Remember , back in the day Thanksgiving Day was was much simpler . It was all about the turkey , football , parades , and the family , all the Aunts, Uncles , Cousins coming over . As kids we all sat at the kids table . Now if you looked around today , everyone at the adult table are the same faces as in the day when you sat at the kids table plus a few new faces . You begin to realise the adult table is the kids table . Only the conversation is about our jobs , the economy ,and politics , not the teenage idle that's on the cover of a teen magazine , or the poster of babe on your bedroom wall . On my wall were the Charley's Angels and The Police Woman . Frankly I was surprised my mom even let me put them up on my wall . Thanksgiving is not really the same anymore because the conversation of the women are of the sales they are going to hit that night and the next day . I long for the days when it was about sharing a meal with family , where that day was an event not a prelude to Christmas sales . Am I wrong for thinking this , I don't think so . Its not the same special day it was so many years ago .
I do still hope that all had a great Thanksgiving Dinner with family .
Friday, November 28, 2014
Friday, November 14, 2014
Well, here I am finally back here again . I have no excuses to offer, other than time just got away from me . Its funny how that happens on many things in our lives . You just say to ourselves I will get to it tomorrow , only many tomorrows and a blue moon later you get back to it . When you do you do not remember the draft you had started was about . Heck I do not know where this draft is going to lead either . I , to be honest , have no topic in mind to write about . Part my problem is no Idea's come to mind . I thought to my self if just sit down in front of the keyboard it would some how flow out from the tips of my finger tips .
I have not made any real contribution's to my G+ page either for that matter except for birthday wishes . Recently I decided I had better get more involved in my accounts . I just need to find something of myself that worthy of add to the discussion . Here lately it seems I have been on automatic pilot , I just been following the flow of things . I woke up lately and wondered what happened to the time . I had a book idea I started on and have not done anything on it , in about two years or more . I do have a two paragraphs on paper and some notes on ideas I want it to be about .
Its been years since i have anything close to school or any kind of studying ,note taking or research . At times I think I might be to old to do it now . Not that I was any good at it when was in school . I am smart enough to realize that I only did what I had to do to get by . As got older , I began to see that this attitude was not going to carry me through life . A little extra effort goes a long way in your work life and relationships . I just got complacent and spent more of myself on work and my relationship with my lady and not doing anything about me . Its been wake up and go to work and respond to any crisis that she and her family comes up with . I have not done anything with or about who I am . It seems that work and her was all I was about , I basically lost me . I am sorry this is where I have to leave this right here . I hope that when I next sit in front of the keyboard I will meet myself again .
Monday, February 24, 2014
GETTING STARTED
Your reading the writing's of a professional procrastinator , this because a lot times I have no idea where to start on an idea or anything else for that matter. I have this idea for a book that I came up with while writing blog over a year ago . It just will not fade away ,like many others I had . I find my self searching web sites for how to write a book and sites about the time period in which I want it to be .
The problem is just is putting pen to paper and getting that first word out of the way . I do all this reading and have no idea how to sort out . Then when I think I am finally think I am going to get my Great American Novel started , life just seems to get in my way . The same as it has in writing this blog , I do not write in blog as much as I should . Some of the advice that just keeps being repeated over and over is write something every day no matter what it is . This seems to be harder than it sounds . Work and relationships just at times do not allow me the the time to work diligently on my ideas . Some I sitting here at my key board ready to add something to this blog , it just is nothing willing to flow out of the ends of my fingers . I end up staring at blank screen for while before I give up .
I will never get started this way but sitting here putting this may the start in the right direction , I just have to make time to do this every day or at least once a week . I realize I am just going on and on , but it seems the best way to get this of my chest . Also by putting in writing it should hold me accountable to what I need to do .
I do thank you for allowing me to express my thoughts . I just for once in my life , I would like to follow through on something . So many things in past I had started and never finished . Once I thought about becoming a carpenter and now after all those classes an training in the Air Force in it , I now work in a kitchen . I also thought about being a Disc Jockey once , I did for while when I was in the Air Force . I was stationed at Castle Air force Base , I did this at night at the clubs on base around 78 and 79 . When I left there for other parts of the world I had the intention to carry on with it . Needless to say it never happened .
