A bit cooler, but still wet. Forecast is for more rain, possible storms… but still just on the edge of any serious weather. Like yesterday. Just wet enough to keep me inside most of the day.
Did my swapmeet/sale/non-prepping hobby meeting. Good turnout, maybe double our normal? And a couple of new club members from last month came back for more. It’s hard to grow a club. The ham magazine is full of advice, which tells me most clubs aren’t growing and don’t know what to do about it. Attrition is a factor in most of the clubs I’m interested in. Tempus fugit, momento mori, and all that. No one gets out alive. It’s nice to share an enthusiasm with other people. We are social creatures after all. It’s also important to mix with people outside your normal day to day groups, so you can get a wider picture of what is going on in the world.
After the meeting I mostly piddlefarted around the house. Domestic bliss- cleaning and laundry, cooking dinner, etc… and auction stuff. I did do a bit of tech. I found a ubiquiti Nanostation Loco M2 I’d removed from service and decided to see if it was recoverable to use at the BOL. It wasn’t. Deader than a dead parrot. I opened it up and looked at the board, but didn’t find any smoke releasing components. Lightning killed it, and left no trace. So I ordered a pair of new Nanostation M5s. We’ll see how they work.
Today is Mother’s Day, so I will be working on that all day. I think we’ll be cooking a beef ribeye roast, potatoes, asparagus, and homemade bread for dinner. I hope the one I had in the freezer is big enough. Dang kids are eating me out of house and home.
It used to be the case, don’t know if it still is, that Mother’s Day had the heaviest call volume of any day of the year. Don’t let it pass unused.
Stack something, use something from your stacks. Say Hi to Mom, if you still can.
nick