Re: Road Trip!
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Fri Jan 02 2026 06:21 pm

My wife and I recently visited Europe (Paris, Edinburgh, and London). We
did book some activities ahead of time (sometimes that's even necessary for
some activities), but we also wanted to have some free-form time.

We went to Italy a few years ago, and had a travel agent (they're still around!) plan the logistics. She even included down time and free time in the schedule!

As I'm fond of saying, Spontaneity has its time and its place...

Yeah, I figured travel agents were probably still around. We used a company I found, Trip Masters, which helps plan vacations - It has an automated system on their web site where you can tell it what cities you want to visit, and it helps book plane tickets & other connections, airport transportation, hotels, and activities in each place. You can also talk to someone there if you need help with anything.

Nightfox

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Hello Mortar,

02 Jan 26 13:01, you wrote to Accession:

Re: Re: Favorite fast food items
By: Accession to phigan on Fri Jan 02 2026 08:01:52

bunch of little gift shops, and we also ate at the "Haunted
Hamburger"...

Did you try their ghoulash or imbibbing their spirits? Of course you
gotta have a piece of booberry pie for desert. :)

someone said goulasch and spirits? is this kind of a hungarian restaurant?
;)

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Re: Road Trip!
By: Mortar to All on Fri Jan 02 2026 01:05 pm

Lots of stuff packed into a one week vacation. We only had a couple
of actual days to enjoy our VRBO that had an outdoor kitchen and
pool.

Maybe too much stuff. Personally, I prefer a more free-form
vacation. I pick a place I want to go, get there and then just see
what happens. More relaxing that way.

when i was with my common law wife pookie, we would go to virginia every year for 2 weeks. her dad had a house on the lake.

They would wear us the fuck out because they were doing something every
hour of the day. we had no time to just rest and watch tv.

These were old boomers and they never stopped.

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Re: Road Trip!
By: MRO to Mortar on Sat Jan 03 2026 07:11 pm

when i was with my common law wife pookie, we would go to virginia every year for 2 weeks. her dad had a house on the lake.

Do you remember which lake in VA? I'm in VA.

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Could be a regional thing. When I went out to L.A., an Arby's
there offered a pulled pork sandwitch which mine back home
didn't; hadn't even heard of it.

I saw a sign at a barbecue restaurant:

"I like my butt rubbed, and my pork pulled". <G>

Another long time Little Rock barbecue place has the slogan
"You Can't Beat Our Meat". <G>

Daryl

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Re: Road Trip!
By: Bf2k+ to MRO on Sat Jan 03 2026 10:01 pm

Re: Road Trip!
By: MRO to Mortar on Sat Jan 03 2026 07:11 pm

when i was with my common law wife pookie, we would go to virginia
every year for 2 weeks. her dad had a house on the lake.

Do you remember which lake in VA? I'm in VA.

laka anna
https://www.dcr.virginia.gov/state-parks/lake-anna

it heated by the water usage of the nearby power plant.
it's a big place for boating and partying.

it's a man made lake. the fish will actually come up to you and beg for
food. they love the warm water.

everyone who owned land around that area had their land value jump very high. spotsylvania is also rumored to be the burial ground of kuna kinte.
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Re: Favorite fast food items
By: Daryl Stout to Mortar on Sat Jan 03 2026 02:19 am

I saw a sign at a barbecue restaurant:

"I like my butt rubbed, and my pork pulled". <G>

I'm stealing that for a tagline :)

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Re: Favorite fast food items
By: Daryl Stout to Mortar on Sat Jan 03 2026 02:19:54

"I like my butt rubbed, and my pork pulled". <G>

That's a rib tickler.

Another long time Little Rock barbecue place has the slogan
"You Can't Beat Our Meat". <G>

Not food-related, but there's a pet salon called Doggy Style, with the sub-heading, "We do cats, too."

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Re: Road Trip!
By: MRO to Bf2k+ on Sun Jan 04 2026 12:52 am

Do you remember which lake in VA? I'm in VA.

laka anna
https://www.dcr.virginia.gov/state-parks/lake-anna

Yep I know it well. I remember when they filled it. It is about 45 miles from my house.

Not only have a fished it quite a few times, but I remember fishing in one or two of the ponds that were displaced when they filled it.

It's a beautiful lake with a large striper population in it.

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Re: Road Trip!
By: Bf2k+ to MRO on Mon Jan 05 2026 11:26 am

Not only have a fished it quite a few times, but I remember fishing
in one or two of the ponds that were displaced when they filled
it.

It's a beautiful lake with a large striper population in it.

it can be dangerous due to the reckless boat drivers. i think
there's drowing deaths or boat related deaths every year.
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Re: Road Trip!
By: MRO to Bf2k+ on Mon Jan 05 2026 05:02 pm

it can be dangerous due to the reckless boat drivers. i think
there's drowing deaths or boat related deaths every year.

