There always seem to be myriad things that need doing, and no motivation.
Well, December is now history. Tomorrow it will be two weeks past the solstice, two weeks past peak darkness, with two weeks still to go before we hit peak cold here in New England. I need to get WNTK on the air from the new Newport (NH, not RI) studio, and everything moved out of the New London (NH, not CT) studio so we can get out of there and stop paying rent and utilities. We've been paying upwards of $500 a month just for Internet service there. The previous owner had an air conditioner installed in the wall of the production studio that dumped its heat into the main studio, where another air conditioner would dump it outside. They'd be running these damned things all year, even while the heat was on.
Gradually we've been moving functionality out of there. The satellite receivers and the computers that run WNTK and WUVR are now in Randolph (VT, not NH, MA, or ME), with WCVR, in a building we own. They're still doing live shows out of New London, but by the end of this month they should be doing them out of Newport, and we can finally get out of there. That will reduce us to Newport, Springfield (VT, not NH or MA) and Randolph in the way of studio facilities.
Why do New Englanders like to re-use the same names so much? Springfield, VT is only twenty miles from Springfield, NH; and, believe it or not, there used to be two Yarmouths and two Falmouths in Massachusetts (the northern part of the Commonwealth broke away in 1820 to become the state of Maine, taking with it a Falmouth and a Yarmouth).
Well, December is now history. Tomorrow it will be two weeks past the solstice, two weeks past peak darkness, with two weeks still to go before we hit peak cold here in New England. I need to get WNTK on the air from the new Newport (NH, not RI) studio, and everything moved out of the New London (NH, not CT) studio so we can get out of there and stop paying rent and utilities. We've been paying upwards of $500 a month just for Internet service there. The previous owner had an air conditioner installed in the wall of the production studio that dumped its heat into the main studio, where another air conditioner would dump it outside. They'd be running these damned things all year, even while the heat was on.
Gradually we've been moving functionality out of there. The satellite receivers and the computers that run WNTK and WUVR are now in Randolph (VT, not NH, MA, or ME), with WCVR, in a building we own. They're still doing live shows out of New London, but by the end of this month they should be doing them out of Newport, and we can finally get out of there. That will reduce us to Newport, Springfield (VT, not NH or MA) and Randolph in the way of studio facilities.
Why do New Englanders like to re-use the same names so much? Springfield, VT is only twenty miles from Springfield, NH; and, believe it or not, there used to be two Yarmouths and two Falmouths in Massachusetts (the northern part of the Commonwealth broke away in 1820 to become the state of Maine, taking with it a Falmouth and a Yarmouth).
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An excellent question, and I would add "and why do they assume I'll know which Burlington they mean?" That was my most recent ambiguous reference, from someone who grew up in Connecticut but was discussing family plans that involved travel from Ontario. (In this case it didn't matter, so I didn't bother checking while she was dealing with rescheduling travel because of covid exposure.)
I've been, again, finding the limits of google and DuckDuckGo's assumption that I mean the Arlington or Burlington or Somerville... closest to where I'm sitting when I search for weather or library hours or any number of other location-specific things: depending on the thing I'm searching for, "Brighton" might get me this Boston neighborhood, or it might assume I want England. No, really, DuckDuckGo, Bostonians do drink tea.