Still the western frontier but not much more

As I look at much of what is, in Evanston Wyoming, much of what I see makes me think, “The only thing this town needs is some hitching posts and only horse and buggies should operate here. Forget about TV, just radio and maybe some radio theater, no Internet, just wind up telephones or to send messages faster, use smoke signals.  Forget about social programs like EBT cards, and help for those busting their hump to stay alive while they kick, bite and scratch up to a income level of not needing them, oh no don’t make any money just starve, or work in a blacksmiths shop. Forget modern truck service, forget about a full throttle towing service, and forget about a radio station dedicated to both those along with confederate history preservation.

I’m still pissed off at finding my EBT card bare as a turkey drum stick at Thanksgiving. First I get a letter saying my EBT case is pending, me going over to the Bank to get my bank records. Hell first off I don’t know what DFS wants , second did they at DFS think that maybe my fuel tank is darn near dry, so I can’t just breeze all over town. Or that maybe I don’t have a phone, sure I have the service for a phone in place , but not the phone set. All of that is still in Woods Cross Utah. Which is where I should have stayed at least I’d be eating.

For the first time in 15 years, I’m faced with no EBT card. Really? Low cost public housing? Forget about that, I made application there, so I might have been off with phone numbers, but hey can’t Evanston Public Housing do a Google search and find the damn phone numbers of both A1 and the Powers Motel ? Again technologically challenged.

Now I’m not saying a super smart person, but if I can Google to find information and phone numbers , can’t these people? Hell I can even write , and speak English.

All I know is this. Come Tuesday morning I’m awake, go to DFS ask them for what the hell they need, go to the damn bank, get some information from them, and so on. Sure I need to make an effort, but what the hell is the tax payers of Wyoming paying these so called experts and paper pushers for? Evanston, at least is one town in Wyoming that for every step or two you make forward, you get knocked back ten.

All I know is once and its only a week now, I get the radio gear out of that office, into storage, along with Wolf Pup, in storage, I’m going back up to Burley, find me a place to hang my head, then find a shack for the radio works and rounding it out regroove Highway Hooker Toewing. Pretty much in that order.

The sad irony here is this, if someone without any college except trade school, can do the super snoop stuff to qualify for these so called help up, social programs, can’t people making $50.00 an hour with so called degrees do it? But then look at where I’m at; Evanston Wyoming Still the western frontier but not much if any hope of much more.

Gotta say had a better evening than I thought I might. Had dinner with Niki and her hubby, here watched some DVD’s SO NOT too bad a night.

In conclusion, for most of Evanston Wyoming they know one thing> <

Until Next Time

TTYLY

 

Say good bye to the Food Stamps

So went to church all is well, figuring I could help with dinner so went to Smiths to get a few things, and come to find, only $3.33 IN THERE, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot happened to the other $185.67 that went in on the 11th? I knew I should not have transferred my Utah EBT card to Wyoming. This move is costing me more every damn day. Like I said last night, Two more months of this and Wyoming can kiss my tush. Hell I have never had  so much farting around and simple clerical screw ups in my life. Hell when I did my temp move to Utah, for the last month, I could still use my Idaho EBT card for an entire month. IN UTAH. The lady at the DFS office here, said no problem, I should be able to use my Utah card here in Wyoming until the Wyoming card was issued, but talk about embarrassing? Needless to say Tuesday morning I’m at the local DFS office with my foot up someone’s butt. I’ll sure be glad to get the radio works up and running so I can tell these social agencies where to stuff it.

Its once again Yankee stupid and its infecting everything. Robert E, should have wasted Grant and let Jefferson Davis be the President of the entire nation.

The Bishop was barking about Presidents day here, this morning in his talk of honoring our Presidents, Lincoln and Washington. I might could be okay with Washington, but never Lincoln. Big fat liar he was. It was all I could do , to not get up and debate the issue.

I’m willing to bet money that I never see that $185.67 from Utah either. Utah and Wyoming need to go see how social programs are done in Idaho.

Stay Tuned, TTYLY(Talk,to you , later, ya’ll)

If you think your postings on Facebook are yours, think again

If you think your postings are not being monitored and screened for content, especially COMMERCIAL content on Facebook, think again. Saw where at least several of our pages are being held hostage on Facebook as well as several group pages. Post too much to your friends of your feelings or life plans, if Facebook even smells the slightest whiff of a commercial thing, guess what? Out comes the captchas . Tried to covertly tell two of my close friends here Janet and Niki that this old wolf is outta here April 1st, and guess what? Captchas.

