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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