{"id":51570,"date":"2015-03-14T22:19:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T04:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/?p=51570"},"modified":"2015-03-14T22:19:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T04:19:00","slug":"it-was-a-geeks-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/2015\/03\/14\/it-was-a-geeks-day\/","title":{"rendered":"It was a Geeks day\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the <a href=\"http:\/\/greencountryhamfest.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Green country Hamfest<\/a>\u2026 I made it last <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>year<\/strong> and it was interesting and fun so I figured to make it again this year.&#160; I had asked Sherrie if she wanted to go as there would be more than \u2026 Ham <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>radio<\/strong> stuff going on but when the alarm went off at 6 she punched me and went right back to sleep\u2026 that was the sign she was not going\u2026 <\/p>\n<p>I got up, let the dogs out, fed the dogs, put them back and told my dear sleeping wife, I was leaving\u2026 (note: when I got <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>home<\/strong> she said she never heard me leave?).&#160; I grabbed a quick biscuit for breakfast and hit the road\u2026 it is not all that far to Claremore\u2026 about 90 miles I guess\u2026 and it is all 4 line once you get out of town (if you take the toll road).&#160; I got there about 8:30 and checked in and put my \u201cnon-winning\u201d ticket in the hopper\u2026 of all the years I have gone to things like this that have drawings\u2026 I have never won anything\u2026 I am so lucky!<\/p>\n<p>I had just enough <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>time<\/strong> to make a quick walk down two rows then I would head into the meeting room as my main interest was in the 3 morning forums on Geekology stuff\u2026 (Weather Watch training, Digital radio, ARRL updates).&#160;&#160; the walk down the rows indicated that the picking of quality items was already done and the antiques were still out\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/SAM_2165.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"SAM_2165\" style=\"border-top: 0px; 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