As with many other things in my life some I regret and others never give much thought to . As you can see I have a history putting things off . Again thanks for letting me getting this in the open .
The problem is just is putting pen to paper and getting that first word out of the way . I do all this reading and have no idea how to sort out . Then when I think I am finally think I am going to get my Great American Novel started , life just seems to get in my way . The same as it has in writing this blog , I do not write in blog as much as I should . Some of the advice that just keeps being repeated over and over is write something every day no matter what it is . This seems to be harder than it sounds . Work and relationships just at times do not allow me the the time to work diligently on my ideas . Some I sitting here at my key board ready to add something to this blog , it just is nothing willing to flow out of the ends of my fingers . I end up staring at blank screen for while before I give up .
I will never get started this way but sitting here putting this may the start in the right direction , I just have to make time to do this every day or at least once a week . I realize I am just going on and on , but it seems the best way to get this of my chest . Also by putting in writing it should hold me accountable to what I need to do .
I do thank you for allowing me to express my thoughts . I just for once in my life , I would like to follow through on something . So many things in past I had started and never finished . Once I thought about becoming a carpenter and now after all those classes an training in the Air Force in it , I now work in a kitchen . I also thought about being a Disc Jockey once , I did for while when I was in the Air Force . I was stationed at Castle Air force Base , I did this at night at the clubs on base around 78 and 79 . When I left there for other parts of the world I had the intention to carry on with it . Needless to say it never happened .
As with many other things in my life some I regret and others never give much thought to . As you can see I have a history putting things off . Again thanks for letting me getting this in the open .
Thursday, February 6, 2014
OFF ON A LITTLE TANGENT ; AND MEMORIES OF MUSIC
Yes , have written my blog rather infrequently as of the last few months. This generally due the fact that I have had a lack of inspiration .The urge to write has hit me . So here I sit in the early mourning hours of a Thursday with a chill still in the air and a pot of that ever important coffee brewing . Yes what a way to start a day the smell of coffee and the sound of music in the air waiting for the sun to arrive . You hear the occasional siren break the silence outside to let you know there is a world going on out there . This reminds us that the world does not stop at the front door .
As was laying in my room when the urge to write came over me , feeling the mourning chill I turn on some music , I knew what it was that what I wanted to write about . How music played a roll in my life , how it is some how attached to the memories in my life . Also how my taste in music changed in my life .
One Christmas my parents got us kids a portable record player with the usual children's records . They nursery rhymes and the like . This for a time was our music except when dad would play his Big Band and country music . Remember this was in the lat 50's and early 60's . Then came the the year I got my first transistor radio . My grandmother got it for me it looked like walkie talkie , it had a picture of Vic Morrow as Sarge from the show Combat on it . With this radio was my first intro to AM radio , I don't remember much about the music I listened to on it , but I do believe I remember the first song I heard on it . Petula Clark's Downtown . I think this song had a lot to do with what my vision of what being downtown should be like . To this day it is some what what think of downtown is all about . These days people do not call it that much any more its around here it is referred to as uptown .
Isn't funny how music makes you see, feel about and remember things . Music somehow becomes an important part how you remember things , becomes a part of your emotional feelings of those memories . You could be riding down the road listening to the radio , then a song comes on that you may not have heard in some time . Then wham , a thought you haven't had in some time comes over you .
We were living in Rhode Island when my old man was stationed there . Across the street form the housing we lived in The New Port Jazz Festival was happening . This was in the summer of 69 . My first exposure to hippies and the music . We could see all the long haired kids dressed in all manner dress . This was my first real exposure to the culture and the peace movement also the music that surrounded them . This was when I first heard of Bob Dylan . Heck my music teacher in school had said I sounded like him . Then my Dad got orders to Nam , we moved to Michigan . This where my musical growth sort of floundered for a while . We so far out in the corn fields that we were kind of sheltered form popular culture .
