Jenn Boo-lari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

I don't know why I was dragging my mother's wedding dress and pushing a 1971 Pontiac Grand Prix around town in my dream last night, but it was very important than I leave Steph's house RIGHT NOW and get these back home.

Finally got an direct antenna connection for my SDR radio. It's actually really NOT the antenna I intend to use for shortwave - it's more of a mount for my longwire to properly clip onto. A quick check on Shortwave and AM tells me it's working WAY WAY WAAAAAAY better than the kludge I made back in the other house.

I've already picked up a signal from Africa, as well as the local low power station Valley 104.9 which even my car (which is a DX monster) has trouble picking up in town.

Dot Com Bust 2.0 continues....

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/20/business/google-alphabet-layoffs.html

I was talking with Erwin Zel about the Gillespie County schools on another post, and it got me remembering the last few times I was in Texas.

In 2018, I started planning my yearly "trip to Texas on my two month layoff." Seeing how the wind was blowing politically down there, I made it a mission to see everything and everywhere that meant something to me while I was there. EVERYTHING.

I put 9000 miles on my car during the 2018 trip (including going there and back from Seattle). And on every trip, I tracked myself with GPS.

There were still some things I didn't see, and when I went back in 2019, this time using my parents car, I made a list of everything else I wanted to see, and did that as well. I haven't been back since.

Given how the trans situation is down there, I don't know that I can go back.

YouTube Comment of the Month: "She was pretty hot for a mute woman who got imprisoned by a army of talking apes who lived on a futuristic fallout variation of earth that also had mutated people that worship nukes living beneath it."

I'm hearing a lot of noise about how the Roe vs. Wade leak was probably done by one of the conservative judges...but I've always thought it was likely done by one of the liberal judges as a warning of "This is what's coming our way, start your protests now." That was my first thought on learning about the leak....

I find it funny that when my gaming PC is working hard on stuff it makes a very quiet version of the noise the Mutants make when mind controlling people in Beneath the Planet of the Apes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xclk0xMSvO4

Thoughts Before Bed:

I once met this person at Amy's Ice Cream in Austin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Enigma_%28performer%29

Too many windows....