The Journey of twenty-two hundred miles begins with just a single step. Lao Tzu (paraphrased) This blog is mainly about my excursion upon the Appalachian Trail. This is a journey that has been 15 years in the planning stage and on March 20, 2022 it will see that plan being executed. Please feel free to leave comments and follow me on the social media of your choosing.

Monday, March 27, 2006

I'm being "Sirius"




Oh Well, Sense I got a “new” truck then I guess I’ll have to update the sound system. Actually what I did is when I was at Wal-Mart they had these receivers for the Sirius satellite radio system for only $36.00. And guess what?!? That’s just how much I had burning a hole in my pocket. But seriously, or should I now say “siriusly”, I had been thinking about getting into satellite radio sense I first read the ‘ditching” article in Newsweek way back when before they put up the first satellite for XM. I, being a truck driver at the time could see the possibilities. If you have every driven in an area where the only thing you could get on the radio is the local farm report, or you are listening to a talk show and had to pull over because you were going out of range and you wanted to listen to the last of it, then you can see the niceties of it.
Plus I’m beginning to hate commercial radio with a passion, especially those stations that has 90 minutes of non-stop commercials before they take a song brake, radios stations that won’t announce either the artist or the song and assume that you know who you are listening too, ect…. I believe that it will be worth the money. Plus I am planning on taking vacation in May and doing some traveling. I might head out west, (Dunlay, hint, hint).

But anyway, the reason I was in Wal-Mart to begin with, is that I had found some old undeveloped film and had brought it in. If you use Wal-Mart’s one-hour photo development then you can get the film developed and put on disk only. And if you send it off then you have to get pictures printed. Well, for only $4.58 I can get my pictures on a disk, not get any prints, which I don’t want anyway, and have it in an hour. Genius.
I developed two rolls, and I didn’t even know what was on the rolls. One of the rolls was from Aug. 04 in Dunlay and Bert’s funeral. I took pictures of the flower arrangements. The other was, now get this, from 1992. Whoa!
And yes, the pictures did develop. They are very grainy but you can still see them. The one below is from that second roll. It is from when I had my business going and was putting on a bookfair. At which church that is, I’m not sure yet.



So, now I am off to Home-Depot to pick up some plumbing supplies and see about tackling some of my plumbing problems.

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