That was until High School , I started working on the farm down the road . This where I learned about hard work and developed my work ethic . But this is where I got the money for my eight track boom box . Yes , I was one of those that just had to invest in that dinosaur . It had a AM ,FM radio on . This was in the early seventies , I found the world of the underground radio , that came from the big colleges near bye . This where I heard ,progressive rock , some hard rock . All album oriented , they played whole albums at a time . My horizons where expanded . Zappa entered my sphere among others . All the while still listening to my fathers old 78's and the country he had on the car radio . We watched Don Kirchner's Rock Concert on Friday nights , And Wolfman Jack's Midnight Special . Oh yes I was waking up my musical tastes . My dad still tried to influence my musical taste , as I got older he had more influence than I realized . I find myself wanting to hear some Frank Sinatra or Dean Martin and the like .
In 77 I went of to join the Air Force , my first duty station was in California I was introduced to disco , I even DJ"ed and worked the light show on base During the entire time I was there . We would find our selves on Saturday afternoons at the lake practicing our dance moves bare footed in the grass . Then that night we would try them out on the dance floor . It was a memorable two years . I found my self on my way to West Germany , That's when Rock and Roll came back into my life . I spent around five thousand dollars on what thought was the ultimate stereo . Every pay day I would spend around a hundred dollars on albums . Every chance I got I would buy concert tickets for shows around West Germany , my taste grew harder and blue influenced . While there I had seen many of the big named bands perform including some the big name German bands . I even got into polka at the beer tents at the beer fests around the area .
I got out of the service and moved to Florida and listened to a lot glam rock , and the kind rock you would hear on Miami Vice . In the Nineties I moved to the Carolina's and found I was listening to Grunge all the long . Who new Neil Young was considered grunge . I would never have thought .
Here I am now in the next century in my late fifties and my musical tastes are still growing , ever since I introduced a computer in my life and found Internet radio . I am even finding out about bands that I never heard of from the past that wish I knew of then and new music from present . It is amazing how far I came since that little record player in my child hood . The changes in music , technology , and memories I have gained through the years . Yes music is truly the sound track to our life's . So listen to what ever you like and build on your memories and enjoy .
As was laying in my room when the urge to write came over me , feeling the mourning chill I turn on some music , I knew what it was that what I wanted to write about . How music played a roll in my life , how it is some how attached to the memories in my life . Also how my taste in music changed in my life .
One Christmas my parents got us kids a portable record player with the usual children's records . They nursery rhymes and the like . This for a time was our music except when dad would play his Big Band and country music . Remember this was in the lat 50's and early 60's . Then came the the year I got my first transistor radio . My grandmother got it for me it looked like walkie talkie , it had a picture of Vic Morrow as Sarge from the show Combat on it . With this radio was my first intro to AM radio , I don't remember much about the music I listened to on it , but I do believe I remember the first song I heard on it . Petula Clark's Downtown . I think this song had a lot to do with what my vision of what being downtown should be like . To this day it is some what what think of downtown is all about . These days people do not call it that much any more its around here it is referred to as uptown .
Isn't funny how music makes you see, feel about and remember things . Music somehow becomes an important part how you remember things , becomes a part of your emotional feelings of those memories . You could be riding down the road listening to the radio , then a song comes on that you may not have heard in some time . Then wham , a thought you haven't had in some time comes over you .
We were living in Rhode Island when my old man was stationed there . Across the street form the housing we lived in The New Port Jazz Festival was happening . This was in the summer of 69 . My first exposure to hippies and the music . We could see all the long haired kids dressed in all manner dress . This was my first real exposure to the culture and the peace movement also the music that surrounded them . This was when I first heard of Bob Dylan . Heck my music teacher in school had said I sounded like him . Then my Dad got orders to Nam , we moved to Michigan . This where my musical growth sort of floundered for a while . We so far out in the corn fields that we were kind of sheltered form popular culture .
That was until High School , I started working on the farm down the road . This where I learned about hard work and developed my work ethic . But this is where I got the money for my eight track boom box . Yes , I was one of those that just had to invest in that dinosaur . It had a AM ,FM radio on . This was in the early seventies , I found the world of the underground radio , that came from the big colleges near bye . This where I heard ,progressive rock , some hard rock . All album oriented , they played whole albums at a time . My horizons where expanded . Zappa entered my sphere among others . All the while still listening to my fathers old 78's and the country he had on the car radio . We watched Don Kirchner's Rock Concert on Friday nights , And Wolfman Jack's Midnight Special . Oh yes I was waking up my musical tastes . My dad still tried to influence my musical taste , as I got older he had more influence than I realized . I find myself wanting to hear some Frank Sinatra or Dean Martin and the like .