Don’t ya’ll think that old Zuckerburg has enough money , so as to leave even volunteer groups needing to get the word out would ignore, their boost pages and such and let YOU post things on YOUR Facebook page? I get pissed at these big bazooka companies like Google well not so much Google they have treated me okay, but Facebook, your killing the people that made you. Now tell me Mark; who made who. I thought you wanted people to share feelings and news, update their status and spend more time on Facebook, as it is all your doing is chasing people off.

Of course there are the other guys, like Yahoo, that laid off some 300 workers for not meeting unattainable sales goals, LinkedIn doesn’t work half the time, no matter how you try to post an update, so Mark young buddy, keep pissing off the people that rose you to power, and you might soon be singing the Lycos/Yahoo sad song.

TTYLY

I think we’re getting out of here

I’m tired of the fight, this old wolf is whipped and the only thing left is to tuck tail between my legs and wander off to another forest. Not a new forest mind you, but a different one. Dig this was cruising over cyber space, so pulled off at the FCC exit. Dig this as well 6 bare ass’d signals that can be licensed to a radio station, both the ones in Wendover Utah and Woodruff are gone, the big bad ass’ at the big stations have swallered them up, but bet your ass, we are going to put up this gall darn radio station if it frigging kills me, which it probably will. Plus going home to Idaho, I’m closer to where I can get going towing again for far much less stress and frustration. If you think you heard this same shit two years ago when I was looking at Utah, your right, and I’dve not left Idaho, except for flight school, and a bad ass’d blonde that would not leave me alone. So to all who care this is my last month in Evanston Wyoming, I’ll be out up Idaho way looking for a place to hang my hat, either Burley or American Falls/Pocatello. But I’m done.

If the Knytes wants to do more in Evanston, I say let em at it, as for me I don’t care if the place sinks into the damn Bear River.

Blame it on the FCC, blame it on a severe lack of telecom and Internet infrastructure, blame it on whatever you like, but Patrick is done with severe freezing, cold nights, high utility bills, super high rents, and as for HazzardAyre?

Why not build it where we had in mind the first run at it? Hazzard and Burley/American Falls?

Now ya’ll here wonder why I never changed my drivers license nor vehicle plates, never figured on staying here more than 6 months at best and quite frankly, not even this long. Bottom line? I’m going home.

TTYLY

ThINGS THAT WILL START TO CHANGE YOUR MIND

 Before I get my butt into a relaxed state ready for bed, I want to relate some things to you, that is giving me some serious concerns.

First a bit of background and I’ll attempt to keep it brief.

Near the end of November, the parties that be at I4 Solutions , needing me to find residency outside the studio/office were pushing me out of that nest. So in haste I looked at Evanston Wyoming. Where for every step I make forward , I get knocked ten steps back, more on that in a few laps here.

If Brandon and John had let me have another week, I could have found better quarters to move to residency wise, and not been late with the rent and so on , regarding the office, but can’t fix that now although I wish I could since leaving the station where its at would be better than trying to move it all. Which has me perplexed to say the least.

Radio gear is very delicate, too much vibration, not unhooking it right for transport, and all can damage near none replacement pieces, which I’ll have to do.

Right now , I’m looking at finding something in Utah for the radio station, and in April move me there, instead of dragging things out here, and here’s the reason or at least one of them.

All night Saturday, I have been tuned into some of our archives of most of HazzardAyre Radio on Livestream. Its been a need to constantly reload the program. So did a speed test, 24 down, 2.90 up. Hell I’m used to at least 150 down and 60 up. While there may be ways to improve that, I’m not willing to propose to the Knytes to rewire an entire town just to accommodate us. Best course of action, get us to where the pipe is bigger. In Evanston I’m getting a stream rate like water trickling through a garden hose, In Woods Cross, I was getting a stream rate equal to water going through a fire hose. That’s what HazzardAyre Radio needs, so do I move the gear? Or put it in storage, look around and see where else, like say Montpelier Idaho might have a slightly bigger pipeline? One way or another the gear has to be moved, but I need to, renting a storage unit, and then doing some scouting might be the best plan.

These are the kinds of things I wish now I could have checked out BEFORE we moved here. If I had known the fat whore at the Yellow Creek Estates that rented me that trailer there, had held off sending in that first months rent for near three weeks, I’d have demanded the rent back and moved my butt outta there. Course the smarter move would have after seeing the place, just gotten my money back from her, had her take me back to Motel 6, and went back home to Woods Cross.

I found too, that two of our Livestream channels are missing programming. So I contacted them on it, but rest assured I’m looking into other streaming services, that don’t kill your programming, just because your off air for a couple of months. Like Live365, sure its going to cost the club, and me, but hey if that’s what it takes.

But at least Livestream had brains enough to know better than mess with HazzardAyre.

Going in to do some praying to find some answers.

