It’s all about big money, and kiss my ass Ebay

So I’m online reading some news from the Slime News of Twin Falls, which only lets you read a couple of articles before they demand you subscribe. Aren’t you glad there’s a free paper still(HazzardAyre Gazzette) any mile I get this pop up from Ebay saying I can’t bid any more. With no explanation as to why. So if I see something on Ebay I like, I’ll just contact the seller involved, pay cash and Ebay can kiss my Confederate ass.

Damn Yankee carpetbagging swashbucklers. Never can trust no damn Yankee no how no way.

If I need something, I’ll just go to the store here locally, that way if I get ripped off, I’ll just go kick the asshole that sold it to me in the head and be done with it, hey MR. NiceGuy left.

Then I read that a cat named Slaymaker over in Twin Falls took a bunch of dairy farmers to the cleaners. Remember the guy that did up that great video on RFDTV about his hay cube company? Well the guy spent tons of money on Meth, didn’t deliver product and now will live at the prison out on Gowen field near Boise. And then some folks call us , more over me a con dude. Maybe more should listen to members of the Knytes and do as we do, rather than taking these smooth talking shysters at their word.

It’s just like here in Evanston, some guy comes in promising the moon to the citizens over KEVA AM, and then not knowing we walk in and are busting our ass to really do something with the aged old station. Yet, people bought that dudes bullstuff, and now we are having an even harder time getting things in gear. Speaking of which , got wind today our FCC License app has been granted and will be viewable on the FCC Docket page sometime in 10 days.

Okay then, was looking over my kitchen cabinet for something to eat, my knee is acting up so didn’t want to truck over to the store.

So found some Bean and Bacon soup, guess that don’t keep forever. After I upchucked that got out some veggy soup, and tried to make hot dogs, well trying to do that without a boiling pan is an art. Its not just the radio gear Bishop being held in Woods Cross, Utah, it’s every thing I own including pots, pans, eating utensils , lets find some way to pay this off.

Okay then, so tried to make hot dogs. That idea went belly up, so as bad as I hate it, bought a TV dinner, and some milk for a few days. And ate a bowl of cereal.

Big companies no longer care about the people they sell things to, its just how much bread they can make off each sale. Product quality and consumer satisfaction is just a forgotten conclusion. Our nation is in dire straits, and there’s only one way out and its this> and this> Here in the west its simply us> any questions, its time for some people to quit listening and watching the con artists and start trusting in us. Together we can and will repair this nation. We have done it Abe Lincoln’ way for 200 years, its now time to try it Jefferson Davis’ way for the next 200 years.

We believe. So should you.

TTYLY

One last thought until 4;00AM

That’s the thought.

TTYLY

It ought to be different and aimed at your own age group

I have always said , Mark had the right idea, when he conjured up Facebook. Only thing is, is he and Facebook ought to set it up to where the friends you add , if you want to add friends are from your region and age group. It’s like that banner that asks here’s some people you may know. really? I don’t know one of them. The people I add as friends usually are those that I know in the REAL WORLD, MY WORLD, not some teeny bopper from NYC, First of all don’t know anybody from NYC and although I’m supposed to love everyone and treat everyone like I want to be treated, I tolerate Yankees, but I ain’t to much in welcoming them with open arms as friends.

But as I posted earlier at the top of my Facebook page, addressed hopefully at those that screen facebook from Palo Alto California, don’t ask me to add friends if you question me adding them.

This old road wolf don’t cotton to no Yankees.

By July I’ll be back in my own woods, I have had it with Wyoming. Or at least Evanston.

Details at 04:00

TTYLY

Same Road , different day

It’s Saturday the day of rest and original Sabbath day. So I do as I normally do, sleep all day, read my bible and church books and keep the day Holy. Occasionally go take a peak online then go back to reading.

Sometimes I’ll check Facebook and Yahoo and see something interesting or funny, but here lately it seems both are extremely lame, if anything on there at all.

D-Carters pics get too smutty, I’d like to see more tow trucks photographed, and a few of the big rigger appreciated a few of us driving the hook, this past week in some parts of the nation that loved the tow trucker.

Of course there was JunkYard Dolls, I looked but didn’t find it interesting. My question for most of those pages is, you’ll pose that way for free to near free, but you wont come out here and photograph with tow trucks for a $1,000.00 a day, amazing.

I guess I’m getting older, grumpier and more set in my ways, but I can report, my masculine equipment still works, woke up this afternoon and had a stiffy. haven’t had afternoon wood for quite some time.

