Big Changes in Store

As one life style is ending, and another beginning, there are lots of changes coming. Old doors are being closed, and lots of new opportunities are opening up. No more being married to a retail location and hours, but a new feeling of freedom. Saturdays will be mine once again after working on Saturdays for the last 25 years. Some time will be spent going to school to learn some new things. Some time will be spent in the garden.
Good-bye old life, hello new.

Again I am an Early Riser

For some reason, it is now difficult to sleep past about 5:30. So much going on, so many changes. Creative visions fill the mind, and cloud other realities. This is the world in which I am most happy, when creative thoughts outweigh all the mundane ones. Sometimes I wish I could be like other people, going to work, coming home, staring at the idiot box through the evening, and sleeping a third of my life away. But there is always so much to do. And now, at age 56, there is an urgent need to get more done. I most likely have plenty of time left to work on projects, but now they are inventing themselves in my mind exponentially.

Early Riser

Today, I have to get up early so I will be able to get a parking space in town as there is a festival happening. I am not an early riser, never have been. I find that waking up at about 10:00 would be just about right. It's odd though, it seems easy to wake up early when there is something that you look forward to doing. But today, the day of the festival, I'd just as soon sleep until about noon.

Trying to Use a Turntable

I have a copy of the 3-disk "LP" or "album" by the Beatles entitled "The Black Album" It is full of odd songs, many of which are not available on CDs or anywhere else. The only way for me to hear these songs is drag out that "album". So I did. First, I could not get any sound out of the amplifier, and after checking all the input wires, etc, I realized that although I had positioned the arm holding the "needle or stylus" over the "LP", I had not pushed the down lever. Then when it was finished, I took it off, and began looking for the second part before realizing it was on the other side of the "LP". So I put it back on, positioning "side 2" up. After a while, I stated hearing this click, click sound, and was looking around for the source, only to realize it was the "stylus" running around the "run-out groove".
So, the point is, how soon we can forget how to use older technology. We are so used to CD's and IPOD's that we reach for the next song button, only to realize that we need to reposition the "arm on the "LP".
But it's the only way to hear these songs, so on I go...
Don't forget to order the new remastered Beatles song collections.

Working on my Resume

I have had a very interesting series of work experiences over the years, I have been employed, self employed, and unemployed, but never fired. Now, at 55, I feel that I am unemployable, so have decided to update my resume. The trouble is, I used to have one, but lost the file. Now I have been trying to re-write it in a new way, by using a blog. (no surprise there)
Surprisingly, most of it still remains in my memory. The ongoing attempt to update my resume is here.

Time Travel

Time Travel, that persistent story line favored by Science fiction writers is not real. We can not go back in time, only forward, time travels in a single direction. If only we could, as I have so many regrets that I did not keep some sort of record of people and events as I have lived. It is so difficult to strain them from my memory, just lots of fleeting specks of memory. Every person's life is so full of stories, and we seldom take the time to record them. Learning about blogging is an especially painful reminder of what could have been. Oh, well, all I can do now is write about what I remember, and then record events as they happen. Now where did I put that time machine?

Anti-social or A-social?

Creative people are frequently referred to as "anti-social". I have always thought of myself as anti-social, because I am a "loner". This is not to say that I shun friendship, I just need some time each day to be alone with my thoughts, to clear the head, to contemplate the universe and everything in it.
When you actually investigate the meaning of "anti-social" you will find that it means a type of behavior in which a person actually takes steps or actions to disrupt society.
On the other hand, an "a-social" person generally views themselves as morally or intellectually superior to the people around them. Perhaps a lot more of we creative types are "a-social" rather than "anti-social", myself included.
From youthful disdain for the world around them, to the supposed wisdom of our elders, most of us are a-social in some way.