Awake: 4:50am Temp 44 Sleep time 6+36 sunny overnight @
Nicktown
Drive to the community center for 1.2 hrs of exercise, then attend 8:00am
Mass before joining the amusing coffee club members for 50 min.
Around 11:30, Kathy was happily watching one of her favorite TV shows via
satellite in the bedroom when suddenly: no signal & the TV went blank.
This scenario has happened before but usually it recovers rather quickly.
Not this time however & I tried everything I could using my limited
knowledge of the codes for our (IRD) Integrated Receiver Decoder…to no
avail. Ok, Kathy is being patient & maybe it’ll start working eventually
but now, I am curious & need to learn more about this system.
Hello Darrell @ TracStar in Florida. He guides me thru all the necessary
checks using the IRD, many more than I knew about & still…no signal. Then
Darrell asks: “Do you have any other antennas up on your roof?” “Why yes
we do,” I told him. "Ah could you bring it down for now?" I push the
button that retracts the local antenna & then: “Bingo!” That was the
interference. By now, Kathy’s program was over & We are still learning!
I call Starla @ the Anchorage Daily News & leave another message to return
my call.
My brother Don calls from Hilton Head, South Carolina. They had to abandon
their tandem bike ridding trip about 200 miles short of their destination:
Hilton Head, due to very heavy traffic & no berm to ride on. They were @
the apex of a steep bridge when a fast moving & weaving car with a driver
on drugs bumped the rear of their bike & nearly knocked them over. The
bike wobbled & brother regained control enough to continue riding on down
past the bridge where they found a little more space to stop & look things
over. A mirror was hit with force that slammed into his wife Josie’s leg &
a saddle bag was knocked into it’s bracing but not into the rear tire.
Unbeknown to them, another driver behind them who witnessed the incident
took the license plate number, followed this guy, called 911 & they
reported this to the police. Further up the road, the police had responded
& pulled the guy over. Along comes my brother & his wife, they stop & the
police ask them if they are the couple who were in the “hit & run”
incident? The guy on drugs was pretty well out of it according to my
brother & he was being escorted to a local jail. Don & Josie continued
riding for another 100 miles & then decided they had better call a bike
shop & find out if the heavy traffic continues and if the road condition
got any better (had a berm). The answer was: better rent a truck, put the
bike in the truck & drive to your destination. What a story! I couldn’t
talk any longer as Al K. arrived; we are attending a Rotary meeting with
him in Ebensburg tonight.
En route to our meeting, we stop for 3 bags of ice @ the Sunoco station &
then continue on to Appledale Golf Club where a room was set up for our
meeting. This evening’s program features not only the regional group
(Northern Cambria, Ebensburg, & Portage ) but also an international group
from the North Coast of Germany. The Rotary sponsors international
exchanges of young professionals (age 25-40 years) from various countries
to different states. The 4 young professionals applied along with several
others for this trip to PA and were selected by a Rotarian team in
Germany. They spend a month in the state staying with Rotarian host
families and being toured to areas of interest.
Dinner: Choice of Chicken legs or sliced beef, green beans, potatoes, &
rolls plus ice cream with strawberry sauce for dessert.
After dinner: Peter, the group leader introduced each of the young
professionals and told a little about each of them. Then they shared in
giving a slide presentation focusing on various aspects of their German
state; geography, industry, education, entertainment, culinary
specialties, etc.
Al makes a quick stop @ the local Wal-Mart for us for a few groceries
before returning to our motorhome.
Inside our living room, our cell phone is blinking with a message: Jerry
Youkou Kirsch came into the world @ 2:50pm West Coast time, weighing 5 lbs
& 13 oz, length 19 inches. We call Nick: he reports mother, Eriko, Jerry
Youkou, & father are doing fine. Yippee! Another grandson!
High temp=77 Lights out: 11:21pm
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