Hobbies & Guilt

I've been reading the old entries here. I haven't done much lately. Today I tidied up the room. That's it. I mean, seriously. I plugged the new antennas in and listened to 20 and 40m but didn't transmit again. Last entry in the logbook is now years old. I've become a real lurker SWL. Some kind gentleman from Ofcom extended my reciprocal licence until 2016 so I don't have to worry about it for an other couple of years.

I spent some cash on vertical antennas for 20 and 6 meters and got a short vertical for 80m to 70cm and guess what, the stupid wire antenna around the room beats the lot for reception. I was hoping for something a bit better than that.

I haven't been writing, composing nor playing anything lately. I haven't taken the scope out for a year nor I have used the small scope nor binos for a coupe of months now. I haven't touched the camera for weeks until today (shot a couple of sun+cloud pictures through a dirty window).

I haven't found a new band to listen for a while and last time I went to a concert was Hawkwind in Cambridge and that was some damn time ago.

I've been reading a bit, at least I can say I've done that.

Tomorrow, a new day, hopefully.