Stuff

I've spent time doing minor things that 

have great importance in a manner.

Up late one night prowling the shortwave bands.

Taping music off you tube with my new Walkman Professional.

Selling unnecessary stuff on ebay. Ordering necessary stuff off Amazon

Getting my resonator guitar out and playing on it for a bit. 

Building a third worm farm.
It feels so very good to catch up on the small stuff.

The missing details.

Today i will be working on and organizing the nerd cave.

I sold one of the watches i built. My first capitalistic event in
watchmaking.
It felt great to sell something i built, but worrisome as well.
I must have checked the watch's mechanics 15 times before handing it
over to the buyer. When you hand craft something and then sell
it, your name is on it, with all the subsequent pluses and minuses to
that concept.

In route to me with it's arrival supposedly scheduled for today is a 

Slava, Kashalot CCCP mechanical, self winding, wristwatch.

Slava began building watches in the Soviet Union in 1924.

This is a large size, thick, basic watch, with a design known for the

zero marker at the 12 o'clock position.

My order is the dress version. The casual version of this design

has extremely large, black numerals and a huge zero at the 12 position. 

I actually prefer the dress watch visuals.

I found this particular watch by accident on the web for 1/4 of

the standard retail pricing.

The first action will be to replace the band with one i have in stock.

Russian watches have horrible bands and this one comes with

a beyond tacky, blue, almost like leather but less, band.

You gotta love soviet watches tho---strong like bull.

This week i had one excellent listening night on the shortwave radio band.

I picked up the SW BBC world service, which due to budget cuts has

curtailed much of it's transmitting--so finding it was excellent.

Radio Havana Cuba is always a favorite of mine and was very

clear on this evening.

I also pinpointed several other stations such as a world time

auto station, and an unknown french speaking station which i believe was 

possibly from Africa. 

I do enjoy listening, and scanning for broadcasts late into the night.

This is also something that can continue for me no matter my age.

"Judge a man by his questions,

rather than his answers."

Voltaire