OT. FREE food

That's that s*it-hole place with a months worth of caked food still stuck to the silverware. No thanks.

A $15 limit sounds like treason.

I posted the thing about Petro on another group. Jim Joyce responded that there is a master list. Maybe there will be something more to your liking here. "No Petro's near me but thanks for the heads up. I see that they haven't yet been added to the master list of restaurants offering free meals.

Also, quite a few retail stores are offering deals to veterans.

I can always find things I need at Tractor Supply, for example."

I usually drop about $10 or $12 dollars at the local fast food places. A Denver omelette at a local restaurant cost me about $16 with coffee. It was good sized along with the hash browns. This is east central Nebraska.

Here is a list of places offering free or discounted meals on Veteran's Day.

Michael Terrell snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:

I wonder if those places in my area will allow me to bring a non- veteran guest.

Stay away from any shithole pretending to offer deals to veterans. These age old scams are looking to sucker you into spending money on other things. In the case of these lowbrow restaurants, they're hoping you'll return to buy their poisonous slop when there is no giveaway.

Fred Bloggs snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:

I am near Cincinnati, so I have a few guys I can ask where the best spots are. Maybe I will do a poker run! And multi-munch if they allow that. Hehehe!

Yesterday, I went to the ST. Al catholic church's fall festival for their turkey dinner. It was 14 bucks.

I had some quarters in my pocket and all my life I don't gamble because I always lose. This was a 72 segment wheel with one thru six on it in three rows with two sets of "triples" of each of the six numbers. A bet is placing your quarter on a numebr and wait for the wheel to stop.

I started with one quarter and hit on the first spin. Won a quarter. Let that ride on the six and hit triple 6s on the next spin. So $1.75 already. And I did quick math and said "That is likely the highest percentage of winning I have ever had. Walked around looking at the raffles and stuff, went back and missed on two spins, but hit another triple on the third. And I am barking out like "what are the odds". and then my brain clicked, 'no subsequent spin has anything to do with a(ny) prior spin, yadayadayada'. But I kept playing and hit triples 4 times inside a 5 minute period, and one I let ride and got back 6 bucks. I couldn't believe my luck. It was like "I wish I had this kind of luck all my life". My friend was pretty amused too. So over on the side door of the 'tent room' was a golf pro letting folk try to chip a ball into a net about 35 feet away with soft golf balls like wiffle without the holes and a bit heavier. I have not golfed since high school almost 40 years ago and that was a wiffle ball. I never played again, bad slice. So I watched him do it and he was REAL close with nearly EVERY shot. It was for a $100 bill drawing and there wer only three names in the hat so far, so I liked to odds and played five balls. I amazingly figured out by watching him how to NOT slice and had my line on the ball from the first try. That first one though, I caught the grass and drug the club so it didn't go, but the second got me on the line and the power level I needed and the last three almost freakin' went! Wow. I may golf one day! (I'll stick with pool) That was fun, but I missed getting in the hat. I walked back in to the wheel and put 6 quarters on the 6 all writing out the number with quarters and it hit triple 6s. WOW! I hit triples 7 times in that couple hours. I had like 8 dollars in my pocket I did not previously have. I gave it all back, of course... bought a $2 beer, played that golf thing once more and still got pretty close, played the wheel some more and still kept $2 for the Ferry to get home later. I really enjoyed myself, which I have not done in many years, and they were pretty trivial events. I feel old. All my actors and actresses and rocks stars are all dying.

Poker run implies two wheels. My favorite place is the Nebraska Sandhills. Real ranches, and people know how to wave. There is incidentally a world class golf course there.

Dean Hoffman snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:

There is a local station in Cincinnati that was in the seventies, the rock and roll station for years and years... cool out there funny ads, fake ads... mascot, fireworks... the works. A really good station. Then in the 30+ years I was away living elsewhere in the nation, it turned into death metal craziness almost all the time with a few grains of "old classics" tossed in rarely. My friends say they quit listening to it years ago because of the shift. Another station though has an ad where they say "We are what they were" And everybody, literally everybody in Cinci knows who they are referring to, because all these guys play are the classics '60s, '70s, '80s rock and roll. I suspect some of the old DJs may even have migrated there.

I think it is funny to see YouTube videos where some young kid or couple listens to an old '70s song they have never heard before. There is this one couple where hie was an old hippie and knows the songs and she was a classical concert musician and had never heard any of the music of the era (I'm skeptical about that) But they give cool reviews and she looks all surprised listening to a Yes song for the first time. The funny ones are black dudes (usually really good musicians) reviewing rock songs from the seventies they've never heard.