Still can’t watch TV and some how this year I’m not really missing NASCAR and the 500. Last year, pretty much made me want to distance myself from that although I can’t cause being an old bootlegger gotta love stock cars, but the big money, the big fights, the big fines. Phooey I’d rather watch Mirinda at Magic Valley SpeedWay, running with Rebel Racing than watching Danica Patrick on FoX or the big races.

NASCAR has gotten stale, kinda like Facebook. It’s okay, but not enough panache to interest me much any more.

There ought to be a business version of Facebook, I know you say there is, its called LinkedIn but LinkedIn wants money to be part of that, any web page thingy that I gotta pay money for I ain’t interested in. I think , TV, and radio should remain free, to listen to and enjoy whether that’s on air or online, HazzardAyre Radio, still is free to listen to.

THE bottom line? Its a sharp looking tow truck of any size, or a gal in nylon stockings , and you have my complete interest. Finally saw some rather troubling images online. Some couple did a tow truck up like good old Cooter’s. Which I’ll remind all, both Ben and Alma are two of the dearest people to me that there is, Ben is still the President of the Knytes, but what disturbs me is when I see a tow truck other than mine. My old LexiBelle is the ONLY tow truck authorized and blessed by both Ben and Alma and the studio to wear the Hazzard Garage nameplates.

Finally, here at the Wentworth. I don’t know how this is going to play out, but Adam my next door neighbor sure has a bunch of company over on the weekends, but I wonder if his mother the property manager here, knows that her son is running a brawdy house here.

Too much noise.

No matter, I’m only here until I get things in order to go home to Idaho. I’m way too tired of Wyoming.

TTYLY

Last post of the night

As I get ready to turn in for night I am done with ragging on the Cable system here. I have said my piece and ready to move on.

I have been criticized for using what some call scantly cladded images for our website’ graphics. I’d much rather use just as pretty gals in more modest attire, if I could only find them. I like many whose blood does not boil every time they see near naked women, would just assoon get gals in cowgirl jeans, long dressy gowns, form fitting flight suits etc. How about fully dressed tight leather neck to toe for bike shots? I’d go for that. Lets face it, even some of the gals used on such action photos should not be in a g-string. Their bodies are just not that flattering, plus too much woman takes away from the rig or such they are posing with. The idea of a gal with a rig, warbird etc is to enhance, not dominate the shot, or pic. I did a shot once of a cheerleader that belonged to the Filer High School squad in Filer Idaho, with a customized IH pulling tractor. The white vinyl go-go boots and all complimented the tractor, but let the beauty of the tractor shine through.

EasyRiders along with others have gotten too smutty. Which is why we at Hazzard County Choppers will not sell EasyRiders Magazine anymore. Put some clothes on these gals, make the attire work with the theme of the bike, tow truck etc, not the other way around.

But alas we have to use what photos we can gather from online sources since nobody in our part of the country wants to do any photography for and with HazzardAyre.

As I close, I was reading in my LDS Priesthood book, about how quorum members are there to help each other become more united. I agree, the restriction of using fast offering money to bail out the radio gear in Woods Cross was a long stretch at best, and that radio gear is not seen as survival money, but it is my hand up , not a hand out, since the radio gear helps me earn a living outside of going towing. Additionally I don’t think everyone including our beloved Bishop who I think is a great person in every way, but I don’t think he gets the connection here of going towing and the radio station thing. The radio station is based on the basic premise of giving the over the road , long haul trucker and towing professional towing owner/operator a voice. Both over the air and on Internet radio. Yes of course southern historical preservation is part of our core mission, but both HazzardAyre and Dixie Diesel Radio was established as the western voice of the American Trucker/Toewer . To broadcast to truckers/toewers you have to be a trucker or toewer. Not just dress up like one and be a poser. That’s the connection I toew and do radio for others that truck and toew.

So I know that using fast offering money to bail out the radio gear might have been a bit askew, still maybe between many in that quorum could perhaps take up a collection, say 15 of our brethren at a $100.00 a piece would get the job done. I know there are a few in our Priesthood that could afford to help.

Any mile, going in, and to many who ask, yes I could really use my medication, which too along with my cell phone is sitting in that office in Woods Cross Utah, and yes I could use that lithium right now, just haven’t made the connection to the who that can prescribe and deliver that prescription.

TTYLY

Can these problems be fixed? If so whose going to pay for it?

Can these internet connection problems be fixed? The answer is yes, if you throw enough money at it, the question then becomes who is going to pay for it? The answer ? Just about everyone needing more bandwidth Internet .

