Re: Whew! pretty long dry spell here is ASA

[Bob La Londe <none@none.com99>]

On 9/23/2020 5:53 AM, ABLE1 wrote:
> On 9/22/2020 9:04 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
>> On 9/22/2020 5:48 PM, alar...@xxxxxxx wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, September 22, 2020 at 2:07:21 PM UTC-4, Bob La Londe wrote:
>>>> On 9/21/2020 6:39 PM, Jim Davis wrote:
>>>>> Hasn't anyone got anything going on that's worth talking about?
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm installing these Napco Starlink radios one after another.
>>>>> Everybody want's to control their alarm system with their phones.
>>>>> They like the text messaging. Especially the businesses. They can
>>>>> see who's coming and going and when. JUst wish I could integrate
>>>>> some video with it. The IBridge has video and Zwave capability but
>>>>> their video is only with Napco cameras ---- and they suck.
>>>>>
>>>>> Four installed last week alone, got half a dozen more coming up in
>>>>> the next couple of weeks along with some 3G to 4G upgrades. Most of
>>>>> those didn't have messaging when I installed them so I expect I'll
>>>>> be able to up sell some of them on the messaging for a little bump
>>>>> up in the monthly RMR.
>>>>>
>>>>> Local Dunkin Doughnuts got held up with shots fired next door to
>>>>> one of my alarm accounts. So - - - - now I've got a 12 camera
>>>>> installation I'm working on.
>>>>>
>>>>> I may have already mentioned this but one of my long time customers
>>>>> whom I've moved with for about 30 years is this time moving into a
>>>>> 60,000 square foot building. It's going to be a gradual move wo I
>>>>> should be able to keep up with it by myself. Although this time I
>>>>> was able to get the electrician to run my wires while he had is
>>>>> crew and man lifts. Only partial system in now but I installed the
>>>>> Napco 255 zone panel and a huge wiring cabinet with lots of wiring
>>>>> terminals. I also put a keypad in the wiring cabinet so I don't
>>>>> have to keep running (seems like) 1/4 of a mile to see what the
>>>>> panel is doing. I put in a humongus Altronix aux power supply that
>>>>> can be monitored of course got a Starlink radio. Used Bosch's
>>>>> ceiling motion detectors because of the height of the stringers in
>>>>> the warehouse. They seem to work pretty good now but I'll have to
>>>>> see how it goes when they start to move in some of their equipment.
>>>>> I ordered some armored sheathing for the door wiring and put all
>>>>> the contacts on the tops of the overhead doors. Seven of them so
>>>>> far. More to come as they modify the building over the next couple
>>>>> of years. The owner is making a space to park his 720S McClarin so
>>>>> he doesn't have to leave it outside when he comes to work. If
>>>>> you've never seen one go to the website. Whatta car !!!
>>>>>
>>>>> This friday I've got to go and do a survey of a home of someone who
>>>>> wants to upgrade their 30 year old DSC residential alarm system.
>>>>> With the brief look that I took the system has alarm screens and
>>>>> most of the pull plugs are broken off and the wires just twisted
>>>>> together. I didn't get to go through the whole house (which is why
>>>>> I'm going back) but I think they have a motion detector in every
>>>>> room of the house. Only the front door has a contact on it the rest
>>>>> of the perimeter doors don't - - - - I guess dependent upon the
>>>>> motion detectors but of course only when they aren't home. I've
>>>>> gotta go back and look in every room to see what kind of
>>>>> conglomeration they put in this home. These folks are getting ready
>>>>> to become snowbirds so they want to be able to control the alarm
>>>>> from Florida and they want cameras too. They asked me for a ball
>>>>> park and I just threw $5000.00 at them and it didn't seem to raise
>>>>> and eyebrow. so we'll see how it winds up.
>>>>>
>>>>> Got another customer moving to a new location. Had to borrow an
>>>>> installer from a friend to run the wires to the back of the
>>>>> warehouse and wire in the overheads and exit doors. I installed the
>>>>> panel and did the front doors and glass. Took 1 day with me and the
>>>>> installer and one day me alone.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The rest of the stuff is just replacing contacts on new doors or
>>>>> windows. Installing Ring doorbells. Replacing window foil with
>>>>> glass shock sensors
>>>>>
>>>>> Did the final touches on a BIG ranch house with an apartment. I did
>>>>> everything --- Alarm system ,partitioned, TV'x, Arlo Cameras.
>>>>> Surround sound speakers in ceiling in living room. Internet network
>>>>> for their home, his office and for the apartment. Set up two WiFi
>>>>> networks with bridged routers. Wiring for internet telephone and
>>>>> landline for fax. Installed pull down TV bracket over the fireplace
>>>>> and set up a Denon receiver for their sound system. I enjoy jobs
>>>>> like that where I do it all. I don't have to work around someone
>>>>> else's work.
>>>>>
>>>>> Well that's all I can think of right now.
>>>>> Maybe is will be some kind of stimulus to get this thing moving again.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Topic: Adventures On The LOWER Lower River
>>>> http://yumabassman.com/forums-new/index.php/topic,10300.0.html
