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Hazel_1914

Hazel_1914

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  • Hazel_1914
    I hate the inevitability of noise--after some homework probably taking a bit of a midnight drive to escape.
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    Yeshuasdaughter
    Yeshuasdaughter
    OMGOMGOMG!! I spend several years lighting the house with only oil lamps, even though we lived in an apartment. No internet, no tv. Knitting and sewing for fun, playing piano and reading. I miss it.
    oregano
    oregano
    I have a real Victorian oil lamp in the shed, I bought it at an estate sale in Sutter Creek, Cal., up in the Gold Country. The house was originally a kit house, and it was very old, and had a lot of cool old stuff. I really should use it after I move.
    oregano
    oregano
    Nobody can replace their cars due to the crazy shortages. I refuse to drive when the roads are crowded for that reason. A computer chip factory in Japan blew up apparently and now they're saying several YEARS until chips are available again. Yikes!
    Hazel_1914
    The noise from neighbors will probably drive me nuts. It's the inescapability of it, more than anything else.
    SimonSays
    SimonSays
    Ear plugs are your friend.
    Hazel_1914
    Hazel_1914
    I've tried that and it doesn't work. Vibrations that go through the floor aren't really stopped by ear plugs. Upward mobility, a higher-paying job, and a realtor who deals in abandoned farmsteads in the wilderness are my real chance.
    Hazel_1914
    I think I'm depressed.
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    Hazel_1914
    Hazel_1914
    @Markness Thanks friend; actually you & a few others helped by example.
    If I don't get this stuff under control I'll end up disabled from it or dead. Thought I was going to die last summer. That isn't the plan. So time to see about fixing it.
    Markness
    Markness
    I felt that way as well. Society really needs to take mental health more seriously.
    Hazel_1914
    Hazel_1914
    I had to cut a staph infection out of my stomach with a match, a tin of black-salve, and the needle off the old windup victrola. This is why I'm worried that due to depression & lack of function I'm going to end up dead.
    Got to fix this, now.
    Hazel_1914
    Rode 9 miles on a 65-year-old British roadster bicycle at around midnight last night. Restoration is almost done.
    Hazel_1914
    Going waterboarding in Guantanamo Bay sounds like an awesome vacation if you don't know what that is. End legalized torture.
    oregano
    oregano
    I read earlier today that the US spy thriller TV show "24", which was created to push the War on Terror, got so rah-rah about how wonderful, justified, and useful torture was that the commanders of West Point had to send a few guys to Los Angeles to get the producers to tone down the scripts.
    Hazel_1914
    Hazel_1914
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    Greatshield17
    Just think of how many taxpayer dollars could’ve gone to helping your fellow-Autistic Americans as opposed to supporting the oh, so successful War on Terror…
    Hazel_1914
    Went to the radio museum, studying repairs, white supremacists thought I was new recruit. Jackass.
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    Hazel_1914
    Hazel_1914
    I didn't say 9/11. I mean some group of "Concerned Citizens" meeting next week, and whatever they're doing,they're too chickenlivered to mention publicly. The guy clearly wasnt talking about honoring 9/11 victims, but some winger gathering next week.
    How do I know he's a winger? He opened his mouth and admitted as much.
    Hazel_1914
    Hazel_1914
    Big difference between truly honoring those from 9/11 and waiting until a week after 9/11 to hold a half-secret gathering of people united by ignorance, hatred of "liberals", and that sort.
    Crossbreed
    Crossbreed
    I didn't realize all of that was involved. I just heard "Patriots" and thought that it was a reference to "Patriot's Day."
    Hazel_1914
    And now The Inner Sanctum over WBCQ from Maine-- now it sounds like a sci-fi show is starting up. Old radios are FUN.
    oregano
    oregano
    WBCQ can play some really cool stuff. The guy who founded it was originally a SW pirate broadcaster during the golden age of SW piracy in the mid/late 90s. For a while WBCQ had to play extreme conspiracy shows to pay the bills. The founder would personally sign off over the air back then.
    Hazel_1914
    Sorry, it was Schubert. Now they are playing Beethoven's 5th. Lo-fi broadcast, antique radio, 1000s miles distancce but still way cool.
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    oregano
    oregano
    Thought you were listening to BCB (AM broadcast band) and not SW. WRMI is a brokered station-people pay them money to air whatever recording the payor provides. WRMI is located at the old Family Radio transmitting site in Lake Okeechobee, FL. They have a full square MILE antenna farm! You probably heard a direct broadcast.
    oregano
    oregano
    It sounds great on tube radios because they are using old Gates transmitters from the 1970s with vacuum tubes for final output and drivers.
    Hazel_1914
    Hazel_1914
    The static was pretty intense but the announcer mentioned that WRMI & another station were both simulcasting the program--and then static took over. I turned to WRMI known frequencies & got something else. Then back. Not sure yet but the music was sure good.
    Didn't know that about the old transmitters there!
    Hazel_1914
    The old 1936 vacuum-tube radio here managed to pull in some Renaissance polyphonic choir somewhere and this is absolutely awesome.
    Hazel_1914
    The more I see & hear loud people the more I hate them. If you walk on sidewalks shouting a lot, and get beat up, I am not helping you.
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