Holy shit it's about time I got these photos up! Come on, that shit is clever. The talismans of our past, We'll get a post together later detailing their origins. Where I got my first pipe, and where we used to get our cigars. We were not able to make a visit this time around. The picture is a bit blurry because it was dark out and I had my flash off. I made a choice early in the trip that I was going to put forth some effort to photo document this weekend. I didn't want to go selfie crazy, this wasn't for instagram or any of that shit. So when I snapped the first photo of the evening in a bar I quickly decided to turn the flash off. Nobody wants that bright fucking light in their face, and I don't want to announce to the bar "LOOK AT ME, I'M TAKING PICTURES!" Start of the evening Scotch and Cigars Scott shares with us his winnings. The plan was, give him a dollar each. Then he'll take that to the slot machine ...
Hurray antenna build! This isn't my first, but it was the smallest. The other antennas I've built have been for CB, 11 meters. This one was for frequencies on the 2 meter band. I found some directions here . They served me very well and I had the foresight to take photos as I made the thing. I've been planning to make a larger 2m J-pole antenna out of 1/2" copper pipe for awhile now. This is not that. I was wanting a better antenna for chatting on the 2m net in my area. Last week I had to drop out because my little handheld just wasn't getting out like it needed to. The J-Pole I want to build will be larger, about 8' tall. When that goes up I want it to be in a more permanent way. So something for the intermediate, ahh yes I have a bunch of 450ohm ladder line in the garage! Some quick googling and reading in my new antenna building book and boom a design is ready to try. See the earlier link. Behold! Ladder line Step one I stripped the...
Fear not, I've just slacked lately. I have not once again forgotten about the blog I'm trying to keep updating. It is my hope to have more contributors as well so if you want in on this shit, let me know. So, along with the last haul of cigars received I had also signed up for a monthly deal. 8 cigars of 4 different types. Something to help me explore new cigars and expand my tastes. What I didn't expect wast that the first order would catch me up on what I missed over the last few months. That is to say, not only was April received but so was March, February, January, and even a bonus December Caldwell sampler. Now, there are many good looking cigars here and I'm excited to try them. I was not anticipating having to make quite so much room in the humidor though. In other news it seems summer is finally here. We decided to give spring a miss I guess. As we came to the end of a menopausal April where it went from 30 to 50 and back to 20 with a mix of rain, snow, both...
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