The company where I work sent out their holiday schedule for the coming year. I still have not figured out whether I am going to get any time off for this year’s holiday season and will probably not find out until sometime next week. It surely is hard to plan around stuff like lab trails and build schedules when it is impossible to know whether or not you can invent the thing you have been tasked to invent. The very thing that makes the job frustrating is the thing that makes it most interesting. I suppose if it were easy it would not be so rewarding. In the meantime, I have decided we are focusing too hard on tests. It is time to do a project.
The kids often listen to music on the radio when they do certain types of school work. I like them to listen to classical music when they work. Whether that is Rachmaninoff, Beethoven, and Bach, or The Beach Boys, Simon and Garfunkel, Johnny Cash, and The Everly Brothers is not clear and cause for much discussion in this household. Last night we talked about the amazing technology and culture associated with broadcast radio. Some might have read earlier on this blog that we bought all the materials necessary to build a Ham radio as part of a program to learn what is necessary to get a Ham radio license. I think now is a good time to spin that project back up. This is a good inside project for the winter. We can set up a table in the bonus room up stairs where it is warm and toasty.
The balance between the reading we do every night while the kids work on their comics, homework correction, and radio work will be a little delicate, but I think we can do it. If we can finish the Ham radio license before the end of the school year, we can take on the General Radio Operators License (GROL) in the summer. If that is possible, it well could lead to work at a radio station. Who knows?
November 15, 2004 – 39th Anniversary of Lauro and Conchita (Photos)
November 19, 2004 – Missing posts and recital photos (photos)