Again we as a broadcaster as well as over the road towing organization, had these same problems in 2013, so we relocated to Utah, where most of the bandwidth problems ended. I had no problem in paying $200.00 for service as it was nearly goof proof. I can count on one hand only three times Comcast went down and none while we had the service with CenturyLink. That one I paid $175.00 a month for. In both cases things were so good I could do more than three things online at once without getting error or reload problems.

So I tuned into one of my archived shows on LiveStream, www.livestream.com/hazzardayre trouble was it’d go for a 20 minute run then have to reload, which gets to be one pain in my six(butt) . Here I’m studying my LDS Priesthood book, getting into a groove and my show had to keep reloading. So I checked my speed. 0.73 download. Really? Bottom line unless I see improvement here its going to be a combination of CenturyLink for phone and a T1 for Internet and Dish for TV.

Thing is though I wonder, how many of my audience is getting short changed here? I mean if I can’t load up my show and hear it full length, they probably means they can’t either. Which starts biting my wallet.

I have talked to at least 100 of the people in Evanston that I deal with on a daily basis. They all say the same thing, for heavy traffic internet, here there must be an improvement and most of that 100 are willing to pay $200.00 a month to see it happen.

Some of the higher up’s at AllWest need to drive out of Kamas Utah and come up here and fix the shortcomings or at least sell the system to some organization that can. Oh one of those interested in buying the system? The Knytes-of-Anarchy. Might as well, as we end up buying everything else and fixing it.

For the short term, I’m keeping AllWest for a internet connection, only for the time we need to get our own T1 connection up. The rest of it? Well Monday , I’m taking my cable unit to AllWest here and cancelling that out, since I can’t use it and setting up with Dish Network.

TTYLY

Just once I’d like to see a internet connection service do it right

Maybe it’s because I was babied, in the luxury of ultra fast barely tap, instant internet. Maybe its that I can’t understand why some companies will not invest in improving their systems to meet even moderate demand, maybe its all of that, but even doing something as simple as watching HULU, I can’t get through one program without the damn thing needing to reload.

It’s not always been this bad. I remember 10 years ago or so, when I was conned into doing up a project in CokeVille Wyoming, AllWest came over hooked me up, and stayed onsite until everything was working like it should. Even in drop dead 50 below zero, AllWest’ product kept going without any drop in signal or stamina quality. It was nearly that way when we moved the studios from CokeVille to Evanston. Back then you had two cable companies competing for your business. Now you have just one AllWest who has it would seem, gotten a bit too complacent and knows its them or DISH. TV wise I plan to go DISH, why? Simple, AllWest in converting to digital, has no more analog receiver boxes. You have to have a coax running in but no coax running out. I always thought one of the reasons that you bought cable was to keep old TV’s going, as the box did the conversion so you didn’t have to go out and buy a new TV.  As far as Internet, have to keep AllWest, since there is nothing else, but am looking into other options, like our own T1 for both radio station in town as well as here at the Wentworth. I’ll gladly pay $200.00 for a T1 if it means my content going down and back will go at the same 5X5 speeds that I had in metro Utah.

Not saying Evanston Wyoming, or AllWest is alone here.

In Twin Falls Idaho, my complaint was just about the same, pay a bunch of money for services that just flat were antiquated in other words obsolete, and no longer could carry the extra signals that growing communities will require.

The question and this complaint is not just mine. From every corner of the Union, I hear the same thing. Question is, beit , California, Idaho, or Wyoming, why doesn’t both large and small Internet Service companies up their game? Why not invest the money to run CAT 6 or 5 fiber optic where coax once was. If your going to service an area, for damn well , service it. Not just coddle it.

I used to praise AllWest all over the place, even saying AllWest could kick butt over Comcast should they step over the Wasatch range into the Utah metro valley, today I’m not so sure.

But again, its not just AllWest. Comcast, Cable-One, you name it, big, small corporate and independent cable/telecom/internet service companies are not looking into the crystal balls.

Oh and if your wondering here, yes the Knytes are looking into doing up its own Telecomm/internet service company, called HazzComm. Short for Hazzard Communications. Expect that here in about 10 years, yes it’ll take that long.

But again I ask, can we get better, if we’re willing to pay more?

Or are we as consumers paying more for less or poorer quality? About the only stream program I get without interruption is HazzardAyre Radio from Livestream. Oh it takes awhile to load, but once connected stays connected(www.livestream.com/hazzardayre) And after all when you are tuned to HazzardAyre Radio, who needs anything else? After all HazzardAyre is a product of the Knytes-of-Anarchy, mainly me.

TTYLY