happy birthday Dave. Love you and miss you, you fucking bastard.

 

Made this after Dave's death in February 2016. I don't remember if I saved it to here or not. I know I posted it on Facebook a couple of times because he had a lot of friends there. It was his birthday yesterday and would have been 46.

Red Sox win the American League East...  from worst to first. Just like 2013. Go Sox!

Umm... swept by Cleveland

fat habits

so i started rereading fat habits. haven't looked at it in about 2 maybe 3 years. the writing is good, I think and the story. I just have to change a few parts around for example the beginning. Its a cool beginning but nothing happens. Trent arrives at Hawaii. Big deal. Gotta take a more dramatic moment from story and open with that. Easy enough.

Rolling forward

And life keeps rolling on. Now that I have some free time back I feel ready to start writing again. I’m not sure in what order I shall get involved. First there’s Fat Habits, my finished novel. I have to start shopping it around— maybe even give it one more read through with my editing eye. Then there’s Gone which is sort of half way through a first draft. Journal entries. I like those— quick easy and satisfying. Then there’s my mom’s letters she wrote to her mother (my grandmother, Doris Goodwin Currier) and most of these letters are about myself, Dave and Dawn when we were children; also some chronicle where she was in life— her fight against overweight and the financial burdens of raising three children on modest incomes. I began transcribing her letters on to Word and because I was just dictating them, I purchased the software Dragon that allowed me to type my voice commands. I was using it at the time I stopped transcribing the letters but there was still a lot to learn. I forget why I stopped. I want to get all my old journals (I have a fair amount done already) on to Word and backed up on to a hard drive as well as backed up on my blog page should something ever happen to the drive.

On the road in Quebec, 1995

 I’d like to find a better way to list all my stuff on the blog, index them better. As is, it just lists them in the order they were published. I’d like to format them into something, maybe by genre. The blog itself is not very user friendly. It is online so I can access it or if something ever happened to me, someone else could. Well, these are my options to mull over. On a side note, I don’t know how to block apps from my settings— porn apps and Tinder ads; it only started happening about a month ago. Despite the user non-friendliness of the web page, my writing remains intact. Anyway, stuff to ponder as I move forward— always forward.

Well, I'm really into the newish album by Radiohead and this particular song, Present Tense (as well as Ful Stop) and have been listening to it a lot lately. I've also been spending more and more time on YouTube so I checked out this song there. I posted one version here but it didn't sound as good as the studio version, which isn't listed on YouTube so, the only way I could put it on here (don't ask me why, stubbornness probably) is if I published it with video. This blog doesn't allow to publish just sound or MP3 or whatever. So, I dug up some pics from 1968 to 1990 and threw them down on this track. Nice way to spend a Saturday morning anyway. My life 1968- through 1990 (so far).