A lot has happened since my last entry. I have not had a whole lot of time to do a lot of writing, or much else. There are so many things happening at a rapid pace that I can scarcely keep up. Work has been extremely busy, lately. I have been trying to deal with…
In my last entry, I talked about my desire to locate a decent audio processor to normalize the dynamic range of the audio for my remote broadcasts. I use a somewhat aggressive audio processing scheme. I am aware that there are people who listen to the broadcast through headphones on portable devices. You don’t want…
I have long wanted to be equipped to easily do Govern America from any location, and on short notice. My intention is to be able to have a couple of bags of studio equipment that I can grab and go. Think of a “bug out” bag, only for remote radio broadcasting. Originally, I thought I…
I finally got my motorhome winterized. I’ve been trying not to procrastinate it, even though I’ve been dreading it because it is kind of a big job. It is really important to get it done right. In theory, it’s pretty simple. In practice, it’s a lot of back and forth, inside and outside the unit.…
I have a painting over my fireplace by Mark Daehlin, entitled “Closing Time”. It features an old man and children, standing next to a river, raking leaves. The grandson and dog are on a small dock next to a boat, the boy pointing up at the sky as birds fly south for the winter. The…
Being a solitary person, I’ve always been somewhat of a night owl. I enjoy the nighttime and the peace and quiet that it affords to focus my thoughts on reading, research, reflection and rejuvenation. Daily, I see people who get lost in the hustle and bustle of their routines and they are trapped in these…
I was a latecomer to the world of content management systems. I used to always hand-code everything with a text editor and would spend hours trying to figure out why my cascading style sheets, javascript, CGI and perl scripts wouldn’t do exactly what I wanted them to do. I’d bang on them, get frustrated, give…
I decided to relaunch this website after several years because I needed a place to hash out ideas on a variety of subjects, separate from my Govern America website. That site is focused on political and governmental issues affecting our country. I felt the need to have a place where I could write on a…