ILegal Handicapped Parking Saturday.
By Norm Seeley | May 10, 2008
We went to lunch today in Tempe Arizona and when we got to the restaurant only one handicapped spot was left open, and I had to back into the spot so that I could let down the ramp. All of the spots, as it turned out were filled with KIA Vans. I have no idea why they were all KIAs, just happened I guess. But the one parked to the right of our vehicle as you can see in the picture below was illegally parked.
After lunch we came back to our van. The Illegally parked van was gone. However it had been replaced and as it turned out, another KIA van. It too was illegally parked.
Both of these vans, had handicapped placards, but apparently their drivers didn’t know the handicapped parking rules….or what I really think, the drivers didn’t care about the rules.
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Friday’s Music New
By Norm Seeley | May 9, 2008
Friday’s Music
for
May 9, 2008
Each of the last few Friday’s, not only have I included a Friday’s Music featuring new music, I have also posted a blog. While the bog might talk a little about my time on the air and kinda the reason for Friday’s Music, that hasn’t always been the reason for the blog attached to FM.
I guess I just like to see what I type into the computer. Maybe I do it in an effort to get someone out there to comment and start a conversation on the Internet. Sometimes that works but really it’s amazing that I can write all sorts of ideas of my own, and sometimes they’re so off base that a lot of people would think that I’m out of my mind.
Lately, I have been thinking about Medicare Insurance . Mainly cause in August the big 65 is going to hit me. I have to tell you, I hope that I don’t get hit hard. I’m just not into pain and that kind of stuff. I might be a “big Person”, but, I don’t like anything physical. Period. Just think of that, I’m old enough to qualify for Medicare.
I think that it’s wonderful, our government providing us with the same Health insurance that those in the House and Senate in Washington have for themselves and their families at no cost to them. Isn’t that great that it’s no cost to us too.
What?
I’m sorry, you mean to tell me that it doesn’t have the same absolutely full health coverage provided those in Washington. You mean to tell me there are things my Medicare Coverage isn’t going to cover? Why?
Come again, say that again.
I will have to pay how much for my Medicare coverage? I don’t understand, House and Senate members don’t pay a thing. Many of them are over 65.
America, the land of Equal Opportunities. America where our leaders are more Equal than we the TAXPAYERS.
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Our Patio.
By Norm Seeley | May 9, 2008
Out house has a patio in the back. When I first moved into the house, it wasn’t there. Well, it was but not like it is now.
At first there was concrete there covering a good portion of the area right behind the house. There was a couple of doors that lead out to the back but the concrete pad was not covered. During the summer months it got a lot of SUN. A lot of Hot Arizona Sun.
To the West side of the house, there was a gate that opened out to the front, and it was big enough to drive vehicles through and the concrete was large enough for me to park not one, not two, but three wheelchair vans on the concrete and a couple on the grass. Since I was in the wheelchair van rental business, it was ideal for parking the vans there when I left the city for a couple of days. They were parked where they couldn’t be seen from the street. Out of sight, Out of mind. SAFE.
After KK got here, we had the opportunity to have a roof built over a good portion of the concrete there in the back. While it was not as easy to park vans back there, really just not as many, the fact that now we could spend more time out there made a lot of difference.
Before the “Patio” was built, it was not really a place were we spent much time. It needed something. Several things really. For one, outdoor furniture. Lights and a couple of fans. Well with a roof, we had a place to hang lights with fans and that we did.
So now, here we are….in Scottsdale Arizona with a small wonderful house with a nice Patio that can be used a lot more of the time than when it was just concrete.
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Here I go again.
By Norm Seeley | May 9, 2008
Today it’s the 9th, not even a month has gone by and here I am thinking about the wonderful day when I came into the world. Had there been HD video in those days, and remote radio had been more advanced, I’m sure most of the world, at least the part that had running water and electricity , would have been able to listen to or watch live broadcasts from outside the Greenwich Hospital where I was born. Considering who my family had connections with, the birth would would have at least had a way for the reporters to tie it in with Big Business there in the East. If you watchers to normradio.com only knew my roots. Or semi roots, if you get down to the truth. LONG STORY.
I guess I should start what’s going to happen on that day. There was a very small party last year when the norm bobble head doll and Denny Crane came to live with KK and I. Tracy was there and she was forced to take pictures. It was a nice lunch though.
