Pledge Drive - Day 1... there is hope

[susandennis]

10 minutes after the radio went on this morning, they launched the Pledge Drive.   And I launched my PDA* program (Pledge Drive Avoidance).  I hope theirs was as successful as mine.  I had many online versions of Morning Edition and picked at random ending up in Los Angeles. 

Thankgod, my weather will not be what they were reporting!

Our National Public Radio touts itself as being commercial free.  They are non-profit but certainly not commercial free.  And in the past decade they have really become commercial laden.  I was amused to hear the commercials in LA.  Very different than Seattle's.  One was for a hospital named after Ronald Regan.  Kind of a rude awakening there.  I'm still pissed about the renaming after him of a certain DC airport - I cannot imagine what it would be like to wake up in a hospital named after him!  Yeah, I need to get over it.

I did discover that my USB speaker is just not that solid.  And when it loses it's USBness, just resetting it causes several programs to fail. 

So, basking for once in the glory of my hoarding, I dug out a small pair of Radio Shack speakers that I bought 4,000 years ago to get better sound out of my small transistor radio.  They plug into the speaker jack and work much better.  They look like they have been in some old lady's storage for decades, oh wait, they have... but they work great.

Tomorrow I may listen to an Arizona station.  I'm kind of looking forward to a couple of weeks of NPR Around The Country.