Hi Elizabeth,
I am home from Pearl's. I saw your posts earlier, though I had to go through the "posts Elizabeth likes" search feature to see them. For some reason, sometimes your posts and likes don't show up in the FB ticker. I saw the one post, from berlin-artparasite, about "nothing changes until a pattern is broken". I assume you meant that for me. Am I right about that? I further assume it has something to do with what I put into my FB search window.
Elizabeth, we have a real problem here and I hope we can fix it. I know I said the other day that the fact that you've hacked me doesn't really bother me, but I am noticing today that the realisation of the hacking is having a delayed effect on me, much like it did last year when I first discovered it. What I mean is that, if it had been some stranger who had hacked me, I would have obviously been instantly shocked and outraged and motivated to do something about it. We don't know what strangers are capable of, after all, and anybody who has been anonymously hacked would be very shocked because it's akin to having your house burgled or your wallet stolen. It's an invasion, pure and simple.
But because it was you who did it, I was at first very quickly ready to forgive and move on, especially since you tipped your hand and sort of admitted it by getting upset that I had FB searched Lillian, or that last year I had sent her a friend request. At first I thought it was your parents, or maybe a techie friend who had done it for you, but the more I thought about it, those examples didn't make sense. This time, you have pretty much admitted to it, and you then made an FB post that alluded to "fear of losing" someone, which I took to mean me, as a way of explaining why you hacked me in the first place. Okay, I can try to understand all of that, so far.
I can try to understand it. But "try" doesn't go all the way, and I certainly can't condone it. Because of that, I don't know what to do here. Maybe you can think of something, because we need solutions.
I am not familiar with the workings of computers, as you know, but I've heard of some of the terminology, and over the past couple of days, the phrase "Trojan Horse" came to mind. I did some Googling and discovered that a Trojan Horse virus can basically give complete access to a person's computer to a hacker at another location. I also learned that a Trojan virus can be inserted into a file, such as an e-mail or an mp3 of a song. The person who receives it clicks on it, and then the Trojan virus which has been inserted into the file gets into that person's computer. Now, the hacker who has sent the Trojan-infected file can have complete access to the recipient's computer, with the ability to see everything that person does.
Elizabeth, you have basically admitted to me that you can see what I do on Facebook. You can see my people searches, whom I've sent a friend request to. I have wondered how you've been able to do this, but I always discounted that you may have simply guessed my password, because it's too random and idiosyncratic, and I've changed it a bunch of times anyway. But now it seems that you may have sent me a Trojan Horse virus, which - if that is the case - has allowed you to access my entire computer. On a side note, I have also Googled about Chromebooks, and everything I read tells me that Chrome is supposed to be virtually virus proof, but I know nothing about firewalls, don't know how they work, I know nothing about checking for viruses, etc.
Here is the part I really can't figure out, however : I did not have my Acer Chromebooks until June and November 2013, respectively. One at home, one at Pearl's. You had stopped talking to me directly and therefore stopped sending me song samples long before that. Our FB chats ended in September 2012. Now, when I got my first Acer, I believe I did download the mp3 of one of your song samples from our FB chats, onto the hard drive of the Acer. But the thing is, in your favor, how could you have known I would eventually get those Chromebooks for home use? After all, for the first 14 months I knew you, I used library computers. So why would you load a Trojan virus into an mp3 to send me on FB, when it would only go into a random Oviatt library computer used by dozens of students? And the library system would probably defeat the virus anyway? So, it doesn't make a lot of sense that you would have done that. I did download a song sample when I did get the first Chromebook a year later, but you had no way of knowing I would ever buy a home computer.
The only other thing I can figure is that it has something to do with my e-mail address. I remember that, at some point during our FB chats in 2012, you asked me for my e-mail address. You gave me some reason involving privacy, and it may have had something to do with your folks looking at your FB, I don't recall exactly. But I did give you my e-mail, and we communicated through e-mails for a little while while you were working on the Agalloch cover song. You may have sent me samples through my e-mail, and if so, if any of them had a Trojan virus, I supposed it could have later opened up in my Chromebooks after I purchased them. Those are all just guesses, and they are all I can think of with my limited computer knowledge.
The bottom line, however, is that you do have access to my computer. So far, you have only ever showed evidence of it on Facebook, and I wouldn't even have known it if you hadn't made it known, when you tipped your hand over my friend request to Lillian. But Elizabeth, because I know almost nothing about computers or viruses, or hacking, I have no choice but to assume the worst here; i.e. that you did indeed send me some kind of Trojan Horse virus and that you do indeed have access to both my Chromebooks.
I say "both" because you seem to know when I have put Lillian's name into the FB search, and I have sometimes done that on my Chromebook at Pearl's. The point is, though so far, you have only shown that you can get into my Facebook at will, I have to assume that you can get into my whole computer, and indeed both of them, both Chromebooks.
The question is what are we gonna do about this, Elizabeth?
I said at the beginning of this blog that at first, when you tipped your hand a few days ago, I wasn't really that upset, and that is 100% true. I wasn't happy about it, but I wasn't tremendously upset, either, as I would be if a stranger has hacked me.
But just like last year, it has had a delayed effect, and as the last few days have worn on, I have found myself becoming very frustrated and dismayed about the hacking, if not outright pissed.
It depresses me, because it is a huge deception, a violation of my trust. I really hope you can see that, but I have to say, I am not sure that you can, because after we went through this last year, I asked that the hacking be stopped (under the assumption that it was your parents). But the fact is that it has not stopped, and it turns out that it has been you who is doing it. You can see that it is wrong, can't you? I hope you can.
I've said that this latest realisation, that I've been hacked, has had a delayed effect, and Elizabeth, that is in your favor. Had this been a stranger, not only would I have been immediately outraged, but I would have contacted Facebook and Chrome to see what could be done about it, and if I'd discovered the stranger's identity, I'd have reported that person immediately. Anybody would do the same. I'm sure you would do the same.
But Elizabeth, because it has been you, I have done nothing. My problem, our problem, is what do I/we do now? I have to ask you - and I am gonna need an answer - how far does this hack go?
Do you have access to everything I do? To my banking information? My various passwords?
As I say, I have no choice but to assume the worst, and if it is the worst, I just have to say that if any action involved my other computer sites, like my banking or my Yahoo or any site that I use, I'd have no choice but to report it. Anyone would do the same. You would do the same. Please ask yourself how you would feel if someone hacked you. What would you do? How would you feel if I hacked you? Would you be as forgiving, as lenient as I have been?
So I really have to know if this hack is limited to FB, or if it is a full-on Trojan Horse full computer access of my Chromebooks.
And even if you tell me, I still don't know what to do. I don't wanna say "I don't trust you any more", because that isn't the case, but I really don't know if I should just trash my two Chromebooks and start over, or what?
That is why I need your help in finding a solution to this. Elizabeth, you felt confident enough to trust that I would not get really pissed off when you tipped your hand that you'd hacked me. Perhaps you felt it was legitimate because I had put Lillian's name into the FB search box.
Let me tell you something, even though I am not really pissed about it, nothing justifies your hacking of me. Nothing. I can understand that you have some trust issues because of what your family has been through, and that's a whole other subject, and very understandable and something I certainly have compassion for. But it gives you no right whatsoever to abuse my trust by putting a virus into my computer, or whatever you have done here. You might as well have broken into my apartment, or read my diary. The violation of privacy is the same.
The irony is that I have been pretty open with you about my life. I have never met you; never spoken with you; you don't even message me directly for three years now, and yet I have written, and - when the spirit moves me - I have tried to convey my innermost thoughts and feelings to you. When I've said "I Love You", I have meant it every single time.
You made an FB post earlier this afternoon, berlin-artparasite - that said "nothing changes until a pattern is broken", which obviously means "I've busted you again, Adam"! as far as whose name I put into the FB search box. But there is no justifying what you are doing.
You are still friends with Stephane, your own ex-boyfriend, and you have many other male friends, Johan for instance, who care a great deal for you, and who see you on at least somewhat of a regular basis.
I, on the other hand, have not seen nor talked to Lillian (minus unpleasant situations like court dates) since 1992, before you were born. All I've done is looked at her FB, which is mostly privatized anyway.
Elizabeth, I really do love and care for you, and I really have been thrilled to watch you grow into your career - which is gonna be successful and fantastic - and you have meant so much to me in so may ways .
And you still do, even with everything I have just written.
But I just don't know what to do here, and I am going to need your help if there is to be any kind of solution. I need to know to what extent this hacking has gone. Do I need to toss my Chromebooks and get new ones? My trust has been violated to the extent that I am not sure I'll ever be certain again that I'm not being hacked. I have been through so much major-league stuff in my life that I just don't need any more.
What I need and want is trust, honesty and love.
I hope we can repair this situation, but I am gonna need your help to do so.
I will be right here, of course, and on usual schedules, as usual. Please don't wait if you wanna fix this.
I know you are busy with your videos, and rightly so, and just to reassure you, I am genuinely not mad at you, just upset and perturbed at the situation, which absolutely cannot continue.
Let's fix it?
Adam
Monday, August 31, 2015
Happy Sunday Night
Happy Late Night, my Darling,
I hope you had a nice Sunday. We had good singing in church this morn and at practice afterwards. Not much else to report from today, though my friend Ono came over this evening with his doggie for a walk down to the Orange Grove and back.
You probably saw my posts about Wes Craven, and I am sure you know who he is just from the Nightmare On Elm Street movies, and maybe the Scream movies too, whether you like that kind of stuff or not. For me, he goes all the way back to 1977 when I saw "The Hills Have Eyes", which was really weird and unnerving for it's time, and which had a gritty realism that you don't see nowdays. That film immediately became one of my favorites, and Wes Craven was an early Horror Hero for me.
Another man who unfortunately passed away today was Dr. Wayne Dyer, the guy who - in his PBS tv specials - talked so much about the power of Intent. My Mom was a huge fan of his, and I saw his shows because of her. I am not normally a person who goes in for psychology or New Age mantras, but because Mom watched his shows many times, I listened to what he said about intention, and I began to understand the metaphysical context in which he meant the word, and that was how I came to paraphrase it myself, in various blogs I've written in the last few years. So thanks, Dr. Dyer. :)
I am guessing you were working on band videos this weekend. I hope you got good results!
I Love You and will see you in the morning. xoxoxxoxoxoxoxooxoxoxoxxooxoxox :):)
I hope you had a nice Sunday. We had good singing in church this morn and at practice afterwards. Not much else to report from today, though my friend Ono came over this evening with his doggie for a walk down to the Orange Grove and back.
You probably saw my posts about Wes Craven, and I am sure you know who he is just from the Nightmare On Elm Street movies, and maybe the Scream movies too, whether you like that kind of stuff or not. For me, he goes all the way back to 1977 when I saw "The Hills Have Eyes", which was really weird and unnerving for it's time, and which had a gritty realism that you don't see nowdays. That film immediately became one of my favorites, and Wes Craven was an early Horror Hero for me.
Another man who unfortunately passed away today was Dr. Wayne Dyer, the guy who - in his PBS tv specials - talked so much about the power of Intent. My Mom was a huge fan of his, and I saw his shows because of her. I am not normally a person who goes in for psychology or New Age mantras, but because Mom watched his shows many times, I listened to what he said about intention, and I began to understand the metaphysical context in which he meant the word, and that was how I came to paraphrase it myself, in various blogs I've written in the last few years. So thanks, Dr. Dyer. :)
I am guessing you were working on band videos this weekend. I hope you got good results!
I Love You and will see you in the morning. xoxoxxoxoxoxoxooxoxoxoxxooxoxox :):)
Sunday, August 30, 2015
Happy Saturday Late Night Love
Happy Late Night, my Darling,
How was your Saturday? Good, I hope. Mine was pretty good, just doing all the stuff I usually do. I did drive out to Sophie's place to take her shopping, but was back home by 1pm, and I watched a really good melodramatic Noir that I hadn't heard of before : "House Of Strangers" with Edward G. Robinson starring as an Italian immigrant in the 1930s who heads up a bank and tries to run the lives of his sons, who all work for him. He has charm but is also ruthless, and the sons come to slowly despise him. Susan Hayward is the love interest who helps favored son Richard Conte to break away from the family.
Quite a good script, and fantastic acting all around, especially from Edward G. and Hayward, and great b&w photography and 1930s-era sets. An epic movie, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who made some classic pictures and won Academy Awards for Best Director twice.....
I love it when I find a good movie that I'd never heard of before, and I am doing that a lot this year. :)
The rest of the day was Usual Stuff. Tomorrow in church we will be singing a fairly well known spiritual, "Shall We Gather At The River", and I hope I can hit all the required high notes. This one has great harmonies and that's my favorite part of singing, the harmonizing.
I will be back around 12:30 to 1pm, after choir practice. Sweet Dreams until then!
I Love You, Elizabeth. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
How was your Saturday? Good, I hope. Mine was pretty good, just doing all the stuff I usually do. I did drive out to Sophie's place to take her shopping, but was back home by 1pm, and I watched a really good melodramatic Noir that I hadn't heard of before : "House Of Strangers" with Edward G. Robinson starring as an Italian immigrant in the 1930s who heads up a bank and tries to run the lives of his sons, who all work for him. He has charm but is also ruthless, and the sons come to slowly despise him. Susan Hayward is the love interest who helps favored son Richard Conte to break away from the family.
Quite a good script, and fantastic acting all around, especially from Edward G. and Hayward, and great b&w photography and 1930s-era sets. An epic movie, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who made some classic pictures and won Academy Awards for Best Director twice.....
I love it when I find a good movie that I'd never heard of before, and I am doing that a lot this year. :)
The rest of the day was Usual Stuff. Tomorrow in church we will be singing a fairly well known spiritual, "Shall We Gather At The River", and I hope I can hit all the required high notes. This one has great harmonies and that's my favorite part of singing, the harmonizing.
I will be back around 12:30 to 1pm, after choir practice. Sweet Dreams until then!
I Love You, Elizabeth. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Friday, August 28, 2015
Happy Friday Love (Higher Dimensional Gilligan)
Good Evening, my Darling,
I am home, just checking in to wish you a nice Friday night. Hope you are doing something fun. :) I still didn't get out on a hike, but I will asap! Not tomorrow, because I've gotta take Sophie shopping, and not Sunday cause of church & choir, but soon there will be a flurry of activity, including two train trips Downtown before September 11, which is when my free tickets expire. So, a lot of stuff coming up.
