The Heir also ordered a Pro-164 radio scanner, and he's expecting it to arrive shortly.  He's on a roll with the audio products.  No longer should he be bored during the weekday evenings.  He should be able to listen to Main Team One in its struggle to even qualify for a wildcard, let alone achieve one.  And during the offseason also football and basketball.  Any nights there aren't any games, he gets to listen to Habana Cuba, Radio Espana or the Voice Of Vietnam on shortwave.  And others.  And if he doesn't feel like doing either he then gets to use this radio scanner to listen to first responders, railroad people, the air band, FRS, and those cop departments that haven't gone encrypted.  So now he's wondering about an analog slide rule tuning car radio with an aux input for his audio player.  He has a unit in mind, but he wants to cool it a bit on the spending thing, so as to get money into his savings.  You're supposed to save 10% of your income, but the Heir needs to save 15% because he got started later than he ideally should have as per the money experts.  Also he needs to do his homework on how to use a wiring kit to replace a car radio.  He thinks it'll be the fall by the time he's ready at the very earliest, and he's hoping that his choice unit will still be available for purchase.  And he also wants to buy some music maybe later in August, and then again in September or October.  He's got plans.

So we got the Sony SW22 through mail order, we wish that the furniture store had more of them, but it's a really cool radio.  Heir really likes how the tuning knob slides a lot better than on the Kaito 009.  It's a vertical slide rule display, and if anything goes wrong with the Sony in the near future, there are two or three other radios we got our eye on as insurance policies.  Eventually we'll also get a scanner.

Heir's really tired of all these premature obituaries about the beach, just because of the neighboring beach.  It's like, get a grip, people!  Heir's pretty sure he's the only one on the beach who believes the beach will go on for at least 20 more years, maybe as many as 50, because of the concept of continuity.  In the Bachelor episode The Happy Bachelor Doesn't Believe The World Will End This Year, we talk about how we believe in continuity as opposed to discontinuity.  Discontinuity is especially buttressed (boot-dressed) by that whole Live For Today mentality, which if science had it's proper grants, would be able to disprove substantively.  We should tear it apart ourselves, maybe in an upcoming episode.  But the main thrust is that absolutely everyone is supposed to bucket-list on a whim, and try to do absolutely everything they wanted to do all multitaskingly, otherwise they will supposedly end up with regrets.  Luscious Fishborne does that every single day, though, which is why he goes 50 in a 25 zone in his Infiniti SUV.  But here's the thing.  No-one ever considers just limiting on the count of one hand those things they'd want to do the most for a given day, within realistic time restraints.  Sure that's not bucket-listing, it's budget-listing.  So the Heir hopes that all that End Of The Beach business will go away next year for the most part, when no-one's thinking about the neighboring beach anymore, and the novelty has worn off.  No-one ever plans properly.  They just act on impulse, trying to tell themselves that tomorrow will never come, and end up wondering why tomorrow arrived after all.  Yes, Virginia, there is a future.

Frankly, we find the George Zimmerman verdict appalling.  And Naomi is worried about her teenaged cousin, in case the verdict gets more neighborhood watch volunteers to go vigilante because they now think they can get away with it.  We don't think Naomi needs to worry about that, but the Heir has called for better oversight and training of neighborhood watch volunteers nationwide, so as to prevent further such tragedies and controversies.  We don't believe that such preventive measures will in any way prevent the volunteers from doing their jobs.

We're trying to figure this one out.  Apparently according to Eibispace (http://www.eibispace.de/dx/bc-a13.txt), the Voice Of America broadcasts to eastern North America proper 0230 to 0300 Sunday.  This even though we do local radio first thing in the morning, and there's the Internet of course, and all the rest of tech.  So maybe it's a self test to hear how it sounds when broadcasting to other countries?  How badly does it wave in and out or something.  Or maybe it's a Valentine to classic DXers like us, or preppers like the Cigar Assistant.  We can't imagine it's a typo if it's too good to be true.

