Oh, I forgot what I was going to write about.I really did have an idea, then I saw that November post and it distracted me.
Now I'm totally distracted trying to find a picture I want to make into a poster.
It was on the backup of Laptop 1 which was in a folder on Desktop 2 and I had to get it through the network onto Laptop 2. I'm calling it Desktop 2 because it is the second desktop computer I ever owned, sadly becoming obselete in a world of gigaRAM and tablets. Laptop 1 still powers up, but it doesn't have the guts that got spewed into the backup. In fact, it was a backup that did it in. Sad story, and it has never quite been the same. Heavy son of a gun. Lasted some 7 years as top dog laptop before I forked over somewhat less money for something that makes it cry in a lonely corner.
Cross that one off the list. Image file ready for printing. Another dream about to be realized.
Now if I could just remember what I was going to spout off on here. Was I going to say I am now a Ham? (Do a little giddy geek dance here to capture the feeling.)
Was I going to say how proud I am of myself? (Smile uncontrollably here.)
How glad I am to see the sun? How surprised I am at the number of photos I have hidden away in boxes? How hard it is to come up with things to write about?
What I want to do is this: start a blog called How I Became a Ham. The thing about it is, it won't be about studying about repeaters and FCC regulations and ohms and amperes. It will be about me, any little old thing about me that led up to this day in my life. Because I'm sure it all was needed to make me become a Ham. It's incredibly selfish and interesting, because I've led an interesting life. Not a sordid one. Not too sordid. Not most of it.
And it would feed into my need to be known. To be shared. Like a network folder between my computers. Only you would be the laptop grabbing information from me, the desktop. And I would be creating files for you to grab. You wouldn't know what was next. Or rather, what had already happened. Before. Before I became. A Ham.
Awesome. I'm sure nobody will see it, just like this one.
