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Happy Birthday!

Welcome aboard, Idiot.

Damn. I probably can't unsee that.

AKA, how to ruin a marriage in less than 30 days.

Love the Frank-en-stein getup! I will forever picture you that way while we're gaming, lol.

I am still logged in on Edge. It's the only way I can write this. I used it to do a password reset. I can log in to XI on Edge just fine. I DO NOT use Facebook to log in. But when I use the existing login page on the Brave Browser, and fill in my username and password, this is the screen I get which is returned from https://www.facebook.com/dialog/oauth?client_id=blah-blah-blah. In other words, regardless of my NOT electing to use the Facebook login, it apparently refuses to use any other method, which is broken, I guess. So, that would seem to be a problem with this website. Since others of you have said you can log in just fine on Brave, I would have to suspect there is something wrong with my account. So, @Sitting-Duc how the hell can I get around this colossal Facebook cluster-fuck so I can use the Brave Browser?

Hi. Thought I'd give Brave Browser a trial run as my default browser. Tried to log into this site and it was a shit-show. I tried to use my regular login, but it forced me to a Facebook login. Whatever. Did it that way. I guess Facebook wanted me to authenticate on another device and there was a request on my phone. Approved it, but was not logged into this site. Tried again, because if at first you don't succeed... But that time I never got a push notification on my phone. Used the "Try another way" option and selected to get a code txted to my phone. That came, so I entered it. The code was accepted, but I was not logged in. Next attempt I was told by Facebook: App not active This app is not accessible right now and the app developer is aware of the issue. You will be able to log in when the app is reactivated. Anyone have a suggestion?

Sure. But depends on the date and time, obviously.

This was a difficult video to shoot for. It is a place where I lived, and it's mostly decayed into nothing salvageable. But back in its day, it was one of the coolest things in North Dakota. I loved it there, and it was a job that has given me great pride all these decades since.

This video hit today, Friday, September 27, 2024.

I can't believe it either. There was not a corresponding sign on the ladies room door, btw.

Old Settler's Park in Burlington, ND was a quaint little city RV park that I had almost all to myself for the few days I was there. It's just a short hop, skip, and jump from Minot and perhaps one of the best kept secrets for places to stay when traveling through the area. 50/30/20amp power, shared water spigots, and a kind of rustic but clean restroom with a shower.

The sense of sadness I have over this picture is palpable. This is the dorm where I lived while stationed at the 786th Radar Squadron, Minot Air Force Station, North Dakota. I risked my life, literally, on this day to get to my room which was on the second floor. The face of the building you are seeing faces south. My room was the last three windows on the second floor on the north side of the building in the north west corner. At that end of the building, the floor had rotted through and I could see down to the first floor. See the antenna tripod on the roof? That actually belongs to me. I mounted it up there in January of 1978 at 0°F with a -10°F windchill, and then installed a HyGain Penetrator CB antenna on it; I couldn't believe they let me do it, but honestly I don't think they had a clue what I was proposing. Still, they didn't say a word once it went up. Picture in a moment. I could talk to anyone with a CB for as far as the eye could see. My view was the spectacular and unobstructed expanse of the North Dakota plains. I was a member of the site fire team, and the projectionist for our little makeshift movie theater. When officially on duty, I was a part of the team that maintained the most bad-ass early warning search radar system in all of North Dakota, and only a handful of them in the world. It was one of the coolest things I've ever done in my life and something that gives me incredible pride. Now the entire site is in such complete decay that I just want to cry. You can go home, but you can never go home. This will be the topic of an upcoming video. Back in the day. For me, that was 1977 - 1979. The site operated with many other radar systems from April 1953 - July 1979. I left in September 1979. The mighty AN/FPS-27A Aircraft Control and Early Warning Search Radar (4 stories) and its companion AN/FPS-26A Heigh Finder radar (2 stories). The Tranquility Base CB base station antenna, a HyGain Penetrator omni-directional 22' mast with four 9' radials. Steampunk. The site was heated by massive steam boilers and there were above-ground steam lines running everywhere. A curious juxtaposition of old school steampunk and the once state of the art cold war early warning AN/FPS-27A tech. All that remains of the once-mighty AN/FPS-27A (Verizon operates the new cell tower west of the remains of the radar towers).