I saw another band you posted this morn, one that just got signed, so maybe they are gonna be a new client? I hope so! Needless to say, I also liked your post right around 4:30, which I saw when I got to Pearl's. :):)
:):) = :), meaning me! That's an awesome equation as far as I'm concerned.
Well, it's one of those evenings where it's not gonna cool down til Midnight, if then, so I am gonna chill for a bit, read my book (working on Hoagland's "Dark Mission"), and then go for my walk later. I'll try to squeeze in a "Walking Dead" too, lol.
I will write more back at Pearl's. I Love You! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
12:40am : Happy Super Late Night, Sweet Baby. It took a while to get situated, but all is quiet now. I hope you had a nice evening. I was reading about Hyperdimensional Physics in the Torsion Field (aka the Aether) and how a rapidly spinning body such as a Pulsar is actually "gating" the energy to maintain it's spin through a vortex created by the spin.......so you know I had a good evening. :)
I guess that either makes me sound pompous or like a super nerd, but I seriously love to read this stuff, and then to try and visualise it, which is doggone near impossible. But I love the idea that The Whole Shebang is a system of gyroscopic energy tensions, an ever-changing Cat's Cradle based on the fluctuations of rotation of celestial bodies.
Sorry, I know I'm nutty. But if you read the stuff on HD physics, it really gives proof of Astrology as an ancient science, that all these rotational energies have an effect on our lives.
In other, more normal news, lol, I watched a "Walking Dead" episode, and earlier this eve, before I left Pearl's during my afternoon shift, I discovered she had TV Land on her cable subscription, and I wound up seeing my first episode of "Gilligan's Island" since perhaps the end of the 20th Century. Seriously, I don't think I'd seen one since about 1998, and of course it's my all-time favorite show. It's like The Beatles of TV Shows for me, I started watching it in 1964 when it began, and because of decades of re-runs I've probably seen each episode at least 50 times. Tonight was the "Ghost" episode, and even though I hadn't seen the show for 17 years, it was like no time had passed.
I still know all the dialogue.
That's all I know for tonight, my Darling. Tomorrow I will leave at about 11am to go take my sister Sophie shopping, but I will be here before that, and then I'll be back probably by about 1:30 or so.
I Love You! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
I am home, just checking in to wish you a nice Friday night. Hope you are doing something fun. :) I still didn't get out on a hike, but I will asap! Not tomorrow, because I've gotta take Sophie shopping, and not Sunday cause of church & choir, but soon there will be a flurry of activity, including two train trips Downtown before September 11, which is when my free tickets expire. So, a lot of stuff coming up.
I saw another band you posted this morn, one that just got signed, so maybe they are gonna be a new client? I hope so! Needless to say, I also liked your post right around 4:30, which I saw when I got to Pearl's. :):)
:):) = :), meaning me! That's an awesome equation as far as I'm concerned.
Well, it's one of those evenings where it's not gonna cool down til Midnight, if then, so I am gonna chill for a bit, read my book (working on Hoagland's "Dark Mission"), and then go for my walk later. I'll try to squeeze in a "Walking Dead" too, lol.
I will write more back at Pearl's. I Love You! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
12:40am : Happy Super Late Night, Sweet Baby. It took a while to get situated, but all is quiet now. I hope you had a nice evening. I was reading about Hyperdimensional Physics in the Torsion Field (aka the Aether) and how a rapidly spinning body such as a Pulsar is actually "gating" the energy to maintain it's spin through a vortex created by the spin.......so you know I had a good evening. :)
I guess that either makes me sound pompous or like a super nerd, but I seriously love to read this stuff, and then to try and visualise it, which is doggone near impossible. But I love the idea that The Whole Shebang is a system of gyroscopic energy tensions, an ever-changing Cat's Cradle based on the fluctuations of rotation of celestial bodies.
Sorry, I know I'm nutty. But if you read the stuff on HD physics, it really gives proof of Astrology as an ancient science, that all these rotational energies have an effect on our lives.
In other, more normal news, lol, I watched a "Walking Dead" episode, and earlier this eve, before I left Pearl's during my afternoon shift, I discovered she had TV Land on her cable subscription, and I wound up seeing my first episode of "Gilligan's Island" since perhaps the end of the 20th Century. Seriously, I don't think I'd seen one since about 1998, and of course it's my all-time favorite show. It's like The Beatles of TV Shows for me, I started watching it in 1964 when it began, and because of decades of re-runs I've probably seen each episode at least 50 times. Tonight was the "Ghost" episode, and even though I hadn't seen the show for 17 years, it was like no time had passed.
I still know all the dialogue.
That's all I know for tonight, my Darling. Tomorrow I will leave at about 11am to go take my sister Sophie shopping, but I will be here before that, and then I'll be back probably by about 1:30 or so.
I Love You! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Welles + 'Sconsin = Wellesconsin.
Hi, my Darling,
Happy Late Night. Tonight began the Fall semester Film Retrospective at CSUN, and as I may have mentioned, we are doing Orson Welles this time around. He's a Wisconsin boy, so you're in good company (and vice-versa, so is Welles!). He did not make enough feature films to fill out 15 weeks, so tonight we started off with a documentary about the man called "Magician".
I think I may have mentioned all of this to you previously. But anyway, I did not know a lot about Orson Welles, only the main things he was famous for, the 1939 "War Of The Worlds" radio broadcast, "Citizen Kane", and a few other films. He had kind of a hard career, because he wanted to make films his way, in the age of the Studio System in Hollywood, when directors did not often have final cut on their films, or too much creative freedom period. Plus, he came out of the gate at 26 with "Citizen Kane", which was a work of creative genius and at the same time made a lot of powerful people mad because of the subject matter.
Speaking of Wisconsin people, I posted a small article a couple weeks ago about a film studio called Triangle Film Corporation, which preceded MGM Studios on the same gigantic lot in Culver City. Triangle was in the game at the beginning of the film business, in the silent era, and it was founded in 1915 by the Aitken brothers of Wisconsin, who are credited according to Wiki as being influential in the creation of the Hollywood Studio System. So there you have it! The 'Sconsin Influence is clear. :)
Hey - everybody out here in California came from the Midwest. At least, back in the old days they did.
Also got my hair cut today. My last cut was back in May, so it was getting kinda straggly. You, of course, have incredible hair, a fact amply demonstrated by the stunning self portrait you have recently posted at your professional website. My goodness, woman!
That is a beautiful picture of you.
My hair is quite a bit shorter now, but it looks good. Next time I may try for some color.......or I may chicken out. Let me know what I should do, color or no color. I can't decide. :)
I hope you had an awesome day. I liked your behind the scenes photographs from the Good Morning V shoot. Keep shooting, keep posting!
I Love You and will see you in the morn.
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxooxoxoxoxo :):)
Happy Late Night. Tonight began the Fall semester Film Retrospective at CSUN, and as I may have mentioned, we are doing Orson Welles this time around. He's a Wisconsin boy, so you're in good company (and vice-versa, so is Welles!). He did not make enough feature films to fill out 15 weeks, so tonight we started off with a documentary about the man called "Magician".
I think I may have mentioned all of this to you previously. But anyway, I did not know a lot about Orson Welles, only the main things he was famous for, the 1939 "War Of The Worlds" radio broadcast, "Citizen Kane", and a few other films. He had kind of a hard career, because he wanted to make films his way, in the age of the Studio System in Hollywood, when directors did not often have final cut on their films, or too much creative freedom period. Plus, he came out of the gate at 26 with "Citizen Kane", which was a work of creative genius and at the same time made a lot of powerful people mad because of the subject matter.
Speaking of Wisconsin people, I posted a small article a couple weeks ago about a film studio called Triangle Film Corporation, which preceded MGM Studios on the same gigantic lot in Culver City. Triangle was in the game at the beginning of the film business, in the silent era, and it was founded in 1915 by the Aitken brothers of Wisconsin, who are credited according to Wiki as being influential in the creation of the Hollywood Studio System. So there you have it! The 'Sconsin Influence is clear. :)
Hey - everybody out here in California came from the Midwest. At least, back in the old days they did.
Also got my hair cut today. My last cut was back in May, so it was getting kinda straggly. You, of course, have incredible hair, a fact amply demonstrated by the stunning self portrait you have recently posted at your professional website. My goodness, woman!
That is a beautiful picture of you.
My hair is quite a bit shorter now, but it looks good. Next time I may try for some color.......or I may chicken out. Let me know what I should do, color or no color. I can't decide. :)
I hope you had an awesome day. I liked your behind the scenes photographs from the Good Morning V shoot. Keep shooting, keep posting!
I Love You and will see you in the morn.
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxooxoxoxoxo :):)
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Love From Home On Wednesday Eve (dogs)
Good Evening, my Darling,
I am home from Pearl's and just wanted to check in say hi. I hope your day was good. I woke up with a bit of a sinus headache, which sometimes happens when I go to sleep with the fan on. I had wanted to do a hike, but when I got home this morning I realised I'd left my hiking boots at Pearl's, and that, plus the headache, convinced me to postpone the hike til Friday. Instead I stayed in and watched a movie from my Warner Gangsters collection, one I had not yet seen, "Each Dawn I Die". Great title, right? In the 1930s, when gangster movies were big, they had a lot of them that took place in a prison, and this was one such movie, hence the title - each dawn, James Cagney wakes up still in prison and "dies" on the inside. He's in there, only he's been framed and is really innocent. That was another big theme for these kind of movies, The Guy Who Was Framed. :) This one was really good, one of the best 1930s Prison Movies that I've seen, and it co-starred George Raft, so you know it's a winner.
I took an Advil around 3pm and am now feeling much better, so I'll go for my walk in a while and do all my Usual Stuff. I have started The Walking Dead, and am three episodes in, and it's good but I'm not sure yet if I can do six seasons of really, really gross Zombie violence. Check back with me after a few more episodes.
I'll write more back at Pearl's. I Love You! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
12:10am : Happy Late Night, Sweet Baby. I am here in the kitchen, listening to KUSC, got my Shakespeare book nearby for good energy. I hope you had a nice evening. I loved your post of the doggie at the top of the mountain. He or she had a great face and looked happy to be up there! Wouldn't it be great to go for a hike, me and you, and to have a dog to bring along? I think so. :):)
I have gotten into small dogs ever since I got to know The Kobester, and he is indeed mighty despite his diminutive stature, but I think for hiking you need a fairly good sized dog. I could be wrong about that, though. But I was thinking about my own past dogs because of National Dog Day, and I think it would be great to have another Lab one day. My brother's post of our Shepherd/Huskie mix Egor got me to thinking about him and his partner Shemp, who was a wild 'n crazy Lab mix. My favorites though, were my doggies Alice and Trixie, a purebred black Lab and her mixed-breed blonde daughter, who looked like a Lab but skinnier. Those dogs were awesome, loyal and durable, and could've climbed any mountain I was able to climb myself (except I didn't hike in those days, lol).
Yeah, it would be fun to have another Lab. Or any nice dog, really. When I see a face like the doggie in your post, it melts me. I can remember that it used to be said that "dogs don't have facial expressions", as if they weren't capable of expressing their feelings which would naturally come out on their face.
Not true at all! Dogs have some of the most amazing smiles of all creatures. I love dogs and I know you do too.
I can remember Molly, the first family dog in my lifetime. She was a Cocker Spaniel. We had her til about 1966. Then we had Schroeder, a Dachshund, from 1968 to 1970. He was kind of irascable and my Dad gave him away because he chewed and peed on the legs of Dad's Kawai Baby Grand Piano. Then we had Gretchen, who I think was a Weimaraner, but she was a hunter and kept killing rats and squirrels in the ivy and leaving them on our back porch, like "look what I brought ya"! So Dad gave her away, too.
Then we didn't have any dogs until we got Shemp from the dog pound in 1977.
And the rest was history! Shemp and Egor - 1977-1988, Alice and Trixie - 1988 - 1997.
Lab City for twenty years. So we will get another Lab one day. And any other kind of Good Doggie, too.
That all I know for tonight, my girl. I will see you in the morning and then at 11:30 I will get my haircut too, during Pearl's appointment at the salon.
I Love You! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Sweet Dreams....
I am home from Pearl's and just wanted to check in say hi. I hope your day was good. I woke up with a bit of a sinus headache, which sometimes happens when I go to sleep with the fan on. I had wanted to do a hike, but when I got home this morning I realised I'd left my hiking boots at Pearl's, and that, plus the headache, convinced me to postpone the hike til Friday. Instead I stayed in and watched a movie from my Warner Gangsters collection, one I had not yet seen, "Each Dawn I Die". Great title, right? In the 1930s, when gangster movies were big, they had a lot of them that took place in a prison, and this was one such movie, hence the title - each dawn, James Cagney wakes up still in prison and "dies" on the inside. He's in there, only he's been framed and is really innocent. That was another big theme for these kind of movies, The Guy Who Was Framed. :) This one was really good, one of the best 1930s Prison Movies that I've seen, and it co-starred George Raft, so you know it's a winner.
I took an Advil around 3pm and am now feeling much better, so I'll go for my walk in a while and do all my Usual Stuff. I have started The Walking Dead, and am three episodes in, and it's good but I'm not sure yet if I can do six seasons of really, really gross Zombie violence. Check back with me after a few more episodes.
I'll write more back at Pearl's. I Love You! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
12:10am : Happy Late Night, Sweet Baby. I am here in the kitchen, listening to KUSC, got my Shakespeare book nearby for good energy. I hope you had a nice evening. I loved your post of the doggie at the top of the mountain. He or she had a great face and looked happy to be up there! Wouldn't it be great to go for a hike, me and you, and to have a dog to bring along? I think so. :):)
I have gotten into small dogs ever since I got to know The Kobester, and he is indeed mighty despite his diminutive stature, but I think for hiking you need a fairly good sized dog. I could be wrong about that, though. But I was thinking about my own past dogs because of National Dog Day, and I think it would be great to have another Lab one day. My brother's post of our Shepherd/Huskie mix Egor got me to thinking about him and his partner Shemp, who was a wild 'n crazy Lab mix. My favorites though, were my doggies Alice and Trixie, a purebred black Lab and her mixed-breed blonde daughter, who looked like a Lab but skinnier. Those dogs were awesome, loyal and durable, and could've climbed any mountain I was able to climb myself (except I didn't hike in those days, lol).
