HazzardAyre

Wednesday, July 23, 2014

How much do you need? and is CraigsList good any more?

Why is it that people who sell stuff , like advertising, don’t know what they are selling?

Like yesterday afternoon, put off an appointment with the Bishop, to meet with one of Comcast’s Spotlight advertising reps. Not only did this guy give me the run around, he really did not know what was on what channels. These guys are looking for the big apple, problem is many don’t try to harvest the small seed that WILL be the BIG apple later.

So I retired, got bit by a spider next to me crush nuts, and so woke up at 04:00 headed to work here in about two hours. But one has to wonder. And how much cable does one need anymore. Nearly anything worth watching and much that is better to watch can be had via streaming, like Hulu, Netflix and others. Even the Broadcast networks can be seen via internet, so I say just go Internet, with a cable company, go phone with the cell company and only get enough cable to watch FX for SOA for three months and then disconnect it. Of course after this year with this being the final year of SOA, who needs cable TV?

It doesn’t matter that Comcast is kissing tail to merge with TWC, the fact is if 50,000 people who are members just of our MC/TC club, unplug from both as well as Cable One, that’s who Comcast should be going after. But if everyone of our membership pulls the plug, cuts the cord and says no more, added to that , uncles, aunts, brothers, sisters, grandkids, and all of The Knytes, 50,000 which would really amount to 500,000 current Comcast customers, just said no more and pulled the plug, can you say it’d be like this spider bite inside my thigh. It’ll hurt and be annoying. Sure wont kill nobody, sure wont bankrupt Comcast, but they’d hurt.

The Internet pages are still buzzing about the guy back east that got stung. Bad mouthed and all, plus if you read the comments under each of these stories you find, that all too many people would like to bury Comcast, if I were Comcast, I’d disregard the past due bill, honor what truly is due, and not unplug Cooter’s A1 or HazzardAyre. I’d be making sure I was happy.

Hopefully, our sweet Laura will further this to who it concerns, and tell them, yea they got into a bind at first , stuff got behind , but they’ll catch up. More over as far as HazzardAyre its not that nothing has been paid on it, every dang month since it went green, the minimum or current bill has been paid. Cooter’s A1 never worked right, until I got a tech from another company to show me what was wrong, once I found out, it worked , although one light still shows YELLOW, not GREEN, on the modem that controls it. But on 4 occasions, seems as though I call once a week to Comcast’s billing or tech support, I was told there’d be a credit, even one for a full months of service and credits of $75.00 each month. All together I only owe $160.00, something I can handle. But when I tried to explain that, to some guy who obviously was anal retentive he got up in my face on the phone, I finally just hung up.

Okay then.

In the effort of saving the joint in Ogden where I currently take off my hat, I put up ads for both room mate as well as engineer for HazzardAyre, which is what we need.

For every, one that smells legit, I get 10 from CraigsList, that flat ain’t. So I ask is CraigsList worth it anymore? Or do we just say , CraigsList the want ads of fraud?

Any mile headed to work.

ttyly

Quote of the Day:
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
--Mother Teresa

Matthew 19:14“Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.””

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Tuesday, July 22, 2014

When stuff hits the fan

At a time when Comcast is trying to save face after a serious PR debacle and retain customers, getting a service rep, who screams at you, must have been the same one the other guy had, any mile, I get this message from grand old Comcast that service was suspended. Okay why? So I call. This dude named Dee something says, your account is past due. Now I was assured by a late night tech, from India that I would get at least one month free. At least for June. In May I called because the modem didn’t work, again supposed to get credit for a month. So $75.00 plus $75.00 Equals $150.00 , that taken off the bill of $310.00, is $160.00 or at least it was last time I went to school. That was 30 plus years ago.

But no, to get things fired back up at least for Cooter’s A1 it’s going to cost me the full $310.00 , really? What about the credits that all so many were to offer me, but SOMEBODY forgot to write down?

So then shot off a letter to our sweet Laura, and even though its not her department, she got in the mud and got me some help.

The thing is while the service problem I can work around, for Cooter’s with a $30.00 a month Cell phone. HazzardAyre gets paid as it is, but I’m not limited there either. I4 Solutions has a plan for my Internet/Phone if I want it with the speeds, I’m currently getting from Comcast. The only reasons I won’t switch is, one I need cable TV for SOA, and two the most importantly Laura. If those situations were not on the front of the stove, I’d dump Comcast in a Hazzard County second.

Right now Comcast is trying to please a bunch of people. Comcast is in hearings with the FCC with a merger with TWC. Plus the yelling and cussing with another customer back east that went viral, you’d think keeping a radio station talk show person happy might be in their best interest. But no, this Dee guy was yelling and cussing at me, making me mad. He wouldn’t even try to defuse the situation by transferring me to a supervisor.

Days like today are why they give me Lithium, and I drink beer.

Question is why can’t they all be like Laura?

Hope Laura passes this up the line, just for the abuse I got this morning, should be enough to get Cooter’s A1 line back up.

