Heading towards Arizona [split] Arriving to Flagstaff on 3/9/21
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Cammalu said:
We're going to stay until it gets too hot for us. We're Buffalonians, so that could be thirty minutes or thirty days, haha. Anyway, sounds great and appreciated!
We're still sitting here in Buffalo. Downsizing is a PITA. We spent the last four days giving away stuff and tossing everything else into a 40 yard dumpster. A lifetime of our own stuff, stuff my kids left behind and didn't want, my MIL's who passed away a few years ago and we still had all her stuff in storage. Kept the important things, but in the last year we filled two 30 yard dumpsters and gave away I don't know how many things. Too much to think about. I am--or was, a collector of old broadcast equipment, so the "stuff crisis" was real. I even had a whole collection of servers and workstations that kept the only radio stations that remained on the air operating and giving the city news updates during Katrina in New Orleans. Don't even ask. lol. All gone now. Scrapper made good use of recycling a lot of old stuff.
Edited to add: We are saying our goodbyes early this morning and will be on our way later today. First stop is Chicago, then on to Rt 66.
Keep an eye on the weather... you must be going to Chicago for a reason... otherwise I’d head south quicker... in northern Minnesota I woke up to wet heavy slick snow...
As we used to say in "showbiz" lingo "break a leg Katt"... No jinxing allowed!
...and yeah downsizing is a PITA! I had to chuckle when you mentioned dumping old equipment-- I recently went through the same thing when my Mom passed... I found my old pre-amps and amps (vacuum tube) in the basement from junior high-- Mom wouldn't allow me to have a stereo back in the mid 70's so I used to get on my bike and ride to the dump and rip the tubes out of discarded components and then test them at the local hardware store... so I built my own system from the dump (100Watts RMS) .... Mom was PISSED! (grin) ---BUT Dad (Electrical Engineer) was impressed that I did it and said I could keep it! Soooooo-- (BIG EVIL GRIN) I would throw on Deep Purple or Zep or Sabbath and slide behind my drum set (I bought it with my newspaper money) and rock out! (oh and as an aside-- I never shut the system off-- it would act as a backup heater for my bedroom from the tubes!)
I still use the Heathkit battery charger that Dad and I built on Mom's kitchen table when I was 11 today.... (How I learned to solder.) Sigh-- am I officially old yet? :dodgy:
Keep your eyes on the sky Katt-- you could be heading into some weather...
...and yeah downsizing is a PITA! I had to chuckle when you mentioned dumping old equipment-- I recently went through the same thing when my Mom passed... I found my old pre-amps and amps (vacuum tube) in the basement from junior high-- Mom wouldn't allow me to have a stereo back in the mid 70's so I used to get on my bike and ride to the dump and rip the tubes out of discarded components and then test them at the local hardware store... so I built my own system from the dump (100Watts RMS) .... Mom was PISSED! (grin) ---BUT Dad (Electrical Engineer) was impressed that I did it and said I could keep it! Soooooo-- (BIG EVIL GRIN) I would throw on Deep Purple or Zep or Sabbath and slide behind my drum set (I bought it with my newspaper money) and rock out! (oh and as an aside-- I never shut the system off-- it would act as a backup heater for my bedroom from the tubes!)
I still use the Heathkit battery charger that Dad and I built on Mom's kitchen table when I was 11 today.... (How I learned to solder.) Sigh-- am I officially old yet? :dodgy:
Keep your eyes on the sky Katt-- you could be heading into some weather...
