Grabow's Ramblings From 2020

Buckle Up & Watch POSTED JAN 21, 2020
After five months on a morning shift, I'm thrilled to announce my return to nightside. This afternoon/evening shift is the one I had at WBBH, and getting it here means I can work with some of the same people I used to... those who didn't start on mornings when they moved. It also means I can pursue a social life without the 7pm bedtime. I mean, come on. :) Best of all, working on Sundays no longer means working on Sunday mornings. I belong in church on Sunday mornings. The church's control ro...

Update on This Falling Eden POSTED MAR 23, 2020
Last week I completed the all-important "official first draft" for This Falling Eden. The first book of the trilogy clocks in at 84,000 words right now. That number should go down a bit in later drafts. Just like Caffeine, this first editing phase was brutal... about 95% rewrite. My move to Orlando also happened right in the middle of it, so there was that delay. This Falling Eden is now available to test readers. A new synopsis will be needed for it, since the one I have is for t...

to Blu-ray POSTED MAY 3, 2020
This month marks 20 years since I launched the Audio/Video Component Archive , a database of HiFi Stereo Components I started when I was in high school, collecting old catalogs and looking to make my mark on this new thing called "the internet." The AVCA was the first feature of my website, months before I even had egrabow.com. (This 20 year celebration is my warm up for a bigger one in January.) The AVCA went on to become the most heavily trafficked section of the website, the fi...

Cutting FM DX Loose POSTED JUN 13, 2020
WLNK 107.9 was one of my best FM catches (Fort Myers to Charlotte) during the crazy e-skip of June 20, 2015. In 2013 I added FM DXing to my TV and AM diet. A good tropo season (2014) and e-skip season (2015) helped the FM band trouce decades-old TV records practically overnight. Those years were fun, certainly. In those years, though, I had a lot of time and attention to give to the hobby. After 2016's so-so performace, and my attention bleeding away from 2017 onward, the loggings hav...

The Party's On Youtube POSTED OCT 12, 2020
This New Years will mark 20 years of egrabow.com, founded on the lovely binary date of 01/01/01. There will be some celebration on the site itself. The Audio/Video Component Archive got some new features a few months ago - in honor of its own 20th. I'll do a corner bug and splash page as usual, plus some updates to the History Page . If there's time I'll launch the Interactive Logbook for Orlando and Crystal River. Inbetween the foundings of AVCA and egrabow.com, though, I got my drivers l...

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