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I ordered a can of DoxIT through Walmart recently. I am loathe to give that company any money, but after a lot of online searching, they were the only ones offering it at a reasonable price for both the product and the shipping. A couple of the other places I'd looked had been selling it for only slightly more, but they wanted almost the full value of the product again for delivery. On the other hand, Walmart gave me free shipping.
It's not like I've made a personal vow never to shop at Walmart - it's more of a moral guideline. I'll still go to them as a source of last resort if everything else fails.
Given that they shipped it for free, I guess I should not have been surprised when it showed up in an envelope. That is, they shoved the can you see in this picture into an envelope, taped it shut and dropped it in the mail.
Mind you, as you can see in the picture, it showed up in good condition, so I can't complain.
We have a couple of old transistor radios1 kicking around whose volume controls have been in dire need of cleaning for years, so I put on my reading glasses and headlamp and did some minor surgery on them. I opened them up, gave their volume knobs a couple of quick shot of the contact cleaner, and reassembled them again. They are still as battered and scratched as ever, but they sound like new.
It might have been cheaper to just buy a couple of new radios, but this was much more satisfying.
To put a date on these radios, we picked up one of them about ten years ago, and I grabbed the other at Radio Shack when I moved into my basement suite back in '89.
We've been enjoying a long stretch of unseasonably warm weather so far this fall. We've had a few minor dumps of snow, but most of it has since melted. It's been cold enough that the river is mostly frozen over now, though, as you can see in this shot.
1Radios are these things that some folk use for over-the-air push information and entertainment. They broadcast over a couple of the lower frequency bands, and depending on the band, they either broadcast the signal by modulating the amplitude of the signal, or by modulating the frequency of the signal. If you're still confused, they are probably from a bit before your time. Don't worry about it.
It's not like I've made a personal vow never to shop at Walmart - it's more of a moral guideline. I'll still go to them as a source of last resort if everything else fails.
Given that they shipped it for free, I guess I should not have been surprised when it showed up in an envelope. That is, they shoved the can you see in this picture into an envelope, taped it shut and dropped it in the mail.
Mind you, as you can see in the picture, it showed up in good condition, so I can't complain.
We have a couple of old transistor radios1 kicking around whose volume controls have been in dire need of cleaning for years, so I put on my reading glasses and headlamp and did some minor surgery on them. I opened them up, gave their volume knobs a couple of quick shot of the contact cleaner, and reassembled them again. They are still as battered and scratched as ever, but they sound like new.
It might have been cheaper to just buy a couple of new radios, but this was much more satisfying.
To put a date on these radios, we picked up one of them about ten years ago, and I grabbed the other at Radio Shack when I moved into my basement suite back in '89.
We've been enjoying a long stretch of unseasonably warm weather so far this fall. We've had a few minor dumps of snow, but most of it has since melted. It's been cold enough that the river is mostly frozen over now, though, as you can see in this shot.
1Radios are these things that some folk use for over-the-air push information and entertainment. They broadcast over a couple of the lower frequency bands, and depending on the band, they either broadcast the signal by modulating the amplitude of the signal, or by modulating the frequency of the signal. If you're still confused, they are probably from a bit before your time. Don't worry about it.