There is a grandma looking gal that literally kills it on the drums and makes teaching videos even. Big old 200+ pound old bitty looking thing walks up takes a seat and everybody's jaw drops.

Only if they pay for their meal, from the places I've looked into. There are links to some websites and others can be found online to see if each chain has a location near you, and the requirements to participate.

It is called advertising. Some businesses actually want more customers. They spend much more on print and other midea to advertise. Many of these chains also help fund local Veteran's groups or programs. The local program has taken about 20 years to combine as many agencies as possible into a single location.

I'm sure they want no one like you there, at any time. I've gone to Golden Corral and Applebee's many times on Veteran's day. I go to meet others who served, not angry idiots like you. Do you treat your customers like this?

The DAV is at Golden corral to raise funds from donations. They aren't required, but appreciated. They include drinks with the meal, but they don't serve alcohol.

Applebee's has alcohol, but I believe that it isn't included.

Either way, tip the staff like you would when paying the full price. It is their busiest day f the year and they all put in a lot of extra hours. It obvious that you prefer to be a problem than part of the solution. I couldn't stand to live if I was as hate filled as you are. It just wouldn't be worth crawling out of bed

WSAI? They were the top rock station in the late '60s and into the '70s when they went Country. I left the area in the late '80s. At that time WUBE was the number one Country station in the United States.

I visited the WSAI transmitter site in '69, when they were on 1360 KHz I think WUBE was 105.1 FM Hamilton had WCNW. Their transmitter was in a dilapidated old railroad building with a lot of holes in the floor, and their equipment was in worse shape than what I had in Alaska. They didn't care. They just dropped wiring through the holes to run between the racks. It was a real shoestring operation.

The 500KW transmitter at the WLW site was really something to see, long with the original Crosley transmitters at the old VOA Bethany site.

Michael Terrell snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:

Quit listening to WSAI in about '71 as FM became the thing and WEBN played stereo tracks and became the de facto standard in town, cars, etc. for hippies, I guess. I wired up quite a few 'customized' vans in my early teens as I started through my hippie years.

I installed and repaired a lot of car radios and tape players from late '70 to late'72 when I went into the US Army for two years active duty as a Broadcast Engineer. I got to the point that I could repair most Delco AM radios in under five minutes. A quick check of the collector voltages would show if it was good. Those Germanium transistors typically had around 1.5 volts, but when they oped a junction almost any thing could caused them to work, for a short time. I had to tech new techs not to use those handheld signal injectors, because you had to wait for the bad transistor to stop working, again. I replaced so many DS52 transistors that I kept the entire stock dS25 (Delco recommended sub) on the car radio bench. The were only rated at 15Volts C-E.

Michael Terrell snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:

In the HV lab one day an old friend of the VP of engineering came in with an old tube radio from like a '48 Chrysler 300 or such. It had a bad transformer, and I took on the task of dismantling it and had to make a guess at the secondary turns count because we had to cleave that apart and guess at the layer count and turns per layer. All the laminations' coatings had all turned to dust. I would have been better off finding a close match for the form factor and make a new one, but I did a fool refurb on it instead. Took days, and it took quite a while in the vacuum chamber getting the varnish to fully impregnate it too. Much to my surprise though, the thing worked perfectly.

The buffer capacitors on the primary fail, and destroy the transformers. These days I would be tempted to use a dc to dc converter module. Most of those radios used 150 to 250 volts on the plates. Solid state replacements for the vibrators fit the market in the mid '60s, but they used a pair of Germanium TO3 PNP transistors inside a standard vibrator can The cans were filled with sand, to conduct the heat to the can. They were easier on the transformer, but they often failed shorted because of bad buffer capacitors. There are Silicon versions, these days. If that was covered by HW Sams, I have service data on it.

When I worked in Delhi Township, the marketing director was in town for one of those 'Free HBO weekends'. He had brught part of an British car to me to find an electrical problem. He and I got along well, and joked with each other. My idiot manager was there when he said, My friend removed it, since I'm not mechanically inclined." I laughed and told him, "Inclined? You're mechanically declined!" My manager started to throw a hissy fit, but he was told to shut up because it was true. He asked, "Why would I have brought this from Greenwich Connecticut to have Mike look at it, if I wasn't?" Then he proceeded to tell him that ours was the only CATV system that would set up and connect his equipment before he arrived to make sure everything worked.

Some updates to the list:

Ollie's is offering a 15% discount, for Veterans on the 11th.