Yeah, it would be fun to have another Lab. Or any nice dog, really. When I see a face like the doggie in your post, it melts me. I can remember that it used to be said that "dogs don't have facial expressions", as if they weren't capable of expressing their feelings which would naturally come out on their face.
Not true at all! Dogs have some of the most amazing smiles of all creatures. I love dogs and I know you do too.
I can remember Molly, the first family dog in my lifetime. She was a Cocker Spaniel. We had her til about 1966. Then we had Schroeder, a Dachshund, from 1968 to 1970. He was kind of irascable and my Dad gave him away because he chewed and peed on the legs of Dad's Kawai Baby Grand Piano. Then we had Gretchen, who I think was a Weimaraner, but she was a hunter and kept killing rats and squirrels in the ivy and leaving them on our back porch, like "look what I brought ya"! So Dad gave her away, too.
Then we didn't have any dogs until we got Shemp from the dog pound in 1977.
And the rest was history! Shemp and Egor - 1977-1988, Alice and Trixie - 1988 - 1997.
Lab City for twenty years. So we will get another Lab one day. And any other kind of Good Doggie, too.
That all I know for tonight, my girl. I will see you in the morning and then at 11:30 I will get my haircut too, during Pearl's appointment at the salon.
I Love You! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Sweet Dreams....
Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Tuesday Morning Love :):) (an attempt at explanation) (Love From Home) (love means no worries)
Good Morning, Elizabeth,
I am still at Pearl's, and won't be home until after I take her to Golden Agers at 11am, but I just wanted to tell you that I saw your post, berlin-artparasite. It says a lot to me, and I don't want to just give a brief response, so I'll have to wait until I get home, but I will say - as to the main point of the message - that there is ZERO CHANCE of that ever happening.
Read what it says again, and then know that it will never happen. You will never lose me, ever. Period.
More when I get home.
I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
11:30am : Hi again, my Darling. I am home. Golden Agers was cancelled due to a wedding at church, so I had to take Pearl back to her house, but anyway, here I am. Everything I am gonna say here is said with a giant hug and kiss, and a Ton Of Love. Also, don't worry about that preface, lol. Don't ya hate it when somebody prefaces a message with "everything I am gonna say here"? Cause it sounds like it's gonna be a doom-laden message, or a bunch of Heavy, Depressing Stuff. But with me, you know it's not gonna be that. It's just my thoughts on things, as always. And offered with as much love as you can possibly handle, and even more. :):)
The first thing I wanna say, is thanks very much for your post this morning, the berlin-artparasite. I know it must not always be easy to locate a post that says what you want to say, and it can be time consuming, etc. So thanks, because that post seemed to hit the nail on the head, and what's more, it was very honest, in the sense that I referred to last night, when I said "we will probably both be talking about the same thing".
Which brings me to the second thing I want to say. Here is where the Gigantic Hug and Kiss come in, because this especially is said with nothing but love. Somehow, you seem to be able to see what I am doing on my FB, and perhaps my entire computer as well. I brought up this issue last Summer, as you know. Back then, I referred to it as hacking, and I thought it might be someone like your folks, worried about a guy my age talking to their daughter. Now, with the Chris Willman post yesterday, you have kind of tipped your hand that it's you, and really, you have kind of shown that on one or two previous occasions as well. But the thing is, you are being honest about it, or at least it is out in the open. Whatever you are doing that allows you to see my "clicks" on FB (i.e. what I look at) is something I cannot figure out. I have even Googled about hacking, and hacking FB, and hacking a Chromebook, and from what I read - by experts, mind you - they say that a Chromebook basically cannot be hacked, or is very difficult to do so.
Of course, I know next to nothing about computers, so the technical language they use is something I don't have the patience for. I do know how to check for other devices on my accounts and stuff like that, but the bottom line is that I am stumped. If you are able to see what I do on FB, and it appears that you are able to do so, then I truly have no idea how you are doing it. I know that you are a technical wizard yourself, and that you grew up around a lot of techies. I would just say to be careful about this kind of stuff, because what you have seems to me to be NSA-level tech skills. No joking about that. I may not be a techie, but I am no slouch when it comes to figuring things out, and this abilty to see what I do on FB (and possibly my entire computer) is something I absolutely have not been able to figure out. So, it's an NSA-level skill, and again, I'd be careful about using things like that.
Having said that, you may or may not believe this, but I do not really care if you look at what I do on FB. It did bother me a lot last Summer, when I first discovered it, but even then you were upfront about it, at least by letting me in on it, in a symbolic way, when I sent that Friend Request to Lillian. That's when you first tipped your hand that you could do this, that you could see what I was doing on my own personal FB, which is supposedly locked down to outside viewers. How an outside viewer could see another person's friend request is something I cannot figure out, but you were apparently able to do so. But again, you were honest about it. You let me know "I don't like this"! by posting symbolic messages that you knew I'd understand (water lillies, etc). This time it was Chris Willman.
Last year, all of that made me very upset, and I thought it was your parents who were behind it. Now, you have kind of shown that it's you.
The thing is, it doesn't actually bother me that much. First of all, it's you who is doing it. I'd prefer it if you didn't, but I understand why you do, and you have been upfront about it, at least when you see me doing something that you don't like. That "something" is something very specific, and we both know what it is, and I can see - especially when you make a post like berlin-artparasite this morning - that it causes you to worry. A post like that goes straight to my heart, and it touches me very deeply, so that I think, "how can I be mad about this"? And the truth is that I cannot, and I am not mad about the hacking (if that is what I should call it), because I can see it is coming from the heart. The heart can be filled with all kinds of feelings, including fear and worry, and I understand those feelings quite well. I should add, in my defense, that a lot of guys, and a lot of people in general, would be extremely upset about having their FB moves looked at, in secret, by another person. Many would take some kind of action.
But the difference with me, is that in a way, you have almost kind of trusted me not to do that. Not to get upset. By showing me that you can "see" my FB moves, you have said, in a way, "Adam, I can see what you're doing, and I don't like it, and I am gonna show you that I don't like it, but I also know that you're not gonna get mad at me".
And do you know what, Elizabeth? You are exactly right! And, in a way, it shows a "trusting" of me, by you. You are trusting me not to get mad at you - when almost anybody else would - by showing me what you can do. So, that says to me that you know me pretty well, and that makes me happy, believe it or not. Even if I would prefer you did not look at what I do on FB, you have been honest about it, and you have trusted me not to get upset about it, and finally, I can't do anything about it and wouldn't do anything anyway because I love you, and you know that. So that's where things stand with the hacking.
The berlin-artparasite post refers to a fear of losing something. From the painting in the post, it looks like a reference to fear of losing someone.
I repeat and reiterate this, Elizabeth: you are never going to lose me. The only way you could ever lose me is if you got tired of me, decided I was boring, or found a guy you really liked who was in closer proximity to you than I am. The only way you could ever lose me would be through a decision of your own, and I hope that never happens because I love you and you are beyond special to me. We have this intuitive relationship that is one-in-a-million, because how could two people just out of the blue meet, then connect immediately, and then understand each other and love each other in this intuitive way that we have? It was meant to happen.
If you could be in my shoes, however, you'd see that the reverse has been true as well. I worry too, and I've mentioned it a million times. You, being a Sagittarius, have a trillion friends, and many of them are guys. Those guys like you a lot, and no doubt some of them wouldn't mind being more than just your friend. They all live nearby you, or in proximity (Chicago, etc), while here I am 2000 miles away. I have to just watch all these guys hanging out with you, and just let it go, and I do. It was bugging me there for a while, but as time went by, I just thought, well, Elizabeth has a lot of guy friends and if something serious develops, I trust that she'll tell me. And when I say "I will understand" if that ever does happen, I mean it in all honesty, because I am out here in Los Angeles, and I am older, and it would be certainly understandable if you ever decided you really liked one of those guys who are closer in age and who live nearer to you than I do. So please put yourself in my shoes, is all I ask. I would never in a million years protest you having male friends, or hanging out with them, going places with them, etc. They are part of your life, and I am not at all the kind of person who tries to change another person or try to put restrictions on them. All I have ever asked is that you tell me if anything ever began to get serious with one of these guys, and I trust that you would, and I would indeed understand because it would be natural, because of proximity and similar age. I hope it doesn't happen, but if it does, I will honestly understand.
The other thing, and again do not forget that we are having this discussion with hugs and kisses and tons of love - is that we have not talked to each other directly in three years now. That is a very long time. And when I say "talked", I mean by text. I still have never actually spoken to you, let alone met you.
All of that is okay, but it would be great if I at least knew what to expect. Is it going to be this way permanently? For the forseeable future? Or maybe you just don't know for sure, and that is perfectly fine. As you have seen, I have never stopped writing to you, or posting on FB - every day - and using the form of communication we have developed. That right there should be sign that you are never gonna lose me, lol. I have always written and posted, almost every day, even though we haven't talked directly for three years, and even though you have given me no indication when we might talk again.
So again, there is what I hope for, and what I am fine with. I hope we will one day have real communication, but I am fine with the fact that we currently do not, because I understand a lot of factors involved. I understand that you are just getting underway with your career (and it is a wonderful thing for me to watch!), and I understand that you are only just out of college and living at home, and not only would I never rush things, or insist on things, I would actually do the opposite and encourage you to take time with your life. That is what I talk so much about; taking time with things, getting a feel for things, never rushing a decision, always keeping family close and strong in your life and in your heart. I think is is beyond awesome that your Mom seems to be supportive of you, and I always encourage love among family members, and patience.
So I am fine with everything that's going on, really. But I can see that you worry about what you see on my FB, and you have even asked me - through your posts - not to think about the past, or memories, etc.
This is where a problem can develop, and again remember that no problem is so serious that it doesn't have a solution. The problem here, is that what happened to me in 1989, was very serious. It was so serious that to this day, it's not only never been resolved, it's never been talked about, period. It's flat-out never been acknowledged by anyone but myself. I don't wanna go on a huge tangent about it, except to say that I have continued to study it, and to examine it, because it has never been explained to me. For instance, I was kidnapped during this series of events by a crazy man. I still, 26 years later, do not know exactly who he was or why he kidnapped me, or what exactly happened to him. There are so many details to what happened in 1989, that it took me almost 800 pages to write it all down, which I did back in 2006-7. So many things happened, involving a lot of people, that it has taken me years to attempt to put all the pieces together. I have even written Freedom Of Information Act requests to the FBI and various other agencies, in an attempt to find any bit of information about this, but it has all been to no avail. Many people would just say, "well why don't you just give up"? And of course I have had that said to me, among other things. The only way I could even try to explain it to you would be in person. Please understand, though, that what happened in 1989 is not merely some "bad memories", like a harsh breakup of a relationship, but something very, very overwhelming and profound, involving many people, many situations, and thousands of details, many of them so strange as to strain belief. I don't just "let it go" because I can't. To do so would be profoundly wrong.
All I have ever sought was simply the truth of what happened, and the whole truth. Lillian was involved in it with me, and it's as simple as that. None of it is her fault, the whole thing in it's entirety goes way beyond that, and it goes so far beyond the level of normal understanding that you really have to do the kind of reading and research I've done for all of these years to even begin to understand it. As weird as it sounds, it seems to have something to do with my life, though I am not entirely sure what that is.
But the truth is important in life, and there are ways to bring about hidden truths - or at least try to bring them out into the open - without hurting anyone, without blame or vengeance or anything negative, and that is what I hope to do, eventually. All I can tell you, is that if I could prove what happened here in 1989, and get it on TV, it would be one of the biggest stories you've ever heard, and certainly one of the weirdest. That may or may never happen, and personally I would be satisfied if someone just gave me a thorough explanation of it all, and of every detail I have wondered about for all these years.
But it is the central issue of my life, because it is my life. It seems to involve something very unusual.
I have promised not to write about it in my blogs, and that is not an easy promise to keep, but I am trying because I know it bothers you. In the future, I may have to write about certain inexplicable aspects of it because it helps me to do so, it helps me to understand it. But I don't want you to worry about it.
I hope I have explained all of this to some satisfactory degree, If I haven't, and if you have any questions just let me know. We have to be big people in this life, larger than life really. And we have to be understanding.
I Love You, Elizabeth. You are never going to lose me. I hope I never lose you.
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
7:15pm : Good Evening, my Darling Elizabeth. I saw your posts while I was at Pearl's, and I loved them. :):) We can of course get married, but we will have to have patience because we will have to take the necessary steps to do so, the first being to have actual communication, and I know you know this, so all I am saying for now is for both of us to have patience, and I know you know that to. :)
Above all, I want you not to worry about things. Everything is good, and everything will be good, and you can count on that. So please don't worry. Right now I am gonna relax for a little while and do The Usual, my reading and my walk. Maybe watch an episode of Walking Dead or X-Files. I will write more when I get back to Pearl's.
I Love You and you are so very special to me.
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
12:15am : Happy Late Night, Sweet Baby. I hope you had a nice evening and are feeling good about things once again. I think that if we just both go with the flow, things will work out the way we want them to. From my angle, going with the flow means having patience, and I have tried to and will keep doing so. It is awesome and beautiful to say we will be married, and we can indeed say that. But because I must also have patience, I know I cannot also make ultimatums, and say, "c'mon - you have to start talking to me". I will never make ultimatums, but I will trust you to eventually begin to communicate directly with me, because obviously that's the only way we can take the steps that will lead to marriage.
Eventually, we will get to know each other in real life. I will trust in that.
We can talk about a million things one day, and won't that be incredible? I think it will, and I hope you think so too.
I have this one big issue in my life that's very complex, and it comes along with being with me, much like if you wanted to marry a secret agent or even a baseball player. I don't have a career, per se, but I do earn a living, and I have something of importance that is my main focus, at least until I can get to the truth of it. Then I can move onto something else weird, lol.
At any rate, rest easy my girl. I want you to know that I know what it feels like to worry about things, especially when your adult life is just getting underway. I want you to be reassured, though, and I want you to think tonight about all the different kinds of thoughts and philosophies we have talked about over the years. Think about the Glimpses. Remember them? The glimpses of things, things that cannot be described, only felt.....
