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Key West, April 2021 |
After a pleasant time in Fort Lauderdale and Key West, I returned home to Atlanta. For those that remember what a VCR is, I am using a borrowed one to go through my archive or personal videos recorded in the 1990s. I have not seen their contents in over a decade as my last VCR died that long ago and new ones are no longer manufactured. I should have learned earlier to not rely on technology to preserve memories as it becomes obsolete too quickly.
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Me in 1995 taken from one of the VHS tapes. |
This archive of tapes will be vital to what I am writing for my first novel set during the 1990s. I have my handwritten journals from the period, but watching and listening to tapes from that time is much more immersive. There are hours of VHS tape to digitize. This project is like doing research on myself.
Otherwise, I am tending to my flowers and taking regular walks. I had the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine and am waiting on the second. I am glad to see the rollout of the vaccines across the country. Life is slowly returning to what it was prior to the pandemic. All of the predictions that the world never would be the same were hogwash like most predictions from talking heads in the media. I am grateful that they remain consistently wrong.
Life is busy as I am preparing to narrate the audiobook versions of Dweller On The Boundary and Terminal Wake. Those years of experience in broadcasting will be put to use again and I do miss being behind a microphone some days. I will be recording the audiobooks beginning this month.
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Fort Lauderdale 2021 |
Over the last several years we have cultivated an online society that
behaves as though there is no real life consequence to how we treat
others in this digital sphere. In this realm people lose their humanity
and treat others as nonhuman entities. We forget that real people are
behind these digital manifestations of humans and that is deeply wrong. I
understand that some people are assholes in real life and act the same
online, assholes are unavoidable, but I believe and I retain some hope
that most people are not assholes in person. I know that good, decent
and genuine people do exist. I have spoken with them and I have met
them.
I do enjoy interacting with readers and I welcome questions through my email address listed under the Contact section of this website. However, I do not respond to abusive or rude people. I treat people with respect, manners and kindness offline and online - I see no difference between the two realms.