>>>>
>>>> Topic: The Lower Lower River - REVISITED
>>>> http://yumabassman.com/forums-new/index.php/topic,10317.0.html
>>>>
>>>> Sorry, not alarm related other than I turn the alarm on in the shop
>>>> before I go. Its a little more metal working related since I use a lot
>>>> of lures made in molds I machined in the shop.
>>>>
>>>> My wife is having back surgery next week, so even my time in the shop
>>>> may be limited for a while.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hey Bob, you tell a good story. I'd bet there's a sports fishing
>>> paper, news letter etc/ around that would pay for those kind of
>>> narratives. Even an online blog would get you a lot of followers, I'd
>>> bet.
>>> When I was a kid, I used to go up state NY every summer where all my
>>> relatives are and my Uncle Joe would take me fishing. He wasn't a pro
>>> or anything but he sure knew his fish and the waters of the St
>>> Lawrence River. I remember that he could tell the difference between
>>> what kind of fish was biting at his bait. We didn't do too much with
>>> lures. mostly worms and live bait. I was 8 years old when I caught my
>>> first small mouth bass. Probably weighed a couple of pounds. Maybe
>>> not but it seemed like it to me.  I remember I was so proud when I
>>> came home to show my mom. He had a 14 foot wooden rowboat and a 10
>>> horse Johnson outboard. This was before the St Lawrence Seaway and
>>> the river had some really big rapids. He'd take that little boat just
>>> up to the edge of the rapids and throw out what was his anchor
>>> overboard ( he had a big heavy duty metal wash pail filled with
>>> cement for an anchor, I have no idea how much that thing must have
>>> weighed) We had to put out a lot of anchor line so the rapids
>>> wouldn't pull the bow down underwater. The anchor would always drag
>>> until it caught on a rock. We'd put anywhere from a 1 to 6 ounce lead
>>> sinkers and a worm or minnow on a leader tied about a foot or two
>>> above the sinker and drop it over into the rapids. These are not
>>> little rapids now. The water is about 20 feet deep and the water is
>>> right next to the boat, running about a foot or two higher than the
>>> gunnels. Now when I think about it --- it was crazy but we did it
>>> dozens of times. Pulling in small mouth bass, pickerel, pike and REAL
>>> BIG perch. And every once in awhile a small muskie. Never had a bad
>>> day at that spot.  I loved the perch. Coat them with a little bit of
>>> flour, drop them in a cast iron fry pan full of hot oil on a charcoal
>>> grill and the meat would just fall off the bone. Especially the big
>>> ones. I really loved my Uncle Joe. he had 3 girls so I guess I was
>>> the son he never had. He had to work obviously but sometimes he could
>>> sneak away. He'd tell me the day before so I'd go out and water the
>>> lawn that day and pick a couple of tin cans full of big juicy night
>>> crawlers with a flash light till 10 o'clock at night. Then he'd come
>>> in my room before dawn and whisper to wake me up so we could sneak
>>> out of the house without waking anyone. It was real exciting for a
>>> kid at that age. Getting down to the landing where he kept the boat
>>> tied up and rowing away the shallow rocky bottom water, in the dark.
>>> Starting the engine and letting me handle it until we got close to
>>> which ever spot he'd chosen for the few hours we could spend until he
>>> had to go to work. I think he lost at least a half a dozen pair of
>>> glasses from knocking them in the water when he'd try to snag a fish.
>>> I can still see him with the Camel cigarette hanging from his mouth,
>>> with the embers blowing in the wind while he's cranking the reel
>>> trying to pull in a fish. And as old as he was, he was always excited
>>> with a big grin on his face when he was reeling in a fish. I never
>>> got a bigger fish then he did on every trip we took. And you have to
>>> remember, these weren't fiberglass rods and spinning reels either.
>>> Can't tell you how many hours I spent untangling the back lashed
>>> lines on those reels. I'd take more than one reel, just is case.
>>> For a few years when the kids were young, we'd go fishing off the
>>> local dock for blow fish and snappers and when I finally bought a
>>> boat, we'd go for flounder, black fish, fluke and my all time
>>> favorite Weakfish. But as the kids out grew fishing, the boat and me,
>>> I stopped salt water fishing. I'm pretty much a loner so I didn't
>>> fall in with the beer drinking fishing crowd. So that's when my wife
>>> and i started taking some of out boating trips to Nantucket, Cape
>>> Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Newport. We took some really great boating
>>> trips up the Hudson river, Atlantic City, and too many other places
>>> to name here. We have a lot of great memories.
>>> Anyway, where I live now there's not much fresh water fishing and
>>> besides, now days you have to stand in line to do anything. Or fish a
>>> stream or lake with 5 other fishermen within a hundred feet. Very
>>> few, if any places left to go to just be alone and fish near me. And
>>> although there's the ocean, mankind just like everything else, has
>>> ruined it. It's just plain old dirty gray, brown or black water that
>>> I wouldn't eat anything I caught anyway. And fishing off the back of
