HazzardAyre

Thursday, August 15, 2013

Bake without too much shake

Officially its 100 degrees outside, fortunately or not so much, my byrd is still in the hangar getting some avionics gear repaired, so I’m in an AC hangar.

Okay that said means Friday back in the thick of smoke on firelines. Doing aerial drops suppression for the two wild fires around Featherville. Other byrds of AyreWolf Aviation are up near Park City Utah and in Logan canyon. Somebody ignored the only You notices. Of the three big burning fires of course Park City is getting the publicity since Robert Redford lives near there and quite a few celeb winter ski vacation homes are there.

So I’m scratching on the computer.

Got in touch with our telecomm broker things are heading into our own T1, yes its going to be expensive, but what’s $450.00 a month or so against loosing up to last night $4,000.00 in lost ad revenue for the station since we could not go on air?

Some folks say, if your leaving in July 2014, or so why worry about it?

Simple both my Marine training and honor is at stake as well as the Knytes’. We started something and we’ll be damned if one partners wife and a few stuck up women are going to kill a 20 plus years enterprise. What you know as HazzardAyre, started as Dixie Diesel Trucker Radio in 1978, created in a studio in our farm stead home near Hazzard(Hagerman) Idaho in 1975. Dixie Diesel Trucker Radio has won more awards for specialty programming than even Rush Limbaugh. We established or re-established real trucker radio done by truckers delivered to truckers in 1992 bought ITRN(Interstate-Trucker Radio Network) in 1994 and have continued to grow nearly coast to coast ever since. Currently as HazzardAyre, is heard through syndication and regionally on organization owned stations throughout the Mountain West region.

Our home though where we started went dark in 1998 and as it is now a revival is under way. I left Evanston Wyoming to come here to do this, I don’t back down and if it takes doing some incoming syndicated programming to get us on air fine.

As far as the model pin up thing, if these gals think it’s a one time gig I have news for them. If they got on board, and did a good job, the club, both clubs would have them doing feature shoots all year long. Imagine $800.00 every other month for only 8 hours of work. Not too bad for a few extra bucks huh?

If that takes importation from Utah from an agency fine, do it, get it done, move on. Some things are not going to wait, including the club. Called two of the new applying talent, no answer, excuses and screening of the number to call them. Question is why inquire if you not going to go ahead on the gig? It’s not like buying a used ride. The club is too well established to be played with. We only hold that door open of opportunity once. Once its closed, its closed.

Going out to pitch the studio in the mall gig in the morning again. Why there?

Next time on HazzardAyre.

L8R Ya’ll

Quote of the Day:
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
--Henry David Thoreau, 19th-century American essayist and nature writer

Romans 14:8“If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.”

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Unfinished business first before withdrawl of forces.

There are some projects that need to be completed before our grand exit, from the greater Twin Falls/Tragic Valley area by the Knytes-of-Anarchy.

First , understand the Knytes was founded in Hagerman in 1982 with 15 grassroots, kountry southern culture minded gearheads at the then Polish Palace, now Snake River Grill. This means although today shallow the roots of the club are here. Thus it was decided that while we are in the process of selling off one of our three radio signals in the Buhl and West-Point Idaho area we are retaining two, the one in West Point and our original signal in Buhl. Those two radio .stations will be completed and put on the air within a few months shy of this time next year. Meaning all the sweat I and the limited radio committee has put in will not go for nothing. If ya’ll thought HazzardAyre Radio was leaving, think again.

Second the honorary memorial for the club at the door and on the wall of The Snake River Grill will be erected in October on the 31st birthday which just so happens to be the day, we had our first meeting there in 1982 and yes it is Halloween . Be watching here for more on that.

Last is the Hazzard Nationals-aka/DukesFest West. The largest even of its kind ever to be in the area since 1975. When our first big gearheads , cb-radio , truckers jamboree hit that year in Filer at the Twin Falls Fairgrounds. Next year just as then right at 250,000 people will crowd the grandstands and area to witness the classiest as well as the most home grown hot rods, bikes, trucks and experience southern culture ever.

With some top named entertainers on a full soundstage like you have never seen before. The event will roll out next fall just prior to or slightly after the Twin Falls County Fair, keep checking here for dates.

What the Hazzard Nationals will promise is Twin Falls itself will swell to just over 300,000 people that will be eating, sleeping, and experiencing the hopefully hospitality of Twin Falls unlike this town has had in years. Just hope Twin Falls is ready. And that locals who had their thumb up their nose, concerning doing business with and being of assistance to the Knytes, will not be so stuck up. Maybe a few of those coming might want to put up a extension of one of their companies here. The proceeds of the Hazzard Nationals will go to the Shriners Hospital for Children in Salt Lake City and Bo Duke’s Miracle Network Children’s Hospitals.

More news in the PM, headed up to the fire line, maybe tonight I’ll get some sleep, last night I was up until 06:00 with the city of Twin Falls’ street and public works department having the audacity to be doing work that started at just 01:30 hours. I still think the city ought to give each resident within a 5 block radius of that $30.00 or at least the value of 3 hours of missed work due to missed sleep, at the rate of $10.00 an hour.

