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In a world created by Mike Dell, I

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guess you would call it Mike Dell's world.

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And that's what it is called, Mike Dell's

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world. Number four twenty one for 11/15/2025.

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And, yeah, I got a late late start.

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It's like 09:30PM

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on the fifteenth,

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so we're back up to real time here.

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Spent the last two days,

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finishing up outdoor yard work.

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It's been

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unseasonably

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warm and not rainy, not snowy, not anything

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else around here, so

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it was a great opportunity

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to get things done. So

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yesterday, I spent,

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all day,

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Friday. Took day off work and spent all

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day out at my mom's house,

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getting

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the leaves removed from around the house

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and getting the tractor

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mostly converted over to wintertime.

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Although,

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I took it over to the John Deere

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dealer, I'm gonna let them

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do the pre winter checks, and then I'll,

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get it all configured for snow removal. Hopefully,

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won't need that anytime soon. Next week looks

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like it's gonna be rainy and in the

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forties, but, that's a whole lot better than

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it has been.

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Standby.

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Okay. There we go. Had a little break

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in the action there. I might edit that

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out. I might not.

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Anyway,

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so, yeah, I spent all day,

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you know, on and off the tractor,

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on and off the leaf blower,

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and got a good majority of the leaves

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removed

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around the house,

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out at mom's and got the leaves

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dumped out in the backfield

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where where we can use them next spring

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on the asparagus patch. So

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it's,

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so that was good.

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And then,

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and at the same time, my brother-in-law

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came up, and, he

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he did our, front yard here at our

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house.

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And unbeknownst to me, I didn't know he

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was coming up. But, anyway and then today,

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he and I both spent

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most of the day

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moving leaves

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in the backyard. So our we our leaf

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situation

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is,

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I would say,

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80%

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because there's still

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a good 20 to 30% of the leaves

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still up in the

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oak trees, but those fall winter. So that's

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kinda normal. So hopefully,

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they don't make too much of a mess.

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But, man, we got a lot of looft

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and got a five foot pile of leaves

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over in the corner. We have a spot

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in our yard where we

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have brush and leaves and

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it's just like one corner and we don't

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worry about cleaning that out. No sense moving

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the leaves anywhere. They all pack down

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anyway.

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You know, by next spring, it'll all be

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packed down by the snow

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and, just

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natural.

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And did a few other little things,

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I got some

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landscaping

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done, I guess would be the right term

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for it, alongside

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my office.

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A little bit of a drainage problem, so

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I dug

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dug a bit of a hole and,

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and filled it full of

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I was trying to get crushed gravel, but,

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apparently,

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none of the big box stores have that

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anymore

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this time of year, but I did find

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some river stone. So

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we got about 200 pounds of river stone,

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and,

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that should alleviate the drainage problem alongside my

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office here in the backyard.

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In case you guys didn't know, my office

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is a

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11 by 11 on the outside, but 10

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by 10 on the inside,

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shed

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structure

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that is well insulated and heated and air

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conditioned and

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powered and, you know, just like another room,

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but, separate from the house, which is kinda

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nice because

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I can come out here even though there

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might be crazy stuff going on in the

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house and do a podcast or work

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or play on the ham radios,

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whatever.

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And,

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yeah. So

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that's the story.

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That's why I'm quite late,

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today on my NAPOD promo post,

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but I'll get this,

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sent up, as soon as I can.

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And I'll I'm probably gonna record tomorrow's episode,

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which will go out in the morning.

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And this is gonna be all about radio

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and,

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radio

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as far as, you know, radio stations here

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in Traverse City and

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maybe some of the history of them and

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all the stuff, but, we'll see.

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And then, later on this month, I'm gonna

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do one about ham radio. And I might

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record that tomorrow morning. Not not the the

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actual episode, but maybe some,

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examples

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of ham radio

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since there's

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one

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foot and a half away from the microphone.

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So might be able to record some,

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some ham radio conversation,

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and,

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that might be interesting. It might not, but,

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hey. Gotta gotta put out content for Nippod

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Pomo, and we are halfway done officially as

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of right now. Catch

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me tomorrow.