It's been a busy week - I also pass the Dell technician certification for
desktops, laptops, and printers at work so I can be part of the
self-maintainer program. Next up - finish studying for my CompTIA A+
certification exams at the end of May,
On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 4:34 PM, Rick Beckrich <rbeckrich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Congrats!
> Get some rest, you've earned it.
>
> On Apr 9, 2016 5:28 PM, "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Congrats, Paul. Have a great rest of the weekend!
> >
> > Jim Nichols
> > Tullahoma, TN USA
> >
> >
> > On 4/9/2016 3:52 PM, Paul Braun 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....
> >>
> >
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Certified Music Junkie
"Music washes from the soul the dust of everyday life." -- Berthold Auerbach
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