Until this afternoon,

Quote of the Day:
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
--A. Whitney Brown

Can the damn world just shut up and let me sleep?

Greetings from Hazzard County on a what’s to be a roasting Thursday.

As I get ready to try to shuffle off the mortal coils of the world our city rumbles with the sounds of many city workers chewing up pieces of oil soaked rocks and gravel called asphalt , to fix a aged out nearly prehistoric water pipe. Not more than a block and a half from me, my head bounces off my pillow as a jackhammer breaks up the earth, construction equipment grinds it up , trucks haul it away, and my head pounds. This is certainly a Goody’s><

morning.

As a toew truck person I understand and in certain ways used to long nights. But that’s when I’m working,. The fact these fine city employees are nearly outside my door, means internet radio is really for me a no show, and since SpeedConnect can’t deliver me the bandwidth and speed I really need, I’m awake.

Another day missed at A1, thanks to the fine city of Twin Falls Public Works division. Like I said before, what the city ought to do , to be fair, is take $10.00 an hour the going wage here in Tweaker Flatts, get ahold of all the folks that live within a 5 block radius, and pay us for at least the 3 hours we’ll miss in the morning for work since we gotta catch some sleep sometime. Even if it is me going flying to douse a few fires up near Featherville.

Don’t know if it’d do any good but thinking of suing, not thinking of making big money and filing such a suit in small claims would cost me more than what I’ll get is obvious, but its to make a point. If our city engineers etc are going to do this, give those of us who live in this neighborhood some advanced notice , so we can make other sleeping arrangements.

More later this afternoon, I’m going to try to catch a few zz’s.

L8R Aviators

Quote of the Day:
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
--Oscar Fin gall O'Flaherty Wills Wilde

I had this idea

So I had this idea. Since I could not sleep due to the insidious city engineers decided that the least impact of people to fix an aging water line, was right up less than a block from me and decided to do that repair overnight, I was awake, although my eyes and mind were getting droopy.

So thought came into my brain, what if the city of Twin Falls, had to divvy up say $30.00 that's $10.00 the average wage here, and gave that $30.00 to each person living near that construction noise? In essence since I had to be kept awake, and too tyred to go to work, for a half a day, thus I get shorted 3 to 4 hours of pay. Okay, they pay me for keeping me awake? I'm even thinking of suing the city . Granted it'll cost me more to file the suit than I'll get , but I want to make a point. Just because its the frigging city does not give them a right to dig up the street with Jackhammers , backhoes and so on all damn night, guys yelling and all, with some shall we say worse than military language, which might offend a few of the women living in this block, but at least the city leaders might think twice about doing this at these hours. Granted yes I know they need to make repairs, yes I know they need to work when its cooler and impact on through traffic is less, but there's middle ground here, and some advanced notice would be good too. That way I can book a motel room so I can get sleep so I can go to work.

Think that'd work? Stay tuned we're going to try.

L8R Aviators

It ain’t that easy and how about one free test drive?

So came home from the fire line, byrd needs some repair so out until 09:00 in the AM so, came in and without thinking, Sat on my nut.

So since I was at my desk taking my evening meds, thought I’d look up the condition on a Google Search. After going through two pages of porn related answers, found what I thought was like the old FREE WEBMD, where ya’ll could ask a simple medical question and get an answer and it was FREE, kind of allowing you to ask one free question similar to taking a test drive FREE before you buy a truck or car. But not on that sight. Nope, after filling in a ton of crap, still could not get a real FREE answer to the question what really would happen if you crushed a nut(testi) ? Would it kill you, or just hurt like hell? I want to know. Can we get back to the give em a free taste first then they’ll come back for more. Don’t think this kind of commerce procedure works? Consider your corner dope dealer. He gives every new customer one free hit, one free taste. Then he’s got you hooked and your going back. Done deal. Why not apply the idea to normal every day commerce? Think about it.

So then tried to set up the blog and rework the coloring. Guess what? Its like it is forever. I tried to refix it, but it ain’t going to work. I’m leaning on the colors from the movie called Crash Course. On there were tow trucks in pink, yellow with a checkered flag scheme that separated the two colors. It looked hot. So thought the new page ought to look like that. Sorry, no can do. Just have to wait until we get our site up. Which wont be long , talked with our agency in SLC they will be sending up some two legged deers(dears) up from the pool, that we can finally get the thing shot. Still trying to find out if the new gals that applied for the AyreWolvez SheWolvez pin up girls and all were serious. See I don’t want to give their spots on the list to someone else even though some others are from an agency, but then I can’t nor can the club, can’t keep waiting. Oh the warbird aircraft doesn’t care, but shooting film in the near winter means these gals are going to have goose bumps where they don’t need bumps. Mr. Winter is coming. Sure its hot out right now, we have fires raging all around us, I was dropping water on two of those blazes all day until some of my hydraulics gave up so byrd 143 is in the Wolf’s Den(our Hangar ) getting repaired. Should be done by 08:00 and me in the air by 09:00. But any way, the gal from Heyburn, says she’s having trouble opening her email. Hmmm, that is not really difficult. Granted back in the days of AOL, when the Internet ran over ISDN but today, Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail, are pretty straight forward. Even if you do get email through your smart(I call em dumb )phone, a computer does wonders. Even that, THE PHONE STILL WORKS, USE IT, CALL ME, it’s not too tasking. But then maybe for the female youngsters it is.

