Saving Tempest
Cruisin' on my Bluebird
I told my mom to stop complaining about all my stereo gear, records and tapes, just go find the happy fools who will take over parts or all of my crap and cover whatever the funeral plan doesn't. She never understood why I have so much stuff, and I told her it has a lot to do with accidentally pumping unleaded in a diesel Chevette and losing two weeks pay, which was the difference between a clearance Pioneer receiver and the 16 watt per channel Sanyo I eventually got in 1981 when my Dad (service station owner) said I needed to work all summer there to get my school stuff as well as my first stereo system.
That Sanyo 2016 used a Darlington (IC) amp package and nine years later during the broadcast premiere of Star Wars IV (A New Hope), watching a 13" black and white set with one of those Recoton MTS stereo TV decoders with that Shotz RF probe that picked up the stray signal from the set and fed the audio to my stereo...
pfffffffffffffft
Just as R2 and 3PO had crash landed the escape pod on Tatooine and 3PO was about to start the Laurel and Hardy 'A fine mess you've gotten us into!" routine,
Easily avoidable if I could have bought a REAL stereo with REAL discrete output transistors and diodes...
After that I found whatever neat stuff I could, pre eBay, no way I knew to get things fixed when they broke, and I learned to have backups. Eventually that became a collection. When I die, it should take care of my final expenses.
I keep telling Mom I'm building a couple bikes for nieces or nephews and all I hear is they've got a bike. Of course, this is after I equipped all of them with stereo systems from what I had, records and blank tapes as well. Well, I set my sister's kids up with a $10 PC and hard drives I set up with Linux as well and Uncle Saving Tempest has skills to them but Mom still didn't get it.
I told her sort of bluntly that with my health and the way my 45-55 year old friends have been dying lately I expect that she will be burying me and not my siblings. Dad died of lung cancer in 2011 and I lost any illusions of immortality years before that. Now I'd like my family to get over the I only need one and take a gift. I don't care how much I spent on it, I learned something and there it is, just take it. It isn't fattening.
That Sanyo 2016 used a Darlington (IC) amp package and nine years later during the broadcast premiere of Star Wars IV (A New Hope), watching a 13" black and white set with one of those Recoton MTS stereo TV decoders with that Shotz RF probe that picked up the stray signal from the set and fed the audio to my stereo...
pfffffffffffffft
Just as R2 and 3PO had crash landed the escape pod on Tatooine and 3PO was about to start the Laurel and Hardy 'A fine mess you've gotten us into!" routine,
Easily avoidable if I could have bought a REAL stereo with REAL discrete output transistors and diodes...
After that I found whatever neat stuff I could, pre eBay, no way I knew to get things fixed when they broke, and I learned to have backups. Eventually that became a collection. When I die, it should take care of my final expenses.
I keep telling Mom I'm building a couple bikes for nieces or nephews and all I hear is they've got a bike. Of course, this is after I equipped all of them with stereo systems from what I had, records and blank tapes as well. Well, I set my sister's kids up with a $10 PC and hard drives I set up with Linux as well and Uncle Saving Tempest has skills to them but Mom still didn't get it.
I told her sort of bluntly that with my health and the way my 45-55 year old friends have been dying lately I expect that she will be burying me and not my siblings. Dad died of lung cancer in 2011 and I lost any illusions of immortality years before that. Now I'd like my family to get over the I only need one and take a gift. I don't care how much I spent on it, I learned something and there it is, just take it. It isn't fattening.