TTYLY

So why don’t I do it?

I just got a feed back here so I thought I’d quickly share this with you.

The question came from my last entry on exploring new tech and why I haven’t built our companies website.

Simple answer; Just like making a successful pancake or uploading a video to YouTube, I don’t know how.

For HTML might as well stand for hot tamale , I don’t know how to write computer code, nor embed links or at least to the degree of excellence I demand our site needs to have.

Which is why I seek vendors and such to do the site build for us.

Now, while many can do simple builds, ours has to be able to incorporate the streaming radio station into the site, make the radio show the heart of the site. To many, you mention streaming and they tuck tail and run.

Last and there might be some kid around here that could try, but as of yet, there just isn’t anyone that builds complex web sites in rural areas like Evanston Wyoming, or Twin Falls Idaho.  Sure there are a few site builders out there that might and I say might be able to build our site, but they are either back east in New York or somewhere, or California or even Portland Oregon. The problem there is logistics. If I employ someone’s services to build the site, I want to be as close if not over the shoulder of the who builds it. Why? Simple I guess, but if the site pukes at 2:00AM I want to know enough to be able to get in and fix it. Not rely on some tech geek 1200 miles away or more to wake up from his or her college dorm party to get our site back up. Same goes for the site for HazzardAyre Radio and the Knytes.

So that’s why I don’t do it, but the real challenge? Is there someone out there that can?

Now then, another question to be answered, why so many names and companies?

If your into toewing you know why, but for those still miffed. One company, a few trucks one location or even multiple locations, you get one spot on tow rotation lists, i/e law enforcement call out lists. If you have many companies under the umbrella of just one companies, even in multiple locations, you get more names on rotation , thus more toews, thus more money to be made.

TTYLY

If your going to succeed you have to be willing to explore new technology

Before I get to the PhooteNotes here I wanted to answer a couple of questions that have been posed to this old Hooker.

First; the bit with toes. Its simple really, without getting into a deep course changing spiel, the two words TOW and TOE sound alike, yet mean something else. Our reason for using the amalgamation here is years and years ago, both the radio station KTOW was always being mis pronounced as or rhyming with COW not TOE(TOW).  Next the connection went well with our Hazzard County image, hey what’s more leggy than Hazzard County and the Dukes?  Next the word Hooker. Again one word with many meanings, the word Hooker can mean prostitute, or as we use it the trucker cb slang for tow truck.

Okay then.

I tried looking up one of our customers here’s Facebook page. Steve’s Truck Shop whose son Nate is both a Knyte and a dear friend, has no Facebook page. Nate himself does but not the shop.

One in this day and age, even if its minimal needs to have a cyber foot print. Something as simple as a Facebook page,  or a blog page is better than nothing.

A blog page can be as simple as taking a pic of the shop, include a phone number , location, and basic 411 and post it on say Blogger, or some such. At least your there.

You can’t always deploy business methods of yesterday , if you want to be in business tomorrow. Just like me and us at Highway Hooker Toewing. Back when I started , there were wheel lifts, and rollbacks(Carriers) were just coming on line. But as many did, I resisted. What happened? I could not respond to many toews since ye old sling on LexiBelle would bend the crap out of those plastic, and tin cars and trucks, so I albeit painful, had to invest in two quick picks and a carrier. Now I’m in the process of buying a heavier carrier.

When computers started becoming the rage, again here in the business, I thought what the hell do I need a computer for? A computer is only as intelligent as the idiot at the key board.  Today I can’t do much if anything in the business without a computer.

Every time I see a social site come up, I make sure the company is listed all of them(more on that in a few) as well as the club.

Sure I love my LexiBelle, and there’s recovery jobs that only she can do because she has the strength to do them, but two, there’s so much she is limited to do, that additional equipment needs to be retrofitted there to enable her to endure another 1,600,000 miles.

It’s like such things as the complex I live in. The Wentworth needs tenants, I have an idea, build a conflabbit website for this complex. At least a Facebook page, so people can find the damn place and look into moving here.  It’s like our property manager here. She puts out flyers with tear offs at local places like grocery store bulletin boards.  You might get a call back from there, put up a damn blog or website where people look to begin with and kaboom , enquiring minds are looking into the Wentworth.

So the answer to the question of why doesn’t Highway Hooker, Cooters, Toewing and the rest of my flock have websites? The answer is, simple, I have yet to find the right people with the creative extensions to create the fool proof site I demand, more over to find me the eye candy to duplicate today such shots of some of the logos of the rest of the flock> or > Nobody has been able to construct this level of a site for us, but we keep working towards it, since it’s like trying to resist is futile.

Nate old buddy you need a website or at least a Facebook page.

TTYLY