Wild Card/Saturday — 10.3.09

I’m feeling a bit smug as I post this Wild Card early Saturday morning. For some time, I’ve had difficulty with the new hand-held scanner that I bought from Radio Shack earlier this year. So I decided to do something about it. I called Digger at his Radio Shack store on the Palouse. And he was able to quickly help me fix one of three problems plaguing the scanner. Then, he offered to reprogram the device for free if I paid to mail it to him. I was planning to do that. But I grabbed the owner’s manual Friday night while watching TV, cleared everything off the scanner, reprogrammed it, and — voila — I fixed an annoying problem that caused the scanner to phase in and out every coupla seconds. It’s working great now. In fact, I heard that 50 people were involved in some sort of fight in front of the Beacon at 12:15 a.m. I can’t wait to test drive the scanner Monday. Until then, I’ll drop this Wild Card on you …