Also, please keep in mind all these years - days, weeks and months - of me writing to you, to share these things, and you have certainly shared them back with me.
Right now, I can only wait until you are able to have direct communication with me. I can't, and won't, force that issue. But I will wait. No problem there at all. In the meantime, everything can just go on as it has. All I ask is that you please understand that my life is what it is, and because of the extraordinary nature of my experience in life, it is part of who I am.
But if you married me, we'd still do a ton of regular stuff like go to movies, walk the dog, fly kites, etc.
Life is huge, life is magic, life is a blast, life is weird and awesome, and you are in my life permanently, and you will never lose me because I love you.
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
I am still at Pearl's, and won't be home until after I take her to Golden Agers at 11am, but I just wanted to tell you that I saw your post, berlin-artparasite. It says a lot to me, and I don't want to just give a brief response, so I'll have to wait until I get home, but I will say - as to the main point of the message - that there is ZERO CHANCE of that ever happening.
Read what it says again, and then know that it will never happen. You will never lose me, ever. Period.
More when I get home.
I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
11:30am : Hi again, my Darling. I am home. Golden Agers was cancelled due to a wedding at church, so I had to take Pearl back to her house, but anyway, here I am. Everything I am gonna say here is said with a giant hug and kiss, and a Ton Of Love. Also, don't worry about that preface, lol. Don't ya hate it when somebody prefaces a message with "everything I am gonna say here"? Cause it sounds like it's gonna be a doom-laden message, or a bunch of Heavy, Depressing Stuff. But with me, you know it's not gonna be that. It's just my thoughts on things, as always. And offered with as much love as you can possibly handle, and even more. :):)
The first thing I wanna say, is thanks very much for your post this morning, the berlin-artparasite. I know it must not always be easy to locate a post that says what you want to say, and it can be time consuming, etc. So thanks, because that post seemed to hit the nail on the head, and what's more, it was very honest, in the sense that I referred to last night, when I said "we will probably both be talking about the same thing".
Which brings me to the second thing I want to say. Here is where the Gigantic Hug and Kiss come in, because this especially is said with nothing but love. Somehow, you seem to be able to see what I am doing on my FB, and perhaps my entire computer as well. I brought up this issue last Summer, as you know. Back then, I referred to it as hacking, and I thought it might be someone like your folks, worried about a guy my age talking to their daughter. Now, with the Chris Willman post yesterday, you have kind of tipped your hand that it's you, and really, you have kind of shown that on one or two previous occasions as well. But the thing is, you are being honest about it, or at least it is out in the open. Whatever you are doing that allows you to see my "clicks" on FB (i.e. what I look at) is something I cannot figure out. I have even Googled about hacking, and hacking FB, and hacking a Chromebook, and from what I read - by experts, mind you - they say that a Chromebook basically cannot be hacked, or is very difficult to do so.
Of course, I know next to nothing about computers, so the technical language they use is something I don't have the patience for. I do know how to check for other devices on my accounts and stuff like that, but the bottom line is that I am stumped. If you are able to see what I do on FB, and it appears that you are able to do so, then I truly have no idea how you are doing it. I know that you are a technical wizard yourself, and that you grew up around a lot of techies. I would just say to be careful about this kind of stuff, because what you have seems to me to be NSA-level tech skills. No joking about that. I may not be a techie, but I am no slouch when it comes to figuring things out, and this abilty to see what I do on FB (and possibly my entire computer) is something I absolutely have not been able to figure out. So, it's an NSA-level skill, and again, I'd be careful about using things like that.
Having said that, you may or may not believe this, but I do not really care if you look at what I do on FB. It did bother me a lot last Summer, when I first discovered it, but even then you were upfront about it, at least by letting me in on it, in a symbolic way, when I sent that Friend Request to Lillian. That's when you first tipped your hand that you could do this, that you could see what I was doing on my own personal FB, which is supposedly locked down to outside viewers. How an outside viewer could see another person's friend request is something I cannot figure out, but you were apparently able to do so. But again, you were honest about it. You let me know "I don't like this"! by posting symbolic messages that you knew I'd understand (water lillies, etc). This time it was Chris Willman.
Last year, all of that made me very upset, and I thought it was your parents who were behind it. Now, you have kind of shown that it's you.
The thing is, it doesn't actually bother me that much. First of all, it's you who is doing it. I'd prefer it if you didn't, but I understand why you do, and you have been upfront about it, at least when you see me doing something that you don't like. That "something" is something very specific, and we both know what it is, and I can see - especially when you make a post like berlin-artparasite this morning - that it causes you to worry. A post like that goes straight to my heart, and it touches me very deeply, so that I think, "how can I be mad about this"? And the truth is that I cannot, and I am not mad about the hacking (if that is what I should call it), because I can see it is coming from the heart. The heart can be filled with all kinds of feelings, including fear and worry, and I understand those feelings quite well. I should add, in my defense, that a lot of guys, and a lot of people in general, would be extremely upset about having their FB moves looked at, in secret, by another person. Many would take some kind of action.
But the difference with me, is that in a way, you have almost kind of trusted me not to do that. Not to get upset. By showing me that you can "see" my FB moves, you have said, in a way, "Adam, I can see what you're doing, and I don't like it, and I am gonna show you that I don't like it, but I also know that you're not gonna get mad at me".
And do you know what, Elizabeth? You are exactly right! And, in a way, it shows a "trusting" of me, by you. You are trusting me not to get mad at you - when almost anybody else would - by showing me what you can do. So, that says to me that you know me pretty well, and that makes me happy, believe it or not. Even if I would prefer you did not look at what I do on FB, you have been honest about it, and you have trusted me not to get upset about it, and finally, I can't do anything about it and wouldn't do anything anyway because I love you, and you know that. So that's where things stand with the hacking.
The berlin-artparasite post refers to a fear of losing something. From the painting in the post, it looks like a reference to fear of losing someone.
I repeat and reiterate this, Elizabeth: you are never going to lose me. The only way you could ever lose me is if you got tired of me, decided I was boring, or found a guy you really liked who was in closer proximity to you than I am. The only way you could ever lose me would be through a decision of your own, and I hope that never happens because I love you and you are beyond special to me. We have this intuitive relationship that is one-in-a-million, because how could two people just out of the blue meet, then connect immediately, and then understand each other and love each other in this intuitive way that we have? It was meant to happen.
If you could be in my shoes, however, you'd see that the reverse has been true as well. I worry too, and I've mentioned it a million times. You, being a Sagittarius, have a trillion friends, and many of them are guys. Those guys like you a lot, and no doubt some of them wouldn't mind being more than just your friend. They all live nearby you, or in proximity (Chicago, etc), while here I am 2000 miles away. I have to just watch all these guys hanging out with you, and just let it go, and I do. It was bugging me there for a while, but as time went by, I just thought, well, Elizabeth has a lot of guy friends and if something serious develops, I trust that she'll tell me. And when I say "I will understand" if that ever does happen, I mean it in all honesty, because I am out here in Los Angeles, and I am older, and it would be certainly understandable if you ever decided you really liked one of those guys who are closer in age and who live nearer to you than I do. So please put yourself in my shoes, is all I ask. I would never in a million years protest you having male friends, or hanging out with them, going places with them, etc. They are part of your life, and I am not at all the kind of person who tries to change another person or try to put restrictions on them. All I have ever asked is that you tell me if anything ever began to get serious with one of these guys, and I trust that you would, and I would indeed understand because it would be natural, because of proximity and similar age. I hope it doesn't happen, but if it does, I will honestly understand.
The other thing, and again do not forget that we are having this discussion with hugs and kisses and tons of love - is that we have not talked to each other directly in three years now. That is a very long time. And when I say "talked", I mean by text. I still have never actually spoken to you, let alone met you.
All of that is okay, but it would be great if I at least knew what to expect. Is it going to be this way permanently? For the forseeable future? Or maybe you just don't know for sure, and that is perfectly fine. As you have seen, I have never stopped writing to you, or posting on FB - every day - and using the form of communication we have developed. That right there should be sign that you are never gonna lose me, lol. I have always written and posted, almost every day, even though we haven't talked directly for three years, and even though you have given me no indication when we might talk again.
So again, there is what I hope for, and what I am fine with. I hope we will one day have real communication, but I am fine with the fact that we currently do not, because I understand a lot of factors involved. I understand that you are just getting underway with your career (and it is a wonderful thing for me to watch!), and I understand that you are only just out of college and living at home, and not only would I never rush things, or insist on things, I would actually do the opposite and encourage you to take time with your life. That is what I talk so much about; taking time with things, getting a feel for things, never rushing a decision, always keeping family close and strong in your life and in your heart. I think is is beyond awesome that your Mom seems to be supportive of you, and I always encourage love among family members, and patience.
So I am fine with everything that's going on, really. But I can see that you worry about what you see on my FB, and you have even asked me - through your posts - not to think about the past, or memories, etc.
This is where a problem can develop, and again remember that no problem is so serious that it doesn't have a solution. The problem here, is that what happened to me in 1989, was very serious. It was so serious that to this day, it's not only never been resolved, it's never been talked about, period. It's flat-out never been acknowledged by anyone but myself. I don't wanna go on a huge tangent about it, except to say that I have continued to study it, and to examine it, because it has never been explained to me. For instance, I was kidnapped during this series of events by a crazy man. I still, 26 years later, do not know exactly who he was or why he kidnapped me, or what exactly happened to him. There are so many details to what happened in 1989, that it took me almost 800 pages to write it all down, which I did back in 2006-7. So many things happened, involving a lot of people, that it has taken me years to attempt to put all the pieces together. I have even written Freedom Of Information Act requests to the FBI and various other agencies, in an attempt to find any bit of information about this, but it has all been to no avail. Many people would just say, "well why don't you just give up"? And of course I have had that said to me, among other things. The only way I could even try to explain it to you would be in person. Please understand, though, that what happened in 1989 is not merely some "bad memories", like a harsh breakup of a relationship, but something very, very overwhelming and profound, involving many people, many situations, and thousands of details, many of them so strange as to strain belief. I don't just "let it go" because I can't. To do so would be profoundly wrong.
All I have ever sought was simply the truth of what happened, and the whole truth. Lillian was involved in it with me, and it's as simple as that. None of it is her fault, the whole thing in it's entirety goes way beyond that, and it goes so far beyond the level of normal understanding that you really have to do the kind of reading and research I've done for all of these years to even begin to understand it. As weird as it sounds, it seems to have something to do with my life, though I am not entirely sure what that is.
But the truth is important in life, and there are ways to bring about hidden truths - or at least try to bring them out into the open - without hurting anyone, without blame or vengeance or anything negative, and that is what I hope to do, eventually. All I can tell you, is that if I could prove what happened here in 1989, and get it on TV, it would be one of the biggest stories you've ever heard, and certainly one of the weirdest. That may or may never happen, and personally I would be satisfied if someone just gave me a thorough explanation of it all, and of every detail I have wondered about for all these years.
But it is the central issue of my life, because it is my life. It seems to involve something very unusual.
I have promised not to write about it in my blogs, and that is not an easy promise to keep, but I am trying because I know it bothers you. In the future, I may have to write about certain inexplicable aspects of it because it helps me to do so, it helps me to understand it. But I don't want you to worry about it.
I hope I have explained all of this to some satisfactory degree, If I haven't, and if you have any questions just let me know. We have to be big people in this life, larger than life really. And we have to be understanding.
I Love You, Elizabeth. You are never going to lose me. I hope I never lose you.
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
7:15pm : Good Evening, my Darling Elizabeth. I saw your posts while I was at Pearl's, and I loved them. :):) We can of course get married, but we will have to have patience because we will have to take the necessary steps to do so, the first being to have actual communication, and I know you know this, so all I am saying for now is for both of us to have patience, and I know you know that to. :)
Above all, I want you not to worry about things. Everything is good, and everything will be good, and you can count on that. So please don't worry. Right now I am gonna relax for a little while and do The Usual, my reading and my walk. Maybe watch an episode of Walking Dead or X-Files. I will write more when I get back to Pearl's.
I Love You and you are so very special to me.
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
12:15am : Happy Late Night, Sweet Baby. I hope you had a nice evening and are feeling good about things once again. I think that if we just both go with the flow, things will work out the way we want them to. From my angle, going with the flow means having patience, and I have tried to and will keep doing so. It is awesome and beautiful to say we will be married, and we can indeed say that. But because I must also have patience, I know I cannot also make ultimatums, and say, "c'mon - you have to start talking to me". I will never make ultimatums, but I will trust you to eventually begin to communicate directly with me, because obviously that's the only way we can take the steps that will lead to marriage.
Eventually, we will get to know each other in real life. I will trust in that.
We can talk about a million things one day, and won't that be incredible? I think it will, and I hope you think so too.
I have this one big issue in my life that's very complex, and it comes along with being with me, much like if you wanted to marry a secret agent or even a baseball player. I don't have a career, per se, but I do earn a living, and I have something of importance that is my main focus, at least until I can get to the truth of it. Then I can move onto something else weird, lol.
At any rate, rest easy my girl. I want you to know that I know what it feels like to worry about things, especially when your adult life is just getting underway. I want you to be reassured, though, and I want you to think tonight about all the different kinds of thoughts and philosophies we have talked about over the years. Think about the Glimpses. Remember them? The glimpses of things, things that cannot be described, only felt.....
Also, please keep in mind all these years - days, weeks and months - of me writing to you, to share these things, and you have certainly shared them back with me.
Right now, I can only wait until you are able to have direct communication with me. I can't, and won't, force that issue. But I will wait. No problem there at all. In the meantime, everything can just go on as it has. All I ask is that you please understand that my life is what it is, and because of the extraordinary nature of my experience in life, it is part of who I am.
But if you married me, we'd still do a ton of regular stuff like go to movies, walk the dog, fly kites, etc.
Life is huge, life is magic, life is a blast, life is weird and awesome, and you are in my life permanently, and you will never lose me because I love you.