>>> yacht with what amounts to a stiff broom handle and busting my ass
>>> trying to crank the winch-like reel on it to go blue fish or sea bass
>>> fishing is not my idea of fishing.
>>> 30 some odd years ago I tried to do some fly fishing and i tried it
>>> for a couple of years. Reading and trying to practice in the back
>>> yard but just couldn't master the cast on my own to my satisfaction
>>> and I didn't know anyone that I could learn from. I didn't even know
>>> anyone who did fly fishing. Some people said I did ok but they
>>> weren't fishermen and it just didn't feel right to me and it usually
>>> took me 3 or 4 tries to get the fly where I wanted it. There was
>>> never a trip that I didn't whip snap a fly off. I was going to try to
>>> find someone to give me lessons but I just never did and gradually
>>> gave it up. I still have the rig somewhere down in the basement but
>>> it's probably turned to dust by now. I gave my waders to my wife's
>>> cousin who does surf fishing. Now days, every once in a while I go
>>> down and open my fishing box when I need a piece of nylon line for
>>> some project or to hang up one of my wife's chimes or climbing
>>> flowers on the patio.
>>> So that's the end of my fishing story. Yours obviously is still in
>>> progress. Cherish it.
>>>
>>>
>>> Best wishes for your wife's recovery
>>>
>>
>>
>> You aren't to bad a story teller yourself.  Maybe break things up a
>> little to make it easier to read.  I bet using the spoken word in
>> person you would be tell it pretty well.
>>
>
> Ok so now we are firmly on to telling FISH STORIES!!  LOL
>
> So with that I will share one of mine.  Although mine will be much
> shorter.
>
> As a kid I spent a lot of time at my Grandma's.  She lived downstream
> from the state trout hatchery.  A local kid my age named Derwood and I
> would chum around quite a bit.  We would go up along the creek past the
> hatchery.  There was a dirt service road between the creek and one of
> the trout ponds.  We would sit on the bank of the creek with our lines
> in the creek.  We would sit there a while looking around for any of the
> hatchery employees.  Then we would throw our baited lines over our
> shoulder across the dirt road and into the pond.  With a few thousand
> very hungry 8" to 10" trout it only took a couple of seconds to get one
> hooked.  We would then start reeling in, drag the trout out of the pond
> across the dirt road and into the creek.  It was at that point we would
> yell "Got One!!"Â Â  It was a lot of fun getting away with it and taking
> some good trout back to Grandma!!
>
> Another time a different story.  It was trout season and as always the
> creek was full of others trying to get their limit.  I happened to be
> a one point standing under a bridge.  While standing there and fishing
> down stream I noticed a line with bait floating past me.  As stupid as
> kids are I decided to give the guy on the bridge a thrill.  So I reached
> over and grabbed the line and gave a quick jerk.  Well he was very very
> quick in his response and pulled back to set the hook.  He did just that
> right into my thumb!!!  Needless to say I started screaming!!!  Ended up
> going to the doctor who used his surgical needle nose pliers with a
> quick twist and flip and pulled it out.  Put a band-aid on my bleeding
> thumb and sent my Grandma and me home.  I tried my best not to be stupid
> any more.  Didn't work, but I never had another hook in my thumb again.
>
> Presently I have a stream in my backyard.  It is stocked every year with
> trout by the fish commission.  Been living here for about 43 years and
> have never fished in my creek.  I have my old poles and tackle box in
> the basement.  Over the years I have had issues with cleaning up after
> all those disrespectful individuals among the fishing community.

The two links I posted earlier were recent fishing trips.  Last Friday
and a couple weeks before.  I'll probably get out again this afternoon
or Friday afternoon.  Besides making parts in my machine shop its what I
am up to these days.

If you were to follow some of the on-line fishing forums, you would find
most anglers are just as frustrated with the assholes among us.  I've
hauled off bags of other people's trash more than once.  Its the number
one reason land owners close private land to anglers and hunters.
Second is reckless disregard for property and safety or outright
vandalism.  I was always taught if you find a gate open leave it open
and contact the rancher/farmer.  If you find a gate closed, leave it
closed when you pass, and don't shoot any equipment no matter what.
There are no accidents.

Which reminds me of a story.

Growing up I was always told White Wing Ranch was 100% closed to hunting
to anybody who did not live on the ranch.  That was actually quite a few
people.  As farms go its decent size.  When I was a young man working
for the phone company I decided to ask the ranch manager.  Nick Condora.
  I explained what I wanted to do was drive the perimeter road of the
farm and catch quail leaving the fields headed back into the desert, so
I would not be shooting into the fields.  I had known him since I was a
little kid, and he said "Yeah sure Bobby.  You can even shoot over the
fields if you need to.  Just don't shoot any green Deere."