But well earned. Get some anyhow.
Chuck Norcutt
On 4/9/2016 5:36 PM, Paul Braun wrote:
Wish I could. I have church at 9AM tomorrow, I'm at the theater from 11-3
teaching one of the youth students how to design sound for a play, and then
I set up for a concert tomorrow evening....
Sleep is for sissies.
(Raising hand here....)
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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