Yeh, I know, just say Merry Christmas. I agree. Been over a year since my last blog post. Just reread it. Yup, I've been properly lubed. Brandy slush this time. Still no puff corn. Gave em of up in favor of fitting into skinny jeans. More on my diet later.
So, Dad died, Mom is doing well, keeping the farm, I'm still a farmer. Mom is doing more and planning to retire to the old homestead.

I was called into the National Weather Service - Green Bay office to take storm reports from the strongest low pressure system in history for our area. IF the storm would have been over open water (ocean) it would have been a CAT 2 or CAT 3 storm based upon the pressure readings.

We took in a number of reports of trees down while wind gusts were in the 60mph range.

In short, it's not ready for prime time.

I've had it for a week now and it's already slated for a return trip to the factory for repair.

The first issue was setting it up to work on my desktop. Vista is not a good OS to use with the Flex 1500. I spent a couple hours trying to make it all work together and eventually gave up. I grabbed my Acer One netbook that is running XP and had everything up and good to go in about 10 minutes.

I am in my standard blogging frame of mind...fueled by alcohol. As the title says, I have had a few and am working on the Korbel as I type. It is presently, according to the Droid, 78 deg. I cranked up the firepit, tiki torches (which are not working very well) and have finished some lefover sesame chix which my lovely wife ordered the other night...mmmm.

On September 8, 2010 I decided to take the afternoon off and try some ham radio portable operations. I'm glad I did!

I found a new spot in Brown County that is quiet and relaxing. The sound of the 30 foot waterfall in the distance (about 100 yards down stream) was soothing. I watched the hawks hunt while I was looking for QSOs.

It was a great day! The frosting on the cake was when I worked W3FF using a Buddipole that I bought directly from him in Dayton this last year.