I may not know how to upload stuff to YouTube, but I can at least open my email, and I damn well know how to use the phone. Sounds like a cop out to me. But I could be wrong. Bottom line hire models from an agency no matter how bad the city fathers bitch.

Well, going to go soak my testi’s so they’ll quit hurting, and maybe Blogger can make it easier to rework your Blogger blog’ settings.

See Ya’ll near night Thursday.

L8R Ya’ll

Quote of the Day:
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
--Goethe

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

A new kinda super hero, in a tow truck?

So I come in from watching the idiots out on the town driving as if they turn off brain when turning on the ignition, and I get this phone call. Now can’t say who, but the call goes that a producer and writer, wants to take one of the old trade names I ran under years ago, and turn it into not only a comic book series, but a major film and even pitch it to a few TV execs.

The core of the thing is a private detective by day, tow trucker by night, with powers. The powers come from getting zapped by some cosmic thing, from outer space. The name of the series? Ah not going to tell you, but the initials are SW and only those who know me really well will know what those initials stand for.

Was I excited? Hell yes. So much so I was compelled to sit down and let ya’ll know. Guess they’re coming up here next week for a pow wow. But this could be really groovy.

None of the candidates for the SheWolvez called. Guess they really were just kicking tires. In Marine terms they were just JAFO’s , (Just Another F—king Observer) with no real serious intent. Glad I didn’t book a camera crew and all ain’t you? So I crossed the one out of my contacts, defriended the other off of Facebook, and chalk it up to head up the ass Idaho ignorance. So we move on. Oh sorry its not all of Idaho, just Tweaker Flatts and immediate area that is the Tragic Valley. Hope these people can find suitable employment in the housekeeping and food service industries like McDonalds.

Just think girls if you were on board here, they might even cast you in the movie I was just talkin about, but oh well your loss.

Any mile need to catch zz’s need to be airborne at 11;00 hours so catch ya’ll in and on the air.

L8R Aviators,

Quote of the Day:
The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.
--Antiphanes, ancient Greek dramatist

Revelation 3:14,20“[To the Church in Laodicea] “To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God’s creation. Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.”

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Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Once again no could do the radio show overnight sorry

Once again download just over 1.02mps, upload, just over .08mps, meaning no radio show. Means also loss of to date $3,000.00 .

The new name for the company called SpeedConnect should be, at least from my point of vision, Sometimes connect at night. Oh the bugger is great as can be just right under 8.mps and upload of at least 3mps, during the day especially in the mid morning hours of 09:00 to 11:00 hours, but at night, the signal fades, and speed reduces. Thought maybe it’s the smoke and the fires raging between Twin falls and Idaho Falls where the final link gets connected.

What I can’t figure since nothing really changed here, is why in March when I signed up with SpeedConnect, the system was near bullet proof. Hell I had better than most connections in Twin Falls, but somewhere in the middle of July, something went sour, and well I can see a hiccup once in awhile, since many things effect wireless internet, but since the middle of July, 3 visits from their techs, swapped in and out 2 modems, and its still dragging, I think somebody needs to climb a tower and do some detective work.

Currently working with Megapath, on a T1 and another that is a firm peddling CenturyLink, who I despise, and A.T.&.T. that cost me even more money and headaches back in 2009 through their Cell service. But if nothing else, going to put tail between my legs and whimper into Cable-One come October 1st. by then our bill with them will be paid, and since I have cable in for TV might as well use it as Internet as well.

Now if your thinking that SpeedConnect is bad all over don’t. Their people are top drawer all the way. The signal is fine for simple domestic family internet that does not require streaming both in download as well as upload like our radio station does. More over most people are not constantly online, but in our world, the main studio is in Buhl. 15 miles away from Twin Falls. Since the FCC will not let me even if I could clear obstructions, will not let me put up a mini tower and aim to Buhl and do a studio transmitter link aka an STL, from here to Buhl. Our FCC license only allows for one STL and that’s from Buhl to the big Transmitter out on Bell Rapids, another 15 mile as straight as eye sight from Buhl.

The main studio is still going under the hammer and wrench the winter last year created multiple problems, from flooring to broken pipes. Its taking a bunch of money, and with us going for a newer license that cost $6,000.00 just to apply, there is very little money still left in the bucket, for $2,000.00 Internet connections. The best we can go is $500.00 and even that’s stretching it. Considering myself wont be here after April, and the main studio is on its own, meaning whatever goes in here, in Twin Falls now, will get moved to Buhl then. But finding a quality provider is a major chore. Keep you posted.

Any way, heading up to the fire lines in the morning, with our Wolf-Pack of AyreWolf Aviation, seems they need our byrds both rotor and winged to suppress some of these wyld fyres.

See ya’ll tomorrow night.

L8R Ya’ll