Writing Hopper: Whopper. January 30, 1996

This is the writing projects and to-do list, all consolidated in one place.

2/3/97: Write about what I know about:

Individual Contribution, small groups, religion, volunteers,

astrodynamics, radio, life frustration

Rule: This shall not degenerate into a journal. I already have one of those.

Books to get/read: (that I don't already have!)

Krauss: Antennas

Service Manual: '96 Astro done 7/96

Otwell '97

"Infinite in all Directions," Dysan

9/21/96 Red/Blue/Green Mars

9/21/96 Arctic Explorations

7/5/96 to put somewhere

Early Lucia

Bike

Is It Bleeding?

Is It Spurting?

80-80

Let's Go

Do you have the checkbook?

The "Next 500 Years in the Solar System project"

"Life in the Solar Nebula"

Read/watch Adventure, History of U.S., colonies, drama/dialogue

Projects, Prioritized

Hubbard Tornado to QST, submitted 2/96, rejected 3/26/96

Explain Everything Without God -> Randy Wallace -> Companion?

Columns:

early Lucia, [my response] as a difference between men and women

Home Equity

Credit Charge

age-conservative

Why Can't You Do Everything Without A Mouse?

Socials

Do I Have Acid Stomach Because I Live Wrong?

Why Do I Have Self Will if the Only Right Thing is to Defeat It?

Am I Myopic Because I Live Wrong?

Is Living Right Worth It?

Is There a Relationship Between Standard of Living and Spirituality?

Alaska!

Heating Rocks, Another Living Alternative, but QRP is a Pain

Interesting How People See Things:

"A track ran across our lower 40,

there was a steam engine down there...."

Workplace violence and JPL pocket knives

Ones to try on CW: Mississippi, dishwasher finished

What ham radio is/isn't today. What it can be. See Phil. file

What do people do in traffic today? Talk on the phone!

Up Colorado to Colorado, down Rio Grande trip

Used to wish that exams would be only one question -all or nothing

Back when I was first licensed, there was no digital, everybody could

listen to everything!

Tons of pills, Gramma Sterling used to take in her 90s. I rationalized

that bodies get more malfunctional and this is the result.

Now, at 40, I take five pills per day....

The Americans preoccupied with the ease of their punishments. After

all, they might slip and....

People are like an "end triggered" oscilliscope

Set up an institution to establish morality.... (could end up critical of church)

(Shuttle Coverage) "Dad, (KLD) why do you watch this?" Oh, to see what they're doing. (long pause) "Are you going to watch this Saturday morning?"

(Shuttle Coverage) "Dad, (JCD) I want to watch something that moves." It does move, see it's changed where it is. (Watches a while) "No it doesn't."

How to do the laundry: get and keep the dryer running. Every 4 days.

Why is there sleep?

High School Senior Trip

I-Ching, as a way to decide to return to church

Joe Paul Hight, father-in-law?

My lips touched cat lips!

The average kinetic energy of the molecules out here is too low!

The wild courtesy beep

Sounds of paging formats

"One Second Sermons" (at bedtime) "Gaaaaaaaawd!"

Ham radio versus cell phones - direct comparisons

"Which one is 'E'?" "Right after 'D.' (playing battleship with five year old)

3/16/96, what I don't like about Clinton/Dole. They both run in front

of polls. Polls personified are nonsense. Neither leads.

3/16/96 How to move a piano.

3/26/96 Don't test the resistors until you need them

3/26/96 3 year old motorcycle gang at CEC

3/27/96 "never getting new animals" is like "letting hair grow out"

just one instance of getting or cutting negates years of abstinence

4/13/96 The adventures of cycling, (don't quite have the right tools, etc.)

4/13/96 Too bad "XXXX" isn't deductible. (Home Depot, Insurance, etc.)

5/12/96 "Fah" nannah!

5/12/96 225 - 1 things that won't work.

6/3/96 Honesty: pile of blank paper, extra badge clip

6/24/96 "Ten Minutes 'Time'" (a culture shift gripe)

6/24/96 What if the aliens had twice the reflexes? Wouldn't we be wiped right out?

