Last night I roasted and canned sixteen pounds of hot peppers while listening to (among other things) Sydney, Australia, afternoon drive-time talk radio. (Tuning into Internet stations is still a "gee whiz" experience.) I finished with the long hots about 6:00 am, exhausted and ruined for any constructive activity today. When I got tired of hearing the Aussies debate about bus fares I went back to WQXR--another long-lost pleasure. I used to fall asleep listening to WQXR-AM every night, filling my dreams with classical music. (Our local classical station played way too much Schonberg and Max Reger and signed off at midnight.) As much as I love early jazz, I have been craving the classics lately. And WQXR--without static and interference from adjacent stations, and in high-fidelity stereo, and with Nimet STILL doing the overnight program--is the BEST. (If only the connection didn't fail at odd times--as it JUST DID. Still, Real One beats my old longwire roof aerial, for the most part.)