Today's quote comes from the Murfreesboro Rd. Waffle House waitress... yes, regarding me. I had a semi-blues brother moment when I asked if their ham could be ordered by the slice. Hey, it had been awhile since I'd been at an Awful Waffle.

Speaking of not being right in the head... I've had a pretty nasty sinus infection that was probably brought on by the visit to lovely Dayton. I had a good trip although my one radio is not wanting to cooperate.

It appears that the site that is roundeye is not operational right at this moment. I need to write more but I've not been in the mood.

RIMBoy's Roundeye Duct Tape Jukebox Song of the day:

Made up Band Name of the Day: The Greasy Gringos

You had to be there for the quote. And likewise, I'm taking suggestions on behalf of a friend.

Several events have either transpired or are transpiring this very week. In a few short hours (and I mean short) I'll be awaking at the oh so late time of 6am to begin my annual pilgrimage to lovely Dayton Ohio. This will be the first year that I'll be going as KG4NRC, which is my identity in the Ham radio community. That said, if you follow the Whereis RIMBoy link to your left you'll be able to put a track on the RIMBoy ride, aka the Cabrio. Just bear in mind that when you see me cruising down the interstate it will hopefully be top down and sunny. Oh yeah baby!

For those that have my office number, please note that it is changing. I've left that number to accept another position within the parent company (so to speak). Matter of fact, I'm heading back to where I started and are looking forward to carpooling to the same building with Jen again. So tear up what you knew about me and drop me a line if you need the 411 on my new office line.

RIMBoy's Roundeye Duct Tape Jukebox Song of the day: Foggy Mountain Breakdown as covered by The Stray Cats

Made up Band Name of the Day: The Young Dustin Hoffmann

Good evening (or morning as it may be) folkies and folkettes. Do you realize that's we've got less than a week to get something for our Mothers for Mother's Day? That's right... it's like the one time a year (beside arbor day) that we need to do something special for that person that spent at least 18 years of their life changing our diapers, staying up late worrying incessantly about whether or not we're going to make it home alive, and educating us on the evils of tidy whitey underwear.

Let's see where we can go from here. Casey appears to have taken the RIMBoy approach to updates... few and far between. The Kell-Daughg (in-appropriately linked to your left, my right as Kell-Dawg) updates daily, but frankly I'm not sure what it is she's talking about half the time. But that's ok... I like pretending I in fact know who half the people are and thus my imagination runs wild. You see, I do know who The Nekkid is, but "Abs of Sock Monkey Fame" could be Ted Danson or Mel Torme (despite the fact he's dead) and thus provides entertainment of unforseen value (at least to me). The main thing is to create a matrix of Kell-Daughg characters to who you would imagine they would be. It's like a Mad-Libs with names.

Quite frankly, I would update more often but as it was pointed out the quality went to all sorts of hell. I look back at what I wrote a year ago and wonder if my current writing is on par with what little goals I had for this 2 bit site. I keep threatening to update and freshen the look, but I still like the low-end ghetto nature that old-skool HTML provides. Viewable on Mosiac you cheeky bunnies.

I also have threatend to finally upgrade the hardware that makes this site tick. Despite setting aside hardware for such the task (see previous post) I question its stability. I've got other hardware that I could plop that hard drive into and press into service... I've not ruled that out yet. I'm just wondering long term if I should keep this half arsed webserver up and running with some upgrades or drop some new phat old school hardware and get my server bling bling on. There... I finally said it. Bling Bling.

I found out that my favorite band that I've never heard, Henderson Kentucky's "The Mullets" have broken up. This actually happened sometime ago.. but it was recently that I decided I needed to stop by their site. Be sure to check out their show flyers section. I would have to say the one that features the lyrics to Home Sweet Home by the Crue is worthy of the Museum of Modern Art. Brandon and I discussed the artwork and he suggested that we should advertise some made up band and futhermore, advertise that they'll be playing at the now defunct 328. Personally, I think it's a grand plan with hours of entertainment (ok, at least for me) to no end. Let me think of a good ficticious band name and plan my fictional tour accordingly. Now that I think about it... I think I've got a domainname at my disposal for the purposes of making this thing look real.