I suppose that I should plan to celebrate with a lunch at one of my favorite places to eat here in Scottsdale. Now I remember one of the first years that KK and I were together, I throw a party for her at a Phoenix spot, had birthday invitations, and a lot of people showed up to her surprise. Back then it was a spot that she and I used to go to at least once a week. The staff, almost every one of them, knew us by our first names. The party turned out to be a pretty good one, a couple of the people I invited surprised KK and she was very glad that they came.
Planning such a thing for one’s self, in my mind is not really something I want to do. I’m more of a spend the time with her type of guy. I also would be a tad on the embarrassed side to call people and say I’m hold a birthday party for myself. Talk about EGO.
Now I know that there are some of you out there who might think I have that kind of EGO, but it ain’t true. Doing it for someone else. You Bet. My self? I’ll pass.
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Another Lazy Week?
By Norm Seeley | May 9, 2008
Scottsdale
Here it is the end of the week again, another lazy week for me, I really haven’t spent much time working or even thinking about normradio.com, Friday’s Music, or much else for that matter.
Monday, I did some cleaning around the house. That is not normal at all for me. I’m one of those people who knows how to live with dirt. I will though when I really see that it’s dirty, take care of it. But last Monday, I had all ready planned to do some cleaning and I did and it looked good when I was finished.
Tuesday, I for a brief time lusted after a new version of an microphone out of the late 30s and Early 40s. That went away when I learn how much it cost the next day.
Wednesday, I at least had a cheaper mike that I could at least think about.
Thursday, nothing to report.
Friday, was there for KK.
Denver
Funny how every day there are things out of the past that I think about. People, and of course places. Denver is on the top of the list. West Palm Beach gets a moment or two. And I think about Las Vegas, and of course Las Vegas Hotels. Want would Vegas be without Hotels?
Las Vegas
Saturday is usually quiet for the two of us.
Sunday, we go to church, not in the morning lately, but that is about to change as our Church, E3Scottsdale, which has plans that will soon have services taking place again each Sunday morning.
I honestly think I will like that better. I’m not one who loves getting up early, but a church service late in the afternoon, is hard for me to get used too. Sunday morning, here we come back.
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Friday’s Music New
By Norm Seeley | May 2, 2008
Friday’s Music
for
May 2, 2008
Each week I record songs from the time I worked on the air for radio stations in Denver, Colorado and here in Phoenix. I spent years working on AM radio stations. FM was just starting to “come alive” in those days. I remember while I was attending the University of Denver, and working at KIMN, which was the top rocker in the city. DU was offered a 50,000 watt FM station and they turned the offer down. Even then I couldn’t believe how the Radio-TV Department there could have not jumped at the chance to get hold of such a facility. I remember having one conversation with the head of the department, needless to say, I don’t think I made any points with him as I told him what I thought of their decision. OH Well, that didn’t stop me from working while attending college.
About the same time, my parents sold their house that was in the Center of Denver and moved down to Scottsdale. Before they had come down each winter and stayed at a place called the Ride N Rock. So I had to find places to stay. First it was a dorm at DU. I have no fond memories. Then I lived in a one room apartment in a house near the campus. OK, but no big deal. Then, I got the opportunity to move into the apartment above the garage behind the Longs house. This was very close to Cheeseman park, my old stomping grounds. I had a roommate who also was in radio. It was a small but great apartment looking out over the Denver botanical Gardens. About the only thing we had to supply was bedding. OH Yes, food was up to us.
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Cadillac Ranch - Tempe Arizona
By Norm Seeley | May 2, 2008
Today, Friday May 2nd, the wife and I went to Cadillac Ranch in Tempe, just across the Salt River for lunch. It’s the second time that we have been there. Their Chili, has little meat and is more like a soup. Now it’s not nice to just complain, so I like their fries. They taste like potatoes and taste very good. And let’s not forget to let you know that their Cadillac Burger isn’t bad either. It has a good flavor and is a 1/2 a pound. There is plenty for two people to share and both walk away full. Even if you split the fries, you would not be unhappy. The location in Tempe is on the second floor. KK and I did not use the stairs. We found the sole elevator and had we not done that, we would not have been able to have lunch. I find it very difficult to carry KK’s wheelchair up stairs by myself. Another thing, handicapped parking is not close by. Parking for anyone is not close by. One draw back, I guess, in front of the Cadillac Ranch, there on the second floor sits a red Cadillac. Not being quite that tall, I didn’t see what year it was, but it had to be from the late 50s or early 60s. When Cadillacs were Cadillacs. It’s kind of neat to be able to look up and see it just sitting there. Even today, old, not able to move, it still has motion there in it’s fins. Cadillacs were know for their “fins”. One doesn’t forget Cadillac Grills , either. Not back then, not today.
