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  • From: Tim Oppenheim <timopp AT gmail.com>
  • To: "homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org" <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Things
  • Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:40:29 -0500

Don,

Glad to hear your getting along. Sorry about the health issues, but its good
your past it.

We built a room on the back of ours and even checking references and staying
on the guy, I still wanted to beat him. I wish you the best on building.

Tim

Sent from my iPad

On Apr 16, 2013, at 9:57 AM, Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net> wrote:

> I spent from the end of October to the end of February mostly sitting
> around and walking only with crutches after leg surgery to straighten
> the leg. During that time I played with the radio, spending time on the
> HF and 2M bands. Before surgery I put some metal in the air. I also
> started maintaining the local repeater and I am the net control for the
> Sunday night net. We can be found in the Ozarks on 147.390+, no tone.
> I am an electronics engineer but with little RF experience so more
> things to learn. I also spent the time and passed my Extra Class
> license plus becoming a VE.
>
> I also spent time designing a house that we hope to build this summer if
> we can get builders to respond. This is the Ozarks and there is always
> something more interesting to do than work. We had three that bothered
> to come by and only one has bothered to send a bid. We were told by the
> bank and others that builders are hungry but we have not seen it. As
> part of that I was recently given enough Oak to build the stairs and
> some of the trim. The builder that appears to want the job will more
> than likely get it. It is a small county, the builder's wife is the
> nurse that prepped me for surgery and his mother in law was our
> grandson's third grade teacher. His partner is the cousin of the friend
> who is giving me the Oak.
>
> I also caught myself up on technology so researched the world of SBCs
> and thought up some projects but those will have to wait. Arduino,
> PIC-AXE, Raspberry-Pi, BeagleBone, oh my.
>
> One of the more interesting things I looked into was 3D printing, I
> think that is a real game changer in many ways. Prices are way down,
> some good ones under $1000. Some are built with parts from the same
> printer. Want a high capacity magazine? Someone will have written a
> program for one and you can print all you want. Why worry if wears out
> quickly because it is PVC, print more.
>
> I have also been to the Bay area three times, Los Angles twice and
> Denver three times, over the last year dealing with family issues. I
> have a very good friend whom I would do anything for who is getting up
> in years and is ailing. I suspect I will be making a few more trips
> before a final trip in the not too distant future.
>
> Also our almost 3 year old grandson has a very rare form of cancer in
> his eye. He is responding well to treatment but those treatments
> require my son to make trips to Sloan Kettering in New York. They think
> there is only one more trip then the treatment will continue in Los Angles.
>
> My sister in law fell and shattered her leg into her knee joint a couple
> of days before I went in for surgery. She had severe injuries and
> required several surgeries. She was about two or three weeks behind me
> in recovery and brags that she has one more screw than I do in her leg,
> I am missing a screw. She was a heavy smoker until just a couple of
> years ago when she was diagnosed with COPD and that was a leading cause
> of the extent of the injury. My doctor said that smoking is one of the
> worst things you can do for your bones especially if you are female.
>
> Other than that it have been a slow winter and spring is reluctant to
> arrive.
>
> --
> Don Bowen AD0BR
> "A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without
> reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom."
> -Michel De Montaigne 1588
> http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html
>
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