[SOC] When I'm bored, I do FT-8

[craig shaw]

Alan Watts on pleasure without skill... Relevant to FT8 and CW

Understand that there is absolutely no possibility of having any pleasure
in life at all without skill. Money. Doesn’t. Buy. Pleasure. Ever. Look: if
you want to get stone-drunk, and go out and get a bottle of bourbon and
down it, you can’t do that except for people who have practiced the
distiller’s art. You can’t even make love without art.

Where I live, in Sausalito, we have a harbor full of ever so many pleasure
craft. Motor cruisers, sailing boats, all kinds of things—and they never
leave the dock. All that happens with them is their owners have cocktail
parties there on Saturdays and Sundays, because they discovered—having
bought these things—that the discipline of sailing is difficult to learn
and takes a lot of time. And they didn’t have time for it, so they just
bought the thing as a status symbol.

So, in other words, you can’t have pleasure in life without skill, but it
isn’t an unpleasant task to learn a skill. If the teacher—in the first
place—gets you fascinated with it, there is immense pleasure in learning
how to do anything skillfully.

On Mon, Jun 3, 2019, 16:53 Ron KU7Y <ron at ku7y.com> wrote:

> > " Hello I am AL7JK and use FT-8 "
>
> I must also confess.....
>
> I was bored and looking for some excitement. I watched the computer make
> some FT8 QSOs. Found no excitement.
>
> Then I went outside and watched some paint dry and found that to be much
> more exciting than FT8!
>
> OK, back in my hole,
>
> Ron, KU7Y
> Mountain Home, ID  DN23dc
> QRP ARCI #8829
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> Ron at ku7y.com
>
>
>
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