{"id":4971,"date":"2011-11-18T15:09:38","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T19:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gad.net\/Blog\/?p=4971"},"modified":"2013-05-23T19:16:48","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T23:16:48","slug":"annie-and-the-antenna-muffins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gad.net\/Blog\/2011\/11\/18\/annie-and-the-antenna-muffins\/","title":{"rendered":"Annie and the Antenna Muffins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"zoom\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gad.net\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/PerfectBranMuffin-800.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5020\" title=\"PerfectBranMuffin-800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gad.net\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/PerfectBranMuffin-800-300x199.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m going to let you in on a little secret about me. Actually, I&#8217;m going to reveal two, but only because both secrets are germane to the tale. The first secret isn&#8217;t very scandalous, and it&#8217;s probably not much of a secret either, but I&#8217;ve been bearing the burden of this boring secret for too long, and so the truth must be revealed. You see, I like bran muffins.<\/p>\n<p>Shameful, I know.<\/p>\n<p>Being the quirky, pain-in-the-ass, control freak that I am, I will not settle for just any bran muffins. The bran muffins I demand are made by our local supermarket chain, ShopRite. I should also mention that of all the ShopRites I&#8217;ve ever visited, only one makes bran muffins the way I like them. Did I mention that I&#8217;m a quirky control-freak who is also a pain-in-the-ass? Check with my wife. She will confirm every last bit of that last compound-adjective-laden sentence.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>You see, most ShopRites around here have a bakery, and most of them make bran muffins, but they pollute them with the most disgusting manner of dried fruit. That&#8217;s right, I&#8217;m referring to those vile little nuggets of nastiness called <em>raisins<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Raisins used to be dirty old grapes that fell off the vine and sat rotting in the sun. That is until some bright farmer saw them and thought, &#8220;Hey, I bet I could make a tidy profit selling rotten old grapes to unsuspecting consumers!&#8221; Even after they fell to the ground in miserable failure, the mice wouldn&#8217;t eat the nasty little things. That alone should make it obvious that raisins are disgusting, because mice will eat anything. Sure, I made that part about the mice up, but that doesn&#8217;t detract from the fact that I loath raisins. Nasty little wrinkled grape failures, every one of &#8217;em.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the one ShopRite near our house sells the most perfect, moist and delicious bran muffins ever baked, properly devoid of nasty raisins, and carefully prepared fresh on weeks when I&#8217;m not there to buy them. On the rare occasion that I wander into this particular ShopRite and they do have the muffins I crave, I buy them without question, hesitation, or concern for price. Sometimes I buy two of the muffin six-packs, since the GADlings have developed a taste for the perfect raisnonless bran muffin as well, and as anyone who knows me will attest, I hate to share\u2014especially when it comes to food.<\/p>\n<p>So it was, on this fine November day, when I rushed into ShopRite to buy supplies for one of my many business trips, that I spied a shelf full of freshly baked muffins. To my delight, there was a single six-pack of bran muffins <em>sans raisins<\/em>, so I bought it and went about my regularly scheduling shopping.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not ashamed to admit that I sat in my car outside the ShopRite and quickly devoured two delicious raisin-free bran muffins. Since I had to fly later in the day, I knew that whatever muffins I left would be consumed by the ravenous GADlings. I simply took advantage of the fact that I was alone with my muffins and enjoyed them in peace. OK, so I ate one while walking to the car too, but it had been so long since I&#8217;d enjoyed the sweet taste of a moist perfect muffin. I felt I deserved a pre-car muffin, and for that, I am not ashamed.<\/p>\n<p>After my gluttonous ingestion of three muffins in and around the car, I decided that I would tell the kids that they could have one each, which meant I could have one more when I got home. That is, if it lasted that long. On the ride home I rationalized how they could split one instead, which would leave two for me. Of course I&#8217;d have to eat another to limit the arguing that would ensue when they saw three, but we do what we must when we don&#8217;t like to share. For the record, I settled on letting them each have one, because I&#8217;m a Hell of a guy. I was also getting a bit nauseous from eating so many muffins.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zoom\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gad.net\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/FT2000-Front-800.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4976\" title=\"FT2000-Front-800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gad.net\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/FT2000-Front-800-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a>After I got home, I put my bags on my suitcase, and went to check on my laundry. It still had twenty minutes to go, so I decided to bring in my off-center dipole HF antenna, which brings me to secret number two:\u00a0I am a licensed ham radio operator.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s true. If you&#8217;ve ever wondered just how far down the nerd path I&#8217;ve travelled, let there be no more doubt. Not only have I been a licensed ham since 1995 (a mere three months before our wedding), I also just upgraded my license from Technician class to General, thus allowing me to transmit on the coveted high frequency bands, colloquially known as <em>shortwave<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zoom\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gad.net\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Buckmaster-OCF-Dipole-300W.