Subj : Re: Sigs
To   : DARYL STOUT
From : NANCY BACKUS
Date : Sun Aug 11 2019 20:19:00

-=> Quoting Daryl Stout to Nancy Backus on 08-08-19  13:11 <=-

 NB>> And then there's WX for weather.... ;)

 DS> Correct...and it was in 3 of my 4 ham radio callsigns. I was
 DS> originally N5VLZ in 1991...then changed to AE5WX in 2009, then to
 DS> WX1DER in 2012, then to WX4QZ on my 59th birthday this year.

Yes I knew about those...  :)  

 DS> The license comes up for renewal when I turn 69, and we'll save any
 DS> snide remarks for netmail. <G>

What snide remarks...?  You are but a youngster...  <G>  Will you keep
the new call sign at that point...?

 DS> However, while weather got me into ham radio, it nearly burned me
 DS> out of the hobby over the last year. You wouldn't believe how IGNORANT
 DS> some folks are. They have no concept of compass points (i.e. where the
 DS> storm is, relative to their location, and its direction of movement),
 DS> or they want EXACT SPECIFICS on what will occur, weather wise, BEFORE
 DS> it even develops!! I told this one woman (must've been a blonde :P )
 DS> that "you might as well as the moment of your death", and she replied
 DS> "Now, you're getting nasty about it". The bottom line is WE CAN'T KNOW
 DS> CERTAIN THINGS.

There is, after all, a reason it's called a forecast, not a promise or a
schedule.... it's an educated guess as to how things will fall into
place.... 

 DS> Then, you get these idiots who don't know what "reportable criteria"
 DS> is, concerning severe weather (tornado, funnel cloud, wall cloud, hail
 DS> greater than 1 inch in diameter, winds 58 mph or more, flash
 DS> flooding). They won't check into a "Skywarn Training Net" or attend the
 DS> free training class...but they come out of the woodwork when "the real
 DS> thing" occurs.

Yeah, I know.... there's idiots everywhere....

 NB>> Hopefully you learned some since then... ;)  Somewhere around then, I
 NB>> started working at being able to write with either hand... ;)

 DS> Left handed people are the only people in their right minds. <G>

While I'm somewhat right-handed, I can do many things left-handed,
including using left-handed scissors to cut with... so, truly
ambidextrous...  ;)  My dad was a lefty, a couple of sisters are
lefties, and a brother is a lefty who considers himself ambisinstrous as
he can do many things almost as well with his right hand... :)

 DS> I was also constantly being chided for "holding the pencil wrong".
 DS> Shoot, if it writes, who cares how I hold it??!!

The sticklers...  But I agree, it shouldn't really matter as long as you
are able to write with it... ;)

ttyl        neb

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