Amateur radio, also known as ham radio, is an exciting hobby with many opportunities. Talk to folks around town or around the world. You can also server your community by becoming a severe weather spotter or by providing communications during local special events such as the 500 parade and mini marathon, no Morse code required. Earning your technician class license is the first step to exploring all that ham radio has to offer.

The Mid-State Amateur Radio Club is offering a 1 day class on Saturday, February 11th, 2012 from 8a.m. to 4p.m. Testing will begin at 4pm. The class is free with lunch provided. Students are recommended to pre-purchase the ARRL Ham Radio License Manual and pre-register. This will be a condensed class and we recommend students study the material before the class. Books are available for purchase for $29.95 at www.arrl.org, testing is $15.00.

Location: Johnson County Emergency Management Agency
1000 Hospital Road, Franklin, IN
Basement conference room.

For more information Email secretary@midstatehams.org

Apparently one of my plug-ins was making it hard to impossible for new people to comment on my blog. I kept getting blank notices to moderate comments. It had been going on for awhile. I didn’t think much of it till I was testing out a new feature that notifies people of replies to their comments. I logged out and tried to comment but it wouldn’t let me, and I started getting those blank moderate comment emails again.

Well it didn’t take me long to put 2 and 2 together and realize I had a problem. I had to go through and disable things one by one till I found the culprit. Anyway I fixed the setting that was causing the problem and now we are good as gold again, well till I break something else!

And now, a picture of a car I do not own!

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I have murdered too many of them in the past and out of respect for the dead(no pun intended) I will leave them alone for this post!

It has been a long strange week so far. I have had a colonoscopy and an endoscopy in one day. I admit I was pretty scared going in, but once they started the I.V. they could have done pretty much anything they wanted to me.

What did we find out during this round of testing? Well the jury is still out on that one. They discovered a hiatal hernia and esophagitis. It just keeps getting better and better don’t it? So the results that they were looking for were inconclusive, so I will be getting another test! An enteroclysis, not only is it hard to say, it sounds very unpleasant. I am not looking forward to this at all!

In other news..

Oh wait, there is no other news at the moment.

Never mind!

I am on a clear liquid diet today plus I get to take a bunch of yummy laxatives on top of that! Tomorrow I go in for testing, colonoscopy and an EGD. Yeah I am a lucky boy! Getting it from both ends in one day. Did I mention that I have been hacking up a lung since Saturday? Yeah it just keeps getting better.

Since I am miserable at the moment I am going to cut this short!