7/1/96 First day out of garage

7/1/96 The vegetarian who won't eat vegetables

7/23/96 Three reasons for ham radio: (1) fishing, (2) physics/universe, (3) not disaster, but those equipped for camping in the wild parks are better prepared.

7/23/96 What if people multiplied by mitosis!

8/12/96, after 446 MHz antenna and UHF contest project, "I need to take shop" ("needed to have")

Stories from Covenant:

pick someone from a front row to play piano

lost in the music - play by ear

Hymn 202, sight reading transposition, on organ

Plan - "no" "sit"

4/13/96 Katherine: All my [spending] money is tied up in the blanket.

(Blankets for the homeless, she's just like me, railing at every detail o fthe universe, yet giving sacrificially for things like this.)

4/13/96 "Have you Seen Roland?" (Other pastors prior to Good Friday service. Charley may be the engineer here, but Roland is the Conductor.)

Rogue Topics

Please insert a flashcard.

wHOSE iDEA wAS tHIS?

We arrange these words on a screen.... (computer programming)

"Less than Air" (don't remember what this was about)

Glory and Foreign Travel

Did you sell that land to Fuhrman (Brooks looked at the place Mark Fuhrman bought in Idaho, Jeff handed Tom a $5 in the Rogue internal economy)

3/16/96 "What if God were One of Us?" A detailed theology of

KROQ.

3/16/96 My week on the SeaFloor geodesy boat.

3/26/96 "Dad, I want to watch something that moves" (STS coverage on NASA select

6/25/96 Backing up to the mail server, crashing mail server

7/1/96 The Herb Dragert story

12/23/96 Annual Neighborhood Carolling

including escrow, story, even if front page

12/23/96 kid landing innards of ball point pen on moon

12/23/96 Oooh Neat! There goes a guy in a wheelchair!

Tomball Stories:

Dreamcycle

Digging Septic Tank

Digging power drop

Digging 3 foot postal box hole, moved across highway

Chasing cows in the field

Building fences

"The Rhombic"

The Big Freeze

The Bike Rides (and the not bike rides)

Stories from KXTX, channel 39, 3/16/96

Tower

Tower Ice

42

Magazines

Star Trek and Rockford

Historical Stories:

Elmer Article

Progline - Antennas

Snow Fort

Snow Solitaire

Train on the Dining Room Table

December 27, 1968 Plane Trip

Learning to Drive

3/16/96, In Taylor, used to sit and play piano with the front door

open fantasizing that a talent scout would drive by in a

convertible. Now, if I landed a job playing at First Presbyterian

Church of Hollywood (FPCH), right there, I'd still have no

chance of same.

3/26/96, the FTC and the Senior Trip

3/26/96, to be an astronaut

4/13/96 "Get A Goathead"

Sci. Fi.:

3/16/96 back of the moon is the only place left to be "disconnected"

3/16/96 In the looking glass, What would we do if all existence were

what somebody "out in reality" could see?

5/12/96 Design a Mars Flight

5/12/96 "New Alaska," the trek to the Kuiper Belt and life there

Series: An engineer looks at Hebrews (see journals, '95-'96), 3/16/96

Bascom, Wipf, secular?, Decision, Companion

Book: "The History of Now"

Develop another set of "standards" and write the history of today from

that perspective.

Book: "Is It Bleeding?"

Chapters:

XX: Making Ice

XX: Let's Go (getting in the car)

XX: Pretty Close to Hopeless

XX: Why Can't Every Day Be Christmas?

XX: How to Live Without Q-Tips

XX: Learning to Drive

XX: The Reading Pile

XX: Why is it More Fun to Throw the Balls Out?

XX: Some are here and some are there, funny things are everywhere

Background, Prioritized

Get the mail caught up on logos.

Clean off logos, mining as I go, develop a cataloguing system

print some things, archive disk some things

Go through philosophy file.

Go through old writing file.

Clean off this computer same way (mduncan, mswork, hamstuff, etc.)

Find the old work logs -> self review

Go through all old archive disks (i.e. AMSAT mail, etc.) -> self review

Get on Internet Direct From Home, get set up to browse and e-mail, move.

Self Review, Prioritized

The old journals, some per week.

Things to have on public service besides radio and helmet:

water, map