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Edited on Sat Sep-22-07 02:36 PM by Radio_Lady
My husband's first name is Al. Yeah, he likes Paul Simon's "Call Me Al." Short for Allen. We legally changed our last name and his first name in Probate Court in Massachusetts in 1973. He was given the birth name Alvin which my deceased mother-in-law must have thought was appropriate in 1934. But that was before the birth of Alvin the Chipmunk who lives on with his funny, silly, speeded-up recordings even until today. (BTW, new movie coming out with the Chipmunks later this year. Al has a first cousin named Alvin, but he lives in Florida and doesn't want us to send him family email letters... but I digress.)
Here are some suggestions: Al the Audiophile (prefer this at this moment.) Audiophile Al (sounds like a mouthful) Radio Laddy (or alternate spelling) Just a key stroke difference from my screen name Radio_Lady and easy to mistakefor one or the other. Sounds Scottish, which we're not. Radio Laddie (sounds too much like a dog)
OK, for those of you who voted in the "AUDIOPHILE" survey and who didn't criticize my quickly pasted together verbiage or my inadequate personal characteristics (you know who you are), most people here know what the word means. Basically, a lover of sounds. It's an unusual word for sure, and it has something going for it. It's a homonym for AUDIO FILE -- words that sound the same but are spelled different. Can't beat that! If you're in radio.
So, I used to call him the Digital Devil, Gramps, Grandpa Al, and lots of other names. Yeah, and it's best that I don't share the things I call him when I YELL at him, like last week. But, NEVERMIND.............. we've made up and everything is fine today.
Al is 73 years young, a retired electrical engineer who migrated into mainframe computer sales and marketing for a bunch of years, but then morphed into a systems analyst and software engineer over the last years of his work life. He's also a very good writer and speaker.
This year, he is discovering the new world of digital photo processing as well as digital audio sound. He's busy a lot of the time with audio software and he's enjoying himself quite a bit. So, I've decided to ask him to be my occasional co-host on the audio show I do at Oregon Public Broadcasting. For some background, we used to do husband-and-wife radio shows back in the 1970s during the evening hours. Al even studied at Northeast Broadcasting School and for a year, worked for WARA in Attleboro, Massachusetts while selling virtually all the Main Street businesses on radio advertising. But he decided he wasn't making enough money in the radio business, and went back to sales and marketing hardware components to OEMs in the new computer world.
So, I have to call him something besides late for dinner.
Any quick suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
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