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Monday, August 24, 2015
Monday Hello (wondering) (please tell me) (asap)
Hi Elizabeth,
I am home from Pearl's, hope you are having a nice afternoon. I saw your post this morning, the Laura Zalenga photo. Sorry I haven't written anything for the past couple days, but I just assumed you were gone for the weekend, maybe still in Chicago or something. You didn't post, so I figured you were busy. Anyhow, I hope you had a nice time at the Failure concert. Hope all your projects are coming along well.
My weekend was The Usual, good singing in church yesterday. Our interim musical director Bob knows a lot about vocal technique and he has us doing warm-up exercises, showing us how to breathe correctly while singing, etc. Lots of stuff. I always enjoy the practice sessions.
Today is Pearl's birthday, and we had the main celebration dinner last Friday night as reported, but today we will do something too. This time it will be just me and Pearl and The Kobedog, but maybe we will go somewhere - for a drive, or to the lake or somewhere else - if she wants to.
Right now, I will be around til about 2:30 or 3pm. Then I am gonna leave a little early to go have a picture printed up at FedEx Kinkos, for a small present for Pearl. If you are around I will always write and post.
I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
(back in a bit)
7pm : I am once again home from Pearl's. We went to Lake Balboa and had a nice time, though it was a tad hot out. All in all, Pearl had a nice birthday and got a ton of cards from her friends.
Well, my Darling, I saw your post a little while ago. I am not quite sure what to make of it, because on the one hand, it looks innocuous enough, just a regular FB "like" of a picture of your friend. On the other hand, however, it was only the second post you've made since Friday, and it's of an FB friend I've never seen you post from before. Thirdly, there is something very specific about that friend that causes me to wonder if you have a message behind that post, meant for me.
I mention all of this only because you didn't post all weekend, which always causes me to wonder of something is wrong. Usually, even if you are busy you still post. Now, I know I've harped on it before, but at first I wondered if it had anything to do with you and Kyle. I know you've said you guys are just friends and I'll take your word for it, but because you went to the concert and then didn't post for two days, I wondered once again. I'll drop the subject, but I've said many times that if you ever have a boyfriend, or if things are headed that way, all you have to do is tell me.
Anyway, I am not upset - honest - but just confused because of the two days of silence and now the post of your FB friend that has a specific connotation to it. Do you know there is a rock journalist with the name of Chris Willman? He has written for the LA Times, among other publications.
It could be a total coincidence that you posted another Chris Willman, or I suppose there's always a chance you posted him on purpose because you know that I pay attention to details. I don't wanna go any farther with this line of speculation because it's just that - me guessing about things. But I just ask please, if you are trying to tell me something, let me know.
I am on my usual evening schedule, and I will be here except for my walk, which I will go on at about 9pm. Then I will also be back later at Pearl's, as usual. Please let me know what, if anything, is going on.
I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
7:30 : P.S - Just this minute I see another post, a new post, and while I don't have any sympathy for the rapist in that case, it is not your usual type of post. Not hardly.
Something certainly seems to be going on, Elizabeth, so again, won't you please tell me what it is?
Midnight : Hi again, Elizabeth. I'd normally wish you a happy late night but unfortunately the circumstances don't seem too happy at the moment. I need for you to tell me what's going on here, though I think I have a pretty good idea. I'm not gonna guess at it this time, however. I need you to tell me. I was hoping maybe you would do that this evening, but I guess you were busy.
If you will tell me what is going on, then I will respond, and I'll bet we will be talking about the same thing. In the meantime, I will be awake tonight til about 1am or so.
Hope to hear from you as soon as possible.
I am home from Pearl's, hope you are having a nice afternoon. I saw your post this morning, the Laura Zalenga photo. Sorry I haven't written anything for the past couple days, but I just assumed you were gone for the weekend, maybe still in Chicago or something. You didn't post, so I figured you were busy. Anyhow, I hope you had a nice time at the Failure concert. Hope all your projects are coming along well.
My weekend was The Usual, good singing in church yesterday. Our interim musical director Bob knows a lot about vocal technique and he has us doing warm-up exercises, showing us how to breathe correctly while singing, etc. Lots of stuff. I always enjoy the practice sessions.
Today is Pearl's birthday, and we had the main celebration dinner last Friday night as reported, but today we will do something too. This time it will be just me and Pearl and The Kobedog, but maybe we will go somewhere - for a drive, or to the lake or somewhere else - if she wants to.
Right now, I will be around til about 2:30 or 3pm. Then I am gonna leave a little early to go have a picture printed up at FedEx Kinkos, for a small present for Pearl. If you are around I will always write and post.
I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
(back in a bit)
7pm : I am once again home from Pearl's. We went to Lake Balboa and had a nice time, though it was a tad hot out. All in all, Pearl had a nice birthday and got a ton of cards from her friends.
Well, my Darling, I saw your post a little while ago. I am not quite sure what to make of it, because on the one hand, it looks innocuous enough, just a regular FB "like" of a picture of your friend. On the other hand, however, it was only the second post you've made since Friday, and it's of an FB friend I've never seen you post from before. Thirdly, there is something very specific about that friend that causes me to wonder if you have a message behind that post, meant for me.
I mention all of this only because you didn't post all weekend, which always causes me to wonder of something is wrong. Usually, even if you are busy you still post. Now, I know I've harped on it before, but at first I wondered if it had anything to do with you and Kyle. I know you've said you guys are just friends and I'll take your word for it, but because you went to the concert and then didn't post for two days, I wondered once again. I'll drop the subject, but I've said many times that if you ever have a boyfriend, or if things are headed that way, all you have to do is tell me.
Anyway, I am not upset - honest - but just confused because of the two days of silence and now the post of your FB friend that has a specific connotation to it. Do you know there is a rock journalist with the name of Chris Willman? He has written for the LA Times, among other publications.
It could be a total coincidence that you posted another Chris Willman, or I suppose there's always a chance you posted him on purpose because you know that I pay attention to details. I don't wanna go any farther with this line of speculation because it's just that - me guessing about things. But I just ask please, if you are trying to tell me something, let me know.
I am on my usual evening schedule, and I will be here except for my walk, which I will go on at about 9pm. Then I will also be back later at Pearl's, as usual. Please let me know what, if anything, is going on.
I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
7:30 : P.S - Just this minute I see another post, a new post, and while I don't have any sympathy for the rapist in that case, it is not your usual type of post. Not hardly.
Something certainly seems to be going on, Elizabeth, so again, won't you please tell me what it is?
Midnight : Hi again, Elizabeth. I'd normally wish you a happy late night but unfortunately the circumstances don't seem too happy at the moment. I need for you to tell me what's going on here, though I think I have a pretty good idea. I'm not gonna guess at it this time, however. I need you to tell me. I was hoping maybe you would do that this evening, but I guess you were busy.
If you will tell me what is going on, then I will respond, and I'll bet we will be talking about the same thing. In the meantime, I will be awake tonight til about 1am or so.
Hope to hear from you as soon as possible.
Saturday, August 22, 2015
Happy Late Night
Hi Elizabeth,
Happy Super Late Night. I was at Pearl's this evening, to celebrate her birthday. We had a nice time, and a lot of good food, and Pearl is still going strong at 91. I didn't do a lot else today, but I did watch a great movie this afternoon, called "The Seventh Cross", starring Spencer Tracy. It's about a man who escapes a concentration camp in Germany during WW2, and his struggles as he tries to stay hidden until he can arrange to get out of the country. It was made in 1944, at the height of the war, and it had a great cast, including a young Hume Cronyn and his wife Jessica Tandy, as a couple who help to hide Spencer Tracy. Cronyn and Tandy were known as "The First Couple Of The Theater" because they very often acted together, and people my age remember them mainly as senior citizens. They were old when I first heard of them, so it was a kick to see them as young actors in this film.
I saw that you guys went to Chicago for the Failure concert, so you may be back by now, or you are on your way. I hope you had a great time! I haven't heard Failure's music, but a friend over at the KX board is a huge fan of Ken Andrews in general, both as musician and producer, so I have heard of him.
Tomorrow I have one more sleep in, and then it's back to work. :)
I will see you in the morning. I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxooxo :):)
Happy Super Late Night. I was at Pearl's this evening, to celebrate her birthday. We had a nice time, and a lot of good food, and Pearl is still going strong at 91. I didn't do a lot else today, but I did watch a great movie this afternoon, called "The Seventh Cross", starring Spencer Tracy. It's about a man who escapes a concentration camp in Germany during WW2, and his struggles as he tries to stay hidden until he can arrange to get out of the country. It was made in 1944, at the height of the war, and it had a great cast, including a young Hume Cronyn and his wife Jessica Tandy, as a couple who help to hide Spencer Tracy. Cronyn and Tandy were known as "The First Couple Of The Theater" because they very often acted together, and people my age remember them mainly as senior citizens. They were old when I first heard of them, so it was a kick to see them as young actors in this film.
I saw that you guys went to Chicago for the Failure concert, so you may be back by now, or you are on your way. I hope you had a great time! I haven't heard Failure's music, but a friend over at the KX board is a huge fan of Ken Andrews in general, both as musician and producer, so I have heard of him.
Tomorrow I have one more sleep in, and then it's back to work. :)
I will see you in the morning. I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxooxo :):)
Thursday, August 20, 2015
Thursday Night Love (download & digitize)
Hi, my Darling,
I'm checking in a little earlier, just cause I have the night off. I haven't been doing much this evening, but I did meet Ono down at Senor Sol, a Mexican restaurant near my apartment, and we hung out for a while. Then I went for my walk. Other than that, just a lot of driving this afternoon, taking Pearl to the hair salon and Kobi to Le Groomer, then picking them both up later on.
I figure that maybe you were working on one of your videos today, or shooting some photos. I think what I will do now is make something to eat real quick, and then come back and write more in a little while, at about the usual time. Right now I just wanted to say hi and see if you were around. :)
I Love You and I'll be back in a little bit! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
12:35am : Now I can officially say Happy Late Night, Sweet Baby! I don't have a lot to add, just that I am listening to KUSC as I always do at this time of night. I joined the Time Travellers group at the Art Bell website so that I can now have access to his past radio shows at any time. I can even download 'em and then save them and listen whenever I want, like T-Vo for radio. It was only five bucks a month to join, and now I can save all of Art's Weirdest Shows. I am gonna have to figure out how to download stuff to a flash drive, though, because my little Chromebook already has more than it can handle just with a lot of photos I have stored in it's tiny hard drive.
In fact, whenever I insert my current photo card, which now has close to 2000 pictures on it, it invariably crashes my Chromebook. I have to reboot FB or Flickr every time after inserting my photo card, so that I can upload photos. So if I wanna download any of Art Bell's shows, and I do, I will have to do it on a flash drive.
I bought one a while back, but never figured out how to use it. Now I will try again.
I also wanna digitize a ton of stuff - all my old photos from photo class in High School, old concert pics from the 70s, all my earthquake-era photos and videotapes. What I need are two things : a bigger place to live, cause right now all my stuff is jammed into a closet, and to get to it I'd have to pull a ton of stuff out, then put it all back in when I am done, and I just don't have the time for that, my schedule being what it is.
So I need a bigger place, so I have easier access to my stuff, and the second thing I need is a computer wizard! Someone like my Sweet Baby, for instance. Just so I can restore everything, and especially my Meadows videotapes, to pristine condition. I don't have the time or patience right now for such an undertaking, but I've gotta have it done eventually. Gotta have prints made from tons of old b&w negatives from high school, gotta have color slides digitized. Sigh......
You get to a certain point where you don't wanna lose stuff. My stuff has been sitting a long time, and I'd guess it's still okay, but one of these days, I've gotta get it all transferred.
Well, my Darling, that's all I know for tonight. I will see you in the morn.
Sweet Dreams until then.......
I Love You! xoxoxoxoxoxoxooxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
I'm checking in a little earlier, just cause I have the night off. I haven't been doing much this evening, but I did meet Ono down at Senor Sol, a Mexican restaurant near my apartment, and we hung out for a while. Then I went for my walk. Other than that, just a lot of driving this afternoon, taking Pearl to the hair salon and Kobi to Le Groomer, then picking them both up later on.
I figure that maybe you were working on one of your videos today, or shooting some photos. I think what I will do now is make something to eat real quick, and then come back and write more in a little while, at about the usual time. Right now I just wanted to say hi and see if you were around. :)
I Love You and I'll be back in a little bit! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
12:35am : Now I can officially say Happy Late Night, Sweet Baby! I don't have a lot to add, just that I am listening to KUSC as I always do at this time of night. I joined the Time Travellers group at the Art Bell website so that I can now have access to his past radio shows at any time. I can even download 'em and then save them and listen whenever I want, like T-Vo for radio. It was only five bucks a month to join, and now I can save all of Art's Weirdest Shows. I am gonna have to figure out how to download stuff to a flash drive, though, because my little Chromebook already has more than it can handle just with a lot of photos I have stored in it's tiny hard drive.
In fact, whenever I insert my current photo card, which now has close to 2000 pictures on it, it invariably crashes my Chromebook. I have to reboot FB or Flickr every time after inserting my photo card, so that I can upload photos. So if I wanna download any of Art Bell's shows, and I do, I will have to do it on a flash drive.
I bought one a while back, but never figured out how to use it. Now I will try again.
I also wanna digitize a ton of stuff - all my old photos from photo class in High School, old concert pics from the 70s, all my earthquake-era photos and videotapes. What I need are two things : a bigger place to live, cause right now all my stuff is jammed into a closet, and to get to it I'd have to pull a ton of stuff out, then put it all back in when I am done, and I just don't have the time for that, my schedule being what it is.
So I need a bigger place, so I have easier access to my stuff, and the second thing I need is a computer wizard! Someone like my Sweet Baby, for instance. Just so I can restore everything, and especially my Meadows videotapes, to pristine condition. I don't have the time or patience right now for such an undertaking, but I've gotta have it done eventually. Gotta have prints made from tons of old b&w negatives from high school, gotta have color slides digitized. Sigh......
You get to a certain point where you don't wanna lose stuff. My stuff has been sitting a long time, and I'd guess it's still okay, but one of these days, I've gotta get it all transferred.
Well, my Darling, that's all I know for tonight. I will see you in the morn.
Sweet Dreams until then.......
I Love You! xoxoxoxoxoxoxooxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Three Years :):) (SK and other stuff)
Good Evening, my Darling,
Congratulations on three years of excellent photography! I did not know that you just started in 2012, but maybe you mean that's when you really started to get serious about it. At any rate, it's a blast, and do you know what? That's also when I got my little Panasonic and started to take digital photographs : Summer 2012! Before that, I had been using mostly disposable Kodaks for about 15 years, haha. Got some good results with those, too, and before that, my film cameras for my whole life up to about age 40 or so. But yeah, 2012 was the year.
And we are both having a blast taking pictures! :):)
I liked your post this morning about hikers being happy people. It sure makes me happy, I will testify! Part of it was all the discoveries I made last year, but the biggest part is just being there, out in the open, and when I go to a place like Corriganville, Placerita or Santa Su, where I have made repeat visits, I can get to "know" certain aspects of the place, like where a favorite tree or rock formation is located, or a or a special part of a trail.
Can't wait to get back out to Santa Clarita to check out East Walker Ranch!
Right now, I am gonna relax for a few, then go for my walk. Art Bell is gonna have a guest who will be talking about Flight 800, and I don't wanna miss that. I will be back later tonight, "same Bat Time, same Bat Channel"! Google that and see what it means! :)
I Love You! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
(back in a bit)
12:30am : Happy Late Night, Sweet Baby. It took a few minutes longer to get situated tonight, but here I am. I hope you had a nice evening. I finished "Finders Keepers" (by King), and maaaaann, was it a good one! A total page turner. This book was the second in a trilogy of crime novels he is writing, but because they are Stephen King crime novels, they have his own elements of horror and (yes) humor in them. His "pure" horror novels are not page turners, I find, and that's not because you don't care about what happens next, but because they are so descriptive. Especially in his longer books (and I may have already pointed this out), the descriptive aspect - of characters, of scene, of action - is so thorough that it takes a lot longer to absorb each page. But with his crime novels (a new style for SK), he has really stripped down his writing, almost down to the narrative alone, but because he is a master of words and sentences, you still feel like you are In The Story, even though the pages fly by much faster.
My first Stephen King book was "The Shining" in 1977. I had seen a paperback copy of "Salem's Lot" in our local supermarket in Fall 1976, and I saw the name and wondered, "who's this"? Then that October, the movie "Carrie" was released. It was made from his first book, which had passed right by most of the public, including me. But I guess his publisher knew that, with the movie coming out, they had a Big Deal on their hands. I started reading SK with "The Shining" in '77 and I've never stopped since. I haven't read every single word he ever wrote, but pretty close.
Not many of my favorite creative people have been with me as long, and if I were to think about those who have been there the whole time, and who have continued to create, I guess I'd say:
Ritchie Blackmore, who I discovered in 1972.
Sparks, 1974.
Rush, 1976.
Eddie Van Halen, 1976.
Stephen King, 1976.
David Lynch, 1977.
There are others, but those I listed are six that I am a huge fan of, and who have been doing it for forty years. //
On another note, I saw your Eric Whitacre post, and that is awesome that he is working with Hans Zimmer, one of my favorite film composers. Has his music ever featured in a film before? EW's, I mean. Well anyway, I love film soundtracks, and that is sure to be a good one. My favorite Hans Zimmer is "Gladiator", followed by "Pearl Harbor". But he has a bunch of great ones.
And I always like an Eric Whitacre post, any time, for a different reason.... :):)
Tomorrow, I will be off for two days, starting in the afternoon, until Saturday afternoon. That means two sleep-ins, and perhaps a hike and a Monster Movie or two......and a whole bunch of reading as usual.
I will see you in the morning, Sweet Baby, and when that Star Wars Land opens at Disneyland in a couple years, you are coming with me.
End of story! :):)
I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxooxoxoxoxoxoxoxooxox :):)
Sweet Dreams...
Congratulations on three years of excellent photography! I did not know that you just started in 2012, but maybe you mean that's when you really started to get serious about it. At any rate, it's a blast, and do you know what? That's also when I got my little Panasonic and started to take digital photographs : Summer 2012! Before that, I had been using mostly disposable Kodaks for about 15 years, haha. Got some good results with those, too, and before that, my film cameras for my whole life up to about age 40 or so. But yeah, 2012 was the year.
And we are both having a blast taking pictures! :):)
I liked your post this morning about hikers being happy people. It sure makes me happy, I will testify! Part of it was all the discoveries I made last year, but the biggest part is just being there, out in the open, and when I go to a place like Corriganville, Placerita or Santa Su, where I have made repeat visits, I can get to "know" certain aspects of the place, like where a favorite tree or rock formation is located, or a or a special part of a trail.
Can't wait to get back out to Santa Clarita to check out East Walker Ranch!
Right now, I am gonna relax for a few, then go for my walk. Art Bell is gonna have a guest who will be talking about Flight 800, and I don't wanna miss that. I will be back later tonight, "same Bat Time, same Bat Channel"! Google that and see what it means! :)
I Love You! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
(back in a bit)
12:30am : Happy Late Night, Sweet Baby. It took a few minutes longer to get situated tonight, but here I am. I hope you had a nice evening. I finished "Finders Keepers" (by King), and maaaaann, was it a good one! A total page turner. This book was the second in a trilogy of crime novels he is writing, but because they are Stephen King crime novels, they have his own elements of horror and (yes) humor in them. His "pure" horror novels are not page turners, I find, and that's not because you don't care about what happens next, but because they are so descriptive. Especially in his longer books (and I may have already pointed this out), the descriptive aspect - of characters, of scene, of action - is so thorough that it takes a lot longer to absorb each page. But with his crime novels (a new style for SK), he has really stripped down his writing, almost down to the narrative alone, but because he is a master of words and sentences, you still feel like you are In The Story, even though the pages fly by much faster.
My first Stephen King book was "The Shining" in 1977. I had seen a paperback copy of "Salem's Lot" in our local supermarket in Fall 1976, and I saw the name and wondered, "who's this"? Then that October, the movie "Carrie" was released. It was made from his first book, which had passed right by most of the public, including me. But I guess his publisher knew that, with the movie coming out, they had a Big Deal on their hands. I started reading SK with "The Shining" in '77 and I've never stopped since. I haven't read every single word he ever wrote, but pretty close.
Not many of my favorite creative people have been with me as long, and if I were to think about those who have been there the whole time, and who have continued to create, I guess I'd say:
Ritchie Blackmore, who I discovered in 1972.
Sparks, 1974.
Rush, 1976.
Eddie Van Halen, 1976.
Stephen King, 1976.
David Lynch, 1977.
There are others, but those I listed are six that I am a huge fan of, and who have been doing it for forty years. //
On another note, I saw your Eric Whitacre post, and that is awesome that he is working with Hans Zimmer, one of my favorite film composers. Has his music ever featured in a film before? EW's, I mean. Well anyway, I love film soundtracks, and that is sure to be a good one. My favorite Hans Zimmer is "Gladiator", followed by "Pearl Harbor". But he has a bunch of great ones.
And I always like an Eric Whitacre post, any time, for a different reason.... :):)
Tomorrow, I will be off for two days, starting in the afternoon, until Saturday afternoon. That means two sleep-ins, and perhaps a hike and a Monster Movie or two......and a whole bunch of reading as usual.
I will see you in the morning, Sweet Baby, and when that Star Wars Land opens at Disneyland in a couple years, you are coming with me.
End of story! :):)
I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxooxoxoxoxoxoxoxooxox :):)
Sweet Dreams...
Tuesday, August 18, 2015
As You (and I) Like It (music and.....politics? My goodness, Ad....)
Good Evening, Sweet Baby,
I am home from Pearl's, just wanted to check in and say hi, and also that I loved your post earlier about the 10 Books That Changed History. One of them was of course Shakespeare's Folio. You didn't by any chance mean that one for me, did you? :)
Hey, for all I know, maybe you meant it for you, too. :):)
Or any of the other books on that list. Now, I must confess I haven't read any of the others, but I am hooked, hooked, hooked on the Shakespeare, and I am gonna keep reading till I finish the whole thing.
I wish people still talked like that, lol (if they ever did; perhaps his writing was highly poeticised early English). All I can say is, go see the next Shakespeare play that's available in Madison, and you'll be hooked too. I recommend starting with "As You Like It", my favorite of the three I've seen. :)
I hope you had a nice day. Mine was a Typical Tuesday, though I did take The Kobedog to CSUN this morn before Golden Agers. Tuesday morn is our new slot for an Orange Grove walk, and he loves it.
I am gonna watch something-or-other (probably an X-Files) and then go for my walk, but I will be back at the usual time, later on at Pearl's. Enjoy the rest of your evening!
I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
12:15am : Happy Late Night, my Darling. Yeah, Russ Feingold - he was a good Senator for you guys for a long time. It's like Babs Boxer or Dianne Feinstein for us, both of those ladies have been in there forever. I don't like everything they do, but overall they are pretty reliable. Our Governor, too - Jerry Brown. He's The Man, and we in California would elect him over and over again, and we have : four times.
Your state is kinda similar to California, in that you have a fairly progressive democratic contingent of voters and politicians, and then you have a super-conservative group that support guys like Scott Walker. We are the same way, though we are becoming less so, with the Democrats taking over the State nowdays. But in the past, we had a solid Republican base here, too, and it was very far to the right. In the 80s and 90s, we elected guys like George Dukemejian and Pete Wilson as Governors (Ronald Reagan, too), and they all were about as far to the right as you can get.
No one but no one, though, was as big a jerk as Ahnold. He was the Absolute Worst.
Here I go again! This is the Me of the 1980s, talking about politics, lol. I shall stop at this point, however, I will say that it seems to be at the local (Mayors, city council) and mid-level (Senators, congressmen) that you find your occasional Decent Politician, guys like Feingold or Babs, or our new Mayor Eric Garcetti, who seem to be in it for altruistic reasons, rather than the other reasons that make everyone hate politicians.
On another subject, I see that you like Chris Cornell, and I am glad you do! I do not know how much of a fan you are of (ahem) Older Stuff, and Soundgarden really isn't that old compared to some bands, but both they and CC are awesome, methinks. His solo album "Euphoria Morning" is excellent, and for me, "Superunknown" by Soungarden is one of the greatest records ever made. The next time they, or Chris, come through your area, make sure to go see 'em.
Same with any other bands you like. Go see them.
What other "older" bands do you like? I mean, music is music and has no age. There used to be a term for music that was out of style as being "dated", but that goes to fad and fashion. Good music is good music, plain and simple, which is why I post stuff from all over the place, timewise.
Good Lordy Moses, Sweet Baby! (that was one of Dad's phrases, "Good Lordy Moses"!, which was funny cause Dad was not in the least bit religious, but I have to use his phase anyway cause it's a good one)...
But what I was gonna say, about music, is Good Lordy Moses, Sweet Baby! There is so much good music out there, past and present (mostly past, lol) that I Urge You To Explore.
Don't worry if something is cool or not, just check stuff out and you will open your music world up very wide.
It's funny, because I have been posting my 60s Pop, and it got me to thinking about the way we used to listen to music back when I was a little kid in the 1960s. We had transistor radios - small little plastic boxes with a dial and and earphone (we called 'em "earphones" back then instead of "earbuds"). But overall, it was the same concept as today's iPhone or mp3 player. A personal music device.
But what I was really gonna say was that - back then (and this is what I was remembering, re: my 60s posts), back then, you could go to the beach, and some kids would have transistor radios hooked up to their ears, but there would also be people who had brought bigger radios with them. No mass-market tape players in those days, and certainly nothing on disc or digital.......
Everything was on radio.
And some kids, usually older teens or young adults, would bring a bigger radio, one of the portable rectangular ones, and blast the local radio station at full volume, so that everybody in the vicinity could hear it.
And do you know what? Back then, nobody would have complained, or yelled "turn it down"!
And that's because every song was great, and everybody liked every song. Top 40 was incredible back then, and there weren't the divisions and slots that music was put into later on, "metal", "rap", and so on.
Back then, it was more about songs than albums, but every song had to be top notch or it wouldn't make it onto the radio. But the amazing thing is that you had so many different styles in Top 40, everything from Beatles to Frank Sinatra to Tony Joe White to Aretha Franklin, and everything in between.
Good Lordy Moses, Sweet Baby!, I've listened to so much music in my life, that nowdays I have switched, at least half of the time, to Classical Music. Not because I got tired of rock and pop, but because I needed to keep exploring to continue to find new music!
So, all of this is because I am glad to see you like Chris Cornell, and I hope you keep exploring because if you do, you will find a Ton Of Stuff that you will also like.
That's all I know for tonight. Sweet Dreams, and I will see you in the morning.
I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
I am home from Pearl's, just wanted to check in and say hi, and also that I loved your post earlier about the 10 Books That Changed History. One of them was of course Shakespeare's Folio. You didn't by any chance mean that one for me, did you? :)
Hey, for all I know, maybe you meant it for you, too. :):)
Or any of the other books on that list. Now, I must confess I haven't read any of the others, but I am hooked, hooked, hooked on the Shakespeare, and I am gonna keep reading till I finish the whole thing.
I wish people still talked like that, lol (if they ever did; perhaps his writing was highly poeticised early English). All I can say is, go see the next Shakespeare play that's available in Madison, and you'll be hooked too. I recommend starting with "As You Like It", my favorite of the three I've seen. :)
I hope you had a nice day. Mine was a Typical Tuesday, though I did take The Kobedog to CSUN this morn before Golden Agers. Tuesday morn is our new slot for an Orange Grove walk, and he loves it.
I am gonna watch something-or-other (probably an X-Files) and then go for my walk, but I will be back at the usual time, later on at Pearl's. Enjoy the rest of your evening!
I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
12:15am : Happy Late Night, my Darling. Yeah, Russ Feingold - he was a good Senator for you guys for a long time. It's like Babs Boxer or Dianne Feinstein for us, both of those ladies have been in there forever. I don't like everything they do, but overall they are pretty reliable. Our Governor, too - Jerry Brown. He's The Man, and we in California would elect him over and over again, and we have : four times.
Your state is kinda similar to California, in that you have a fairly progressive democratic contingent of voters and politicians, and then you have a super-conservative group that support guys like Scott Walker. We are the same way, though we are becoming less so, with the Democrats taking over the State nowdays. But in the past, we had a solid Republican base here, too, and it was very far to the right. In the 80s and 90s, we elected guys like George Dukemejian and Pete Wilson as Governors (Ronald Reagan, too), and they all were about as far to the right as you can get.