TTYLY

Quote of the Day:
At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Matthew 16:15-16““But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?” Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.””

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ASS KICKER kicks harder

Is it morning yet? I thought as I lay awake thinking of all the tasks that lay ahead.

The relocation on the horizon next week or so, the new office/studio, then TV ads and the like it’s a big job. All the while keeping 6 toew trucks running fetching needed green and that’s the short form.

The real deal here is this, in just 5 months HazzardAyre itself went from a virtually unknown entity, to a online radio property. Likewise with the launch of Highway Hooker Radio, www.livestream.com/highwayhookerradio we are about to do some kicking major butt.

The history of Highway Hooker is nothing new to those that have kept track for the years stretching as far back as 1977. What started as a over the air syndicated radio show for over the road truckers, was reworked in 1985 as the only radio show for those who tow. For all the titles of radio shows that have came and gone throughout the time frame, the little Highway Hooker has remained a staple, just as HazzardAyre’s parent, Dixie-Diesel Radio.

From the early days in Boise, to Pocatello, to American Falls, to Blackfoot, all the way to Rupert, the one show that has kept it together , the glue if you will, is Highway Hooker Radio.

While the title has put some off a bit, it has its origins to the name of my company at its birth, as well as cB radio chatter, it says what it is, a radio show, for us who tow.

Over those years I have seen the rise and fall of so many trends. From the near abandonment of the trusty sling, to wheel-lifts to carriers. I have also seen the fight to get rid of the word Wrecker, replaced by tow truck. But I’d like to take this a bit further. What if we began to get rid of the name or phrase tow. Or even Toew? How about replacing that with the term, Disabled Vehicle Rescue. The equipment we use can go by the slang term Disabled Vehicle Rescue Unit, and us who do the tasks involved with the politically correct term, Disabled Vehicle Rescue Technician. Or DVRT for a shorter version.

I have seen companies collapse in favor of bigger ones merging into larger ones, I have seen pioneers in this industry die, and/or relax, few fully retire. Through it all Highway Hooker Radio has been there to document it. When the original Phootenotes came, Highway Hooker Radio was right there to support that publication. Too bad it came and went so fast. While T R Footnotes does a great job, if you move and forget to renew your subscription they never remember you.

Likewise, if you have a fit with one of their writers, they never publish anything YOUR group is doing. Highway Hooker both in print as well As Highway Hooker Radio, has never been that nit picky. Even Bambi has enemies , not everyone in towing is going to like a competitor, but the RodeKnytes Association and its custom/sport rig subsidiary, the Toew Bro’s Association has retained its membership of 2,000 since its inception and conception back in 1976. The reason the organization was founded, was simply all the major players, from TRAA(Towing Recovery Association-of-America) to various state towing councils, and organizations, never recognized the contribution, of the younger and green horn owner/operators coming up the ranks. Who was there to train us? Nobody so we organized so we could do various training operations to hone our skills.

The RodeKnytes was the very first organization of towing that created a certification course, and got many in state government, starting with Idaho’s as well as Utah’s. Long before there was a Donnie Cruise, or WreckMasters. Only one publication gave us ink back then, Tow Times did up an article, but none since. Likewise the only organization to have a working radio station for and of towing, is the RodeKnytes and yes Highway Hooker Radio. When the issue of tow chasing, became a real problem in Idaho, few wanted to tackle the condition. Likewise having to nest thousands of abandoned and no pay vehicles. Who co-wrote the Idaho Lien Law? Yes the RodeKnytes. And Highway Hooker Radio was there to tell the story.

So the next time, someone asks you about Highway Hooker Radio, you tell them , that Highway Hooker is the one that is the ASS KICKER in toewing, and Highway Hooker kicks harder.

TTYLY

Quote of the Day:
Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.
--Wilson Mizner

A better way, keep it domestic

There’s an old saying in Hazzard that goes, keep your assets close by and buy domestic.

Example, had this fast fart idea to try something besides good old Livestream. So found this site by some outfit called Primcast. A firm half way around the world. So went there , tried to download the Winamp/Shoutcast software. When it didn’t work for diddly, I pulled the Winamp/Shoutcast out of my computer, trouble is can’t download it again for nothing. No big deal. Any download is bound to have snakes in the cotton. So I’m staying with my FREE Livestream. It works most of the time and I’ve been treated the best there, so Kashif and all at Primcast, it was nice, but on my end, NO SALE.

In the USA economy, all too often many go to products and services that are marketed worldwide, by firms outside the standards and reach of USA commerce. In all my days, I have yet to own very much that’s built outside of America, by Americans. Except for electronics that we all know come from Japan, or China, my trucks are Chevy’s, My two way radios are Motorola’s, and my radio gear for the Toew Bro’s that back Highway Hooker Radio, as well as the Knytes who support, HazzardAyre Radio, is all AMERICAN.

More L8R fellow toewers,

Quote of the Day:
In this world, it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
--Henry Ward Beecher

After a day of snagging and dragging my butt is sagging.

