Things drying out here in the swamp, and Being able to Watch Star Trek TNG

Isn’t it great to be able to watch TV at will? Example , from cable BBC America runs TNG Star Trek from 09:00 to 11:00 hours. But too, I can watch TNG, DS-9 and Voyager as well on Hulu. If I want to look back TOS Star-Trek, I go to METV on the weekends,. That is Over The Air TV at 4.2 digital, so

why buy Cable TV? Many of the shows that gave me a reason to buy cable TV are gone or going

away. For instance; The Dukes-of-Hazzard taken off simply because CMT a subsidiary of Viacom, wasn’t happy with revenue numbers. no big deal since CMT never stuck out the right welcome mat to the right advertisers. The Dukes is a show for and of gearheads. In this case you reach out to the gearhead community. That way you target the right sponsor to those eager to buy.

Of course there was that fuss of Party Down south, showing the region of our confederate ancestors as sex crazed, part goes with few intelligent molecules. Cooter, myself and other still protest and do not watch.

The only other reason, to subscribe to Cable Tv is FX for SOA, so why subscribe to cable? For Cable TV, subscribe just enough to get Internet, and phone, watch TV over the air and via Hulu.

TTYLY

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Hurry! I never hurry. I have no time to hurry.
--Igor Stravinsky

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Damn he’s a long winded sonofabeech The Daily Breefs

Damn that guy was a long winded sonofabeech. Some guy calls wanting to loan us money, for operations of HazzardAyre. Not a big deal we’re up for it, but I know there isn’t , unless completely numbnuts going to be anyone that’s going to loan money to an online gig, especially a warbird. mc/tc organization, for operation of a radio station. But I let em try, knowing all its going to do is take up time, but hey I’ll give it a shot, like eating broccoli with cheese.

So get off the phone and who calls? Comcast again. Now I don’t want to be an asshole here, but damn I have dealt with Comcast all frigging week. I guess there people, although living in a military populace , but DoD, USMC, amongst others only pay once a month. Me myself I get SSI. Also a once a month. We pay what we can as much as we can the first week of the month. Once the first week is up, as far as club income is concerned we’re done until near the 20th, when some outside advertisers pay money, but once we pay equipment bills, we’re done until the 1st or 2nd of the month.

True it’s a bit easier now that I can gain access to it on the first and make sure things get paid, but up to now its been a process where radio station money went through the treasury of the entire club, meaning the bill came to me, the bill gets snail mailed to Georgia, then that bill with check gets mailed to Chowchilla California the President or VEE-PEE signs off on it, then it gets mailed back to me, and I go pay the damn bill. Usually a 10 day process. By then we’re always late. I truly wish our rep Laura in Colorado Springs who also works for Comcast, and why we stay with Comcast to begin with, would call, the powers that be at Comcast’s billing and explain to them how things work here, why it takes a bit longer, at least used to, and now that I can carve out the check it’ll get done by the 2nd of each month. Beyond that first week, who am I going to go to in the Department of Defense(DoD) or Armed Services heads and say I need money? All they’re going to do is say, “see you next month” .

Okay then, was al tached up to go to a Ward breakfast thing, even to help, but guess what? No phone call, to remind me, no come by to say can I give you a lift, nothing. Will report on Monday as to the conclusion there, but words will be spoken at Priesthood Sunday morning.

Still living in a swamp, but that’s short term, seems as though I have a place in Bountiful to live in come the first, the office for studio HQ of the AyreWolvez-Wolf-Pack/HazzardAyre Radio. So I can stomach some discomfort for a week.

See you on air at 23:00 hours on HighwayHooker Radio, www.livestream.com/highwayhookerradio and at 04:00 on HazzardAyre www.livestream.com/hazzardayre .

L8R Aviators

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If you aren't living on the edge, then you are taking up too much space.
--Anonymous

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UTAH is a strange place

Utah is a strange place. Utah is the only state in the Union that can circumvent an entire statewide economy as well as close banks, the US Post Office and agencies to celebrate an event that did not happen quite like its depicted to be.

Brigham Young’s advisors did not say, “ This is the place.” What was said was, “you sure this is it?” With a daunting desert no available water sources , and famine, the scene is exactly as it was in Moses’ day, when he stood in the desert with his followers.

Of course there are events from breakfasts to most just taking a day off. That seems like every other day, ain’t seen no Utahrd that works all day until 5pm no more like until 2:45(14:45) and goes home at 3pm(q5:00)

Yesterday I put in a full day at the storehouse. If you want to see complete idiocy go there. It’s like watching a bunch of ants without a scent trail. Complete confusion. After going into the freezer, then bundling boxes, I left came home, ate, and was about to go to the Bishop’s to pick up the rent check, when I fully collapsed and awoke at 05:45 this AM.

Will see you L8R on the radio.

L8R Aviators,

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--Anonymous

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Air Traffic Control: Before we get mad, remember what we are here for.

When I sit and do coffee with the Reaper Crew or the Wolf-Pack, I often bring this to a boil, and it relates somewhat and why the freeze on Cooter’s A1 with Comcast, likewise in general.

When the decision was made to relocate myself from Twin Falls,Idaho to Metro-Utah the decision was made on doing three things. 1: HazzardAyre Radio, 2: bringing my flight rating up, to commercial verticle(helicopter) , and three merging HazzardAyre with AyreWolf Aviation, bringing to the forefront Hazzardayre Aviation. The move was Not repeat NOT to bring to simmer a towing service. If all was needed was to strictly go towing I could have remained in Idaho, and just relocated to Burley. Much money and pain would have been the result. There has been all too many including my Bishop saying throwing away the radio station, and reducing costs would be smart. Perhaps so, but I did not bust my hump for two years with the culmination of HazzardAyre Radio, going full tilt this coming October. In fact we have a big party planned on both TV locally and nationally, in fact we are inviting our sweet Laura here as a special guest without whom we could not have made HazzardAyre possible. That said, the second part is I have to reduce personal weight a bit more before I get into the cockpit full time, but that is happening. And last of course merging HazzardAyre into AyreWolf Aviation, which is a big deal but is progressing to become Hazzardayre Aviation. But I need to wrap this as I have domestic chores to do, I’m trying to get things in line to be outta here by Friday, for Oshkosh, for AirVenture. But I must repeat, and perhaps Comcast pulling the plug right or wrong, but them pulling the plug on Cooter’s A1 reimpressed the need to remind ya’ll. We did not, nor did I move here to go towing, I came here for HazzardAyre, up my flight rating, and Hazzardayre Aviation.

Stay tuned, on air at 21:00

L8R Aviators.

 

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
--Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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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

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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

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

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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

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

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