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

 

so let’s Spend some money with the bastards

Only a few days now until I have my master computer with all my gadgets back.

Thanks to the Uinta View Ward of Evanston , the equipment in Utah will be, being hauled up here on the 27th of February, and should be back online full throttle by April.

Then the final piece to my puzzle, bringing LexiBelle here to Evanston, and all will be right in my world.

Which brings me to several of the things that was discussed preve night, here at the Wentworth through a web conference of the Knytes High Council.

First reviving the SpeedTV channel, who better than the Knytes to do it and bringing to light Highway Hooker TV the only news and lifestyle TV show for us who tow. See www.highwayhookertowblog.blogspot.com for details.

Our young (and I do mean young) all around fix it person here at the Wentworth, decided to have several of his friends here overnight, which kept me awake.

Next the Knytes are getting froggy and eager to nearly take over this tiny town on the edge of the Wyoming/Utah border.  Not so much as Evanston is a great place albeit okay to exist in, but because we can do business in Utah, without having to live there with the high taxes and all. This includes licensing of Knytes Industries and so on.

One of the other things we discussed was the Wentworth, here.  While the domestic campus management is doing an excellent job thanks totally to Janet the current management , the company that oversees her and owns this facility is going in the toilet.

As it is most contractors for things such as plumbing, electrical, etc will not come out here to the Wentworth fearing not getting paid.  Just this last week I saw CenturyLink, damn near cut em off due to not paying the bill.

Much renovation needs to be done here to bring the facility to code, despite grandfather clauses, many of which will expire this year, according to sources that HazzardAyre news talked to.

So the Knytes are going to do what it always does, buy out the Wentworth, update, upgrade, and renovate. Lower rent to low cost housing requirements, and lower rent rates to area needs not the high rent rates that those in Lewiston Idaho or Eagle Idaho compare to. Dig this; looked into the company website that currently owns the Wentworth here. Its not very transparent.

I look at this from two points, the main one being Janet. First if there were to be a full on disaster here, say plumbing break or such, the fix it person here is too young, and not a licensed contractor. Should a flood or fire occur here, the law suit would divulge that the maintenance work was performed by someone that had no business doing the work, which the owners of this property would ultimately go back after Janet, who is in a somewhat difficult spot to begin with money wise.

Two; this is where I live and where HazzardAyre will be housed until other facilities are found. Which means, fire , flood or a window falling out due to not being sealed, means $40k of radio gear, would be lost, and second to that I could be harmed or die.

Solution? The Knytes, buys the Wentworth, fix it up, add some things and make the place, biker friendly.

Getting us in front of the unknowing eyes of the public, on Yahoo, and Facebook trending pages. That will be in an upcoming report here in HazzardAyre, but I want to say, I’m tired of the phony selections on Yahoo’ front page. Before you click on that link that says its taking you to a site for news you really want to read about, look at the bottom. If it says a SPONSORED PAGE, DO NOT CLICK ON IT !!!  because if you do, it’ll take you to a malware site and your going to get hacked.

Stay tuned, I gotta go and take some Goody’s since the fix it person here had a all night party I’m holding my head rather gingerly.

Dang it if your going to party hardy , invite me.

TTYLY

 

Its Friday the 13th

Or at least it was Friday the 13th.  The insatiable black magic world considers this to be a somewhat holiday, and while I’m not one for a huge amount of superstition .

I’m still very cautious in my day on Friday the 13’.

First I will not go very far from the office or home which right now is one and the same, subject to change in months to come. Second there is the weather. Thankfully today was mild, but the days its rainy or snowy out I’m in my little corner of the world huddled up with a good book or taking some serious siestas. There’s just no need to push the elements or limits. Even today our maintence guy here at the Wentworth. Found some problems with valves doing a faucet replacement in MY APARTMENT.   With no shut off valves this could be a problem should a major break occur. Especially at night. I ain’t worried , but the gal below me might get one rude awakening if that happened.

So yesterday was Friday the 13th, I’m safe, warm, and okay.

It’s now time for bed and oh yes, this is where I now live>

TTYLY