In music news... I find out that the former bass player in the now long defunct The Habaneros is in Pinmonkey... a Nashville band that's about to blow up like 3 Mile Island. I'm glad to see that Mike's hit it right and appears to be on his way. It was a long time coming but he's worked hard... he deserves it. I've been giving Ryan Adam's Silver and Gold album a spin and overall it's a pretty decent piece of work considering it's the same Ryan Adam's (still in Whiskeytown) that emerged from the bath room at 12th and Porter with a grin after clearing his vocal chords and playing the Harmonica. It was kinda like that Far Side where the boy is practicing his Tuba behind an outhouse and people on the otherside have this strange look. I was one of those people wondering what in hades was taking place on the other side of that door. I do recall Ryan hitting the stage and it overall being a pretty unimpressive performance. And seeing as the Old 97's wrote Crash on the Barrelhead... and speaking of my boys that currently crank out poppy crud, I picked up a re-release of some of their older stuff from their Bloodshot days. Again, what the Old 97's made a name of theirselves for doing... good straight up pumped country rock. I'm also attempting to give Yankee Hotel Foxtrot from Wilco a spin. Jury is still out but I think it's just a little over hyped. Nothing to write home aboot. It's no Being There... and while I don't expect it to be I don't get the vibe that should be there.

According to the clock on my computer, I've now got one week until I wake up on the first day of my vacation. I'll be heading to lovely Dayton Ohio. I can't wait.

RIMBoy's Roundeye Duct Tape Jukebox Song of the day: Crush With Eyeliner by REM

Made up Band Name of the Day: The Friendly Radish Quintet

From the bad taste office comes today's quote. And mark this occasion, since it will be another year before I come up with another quote on the level of the one above. If you don't get it, that's alright. Quite a few Amateur Radio operators are laughing right now. And yes indeedy, it does appear that I'm making an update on this cesspool of the internet. I was going to have some Solidarity quote since yesterday was May Day and some other crap having to do with the first day of May. However it's now May 2nd, the official 1980's era Union Air Traffic Controller AA meeting day. Hi, my name is Reginald, and I've been sober... crap, I think I'm sober... what day is it?

That said, today marks 2 weeks until I head north to lovely Dayton Ohio. I'm planning an exciting trip to see all the sites and sounds Dayton has to offer. I tell ya, it's a veritable unknown vaction mecca. Word on the street is that it's the next Ibiza! Can you believe that? Tire plants and Ibiza? Could one ask for more? Well yes indeedy folks, Dayton is also home to the world's largest hamfest. However, that's old news to most of my readers (1) since I went on an on about it last year about this time. I'm planning to unload more equipment this year and hopefully come back with less. Boxes and boxes will go, how many will return is the question that will only be answered come May 19.

What else has been going on since the last update? My short attempt at wearing soft contacts has failed and thus I'll be back sporting the hard lenses in the RNF. Thus, you'll notice that I'll be sexier than ever in my extended wear gas permeable hard lenses.

I've also decided that before I consider any type of site redesign that I should probably look at replacing the workhorse of a server that runs this site. I'll fill all yall in later about the server, but let's just say it's run a lot longer and a lot harder than I ever expected. I'm attempting to replace said hardware with something of the Macintosh variety although it will be running linux rather than OSX. It'll be older PPC hardware most likely and a Mac clone if all of my cards align and I'm not forced to morgage more hardware to get things up and running. I'm attempting to get Yellow Dog Linux up and running on a StarMax Mac clone John Ferrell gave me (sorry bout the spelling if it's wrong... I don't have your name in front of me :( ) Anyway thanks for hooking me up John!

That said, the remodeling project has come to a standstill until I decide it's time to do work rather than screw around with my computer(s) all night long. I tell ya, when you've got messes on the order of my messes, you ain't gettin much of anything done.

RIMBoy's Roundeye Duct Tape Jukebox Song of the day: Chitlins Con Carne by Stevie Ray Vaughn

Made up Band Name of the Day: Microburst and the Severe Weather Outbreaks