Happily Ever After

I have been looking at this picture of Art Bell and his new bride Airyn Bell since it was posted on http://www.hamcams.com/ about a week ago. It bothered me, REALLY bothered me! Since then I have been debating with myself about this picture; say what I feel, or keep my sentiments to myself? Then, an email started making the rounds, about this very topic.

So this Grudge Report is a ‘little’ different, as it is my feelings about this picture, and therefore, about this marriage. And the reason is, my immediate reaction to the above picture was shock and NAUSEA!

Having been abused in my life by many men, and in so very many ways, I know ‘the look’. Airyn has it.

This is no routine, happy, newlywed picture. This is a picture of a young, woman who is STUNNED; she looks just like a deer caught in headlights, unbelievably surprised, and not seeing any way out.

This is a picture an old man, gloating, controlling, demanding, and ENJOYING it. This is a picture of a man with no morals, perhaps even a deranged or malevolent man.

This is a picture of good and evil. Ladies, what say you?

EchoLink

It would seem that Dan vr2hf has rekindled an interest among some, in EchoLink. Haven’t we ‘Been There, Done That’ before?

From what I have heard, EchoLink is no better than 3.840 on a Friday night when there is a full moon. (Sure hope some one is recording this experiment in radio. Be sure to email me the ‘good recordings’!)

I think Dan vr2hf, is naive to see this as any kind of solution, except to his OWN personal time zone issues.

His ad, see above, for EchoLink on www.HamCams.com is amusing. “No Misfits” it says. I am sorry, but I cannot help but think that an American living in Hong Kong, and teaching English in China, on what seems to be a permanent basis (it has been years that I am aware of), has to be a Class A Misfit!

Come on home Dan. Live and get a job in America. Get an American zip code and time zone. Then you will not have to resort to drumming up business for EchoLink…

Blogs, Blogs, and more Blogs!

I am delighted to report that two of the Hams, now have Blogs! In fact, I am so happy about this that I have now included a link section on THIS blog for HAM Bloggers. If you are a HAM, SWL, and are Blogging, please send me the link, and I will evaluate it for inclusion (and most of you know that I am pretty liberal!).

Trish k4ze has been Blogging for awhile now; as far as I could determine, the first entry was in January 2006. As is like Trish, the page is a little ‘overdone’ and ‘busy’, but that does not take away from the content. And, at first, she was a little wordy, but she’s getting much more succinct now. My only complaint was that I could not add her rss feed to my homepage. You can find a link to her Blog at: http://patriciaray.net/index1.html

Jim Southwick n7js, has just started Blogging. As many people who are new to Blogging, he too is a tad wordy, but I am sure that will pass<g>. You can find a link to Jim’s Blog at: http://www.jimandleah.com/

(You just gotta love both these vanity calls!)

My advice to these new Bloggers? Try to be consistent with posting entries, make entries 500 words or less, try to keep to one topic per entry, vary your content, install a ‘free’ counter, and install http://www.feedblitz.com/ (It is a great tool; folks can be notified of any new entries to your blog, via email, automatically. Do sign up for The GRUDGE Report below!). Lastly, remember that people will be READING what YOU write.

For sure, I will be reading these new Blogs from time to time. I will watch them either develop or fizzle. There are at least two people now in the HAMFANZ community, who will soon realize that putting out The Grudge Report in Blog form for the last two and a half years, maintaining a good readership, and getting responses, is not quiet as easy and simple as it seems!