It was not a big day today… in fact it was a do nothing day today…When I got up it was cold out and cloudy and just not inviting to get out and do much so… I got up and made breakfast. poached eggs (now that they are good your you again) and bacon… it is always good for you right? We then spent a lot of the day reading and just plain doing nothing… I researched magnetic loop antennas… and other stuff of interest… read the paper and caught on on the local stuff. Once the skies cleared and it was about 2pm… I wanted to get some Ham club logo’s I had made to the club secretary so he could hand them out later or maybe this coming weekend when some of the members work the Pawnee Steam Show… If I am up to it I intend to be there but I have a little procedure to tackle Tuesday so not sure how I will feel… If all goes well… I will be ready to get out… ha! So at 2pm we headed out east to the big city of Yale, OK… I have been there many times but mostly passing through… I did stop in once this spring and got some pictures of some of the local buildings… That trip was on my way back from The Geeks day in Claremore.
The buildings are still the same… the population is probably the same… things don’t change a lot in Yale… Once I got the buttons dropped off we started back and figured why not check out the only restaurant there… well the only one I could see at the time… it happened to be a Mexican place called Chavez. We were way too late for the Sunday buffet and sorry we missed it , being seniors…
I mean for $4 bucks you can’t go wrong there?
Well we did order from the menu and the prices are really right… in my opinion as I am pretty cheap…
I got two fried burritos, one fajita beef and the other chicken covered in queso… and Sherrie…
Got the Flautas in chicken? I think… all this and all the chips and salsa we could handle cost us $15… but like I said if we had made the buffet????
Well, being very stuffed from that we struggled home and flopped down… not much movement this evening other than I got out and made a few contacts on 15 meters JT65 and then my Sunday contact with KD8IE on 40 meter PSK… we do that almost every Sunday… From his explanation I think he had a more exciting weekend than I did… but that is ok… I am just preparing for my big day tomorrow… for all those that have done this… I am having a colon check Tuesday and tomorrow is the prep day… Light breakfast, then start the “white tornado” solutions about noon… I will be parked most of the afternoon… will be really good to get it over with… Not sure how all the Mexican is going to be coming out??? ha!
Just to leave things on a more pleasnat note… I got an attachment for my camera… I have problems holding it still when it is in full zoom, even on the tri-pod it tends to make the pictures a bit blured when you press the button so I got a remote button for that… it works but not as good as I had hoped… although I can get it set on a spot and zoom way in… and grab a few photos…
Not great but hey it is not a great camera and the zoom is standard in the digital… 12.1 MP and max out at 100x zoom lens and it will do 200 but that is by digital magic and those always are real grainy…
I need some more testing… but someday I might just have to get a better camera with a better lens?
WD0AJG