Subj : Re: Huntsville Hamfest
To   : Daryl Stout
From : Jimmy Anderson
Date : Fri Mar 24 2023 07:59 pm

-=> Daryl Stout wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-

 DS> Jimmy,

 DS>   It's possible. I heard there was a great hamfest in Trussville,
 DS> Alabama this past weekend (the Birminghamfest). With health, financial,
 DS> plus the transportation issues, I rarely leave home now, and don't go
 DS> outside the Little Rock area anymore.

Yeah, I'm getting there... have started having problems with knees and one
heel... If I were going to travel away for something right now it would be
for gaming... Board Games, or RPG's...

I do have on my short list, though, to visit the Ark Encounter and the
Creation Museum in Kentucky!!!

 DS>   For the second time since I've been with Lyft, they tried to pair me
 DS> with a high ground clearance pickup truck. The step to get in is as
 DS> high as my groin, and I'd either rip my pants, fall to the ground, or
 DS> twist something (nuts to that...pun intended (hi hi)) trying to get in.
 DS> So, I wrote them a stern letter, asking them to NOT pair me with these
 DS> high ground clearance vehicles.

WOW!

 DS>   The arthritis is so bad throughout my body, especially in my left hip
 DS> and left knee...as well as degenerative disc disease in my back and
 DS> spine, that I'm in constant pain. I can not sit at the computer for
 DS> long periods of time, whether for ham radio traffic nets (with having
 DS> congestive heart failure, I operate "internet only"), or for the BBS. I
 DS> had to reduce the "early checkin time for my nets" from an hour to 30
 DS> minutes, and I may need to soon cut that to 15, or eliminate it.

 DS>   My health comes before any ham radio operator's ego that may be
 DS> crushed if a net shuts down.

That is SO so correct!!!

 DS>   I've got insomnia (never mind the call of nature, but I take my Lasix
 DS> at lunch), so that's why I'm up right now. Plus, hailstorms are
 DS> forecast here Saturday afternoon and night, as we're now into our
 DS> spring tornado season.

I'm typing this Friday night - Tornado Warning between here and the river...




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