The no seeum bugs, those tiny little knats that fly up into your nose, in your eyes and down your shirt. No relief and what will snuff em out one can’t buy, something to do with spraying disinfectant, all over the place.

So after a day of out snagging and dragging, my butt is sagging. Even with the thought of going to the storehouse in the AM. Now that I have some go fluid to do so.

So shortened Highway Hooker Radio>and about to hit the shower, and bed.

Will fill all in menyanna.

TTYLY

Quote of the Day:
Even as water carves monuments of stone, so do our thoughts shape our character.
--Hugh B. Brown

Monday, July 21, 2014

If you want or need something bad enough you’ll find a way to get it.

I just got a new reply from some gal in the Salt Lake area that I met over the freelance page for eye candy talent.

The crux of this is, I pitched the idea of her being a talent on camera for a few TV ads for both HazzardAyre as well as Cooter’s A1. Guess what an excuse. Something of, can’t get to Ogden because of lack of car. Reality there’s the bus. Front runner to Ogden, 604 to Sullivan Road walk back half a block, a real problem? not. When I first tasted radio and wanted in , I did what was needed, even riding a bicycle for 30 miles one way, to be at a studio. The list goes on, but there’s a difference between those that many cheer after on these reality shows like America’s Got Talent, and those that work being on that show and succeeding. Big named artists from music to dancing to acting, if the need to be seen , heard, and all is there you find a way to make a meet and greet.

There’s this cross dresser chick, I met on this extension on Facebook. While I’m not saying that’s good or bad, outside of kissing toes in hose, I’d be tempted to putting her or it on an ad just to get the thing done.

Whether its Tina, Briony, or whomever its not a touch and feel get together for a happy party thing here. Its fully professional, fully real, with much denaro up for grabs, and I for one am grabbing. I need the cash that is there from the grant being put up, for producing a bio docudrama for the club, the radio werx and developing of a TV channel, to name a few.

If you ask isn’t there enough channels? I say yes and no. There is a scrap fight on the floors of congress, with the FCC, on two major mergers. One is TWC and Comcast, the other is one with A.T.T. Uverse DirecTV. If these mergers happen and I’d like to see one gobble up Cable-One, still if these mergers come, to fruition, a good channel that has spice and eye appeal, will get major funds, to bring to a boil a true super station/network. This requires putting out the best bait to attract both these outfits, to get them to say we want you on our system. Do we want it? Bet your next oil change we do. In fact that’s one of the reasons for the major scramble.

Every TV operation is scrambling, and while we’re primary radio, we are busting tail, to bring the two forms together, a radio/TV channel.

Patrick Gotsche , myself and others are fighting the merge on one hand, Confederate Star Media is looking more though on how to be there after to join these forces, and be the rural, southern comfort zone radio/tv channel.

Hitting the rack, see all at 12:00 Hours.

TTYLY

Quote of the Day:
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
--Albert Einstein

Increase in latency and, the last months blues

Another day starts, and the state decides to fart, and that causes latency problems.

I am going to get a computer tech geek in here this week to configure all the gear , prior to relocating to Woods Cross next week. It might be infact my mouse and keyboard, after all factory gear is often not made with the idea of long life. But if I find the computer here okay, then I’m going to look at Comcast and ask why the slight delay between the time I check a box, and the time the source checks the box. Okay then.

So was sitting on the back of the Wolf-Pup, and chatting on my cell phone, yes got a plan through HazzComm, for $30.00 a month unlimited text and talk. can you imagine what’s going to happen when HazzComm starts running cable and internet. $40.00 a month, 200 for sure mbps, 100 Up, cable and TV on a completely optic fiber line. Any mile was chatting with Karl in O-Town,(Omaha Nebraska) on the big road, and I related that even today I have to get with my next door neighbor Dave, hope I can beg like a dog gone hungry, for $20.00 to get gas, snuff, and scrips. I hate begging anyone for any thing, and the thing is I could dump the radio werx, but if I do the club will not pick up on it again. And I’d hate to think that all the sacrifice and all was for nothing including moving here. So how do you fix? Either reduce costs, or stretch your fixed costs as tight as you can. Between the office and studio apartment, I’ll be paying $600.00 a month, with a realized for a time personal income of $165.00 Give or take. The radio werx and club making more on it, but, as for ye ole me, means at least I’ll have real cash in my pants each month. So Dave my good friend hope you read this in time, bring home an extra $20.00. Granted $165.00 ain’t much but most months unless I rob Peter , to pay Paul , fudge, on rent etc, if I see $30 to $50.00 each month.

Consumers today are looking for quality and experience from people providing products and services. The money tree is dry and with a full blown World War on the front bug shield, things are going to get even more expensive. Things are going to change and if we are to be helpful in pushing those forces back, we better stretch each dollar until Washington’ ears bleed.

So Dave my good neighbor, remember I need to bum, $20.00, as for the rest a cure is needed.

I’ll spell that out later.

TTYLY