WOAH! Take it easy Ron before you blow a gasket. Nobody uses that NC term any more unless referring to the normally closed contacts of a switch or relay. To set the record straight, Sue only used the term to bust chops and dropped it as soon as the FCC rules were updated and the stick in the muds were defeated. For the sake of the younger out there in Radioland, back in the Stone Age Amateur Radio was secondary to CW only commercial stations. Proficiency in Morse at speeds ranging from 5 to 20WPM was mandatory so should a commercial station tell a ham to QSY off its frequency it was understood and complied with. When the last such station went dark learning Morse was no longer necessary, but the FCC dragged their feet for decades. Had I not had a mental difficulty with memory I would have held my General ticket in 1965 when I had HF antennas and the noise floor was so low I could hear a fly fart in Moscow. I had to settle with staying an SWL and scanner buff until 1995 when the requirement was finally dropped. By then I had moved and had no room for HF antennas, the noise became fierce, and I had no incentive to upgrade from Tech.
To bring out a skeleton from the closet, (;->) I thank Sue and a refugee from CB, then Ohio Express to N2EIY and later vanity call W2RXR Jim for dragging me into the service I had given up on years before. I will leave my pet name and Sue's phonetics in the closet, but Jim wouldn't mind me revealing him being a truck driver took his handle from the trucking company, and being a fellow rail fan his suffix can be seen at every railway level crossing.
Sue, you know you're very special to me, but if you don't like being my special half baked ham this is the last time I shall mention it. The Specials, also known as The Special AKA, is an English 2 Tone and Ska revival band formed in 1977 in Coventry, but I digress.
"I never did like that word dongle, it's sounds a bit kinky if you ask me."
OK, maybe you never liked The Kinks or Hints And Kinks either, but if it pleases you the official name is Wavlink AC1900 960A5D USB 3 Wireless Adapter. ('->)
"As far as your Japanese cat, it looks like it could use some sushi."
I'm having trouble finding ceramic cat food for it, now you want me to look for ceramic sushi??? Tell you what, if you can find ceramic sushi I'll see if I can get Maneki Neko to eat it. You're living in my old home town, a nice new building too. It has changed so much I can't begin to tell you where to look for ceramic sushi because the ceramics shop where I used to work is now some sort of eatery. What used to be my favorite diner before cookie cutter diners with cookie cutter meals came about is still on St. Georges Ave. near the railroad, but pick a diner, any diner, they're all the same now. Then if the ceramics shop was still there I'm not sure kitty would like lapping up slip before it hardens anyway...........
On edit: A little homework told me the word Google censorship blurred out is "pizza". Have you ever wondered why every pizza joint is the same and the only good pizza baked in a coal fired oven is in Little Italy just north of China Town in New York? I call it Mafia Pizza, I've seen the takeovers many times beginning with Anacapri in Linden when Anacapri Foods warehouse was created. Now all in the area buy from them or get a little persuasion from the local Don.
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