Ha. I'm an idiot. Told you all I'd post here as well as my other social media and then promptly forgot to crosspost here. So let me catch you up. My YouTube channel is a couple of weeks behind where I am now. This is common for vanlife channels. The video I'm working on now has 2 hours of raw footage. That's uncommon, but unsurprising given the subject of the video - my return to a now abandoned USAF Early Warning radar site where I was stationed in the late '70s. But you can imagine how even half that amount of raw footage can be a challenge to make into something watch-worthy. So anyway, this is the most current video on my channel, and I'll post some pics of what's been happening in the meantime, too.

TBH, I'm struggling to remember when I posted in a video about that, although apparently I did. Yeah, I've been kind of into audio stuff for a long time, but it's not really a passion any more. I still have all my vinyl, too, and mine also dates back to grade school. Some of my first being Iron Butterfly – In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida and Three Dog Night - Live At The Forum. I've had a few systems over the years, but mainly the one I built when I was 18 and still in high school followed me for decades. Heathkit AR-1500A receiver and a pair of Heathkit AS-104 speakers. I coupled them with a pair of Magnavox (yup, Magnavox) speakers that have 15" woofers and horn tweeters. The Heathkit was becomming too much to try to maintain, so it's been religated to a pile of stuff in the basement. The two sets of speakers are now attached to a Sony STRDH190 receiver. I don't know what it is about that Sony, but a lot of people LOVE that thing, and so do I. The first thing I did when I hooked it up to those speakers was play the David Gilmour - Live At Pompeii, Sorrow video. I literally cried. It was that good. With apologies to my neighbors. Me at 18 building the Heathkit AR-1500A

It's a date! Thanks Mike!

Hey Hammer! It's a blast out here, that's for sure. Thanks for the sub!

Hey Smeggie! Thanks for the sub! Really appreciate that. Yeah, the ability to do this came as a bit of a surprise to me. I guess I made some really good guesses in the stock market. I'd love to get up to Alaska one day. Thanks for tuning in. I hope to keep you entertained.

Meanwhile, back in North Dakota at the International Peace Garden. Note that my YouTube channel will be a few weeks behind my actual location, but here and on Facebook things are a bit more real-time. I'm in Bozeman, MT as I write this.

There was a lot of rain in this part of Montana over last night. When I got to Bozeman, from where this was taken, I see it ended up snow-capping some of the mountain peaks.

Holter Lake State Recreation Area, Beartooth Rd, Wolf Creek, MT 59648 (a pay-to-stay BLM campground).

Okay, so in the game today, I was mentioning how amazing the place is that I am today and that I had posted some pics on Facebook. Not everyone has or uses Facebook, which I get, and I don't blame you if you stay away from that cesspool. Someone in the game today suggested I just post in the forums here on the >XI< website, so here you go. And for those who are unaware, in November 2022 I moved into a van pretty much fulltime just so I could drive around and see all the places in the USA that I never saw before I found myself in the surprising position to actually retire. So, the next post in this thread is pictures of my van and where it is parked for this night on, Thursday, 2004-09-12. I have a YouTube channel and I'll post here when I post there so you'll know when there's a new video in case you want to check it out. I also have a Facebook Group. You can find my YouTube Channel and my Facebook Group by searching for JoyEnRoute on either of those platforms. My Van's name is "Joy", hence JoyEnRoute. Enjoy. (I hope.)

@Merlin007 Three things: We tried to go to the Redline server this evening when DM3 hung. Looks like most people were having problems getting in. The map was Alcatraz, I was getting DX9 errors and crashing on the splash screen of the map. Could you please restore the QPort timeout on DM3 to its lowest value so we can get in after a game crash faster? The Redline server was at least clearing the QPort session quickly. Maybe compare its setting to the one on DM3. DM3 takes forever after the game crashes on your computer to let you past the duplicate QPort error. It doesn't have to take that long. Way too many map rotations on DM3 are causing the server to hang these days. I see Opto is now a mod and I think someone else showed up with mod taqs too the other day, but I don't remember who that was atm. But tonight, there was no one there to save us, and the Redline server let us down. Last night Opto was there, but didn't have the training to restart the server. That should be training task #1 for a new mod. Last night we went over to the Sniper server and had fun. Thanks.

@Elvis9 I think it depends on when you bought it. Early on, I believe the Steam version would allow the creation of an online profile. Several people in the servers today are apparently playing on their Steam edition of COD5. A couple of years ago when I tried, I could not and the issue was well known back then. It just didn't work for multiplayer. You could play the single-player campaign just fine, but not multiplayer online. I think it might have been traced back to the Activision key validation servers not allowing it, or not allowing the creation of a new online profile. If they've changed that these days, that would be great.