Sunday, May 3, 2009
HOM: Intermission
In the Word document I am saving this in, this is page 400, and this point in the timeline is just past the mid-point of my life. Four hundred pages and 181,000 words so far . . . I have trouble believing I have written so much about so little, and that anyone has bothered reading it. I seriously doubt that ANYONE will ever sit down and actually read the whole thing if they haven't been following along as I wrote.
Ah well, I never expected to put this much down on paper or electronically. I just knew that I had two things that motivated me: my daughter's wish that I jot down some some anecdotal personal and family history and my own urge to write.
Let me add one more thing -- the fact that my friend Larry O'Connell did something similar for his family and actually printed it out was an inspiration to me, though his life was/is considerably more interesting than mine.
Reading back over this, it seems odd to me that I am now older than Gordon or Ian were and nearly as old as Paul. I never expected to last this long. I guess I have a grasshopper personality and have just taken the days as they have come without any long term plans or much thought for the future.
If it wasn't for that poor frazzled Guardian Angel I guess I WOULDN'T have lasted this long!
I see some things I left out of this account, some by accident and some by design. I might post some flashbacks on here as a fill-in and I might do some editing on the Word doc that doesn't get posted on line.
There are a lot of things I decided not to share because of my pain or shame, or discomfort to others, even though all these things are a part of who I am now. If I do share them, I'd guess it won't be on-line. Dunno. Maybe I'll have to try Drunkblogging?
Most of the unsharable things involve stupid decisions on my part that still make me flinch when I think about them and some of them haunt my middle-of-the-night reveries.
Oh well, to err is human. To REALLY mess things up is my specialty!
I'd guess that the most interesting things I've done or been through have already been documented in this blog, and that what follows won't be as entertaining. For me, "settling down" happened when I got into this book business.
I debated about ending this before, when I reached some of the cusps like my military discharge or my marriage, but I've kept on writing. I guess I'll still keep plugging (blogging?) along till I run out of stories or time. Or until all three of my readers give up on me.
TBC
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2 comments:
Being as there are 2 readers in this house, I have to wonder who that 3rd one is. . . (as a side note of little interest the verification word is Imocked ;-) I also have to say that thought there might be points and times in your life you consider less than interesting, I have found them rather amusing. I do not always comment, but I do read everything I can from time to time to catch up on your writing (yes it is interesting enough for sitting for a spell reading page after page). Jean has also taken a few moments here and there to stop over and sit for a spell to live learn and in some cases laugh for a little while. Now if you do decide to call it quits here, I will have to come in to visit and get more stories in person. woe unto you if I come to visit more often, I mean you make me think, and when an Ogre thinks, his head heats up, and the fleas take to jumping ship if you catch my drift (yet another reason to be wary of me coming in for long, I do tend to drift a bit )and I would figure one of the last things you would want in shop is a pack of hungry ogre fleas. . .
Skipping subject, I have to say your daughter had a good idea getting you to write some of the things in your life. Even omitting some of the things more sensitive to you, for your various reasons, there is still enough interesting subject matter (or perhaps it is just the writer is good enough to have written a few novels?) to keep my interest, and a few others. However, I caution you, if you ever publish a book, I will have to sit down and read it from cover to cover, as it will provide you the opportunity to edit it and arrange it in chronological, or other order for better reading. By that last I mean only that it would be in sequence of time line, as the writing style and content are good enough to keep my interest already.
Now before I ramble further and start looking more the fool, (or turkey as the case may be :-) I shall try not to detain you further, only thank you for what you have shared so far.
I believe that I count as a third reader here, and as there are two readers in this household as well, I guess that means James was off a bit in his calculations. ;D
Jim, you know how much I love reading this stuff. I haven't poisoned any of the baked goods to get you to stop, have I? Hmmph.
We've already had our discussion as to my opinions on your choices of leaving things out or not and perceived interest levels, so I won't harangue you with a repeat. I will, however, remind you of my one discovery in blogging: blogs are therapeutic. Might be surprised how much better you feel getting some of it out. :)
Hugs!
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