Morning Cup Of Coffee And Weather

I still play with trains.

9C9919F7-324F-4F44-8375-8DC7C60BF208 by Tour 931 posted Feb 1, 2024 at 6:04 AM

 

I had a Marantz amp just like the one on your lower left shelf in the pic. I gave it to a friend last year before realizing that it is collectible.

 

They are quite collectible. Mine powere a pair of ADS speakers and really has a nice warm sound.

 

Ain't that always the way? I've always been a Harmon Kardon fan myself. My kick, is that I sold my Nakamichi Dragon. Flawless...that I picked up for a song back in the day. Those are worth thousands now. The Citation 19 is my next "kick" however, those are still available for prices that are not too ridiculous. I can't justify the expense since my hearing has been chewed up by too many Cessna Citations My hearing is shot!

Nice rotator control there too! My parents had one sitting next to their big console -- we used to swing a gigantic antenna to pick up channel 2, 9, 11 and 32 out of Chicago....

 

Nice eye seeing it on the shelf and knowing what it was.

 

That is a beautiful collection...Being a ham radio operator and a child of the 1970's when aerial antennas (Radio Shack VU-190 to really show my age) were needed when you only had the 3 big networks, PBS, and a local religious channel....we then got WGN before they were a "superchannel" and 32 (WFLD) before "Fox"

I miss WGN and WFLD, the latter of which was home to Richard Koz -- who is STILL on the air today. He's much better known as Svenzoolie, or Son of Svengooli as I knew him. WGN, was know mostly for Bob Bell. Better Known as Bozo.

ITS FRIDAY!!!! Which means I'm thinking of camping. I was going to go --- but it appears I finally killed my Lead Acid battery!!! Seriously, no kidding. Apparently, 24 months and 3 dead flats are the magic number.

Just last week I called up Cary and had him sent me an upgraded charger. I took pictures and will be writing a post about what the upgrade was like. It's done, it's in. I need to write it up.

I filled out the form now a couple of times asking for price and availability on the battery. I hope your experience is better than mine if you decide to upgrade. I emailed and web form contacted reseller a couple of times to get the specific battery CampInn has tested. Today, in light of the dead battery situation I drove up to the address...

First, there's no sign -- the only reason I knew it was the right place was the big "Exide" trucks parked outside. Going inside (A whole story in itself) I found a human who said that this was just a distribution center, but there was a retail outlet...same building fortunately.

The girl at the desk looked and they did not have them in stock -- asked where the closest was and was told it was in Jacksonville. The next obvious question that I asked was "Can you order it?" She said that she thought they would want me to pay shipping. What?

Sincerely --- I know they will never get rich selling batteries to individuals like us --- but if you don't want to do retail sales, then set up a distribution and get out of that side of the business....

I dont' know what I'm going to do now --- I may just buy a jackery and a lead acid....

 

It hit 52F yesterday and felt even warmer in the sun. It’s almost shorts time.

 

Watching the Atmospheric River go by...
Southern California Faces Life-Threatening Flooding - Videos from The Weather Channel

Costco Keurig in my cup

 

The link may be broken -- I don't see a video there, but I've been watching and have to say yikes. One time I may be glad to be in Indiana.

 

I've noted a surge of stuff getting through the gmail filters the last few days too. Been marking them as spam, and it has slowed today, but not gone away yet.

 

Same here on a web site I'm in the process of setting up -- it isn't even live and in the search engines yet - and I'm getting blasted.

 

Sorry Sweeney- thats a link to Weather Channel from within the app, one of their videos...may not work without the app.

Ken and Peggy; thanks you for unsung mod hero work helping the web admin here...

I wonder if the spammers and webcrawl spider-code makers are combining AI to autogenerate content...as spam?

hmmm.

In conversation: Bruce Schneier on AI-powered mass spying | Malwarebytes

 

I was just curious: what country was he coming from? US and Germany are the 'heavy hitters' I see...

I am expecting to see certain countries, recently, my sites have been hit from odd places I wouldn't expect...right here at home, and countries that have been a problem in the past have fallen way off. Its all probably coming through VPNs -- that's a topic you don't want me to get started on.

 

I saw Russian addresses for a while -- that seems to have slowed.

 

We had a skip of snow overnight. We should have two feet on the ground and barely have any.

 

Is that a good thing, or a bad thing.

We've been kissing 60 for the last couple days. I just emptied the gasoline from the snowblower, I got to use it once this winter and the forecast has cold in it --- but not snow. Also (sadly) once we get to the end of February its usually ice, not snow. I can live without that entirely.

This weekend will probably break the warm weather for a while --- the highs for the rest of the month will be near 40-45. Then, March, when all bets are off.

 

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