Yep... the last time we put our boat in there on a weekend, we were nearly run over by a larger boat. We never went back on a weekend. It's safer during the week.

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I saw a sign at a barbecue restaurant:

"I like my butt rubbed, and my pork pulled". <G>

I'm stealing that for a tagline :)

You're not stealing, you're gathering research. <G>

Daryl

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"I like my butt rubbed, and my pork pulled". <G>

That's a rib tickler.

There's a small hole-in-the-wall BBQ restaurant in southwest
Little Rock, that has been in business since 1961. Their slogan
is "you can't beat our meat". :) Indeed, I love their jumbo BBQ
pork sandwich.

Not food-related, but there's a pet salon called Doggy Style,
with the sub-heading, "We do cats, too."

I could make a snide remark on that, but discretion is the better
part of valor. :)

Daryl

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Re: Re: Motto a Motto
By: Daryl Stout to Mortar on Tue Jan 06 2026 17:26:21

with the sub-heading, "We do cats, too."

I could make a snide remark on that, but discretion is the better part of valor. :)

Sometimes ya just gotta hit paws.

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with the sub-heading, "We do cats, too."

I could make a snide remark on that, but discretion is the better part of valor. :)

Sometimes ya just gotta hit paws.

On one of the ham radio traffic nets I do, two of the hams have Corgis...
and both give the nets "a four paws up rating". <G>

At least my nets haven't gone to the dogs.

Daryl

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Re: Re: Motto a Motto
By: Daryl Stout to Mortar on Tue Jan 27 2026 22:11:57

At least my nets haven't gone to the dogs.

Because on the airwaves, EVERYBODY knows you're a dog. :)

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At least my nets haven't gone to the dogs.

Because on the airwaves, EVERYBODY knows you're a dog. :)

Especially when Net Control has to BARK at those who won't follow net protocol.

I know of one ham who will key up and call CQ, without asking if the frequency is already in use.

Patience a virtue, and a lot of ham radio operators don't have that... especially considering they are trying to make their quota of ham radio
net checkins for that day.

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Re: Re: Motto a Motto
By: Daryl Stout to Mortar on Tue Feb 03 2026 05:47 pm

At least my nets haven't gone to the dogs.

Because on the airwaves, EVERYBODY knows you're a dog. :)

Especially when Net Control has to BARK at those who won't follow
net protocol.

I know of one ham who will key up and call CQ, without asking if the frequency is already in use.

Patience a virtue, and a lot of ham radio operators don't have
that... especially considering they are trying to make their quota
of ham radio net checkins for that day.

Well basically anybody can get a license because they removed requirements and made the test easy.

i know several bbs people that barely function that got their ham license.


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Daryl Stout wrote to Mortar <=-

Patience a virtue, and a lot of ham radio operators don't have
that... especially considering they are trying to make their quota of
ham radio net checkins for that day.

I always knew Big HAM was working behind the scenes to push for more checkins.


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I always knew Big HAM was working behind the scenes to push
for more checkins.

One can't be fashionably late for a ham radio net. I'll give folks
plenty of time to checkin, but there is a similar setup that I myself
and other net control station uses when checkins dry up.

1) Auctioneer Mode -- going once, going twice, sold, close the checkins
and the net.

2) Baseball Mode -- 3 strikes, and the net is closed.

Many nets meet at the same day and time, so you have to decide which
net(s) you want to check into.

Daryl, N5VLZ

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Daryl Stout wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

One can't be fashionably late for a ham radio net. I'll give folks plenty of time to checkin, but there is a similar setup that I myself
and other net control station uses when checkins dry up.

1) Auctioneer Mode -- going once, going twice, sold, close the checkins and the net.

I once missed my checkin because my equipment was broken. I had to order
a new battery pack for my handheld.


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Re: Re: Motto a Motto
By: Utopian Galt to Daryl Stout on Fri Feb 13 2026 12:46 pm

Daryl Stout wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

One can't be fashionably late for a ham radio net. I'll give folks plenty of time to checkin, but there is a similar setup that I
myself and other net control station uses when checkins dry up.

1) Auctioneer Mode -- going once, going twice, sold, close the
checkins and the net.

I once missed my checkin because my equipment was broken. I had to
order a new battery pack for my handheld.

Of course it's company policy never to, imply ownership in the event of a dildo... always use the indefinite article a dildo, never your dildo.


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I once missed my checkin because my equipment was broken. I had
to order a new battery pack for my handheld.

Those batteries, whether for handheld radios or cellphones, fail at
the worst time.

Daryl

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