In 77 I went of to join the Air Force , my first duty station was in California I was introduced to disco , I even DJ"ed and worked the light show on base During the entire time I was there . We would find our selves on Saturday afternoons at the lake practicing our dance moves bare footed in the grass . Then that night we would try them out on the dance floor . It was a memorable two years . I found my self on my way to West Germany , That's when Rock and Roll came back into my life . I spent around five thousand dollars on what thought was the ultimate stereo . Every pay day I would spend around a hundred dollars on albums . Every chance I got I would buy concert tickets for shows around West Germany , my taste grew harder and blue influenced . While there I had seen many of the big named bands perform including some the big name German bands . I even got into polka at the beer tents at the beer fests around the area .
I got out of the service and moved to Florida and listened to a lot glam rock , and the kind rock you would hear on Miami Vice . In the Nineties I moved to the Carolina's and found I was listening to Grunge all the long . Who new Neil Young was considered grunge . I would never have thought .
Here I am now in the next century in my late fifties and my musical tastes are still growing , ever since I introduced a computer in my life and found Internet radio . I am even finding out about bands that I never heard of from the past that wish I knew of then and new music from present . It is amazing how far I came since that little record player in my child hood . The changes in music , technology , and memories I have gained through the years . Yes music is truly the sound track to our life's . So listen to what ever you like and build on your memories and enjoy .
Sunday, January 5, 2014
THE FIRST POST
Yes this is the first post for the year , for that matter in a while . I have been rather neglectful for the past few months . Although a lot of thing have happened in my life during that time . Some have been major changes and going to effect some changes this year .
Last year I said I was going to work on some projects . The thing like many things I started with good intentions , I mean I did put in some effort on them . I just did not follow through on them . Its kind of hard when you have a major distraction to pull you away from the path . I don't want to make excuses , because there are no real excuses to keep you away from the goal . If it was a true goal , nothing should keep you away .
I am not making any new year resolutions , 99.9 % of them never happen . Yea , we start on them but eventually we forget about them .
I started this blog over a year ago , but I at times just don't think about it . In the beginning I was full of ideas , the the ideas just seem to slow down . I was not being realistic about it . This year I am going to try to post at least once a week . Maybe on Sunday .
Last year I had it in my head that I was going to write a book . I had the idea for what it would be about , but no idea how to get it started . I did a lot of online searching on the basis of the story , but lack of inspiration and some imagination to get going . I still thick its good idea . I guess I will kind of nibble away at it ,till it just happens .
This year I also have other issues , that needs to be handled and gotten out the way . I am not going into them here , because they are personal . But maybe once they are out of the way every thing else will fall into place .
There I go , I now have my resolution for the year . Something simple to work on and not so concrete or black and white . My goal for the year is just get it together .
YEP THAT'S IT JUST GET IT TOGETHER !!!
Last year I said I was going to work on some projects . The thing like many things I started with good intentions , I mean I did put in some effort on them . I just did not follow through on them . Its kind of hard when you have a major distraction to pull you away from the path . I don't want to make excuses , because there are no real excuses to keep you away from the goal . If it was a true goal , nothing should keep you away .
I am not making any new year resolutions , 99.9 % of them never happen . Yea , we start on them but eventually we forget about them .
I started this blog over a year ago , but I at times just don't think about it . In the beginning I was full of ideas , the the ideas just seem to slow down . I was not being realistic about it . This year I am going to try to post at least once a week . Maybe on Sunday .
Last year I had it in my head that I was going to write a book . I had the idea for what it would be about , but no idea how to get it started . I did a lot of online searching on the basis of the story , but lack of inspiration and some imagination to get going . I still thick its good idea . I guess I will kind of nibble away at it ,till it just happens .
This year I also have other issues , that needs to be handled and gotten out the way . I am not going into them here , because they are personal . But maybe once they are out of the way every thing else will fall into place .
There I go , I now have my resolution for the year . Something simple to work on and not so concrete or black and white . My goal for the year is just get it together .
YEP THAT'S IT JUST GET IT TOGETHER !!!
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