No one but no one, though, was as big a jerk as Ahnold. He was the Absolute Worst.
Here I go again! This is the Me of the 1980s, talking about politics, lol. I shall stop at this point, however, I will say that it seems to be at the local (Mayors, city council) and mid-level (Senators, congressmen) that you find your occasional Decent Politician, guys like Feingold or Babs, or our new Mayor Eric Garcetti, who seem to be in it for altruistic reasons, rather than the other reasons that make everyone hate politicians.
On another subject, I see that you like Chris Cornell, and I am glad you do! I do not know how much of a fan you are of (ahem) Older Stuff, and Soundgarden really isn't that old compared to some bands, but both they and CC are awesome, methinks. His solo album "Euphoria Morning" is excellent, and for me, "Superunknown" by Soungarden is one of the greatest records ever made. The next time they, or Chris, come through your area, make sure to go see 'em.
Same with any other bands you like. Go see them.
What other "older" bands do you like? I mean, music is music and has no age. There used to be a term for music that was out of style as being "dated", but that goes to fad and fashion. Good music is good music, plain and simple, which is why I post stuff from all over the place, timewise.
Good Lordy Moses, Sweet Baby! (that was one of Dad's phrases, "Good Lordy Moses"!, which was funny cause Dad was not in the least bit religious, but I have to use his phase anyway cause it's a good one)...
But what I was gonna say, about music, is Good Lordy Moses, Sweet Baby! There is so much good music out there, past and present (mostly past, lol) that I Urge You To Explore.
Don't worry if something is cool or not, just check stuff out and you will open your music world up very wide.
It's funny, because I have been posting my 60s Pop, and it got me to thinking about the way we used to listen to music back when I was a little kid in the 1960s. We had transistor radios - small little plastic boxes with a dial and and earphone (we called 'em "earphones" back then instead of "earbuds"). But overall, it was the same concept as today's iPhone or mp3 player. A personal music device.
But what I was really gonna say was that - back then (and this is what I was remembering, re: my 60s posts), back then, you could go to the beach, and some kids would have transistor radios hooked up to their ears, but there would also be people who had brought bigger radios with them. No mass-market tape players in those days, and certainly nothing on disc or digital.......
Everything was on radio.
And some kids, usually older teens or young adults, would bring a bigger radio, one of the portable rectangular ones, and blast the local radio station at full volume, so that everybody in the vicinity could hear it.
And do you know what? Back then, nobody would have complained, or yelled "turn it down"!
And that's because every song was great, and everybody liked every song. Top 40 was incredible back then, and there weren't the divisions and slots that music was put into later on, "metal", "rap", and so on.
Back then, it was more about songs than albums, but every song had to be top notch or it wouldn't make it onto the radio. But the amazing thing is that you had so many different styles in Top 40, everything from Beatles to Frank Sinatra to Tony Joe White to Aretha Franklin, and everything in between.
Good Lordy Moses, Sweet Baby!, I've listened to so much music in my life, that nowdays I have switched, at least half of the time, to Classical Music. Not because I got tired of rock and pop, but because I needed to keep exploring to continue to find new music!
So, all of this is because I am glad to see you like Chris Cornell, and I hope you keep exploring because if you do, you will find a Ton Of Stuff that you will also like.
That's all I know for tonight. Sweet Dreams, and I will see you in the morning.
I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Late Night Love
Happy Late Night, my Darling,
I hope your day was good. Not much to report for me, although I did watch a great movie from the Dracula Legacy collection : "Son Of Dracula" starring Lon Chaney Jr. as "Count Alucard" (Dracula spelled backwards). This one was really well done for a B-movie, with a really weird plot and creepy atmospherics. As far as I'm concerned, some of these sequels - in all the Legacy collections - are as much fun as the films they originate from, if not more so.
Other than that, just a regular Monday. The super hot weather is overwith for the time being. Now it's back to being just regular hot (90 degrees). Next week, school will start at CSUN, bringing back an extra 35,000 commuters to The 'Ridge, and the hustle and bustle of the neighborhood. The "sleepy town" part of Summer will be over, but not the Season itself. For us, that lasts til about Halloween.
Well, that's all for now. I Love You and will see you in the morning. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Sweet Dreams....
I hope your day was good. Not much to report for me, although I did watch a great movie from the Dracula Legacy collection : "Son Of Dracula" starring Lon Chaney Jr. as "Count Alucard" (Dracula spelled backwards). This one was really well done for a B-movie, with a really weird plot and creepy atmospherics. As far as I'm concerned, some of these sequels - in all the Legacy collections - are as much fun as the films they originate from, if not more so.
Other than that, just a regular Monday. The super hot weather is overwith for the time being. Now it's back to being just regular hot (90 degrees). Next week, school will start at CSUN, bringing back an extra 35,000 commuters to The 'Ridge, and the hustle and bustle of the neighborhood. The "sleepy town" part of Summer will be over, but not the Season itself. For us, that lasts til about Halloween.
Well, that's all for now. I Love You and will see you in the morning. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Sweet Dreams....
Sunday, August 16, 2015
Sunday Evening Love (super duper)
Good Evening, Sweet Baby,
I am just getting home from Pearl's. 'Twas mega hot again today, but no hike cause of church & choir, a fair trade off. We sang good this morn, always enjoyable ("sang good" - yep, nice grammar skills there, Ad). :)
I hope you had a nice Sunday, and I liked your post of the handmade wedding dress, very beautiful indeed (hint, hint). :)
And your friend Morgin's doggie, too. What a great face on him or her. Doggies & wedding dresses are two things that are always a winner with me!
I am gonna catch up on my reading for a little while, and maybe watch another Dracula Legacy movie, or perhaps an "X-Files". Gotta finish up Season 8, and then do Season 9 before year's end so I can be ready for the new mini-series in the new year.
Anyhow, I just wanted to check in and say hi, see how your day was.
I Love You and I'll be back at the usual time, later on at Pearl's. Enjoy the rest of your evening!
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
12:10am : Happy Late Night, my Darling. All is quiet at Pearl's, and I am actually reading Shakespeare! Yeah, I'm obsessed, I know. I think what happened is that once I began to understand the dialogue, after seeing "As You Like It" for the second time the other night, I wanted to go all the way and fully understand it. So, as reported in a previous blog, I ordered a Complete Shakespeare from the Libe and started working on "As You Like It". I'm just doing a page at a time, but some of it I'm even reading aloud, to Pearl & The Kobester, because I like the way the words sound when spoken.
Just call me The Instant Shakespeare Fan. Well, almost instant - I saw my first play last year.........
But just a page or two a day is good enough, especially with everything else I am reading. Mom didn't know what she was starting when she took me to the library as a small child. :)
Man, Sweet Baby...........it was still super duper hot this evening. One of those nights when it didn't cool off. I love it in the daytime, but at night I prefer some coolin'. Guess what the temp was in Palm Springs today?
118.
Good Lordy Moses.
Now, Palm Springs is way out in the desert, about 120 miles from here. Death Valley is out that way, too, but further. It holds the record for the hottest temp ever recorded on Earth : 134 degrees.
That might be even too much for me. :)
Or maybe not.
But I am just glad we are finally having some True Summer here. I hope you had a nice day, too.
I Love You and will see you in the morning. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Sweet Dreams.........
I am just getting home from Pearl's. 'Twas mega hot again today, but no hike cause of church & choir, a fair trade off. We sang good this morn, always enjoyable ("sang good" - yep, nice grammar skills there, Ad). :)
I hope you had a nice Sunday, and I liked your post of the handmade wedding dress, very beautiful indeed (hint, hint). :)
And your friend Morgin's doggie, too. What a great face on him or her. Doggies & wedding dresses are two things that are always a winner with me!
I am gonna catch up on my reading for a little while, and maybe watch another Dracula Legacy movie, or perhaps an "X-Files". Gotta finish up Season 8, and then do Season 9 before year's end so I can be ready for the new mini-series in the new year.
Anyhow, I just wanted to check in and say hi, see how your day was.
I Love You and I'll be back at the usual time, later on at Pearl's. Enjoy the rest of your evening!
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
12:10am : Happy Late Night, my Darling. All is quiet at Pearl's, and I am actually reading Shakespeare! Yeah, I'm obsessed, I know. I think what happened is that once I began to understand the dialogue, after seeing "As You Like It" for the second time the other night, I wanted to go all the way and fully understand it. So, as reported in a previous blog, I ordered a Complete Shakespeare from the Libe and started working on "As You Like It". I'm just doing a page at a time, but some of it I'm even reading aloud, to Pearl & The Kobester, because I like the way the words sound when spoken.
Just call me The Instant Shakespeare Fan. Well, almost instant - I saw my first play last year.........
But just a page or two a day is good enough, especially with everything else I am reading. Mom didn't know what she was starting when she took me to the library as a small child. :)
Man, Sweet Baby...........it was still super duper hot this evening. One of those nights when it didn't cool off. I love it in the daytime, but at night I prefer some coolin'. Guess what the temp was in Palm Springs today?
118.
Good Lordy Moses.
Now, Palm Springs is way out in the desert, about 120 miles from here. Death Valley is out that way, too, but further. It holds the record for the hottest temp ever recorded on Earth : 134 degrees.
That might be even too much for me. :)
Or maybe not.
But I am just glad we are finally having some True Summer here. I hope you had a nice day, too.
I Love You and will see you in the morning. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Sweet Dreams.........
Golden Valley Ranch
Hi, my Darling,
Happy Late Saturday Night. I hope you had a nice day today. As you probably saw on FB, I made a discovery of a new Open Space in Santa Clarita called Golden Valley Ranch. It's on Placerita Canyon Road, not far from Walker Ranch as it turned out, so I found it and had an awesome hike, super hot like all my best hikes of last Summer. It was 106 today, so you know I loved it, lol.
This particular piece of land is just beautiful, and while the trail is not long - only about a mile - it leads to yet another Open Space called East Walker Ranch. So I made two discoveries, actually, and when I go back next time I will check out East Walker.
In all, that makes four hiking places along Placerita Canyon Road : The main park, i.e. Placerita Canyon Nature Center, the place I went as a kid, and still one of the best hiking trails of them all. Then Walker Ranch, which I discovered last Fall. Walker is at the end of the two mile trail leading from the Nature Center. Then my two discoveries today, about a mile further down the road : Golden Valley Ranch and East Walker.
The website (hikesantaclarita.com) says that East Walker has a lot of wildlife, including Condors, which would be incredibly awesome to see, like seeing an Eagle for you. Well, I will go back soon, preferably on a Super Hot Day, in order to get the proper feeling.
I know I'm a little nutty. I may have mentioned that before..... :)
It's funny though, and in all seriousness, I just love that feeling of the Summer heat, combined with the dry feeling in the air, and the look of all those Summer Colors as I call them. They may not be beautiful in the traditional sense, but they have a rustic look that I love.
As with everything else, it's all about The Feel.
It always is.
That was my day, except for this eve, when Grimsley came over to play me a Van Halen bootleg he acquired, from a 1976 show when they were still a club band, before their first record came out.
Tomorrow is church and singing. That's our club, and we don't have our first record out yet, either, but before you know it, we'll probably be playing arenas just like Van Halen. I mean - you never know, right?
We're called The Choir, by the way. Spread the word. :)
It's gonna be another Super Hot One tomorrow, 107 so they predict. I say Yippee!
Gotta enjoy it while it lasts, because this Winter - supposedly (and I hope they're wrong) - we're gonna get the El Nino to end all El Ninos. "El Nino" is what they call A Ton Of Rain in California. It actually describes a weather condition arising out of the Pacific Ocean. Dunno why they call it "The Child", but anyhow, when it happens, all heck breaks loose, water water everywhere, and all of that.
At any rate, I hope all projects are coming along well. I hope also that you are having a blast this Summer in general.
I Love You and will see you in the morning, and then after church. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Sweet Dreams......
Happy Late Saturday Night. I hope you had a nice day today. As you probably saw on FB, I made a discovery of a new Open Space in Santa Clarita called Golden Valley Ranch. It's on Placerita Canyon Road, not far from Walker Ranch as it turned out, so I found it and had an awesome hike, super hot like all my best hikes of last Summer. It was 106 today, so you know I loved it, lol.
This particular piece of land is just beautiful, and while the trail is not long - only about a mile - it leads to yet another Open Space called East Walker Ranch. So I made two discoveries, actually, and when I go back next time I will check out East Walker.
In all, that makes four hiking places along Placerita Canyon Road : The main park, i.e. Placerita Canyon Nature Center, the place I went as a kid, and still one of the best hiking trails of them all. Then Walker Ranch, which I discovered last Fall. Walker is at the end of the two mile trail leading from the Nature Center. Then my two discoveries today, about a mile further down the road : Golden Valley Ranch and East Walker.
The website (hikesantaclarita.com) says that East Walker has a lot of wildlife, including Condors, which would be incredibly awesome to see, like seeing an Eagle for you. Well, I will go back soon, preferably on a Super Hot Day, in order to get the proper feeling.
I know I'm a little nutty. I may have mentioned that before..... :)
It's funny though, and in all seriousness, I just love that feeling of the Summer heat, combined with the dry feeling in the air, and the look of all those Summer Colors as I call them. They may not be beautiful in the traditional sense, but they have a rustic look that I love.
As with everything else, it's all about The Feel.
It always is.
That was my day, except for this eve, when Grimsley came over to play me a Van Halen bootleg he acquired, from a 1976 show when they were still a club band, before their first record came out.
Tomorrow is church and singing. That's our club, and we don't have our first record out yet, either, but before you know it, we'll probably be playing arenas just like Van Halen. I mean - you never know, right?
We're called The Choir, by the way. Spread the word. :)
It's gonna be another Super Hot One tomorrow, 107 so they predict. I say Yippee!
Gotta enjoy it while it lasts, because this Winter - supposedly (and I hope they're wrong) - we're gonna get the El Nino to end all El Ninos. "El Nino" is what they call A Ton Of Rain in California. It actually describes a weather condition arising out of the Pacific Ocean. Dunno why they call it "The Child", but anyhow, when it happens, all heck breaks loose, water water everywhere, and all of that.