This weather radio (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Realistic-Crystal-Controlled-Weatheradio-Weather-Radio-Model-12-151A/251298051409?rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222002%26algo%3DSIC.FIT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D163%26meid%3D8985060543358545417%26pid%3D100005%26prg%3D1088%26rk%3D2%26sd%3D181171299831%26) is unusually supercool classy looking.  Unfortunately it doesn't get the main weather station in our area.  If it did, it may have been a good addition to the car.  We also liked this one (http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-REALISTIC-PATROLMAN-CB-6-MULTIBAND-RADIO-WORKS-/121134795853?pt=Vintage_Electronics_R2&hash=item1c34324c4d), for getting bands for just over $30 what we would have gotten on a scanner for $100+.  Granted a vintage isn't going to get FM or NFM, but a lot of transmissions still go on analog.  And you'd get the chance to find out whether CB is now a silent band now that its no longer the 70s.  We suspect it's anything but.  This one (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Russian-Multi-Band-Transistor-Radio-With-Owners-Manual-/330952640840?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4d0e508948) is a Russian radio, with a wonderfully complex slide rule dial.  Seems as though it tunes into bands you're not legally supposed to tune into in the US!

We were about to slam the NAC on audio, reflecting our cynicisms regarding their ultimate motives, despite their efforts in collecting information about the neighboring beach.  However, it appears as though the NAC is actually serious, with "Phase 2," so we've decided to defer criticism until we see how Phase 2 (http://www.naturistaction.org/fiis2) will turn out.  Problem is, most people don't know about it, only the core naturists with that non-landed club on Long Island.  We didn't see any press releases or anything the NAC had put out on any social media, so as to get it truly viral, in the spirit of the Occupy movements, albeit without the desperation of Flaileef.  And speaking of Flaileef, we deferred criticism of the NAC, in favor of criticism of the Ed Snowden affair from Flaileef's point of view.  And again, it'll be Richard Pryor who will smuggle Ed Snowden on the next flight to Venezuela like he did for Gene Wilder.

Taco Bell is not BSK!

You can best measure your commitment to making a difference in the world as follows.  First, make sure you get counted along with others as you and they make sure a specific goal in social action is met.  And then when that goal is met, be sure to withdraw yourself from that counting list, because you know dang well that the activist group you momentarily aligned yourself to has no intention of standing up to be counted in furthering the pro-sex ideology the way you expected them to as return for your acquiescing to their demands that you had to be "involved" no matter what.  And also at that point your name being on that specific list won't matter anyway.  Be sure to have designs on them before they have designs on you, because that's the Hobson's Choice you'll be faced with.  This I say as the Mentor, also along with the Heir.

Heir's upset about all this talk about the beach about end-of-the-beach, end-of-the-beach, just because of that neighboring beach.  We will get to talk about what we believe are the politics of the latter soon enough, but the Heir gets it the most from the cigar assistant, who also literally worries about an asteroid collision.  The cigar assistant said he heard about a possible asteroid collision from Paranoid Prairie Companion on kHz 17250 this morning, which featured a discredited astronomer from Florida Lakes University who claimed that there's no way we can't have a collision in the next twenty years that won't result in the deaths of 80% of the population of North America.  The discredited astronomer showed charts of North America before and after the future asteroid collision, in which it will look like a mostly sunken archipelago.  This despite the fact that it's impossible to show charts on shortwave radio (we're not talking about the fax stations by the way).  The astronomer claims that it will be the sexually immoral U.S. states, and all of Canada, and the entire Caribbean that will suffer the deaths, slowly and horribly, with the most drug-ridden areas of Central America surviving.  After all, you got to take the good with the bad.  Heir got facetious and said, well I suppose they must have also got into this thing with end-of-the-beach on shortwave, and the assistant claims that they did.  Heir would greatly prefer that the end-of-the-beach paranoid/depressed crowd would just snap out of it.