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oregano

oregano

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  • oregano
    Been going through receipts with a calculator trying to figure out where my money is going. I have a couple big areas that I need to cut back and/or out to get my finances under control. 9% inflation means no luxuries AT ALL on a fixed income.
    Aspychata
    Aspychata
    Oh dear, money woes hits me too. Stay home a lot more these days. I have a running addition tape going on in my head every day.
    oregano
    Bought a 1957 Hammarlund HQ-110 ham radio receiver today. An old "boatanchor" radio from the glory days of amateur radio vacuum tube rigs. The seller is very old and his hearing is mostly gone, so he is having to sell his equipment. His house has about a dozen antennas, he must have been really into it. He lives in Marin County so I'm shocked his neighbors never whined about the antennas.
    Forest Cat
    Forest Cat
    Hammarlund? There has to be a Swede behind that brand, that's a very Swedish surname.
    oregano
    oregano
    A quick google turned up this:

    https://hammarlund.info/histpage.html
    Company founder Oscar Hammarlund was indeed born in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1861, and founded a maker of variable capacitors in New York City in 1910 that would eventually become Hammarlund Radio.
    oregano
    I hate Sacramento. I am greatly missing Siskiyou and even Jackson counties right now.

    oregano
    This song seems to be following me around. It seems that when I go into a store like a mini mart or supermarket, this song will be playing over the PA system often. It's creepy.

    L
    Luca
    I hear this song in stores and in clubs and bars frequently too. I think it’s just a very catchy song so it’s on businesses’ playlists a lot.
    oregano
    oregano
    I'm old enough to remember the glory days of Dead Or Alive, and they were a pretty good example of 80s synthpop, which is always one of my favorites. I've also been noticing a lot of 2010s electropop, which I call "millenial electropop" since it was popular with the millenial generation when they were teens.
    oregano
    oregano
    The 2010s were a really tough period in my life, so I would listen to the commute time dance mix on Hot 103.5, a local radio station in Sacramento, to try to get my mind off it. By 2017 the delivery method for youth music had shifted away from over the air radio to internet downloading and eventually streaming, so I packed my radio away. The "Hot 103.5" format was yanked by 2019.
    oregano
    All fireworks are illegal in Siskiyou County, so it will be quiet on the fourth. In Sacramento the immigrants in my old neighborhood set off illegal fireworks for HOURS ON END. BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM late into the night. It's great that they love their adopted homeland, but people have to go to work the next day.
    oregano
    grrr the cheap router the internet company sold me won't work on wifi. With wired it is fine but it won't do wifi, it says the password is wrong. I checked the password on both the bottom of the physical router and in the settings, but it won't let me log on.
    oregano
    oregano
    Never mind, I figured it out. Sigh.
    oregano
    I switched from incel to tradcel for good probably around 2012. That's when I finally deleted my OK Cupid profile. The only women who wanted to be part of my life were more or less insane or they were social rejects dragging around three kids and looking for a daddy for the kids and themselves. Why should I bring another's drama into my life?
    Crossbreed
    Crossbreed
    Tradcel? Traditional celibate?
    Rodafina
    Rodafina
    What is tradcel?
    oregano
    oregano
    "Tradcel"="traditional celibate". Sometimes called voluntary celibacy. As opposed to incel, or involuntary celibacy. Difference is that an incel wants a sexual relationship but can't find one, while a traditional celibate doesn't want sex. I try to stay up on the latest internet slang, and sometimes I forget that most people don't know what most of it means. Especially here. The prefix "trad-" means traditional.
    oregano
    is gradually recovering from my sinus infection. Feeling woozy and very tired.
    oregano
    I have a sinus infection for the first time in years. I got them all the time as a kid but I used air cleaners as an adult to keep them at bay. I didn't think I needed a cleaner here since there is less dust.
    oregano
    It's June already! I REALLY need to get my potatoes and carrots in the ground pronto! The wet weather really delayed the planting season. Also, I have had to spend way too much money on other stuff.
    oregano
    I had to go to Sacramento for yet another dental implant anchor checkup. I go back 29 June to have the screws put in the anchors, then I get the plates two weeks after that.
    oregano
    oregano
    I stayed an extra 3 days because of a ham radio swap meet on Sunday 28 May. I am still wondering if the Koss headphones were worth the stress. It's nice to be home.
    Aspychata
    Aspychata
    You are so brave. I have to go to dentist.
    oregano
    I will reassemble my cistern next week after I get back from my dental appointment in Sacramento.
    oregano
    I put up the wire fence to protect my solar panels from the cows this morning. A replacement panel will cost $180. The rest of the panels are fine so I don't have to buy it now.
    M
    Mary Terry
    I live in the country and can attest that there is a learning curve when you go "rural". Like cows getting into your stuff!
    oregano
    A cow stepped on one of my solar panels last night. Fortunately it was just one panel. That rancher was right, I will have to put up chicken wire to keep the cows from wrecking everything.
    cowpanel.JPG
    oregano
    I almost hit a horse up near the Copco Lake dam removal zone today. He retaliated by kicking my car and ripping off the gas cap access door (and the bracket holding it on) as well as the cap itself. Medford Hyundai wanted $250+ to fix it, so I went to Baxter Auto Parts and bought a locking gas cap for $24.
    Metalhead
    Metalhead
    The horse got his revenge. Sorry to hear that happened to you but I am glad that was the only damage done all things considered.
    oregano
    My life will change around 4 July (US Independence Day) when I get my permanent denture plates and can chew again. No more having to gum soft food out of cans.
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