[Hallicrafters] Remember Sunday Halli Net
Jim
jbrannig at verizon.net
Sun Jun 17 09:12:51 EDT 2012
One of my girls made it home.
She brought broken furniture with her...
I fixed the furniture, washed her car and put air in the tires...
Later, I'll take her to lunch and enjoy her company
because that's what Fathers do....
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> Here is something for all of you fathers - past, present and future.
> Enjoy.
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> That f Day In June
>
> Duane B. Fischer
>
> Today is Father's Day. Traditionally this means that
> appreciative children honor their father's by doing special
> things for, and with, them. Things like having him over for
> a porterhouse steak done medium well on the grill, packing a
> picnic lunch and going to the drag strip or taking him to see
> a real family movie like Maverick. Of course, this means
> that the children do have to take some of their high priority
> time and devote it to Dad. Simply put, they have to get
> their lazy self-serving buns out of bed before noon and do
> something physical the day before Father's Day!
>
> If your children are anything like mine, the word
> meaningful does not yet exist in their vocabulary. Nor will
> it exist until they become a parent and come to comprehend
> that sacrifice is something they just might have to do
> themselves! Their greatest mental accomplishment may lie in
> an incredible aptitude for creative excuse making. Do any of
> the following sound familiar?
>
> "I didn't have any money." Which is hard to believe
> when one calculates the cost of all the empty beer cans,
> cigarette butts and fast food wrappers littering the back
> yard! Either they secretly won the lottory or that pink
> plastic elephant bank took a serious hit with a hammer! That
> stuff doesn't grow in yards naturally, so somebody bought it.
> Haven't they heard of financially planning ahead? It isn't
> as if Father's Day comes as a sudden surprise, like diarrhea
> after a chili dog. It is always the third Sunday in June.
> I don't want to hear about gifts being too expensive. I
> don't expect a fourteen caret solid gold four way lug wrench
> or hand cut lead crystal glasses to drink Metamusil from.
> Hey! McDonalds has regular burgers for $.29. One of those,
> the pretty blond fox stuffing the french fry bags and a
> medium coke would suit me just fine.
>
> How about? "I was just too busy." Too busy? Ha! More
> like could give a rat's rump less what dad does on his day.
> Funny how they always seem to find the time to borrow your
> favorite sweat shirt, your car and every useful object in
> your home that isn't nailed down. Does remembering who was
> there when they had the urge to mooch take too much of their
> time also? Why is it that they can remember what their best
> friend was wearing when they loaned them a cd six months ago
> and not recall borrowing money from me two minutes before?
> Must be something in the water. Just think what would happen
> to a child's credit rating if father's reported unpaid debts
> to TRW. Do they think of me and appreciate the clean clothes
> they have because I sacrificed my Bahama cruise to buy them a
> washer and dryer? Or do they just grumble and whine because
> automatic doesn't mean that the dirty clothes wash
> themselves? I wonder where they would be if I had been too
> busy for them? Perhaps gainfully employed, independent and
> better adept at social skills!
>
> How about? "I forgot what day it was." A real original
> excuse! Just about as believable as not flushing the toilet
> after taking a dump because they were saving water. How
> could anyone simply forget Father's Day? There are
> commercials on tv hawking everything from Fruit Of The Loom
> DAD briefs to do it yourself talking cards. Look on the
> calendar! It is clearly marked and circled in large purple
> letters highlighting the Dad icon! Not even a complete idiot
> could miss it. Your calendar has a nude photo of what on it?
>
> Forget? Impossible! I know they are on a first name
> basis with that steroid taking muscle bound bagger in the
> express lane at Meijers. There are more Father's Day sale
> signs around that place than the sum of the pieces of junk
> mail the average person receives in six months. They even
> have signs in braille! So what if they are on the bathroom
> doors. Saying "I forgot" is a learned childhood all purpose
> excuse used by adults too explain away being irresponsible.
> This also applies to adult children, who typically have ego's
> twice the size of Texas. Guess this is what I deserve for
> not being more contraception minded.
>
> How about the time worn catch all cop out. "I was going
> to, but I was too tired." I learned long ago that being too
> tired is analogous to not giving a damn! Reminds me of
> something their mother said a lot every time I wanted to have
> sex. Perhaps she had a premonition that they would forget
> her on Mother's day. All these years I thought it was some
> sort of female hormone problem! Just so they would know, I
> looked up being "too tired" in Webster's New Collegiate
> dictionary. It defines this state as "shitting in bed and
> kicking it out with your feet." I'll bet they weren't too
> tired last night to wolf down a double cheese pepperoni
> pizza, crank up the stereo, drink beer and pass gas with
> their friends. I can understand how spending your last few
> bucks on a 1:00 A.M. beer run is more important than getting
> their Dad a card for Father's Day. Sure I can. Just about
> as well as I can understand how President Clinton's economic
> recovery plan helps reduce poverty by eliminating jobs and
> unemploying Americans!
>
> Finally, there is my daughter's favorite solution.
> Her idea of celebrating Father's Day is either a card or
> phone call. The former is generally a day or two late with
> postage due or delivered in person while she is on her way
> somewhere else. The latter means that right after being
> wished a happy Father's Day, I have to listen to her
> complain about what a miserable day she is having! I had
> never considered myself to be a selfish person, but perhaps I
> should have looked a little closer in the mirror. Somehow I
> managed to create a daughter who has refined this trait to an
> art form. She seems to think that a one dollar and twenty-
> five cent generic card, or a ten second message on my
> answering machine, fulfills her annual Father's Day
> obligation.
>
> Perhaps this commonly forgotten minor Hallmark occasion
> should be renamed Father's Moment! Well the cards may be
> late and the phone calls brief, but that is better than
> receiving salt free potato chips and Diet Coke with no fizz!
> I guess it is better to be remembered briefly, like an
> aromatic baked bean puffer, then to pass through this life
> without even being noticed. Did I just compare myself to the
> rotten egg smell of a malfunctioning catalytic converter?
> See what children can do to your mind? We now have Crayola
> crayons with scents. What's next? A Father's Day card that
> belches in your face and smells like Bud Light? I can hardly
> wait for next year!
>
>
> Original: June 11, 2000.
>
> Duane Fischer, W8DBF - WPE8CXO
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