I owned a couple, including a convertible right here in Phoenix.
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Lazy Week - Part Two
By Norm Seeley | May 2, 2008
In a recent blog I mentioned that I had really had a Lazy week. Hadn’t spent any time or very little time on normradio.com. The fact is that I have several Friday’s Musics recorded and all ready uploaded to the internet. On the day, a Friday, that they are to air, they will do so. I don’t have to do a thing.
As to other daily blogs, I have had some thoughts that I might have written about or recorded a podcast, but decided not to for one reason or another. One of the first is that of being Lazy.
Lately I have been taking still pictures when ever I leave the house. I have a nice camera that I’ve had for a couple of months with 6.0 Mega Pixels along with an older but smaller one with around 3.0 Mega Pixels. That one is small and can fit in my pants pocket. The other one, I need to use a strap and put it around my neck. For work on the internet, both work pretty well.
There are days when out, that you would think I’m a tourist visiting the Valley of the Sun. Camera hanging off my neck and snapping shots one after another. Several times when I have downloaded my pictures to the computer, the number of shots is 150, 187, 111. Man, all I do is take pictures.
“Sir, could you move, you’re in my shot.”
The local newspaper has started a section where here in Scottsdale, they ask for readers to send in pictures and I have been doing that. Don’t for one minute think that it’s a money making deal. Fat Chance, it’s send them in for free. It is kinda funny though that for the two or three weeks that I have been sending them in to their website, my pictures dominate the Scottsdale section.
That tells me one of two things.
1. I do great work!!!
2. I’m the only one who sends picture after picture in.
OH WELL, it’s fun, and I have to tell you I like seeing my pictures where other people can see them too. Almost like having a Statewide, worldwide Picture Frames for all of my shots here in Scottsdale.
Growing up in Denver and during High School I use to shoot stills and also 8 MM film and made a little money doing it. That little money really just covered the cost of the film and processing. But it was again fun. I took pictures of the interiors of houses in the neighborhood, and used to film the football games at Graland Country Day School and those films were used to improve on the performance of the players.
Oh to have my Bolex again.
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This Week
By Norm Seeley | May 2, 2008
This week I have not spent a lot of time with normradio.com.
One day I did upload the new Jingle that Scott and Ronda put together.
What a great job they did with that.
You can find it on last Friday post as part of a video. This week it can be heard after the first song.
KK and I both think it fits so well with the idea behind Friday’s Music. if you click on the video below, you can listen to the new jingle.
You can also listen to Friday’s Music for today. It’s posted too. Hope you enjoy it.
Other than that, I really have not done much with my computers or cameras or audio equipment. Lazy week, if we’re honest with each other. I really have nothing to hide, not running for any office so if you hear that I didn’t do much this week, that you could call productive, It’s no big deal. Don’t worry either, I didn’t spend much time thinking about running for any office. Not that kind of person.
There was one day, for only a few minutes, I did think about riming words. I have no idea why this even entered my mind, but there I was sitting and out loud saying words and attempting to say words that rimed. “Seek”, “Leak”, “Beak”, “Geek”, “Teak”. Then I started thinking, how to use them each in a sentence.
“I should not seek office”. “There’s a leak in the bathroom”. “The little bird had a beak”. “I guess I was thought of as a Geek”. “Where would I find Teak Furniture ?”
Boy, if I could just go back to grade school.
I would be a whiz. No, I would most likely be just like I was back years ago, staring out the windows and drawing pictures of TV Cameras.
If only RCA could have seen my handy work.
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Friday’s Music New
By Norm Seeley | April 25, 2008
Friday’s Music
for
April 25, 2008
What we try to do each week with Friday’s Music is play music that was from the time when I actually worked on the air at several different rock stations in Denver and Phoenix. I sometimes play music that I played as oldies, so it goes back into the 50s. Both of the major stations that I did work for, followed the charts of sales in the respective areas a long with subscribing to Billboard Magazine. Now Billboard would check sales nationally, as well as talk with the record companies themselves and to radio station to see what they were playing on their stations.
When here in Phoenix, I would talk weekly to Billboard, as well as a couple of other “Music Charters” who had their own weekly or monthly Music newsletters. This way they would find out what songs were being played and by which stations.
One of the nice things about today is that music can be listened to here on the internet and you can take it with you with mp3 players. Don’t have to haul around a record player, speakers, and an amplifier. Or how about the 8 track tape players installed in your car. A pair of earphones, and an mp3, and you’re all set.
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