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On 09/04/2016, Paul Braun <pbraun42@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My best-laid plan for last night was to come home, have dinner, watch a
> little TV, get to bed early, and then get up nice and refreshed for my
> radio exam this morning.
>
> The yesterday afternoon I got a call from my boss at the casino - the
> Friday night engineer had been in an accident, and needed to go in and
> cover. He would get me a room at the hotel. I didn't have my blacks (casino
> sound guy uniform) or my sound-guy briefcase with me, so I had to get off
> the train at 6:40, drive the 20 minutes back to my house, change clothes,
> throw the shaving kit and a change of socks and undies into the backpack,
> and drive to the casino to relieve my boss who got the first band started.
>
> So, instead of sleeping I ended up mixing bands until 2:30AM, crawled to my
> hotel room after being awake for 20-1/2 hours, fell asleep at 3.
>
> Wake-up call at 0730 so I could shower, get dressed, and drive the 35
> minutes back home to Valparaiso, swing through McFood for a McMuffin, and
> get to the library by 9 for the exam session.
>
> Now, you're thinking, "Why didn't you just wave off and take it next
> month?"
>
> Hell, no. I've spent the past week cramming, taking practice test after
> practice test. My brain is in that mode NOW, and I don't want to go
> through yet another month.
>
> I fill out the form, plunk down my $15, get my exam booklet and answer
> sheet. 50 questions out of a total pool of 702. Need to get 37 of them
> right to pass.
>
> Ahhh. Only four featuring math and formulas. One of them I'm sure I know.
>
> I finish, turn in my answer sheet and exam booklet, sit down and wait for
> the three examiners to check my answers and verify that they all agree (FCC
> rules for the volunteer examiner program).
>
> Hard to read their faces. Plus, I'm going on 4 hours of sleep after being
> awake for over 20.
>
> I passed. He said it twice, just be sure I heard.
>
> After 37 years of dreaming of this day, and a good 6 months of studying
> advanced radio and electronics theory and hundreds of rules and regs, I
> passed my Extra. (For those of you non-hams, or non-US hams, Extra is our
> top class).
>
> I went home, told Sheri, crawled into bed, got a 90-minute nap, and now I'm
> working Rocks again until 10:30pm tonight....
>
> --
>
> Paul Braun WD9GCO
> Certified Music Junkie
>
> "Music washes from the soul the dust of everyday life." -- Berthold
> Auerbach
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