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4982\" title=\"Buckmaster-OCF-Dipole-300W\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gad.net\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Buckmaster-OCF-Dipole-300W-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a>As a new member of the nerd elite, I set myself up with a wonderful new radio, but even the best radio is useless without the proper antenna. Naturally, I opted for a multi-band off-center-fed dipole. Since I know you&#8217;re wondering, a dipole is essentially just two long wires of equal length. There&#8217;s a bunch of math involved to determine how long the wires should be, but nothing kills a story like math, so I&#8217;ll skip over that part. Suffice to say, an off-center-fed dipole has one wire longer than the other, but what&#8217;s really important is that in my case, I&#8217;m talking about almost 140 feet of wire.<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re aware, a properly installed dipole needs to be strung up at least thirty five feet in the air. Naturally, being more impatient than I am nerdy, I strung mine out on the front lawn until I could order the requisite rope and pulleys to string it up in the trees. The only problem with this arrangement was the fact that I&#8217;d connected the antenna with a coax feedline (nerd-speak for <em>cable<\/em>) through an open window in my office. I couldn&#8217;t leave it like that while I was away, so I went outside to coil up the 140 foot wire that was my conduit to shortwave listening nirvana.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4980\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a class=\"zoom\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gad.net\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ColleenAntenna-800.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4980\" title=\"ColleenAntenna-800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gad.net\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ColleenAntenna-800-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Collie being fabulous<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When I&#8217;d put the antenna out on the lawn, I&#8217;d had the help of Colleen (GADling #2). She was a tremendous helper who not only added a great deal of glamour and panache to the event, but also cut the deployment time roughly in half. There aren&#8217;t many hams out there who would strike a <em>Saturday Night Fever<\/em> pose while installing the short leg of a dipole antenna, though I&#8217;m not exactly sure how that benefited the project. At any rate, with Colleen&#8217;s help, it took us all of five minutes to lay the antenna out on the lawn.<\/p>\n<p>When I went out to retrieve the antenna, I coiled it up, secured each of the two coils with velcro, carefully covered the ends, and stored it in the garage. Total time spent: approximately six minutes. I may not have the grace and fluidity of a GADling, but I&#8217;m a much more efficient worker. I was not outside for more than six minutes. What could possibly happen in six minutes?<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zoom\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gad.net\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/MuffinCrumbs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4983\" title=\"MuffinCrumbs\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gad.net\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/MuffinCrumbs-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a>When I went back into the house, I saw Annie the ferret-dog looking guilty in the family room. That&#8217;s when I suspected the horrible truth. The muffins! The tasty perfect raisinless muffins! I ran into the office, and found the sickening remains of muffin plunder.<\/p>\n<p>There was my suitcase, and on top, the empty muffin container. No muffins! There were no signs of forced entry, no sign of a struggle, and nothing to indicate that there had ever been muffins &#8211; except for the obviously empty muffin tray and some crumbs. She had even eaten the wrappers.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not proud of what I said to Annie that day while I wagged an enraged finger at her. Seriously, my finger was <em>angry<\/em>! That freaking dog ate my muffins! My perfectly moist raisinless muffins that I&#8217;d brought home to share! Not only was my generosity now wasted, but I was struck by the fact that my generosity had cost me the remaining muffins. I could have eaten another one in the car, but instead, they were wasted in the most wasteful way possible. That damn dog not only ate some of my delicious muffins &#8211; she had eaten half of them! \u00a0I felt a sudden urge to list the damn dog on Craigslist. Perhaps with a heading like, &#8220;For Sale &#8211; Demented Ferret-Dog hybrid with a penchant for eating the master&#8217;s muffins.&#8221; I imagine that would garner attention, though somehow, I don&#8217;t think it would attract the kind of people I&#8217;d be looking for.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zoom\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gad.net\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Annie-The-Ferret-Dog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5012\" title=\"Annie-The-Ferret-Dog\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gad.net\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Annie-The-Ferret-Dog-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m always telling the kids not to leave food out because it will attract vermin.\u00a0Sure, I&#8217;m an idiot for leaving food out where this beast could reach it. I&#8217;m doubly stupid, because I&#8217;ve lived with the filthy beast for years and should have seen this coming. 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