I had one of those moments this afternoon when I asked, “What are we even doing here?!” I’m afraid our nice stretch of “easy living” came to an abrupt halt today. I drove up to the transmitter site this afternoon to investigate a problem on the AM and our part time guard met me on [...]
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Gettin’ Some Traction … Or Not
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You might be a real four wheeler if you have ever had 2 wheels off the ground and said “We’re in good shape.” You might be a real four wheeler if you have to get the wheel barrow to clean your driveway off after you wash your vehicle. You might be a really serious four wheeler [...]
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Do We Need to Ban Vacations?
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Vacation! That starts with “V!” And that rhymes with “C.” And that stands for “catastrophe!!” (My apologies to Meredith Willson, Franklin Lacey, Marion Hargrove, and everyone else involved in The Music Man, but my line rhymes better even if the meter is a bit off.) At least it’s starting to feel we need to ban [...]
3 Ways to Get Soaked in One Day
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Before I start, I need to take a moment to thank our son, Jesse, for all his awesome help with some of the behind the scenes work on this blog. He handles the hosting and did the original design for it. He just moved it to a new server that’s much faster than the old [...]
Is It Apendicitis?
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What a week so far! Getting diagnosed and treated is often a frustrating labyrinth of going from here to there and then back again for something no one told you that you needed. That gets multiplied when you add in a bit of a language barrier and then the cultural differences. But hey! I survived. [...]
Uff da!
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That’s one of many spellings of one of my favorite non-English phrases. It’s a Scandinavian catch-all term for anything overwhelming. It can be a good thing or a bad thing and the speaker’s tone makes it obvious which it is. In this instance, it’s an expression of exhaustion after being thwarted in many attempts at [...]
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The Air Conditioner Wars
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I might also call this blog entry, “The RECO Wars,” since I spent a good part of the week struggling with both. Neither is subdued yet, but I think we’re making progress. What is RECO? That’s our shorthand for the Roatán Electric Company. Peter and Sandi took a well-deserve vacation this week, so Mildred and [...]
Differences and Appointments!
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You’d think, since we were just here at Christmas time, that the little differences between Roatán and the U.S. would not be so striking to me. But they are. For example, Jesse took us to a Burger King on the way to their house from the airport. I almost paid in lempiras because it seemed [...]
Making Light Is Easy for God, Not for Me
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Ever since we went on the air at our new transmitter site, the guard has been asking for some light there. But one thing after another has conspired to keep me from getting that done. But I’ve been planning it and working now and then on preliminary sub-assemblies. This week, I finally got the first [...]
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A Leash Stretching Kind of Week
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Way back many years ago, when I was a teenager, I saw a dog do one of the funniest things I’d ever seen. I was riding down the street on my bicycle and a full sized poodle came charging and barking at me at full speed – at least until the leash went, “twang!” It [...]
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Posies, programs, and packing
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Well, not really posies. That’s just a term I borrowed from Mildred’s dad. He likes to call any flower a posy. Someday, I should ask him if there’s a story behind that. I mentioned a few posts back that I’d put on some weight during the holidays. Between Thanksgiving, traveling, Jesse’s birthday, Christmas, our anniversary, [...]
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Never at a Loss for Words
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This week, as Peter and I sat down to record the HRGS Update, we wondered what we would talk about. We felt like last week was such an uneventful week that we would not have much in the way of news for our listeners. Having been slowed down with some kind of bug that showed [...]
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