At any rate, I hope all projects are coming along well. I hope also that you are having a blast this Summer in general.
I Love You and will see you in the morning, and then after church. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Sweet Dreams......
Friday, August 14, 2015
Love It! (Smoke & Monsters)
Good Afternoon, my Darling,
I wanted to pop in real quick and say hi, and also tell you that I love your picture! It is super cool that you got to play the old Steinway! I'll bet it sounded incredible. :) That is a beautiful church you are playing in as well. Lots of light coming in! Is that your family church? It has a nice atmosphere. :)
Hey, I have an idea - since you have now played in a church, maybe you can come play with us one of these Sunday mornings. ;)
That would be awesome. :):)
Well, I have gotta do some shopping, and I will be back later, but I just wanted to let you know that I am glad you got to play that piano.
Enjoy the rest of your Friday afternoon and I will see you in a bit. I Love You!
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
12:10am : Happy Late Night, Sweet Baby. I hope you had a fun Friday night. It is Super Hot here, triple digits today, and there was a brush fire on the Simi Valley side of the Santa Susanas, so a bit of smoke was in the air this eve. I saw it over the mountains as I was coming back from Pearl's, and I Googled it right away when I got home to make sure it wasn't Santa Su, the State Park. And it wasn't, thank goodness. :) A bit of smoke in the air made for a mildly unpleasant walk, but the fire helicopters have no doubt knocked it down by now, so all is well.
I watched a classic little horror film from the Dracula Legacy Collection : "House Of Dracula". In it, Dracula (played by John Carradine) visits a doctor who attempts to cure him through transfusions of his own blood. The word must have gotten out about this doctor, because the next thing you know, he is being visited by Lawrence Talbot, the man who is cursed to turn into The Wolfman every time there is a full moon. Talbot (played by Lon Chaney Jr.) also seeks a cure for his malady. Meanwhile, the doctor has also promised an operation to fix his hunchbacked nurse, but he gets sidetracked by a discovery that Frankenstein is buried beneath his laboratory.
Now, I have to ask you at this point : Is that a classic story, or what?
It's Monster City.
Somehow, all the Monsters found out about this doctor and his special treatments, and they all want to be cured!
Except Frankenstein. He just goes with the flow......of electricity, that is. He seems to always want to do some major damage, but The Wolfman - and even Dracula - seem to have some semblance of a conscience.
Unfortunately, during the transfusion process, the doctor is infected with some of Dracula's blood, and at that point all bets are off.
But man, what a Monster Movie! And they did it all in only 67 minutes........... :)
Speaking of brevity, I also got at the Northridge Libe a copy of The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare, so now I can read the plays I have seen. I was surprised to find, however, that they average about 30 pages in length. "As You Like It" is a mere 28 pages. Those pages are filled with dialogue, however, and I suppose if a page reads out at an average of four minutes, on stage, then that would account for a play of apprx. two hours.......
So that was my evening : a little fire, a little smoke, a bunch of Monsters and some words in yet another book.......
Tomorrow it's supposed to be 107 degrees. I suppose I'd better take advantage of it, or I'll feel guilty. Perhaps a drive out to Mentryville is in order...... :)
Sweet Dreams, Sweet Baby! I will see you in the morning.
I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
I wanted to pop in real quick and say hi, and also tell you that I love your picture! It is super cool that you got to play the old Steinway! I'll bet it sounded incredible. :) That is a beautiful church you are playing in as well. Lots of light coming in! Is that your family church? It has a nice atmosphere. :)
Hey, I have an idea - since you have now played in a church, maybe you can come play with us one of these Sunday mornings. ;)
That would be awesome. :):)
Well, I have gotta do some shopping, and I will be back later, but I just wanted to let you know that I am glad you got to play that piano.
Enjoy the rest of your Friday afternoon and I will see you in a bit. I Love You!
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
12:10am : Happy Late Night, Sweet Baby. I hope you had a fun Friday night. It is Super Hot here, triple digits today, and there was a brush fire on the Simi Valley side of the Santa Susanas, so a bit of smoke was in the air this eve. I saw it over the mountains as I was coming back from Pearl's, and I Googled it right away when I got home to make sure it wasn't Santa Su, the State Park. And it wasn't, thank goodness. :) A bit of smoke in the air made for a mildly unpleasant walk, but the fire helicopters have no doubt knocked it down by now, so all is well.
I watched a classic little horror film from the Dracula Legacy Collection : "House Of Dracula". In it, Dracula (played by John Carradine) visits a doctor who attempts to cure him through transfusions of his own blood. The word must have gotten out about this doctor, because the next thing you know, he is being visited by Lawrence Talbot, the man who is cursed to turn into The Wolfman every time there is a full moon. Talbot (played by Lon Chaney Jr.) also seeks a cure for his malady. Meanwhile, the doctor has also promised an operation to fix his hunchbacked nurse, but he gets sidetracked by a discovery that Frankenstein is buried beneath his laboratory.
Now, I have to ask you at this point : Is that a classic story, or what?
It's Monster City.
Somehow, all the Monsters found out about this doctor and his special treatments, and they all want to be cured!
Except Frankenstein. He just goes with the flow......of electricity, that is. He seems to always want to do some major damage, but The Wolfman - and even Dracula - seem to have some semblance of a conscience.
Unfortunately, during the transfusion process, the doctor is infected with some of Dracula's blood, and at that point all bets are off.
But man, what a Monster Movie! And they did it all in only 67 minutes........... :)
Speaking of brevity, I also got at the Northridge Libe a copy of The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare, so now I can read the plays I have seen. I was surprised to find, however, that they average about 30 pages in length. "As You Like It" is a mere 28 pages. Those pages are filled with dialogue, however, and I suppose if a page reads out at an average of four minutes, on stage, then that would account for a play of apprx. two hours.......
So that was my evening : a little fire, a little smoke, a bunch of Monsters and some words in yet another book.......
Tomorrow it's supposed to be 107 degrees. I suppose I'd better take advantage of it, or I'll feel guilty. Perhaps a drive out to Mentryville is in order...... :)
Sweet Dreams, Sweet Baby! I will see you in the morning.
I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Shakespeare & Sugar
Hi, my Darling,
Happy Late Night. Tonight at 6:30, I drove out to Woodland Hills (yet another Valley community, as I may have already said), to see a second performance of "As You Like It" from Shakespeare By The Sea. Warner Park is the same one I was at a couple weeks ago for the Ticket To Ride show. It's about 10 miles from here.
As you can tell, I am absolutely hooked on Shakespeare as presented by SBTS, and so I had to go, as it was their last local performance of the year. Next Summer, they will be back, and so will I. The cool thing is that I am getting better at following the plot. I have now seen four Shakespeare performances : "Hamlet", which I found awesome and which got me hooked last year, but which most of the dialogue flew right past me. "The Tempest", which I saw eight days ago, and which I was able to get a grasp of. And then the two performances, last week and tonight, of "As You Like It", of which - having seen it twice - I was both able to follow much (though not all) of the dialogue and to follow the plot.
I love the use of the English language, and it's amazing how so many words can fit into one scenario, and also have a rhythm and poetic structure.
So, that was my day, or rather my evening. My day was just a typical Thursday. I hope you had a good day. I saw your post a while ago, and you are right about the glucose/cancer acceleration factor. I mean, at least from what I have read. The very subject of nutrition and disease is so complex that one could write endlessly about it, and even scientists and doctors have gone back and forth on what's "good" for the body, and so forth.
Again, I say use common sense, and go by how you feel. Know your family history. More than that, know how you feel in your Spirit. Eat a balanced diet that is mainly plant based. Get your "good" fats. Carbs are not gonna kill you, ask any athlete. Just make sure you exercise.
That is Huge.
If I were a doctor, I'd say : 1) Be a happy person. Figure out what makes you happy and keep doing it. 2) Keep your body fit by getting exercise. Not high pressure exercise, but exercise that flows with your Spirit in Nature. In other words, don't pound out weights, or marathons, if you don't Feel It. Feel is everything in Life, because Feel Is Spirit and Spirit is The Real You, and The Real You knows what's best for You.
And after Being Happy and Getting Exercise, if I were a doctor, I'd say : try to avoid three things. Too much sugar, too much salt, and too much bad fat. Starch, as you pointed out, equals sugar. So does fruit, but less so when eaten whole and not as juice. Whole fruit is complex carbohydrates, which is good sugar.
Man, now I am really getting into it, and as I said, nutrition is a subject that you could write (or talk) all day about. But I say, don't put too much emphasis on the science, because the science, as usual, is conflicting.
For yourself, just follow the simple rules described above, watch out for excess chemicals in products, and go forth in life. Shakespeare would agree!
Two authors who know much about nutrition are Paul Bragg (from early on) and Gary Null (more recent).
But mostly, eat as good as you can, be happy and active, and you will do fine.
That's all for tonight! I Love You, Sweet Baby. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Happy Late Night. Tonight at 6:30, I drove out to Woodland Hills (yet another Valley community, as I may have already said), to see a second performance of "As You Like It" from Shakespeare By The Sea. Warner Park is the same one I was at a couple weeks ago for the Ticket To Ride show. It's about 10 miles from here.
As you can tell, I am absolutely hooked on Shakespeare as presented by SBTS, and so I had to go, as it was their last local performance of the year. Next Summer, they will be back, and so will I. The cool thing is that I am getting better at following the plot. I have now seen four Shakespeare performances : "Hamlet", which I found awesome and which got me hooked last year, but which most of the dialogue flew right past me. "The Tempest", which I saw eight days ago, and which I was able to get a grasp of. And then the two performances, last week and tonight, of "As You Like It", of which - having seen it twice - I was both able to follow much (though not all) of the dialogue and to follow the plot.
I love the use of the English language, and it's amazing how so many words can fit into one scenario, and also have a rhythm and poetic structure.
So, that was my day, or rather my evening. My day was just a typical Thursday. I hope you had a good day. I saw your post a while ago, and you are right about the glucose/cancer acceleration factor. I mean, at least from what I have read. The very subject of nutrition and disease is so complex that one could write endlessly about it, and even scientists and doctors have gone back and forth on what's "good" for the body, and so forth.
Again, I say use common sense, and go by how you feel. Know your family history. More than that, know how you feel in your Spirit. Eat a balanced diet that is mainly plant based. Get your "good" fats. Carbs are not gonna kill you, ask any athlete. Just make sure you exercise.
That is Huge.
If I were a doctor, I'd say : 1) Be a happy person. Figure out what makes you happy and keep doing it. 2) Keep your body fit by getting exercise. Not high pressure exercise, but exercise that flows with your Spirit in Nature. In other words, don't pound out weights, or marathons, if you don't Feel It. Feel is everything in Life, because Feel Is Spirit and Spirit is The Real You, and The Real You knows what's best for You.
And after Being Happy and Getting Exercise, if I were a doctor, I'd say : try to avoid three things. Too much sugar, too much salt, and too much bad fat. Starch, as you pointed out, equals sugar. So does fruit, but less so when eaten whole and not as juice. Whole fruit is complex carbohydrates, which is good sugar.
Man, now I am really getting into it, and as I said, nutrition is a subject that you could write (or talk) all day about. But I say, don't put too much emphasis on the science, because the science, as usual, is conflicting.
For yourself, just follow the simple rules described above, watch out for excess chemicals in products, and go forth in life. Shakespeare would agree!
Two authors who know much about nutrition are Paul Bragg (from early on) and Gary Null (more recent).
But mostly, eat as good as you can, be happy and active, and you will do fine.
That's all for tonight! I Love You, Sweet Baby. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Thursday, August 13, 2015
Whitney Canyon + Coconut Oil + Love
Happy Late Night, my Darling,
I did wind up going on a hike today, back to Whitney Canyon in Newhall. I went about 3/4 of the way in, about a mile and a quarter or so, and I love it in there because it may be the ghostliest of all the canyon trails. Probably Whitney or Rice, as far as The Feeling is concerned. It was nice and hot, too, verging on a 100 Degree Hike, so that helped bring back the feeling from last Summer, when I was making all my trail discoveries. I took a few pictures, but didn't get any that I was really happy with, so I'll try again on my next hike. One thing I will also do is to be more careful with the coconut oil, which I've been using for sunscreen this year.
I'm sure you've heard recently about all the wonders of coconut oil, which has been very much publicised and advocated in recent times. One of it's uses is said to be as a sunscreen; Pacific Islanders have used it for centuries, so they say. Anyhow, I decided to try it because I am not thrilled with all the chemicals in commercial sunscreens, and for me, it seems to work pretty well. Keep in mind that I also use other lines of defense, meaning that when I hike I am in long pants and long sleeved shirt (always), not only to keep the Sun off me but also ticks, poison ivy, etc. I always have a hat on, too, and sunglasses. But last year, my sister got me to use sunscreen for the first time, on my face and neck. I was never fanatical about it, because I have brown hair & eyes, and what they call "olive" skin. I have never had a tendency for sunburn. Also, we do need some Sun, for vitamin D absorbtion, and I always covered up pretty well anyway.
But I switched to coconut oil this year, because it is natural. The only problem is that, for me anyway, it stings the heck out of my eyes, and today I put way too much on my face, and not only did it affect my eyes, but it did something I hadn't experienced in ages : it gave me an allergy.
I was sneezing like crazy and my sinuses were all stuffed up until about an hour ago. That was a normal condition for me from childhood until my mid-30s, as I think I've told you. I had really bad allergies for a long time. For the last twenty years, I have had practically zero allergies, really can't think of any, in fact.
But now I know to be careful with the coconut oil.
A caveat on the sunscreen issue : there is, as usual in the age of the Interent, all kinds of conflicting info on how much Sun is okay, and whether sunscreen itself might be a cause of skin cancer. I say use common sense, and especially for you because you have blonde hair/blue eyes (blue/green). In your case, you are Way Up High where the UV Index doesn't generally get up into the 8,9,10 range like it does here. So you have that advantage. Also, maximum UV hours anywhere are between 10am and 2pm, so avoid sun overexposure during those hours. Cover up when you do go out in the Summertime, but........
Try to look for natural sunscreens if you use them. Avoid parabens and those types of chemicals. I can get away with more, because of brown hair and eyes.
I know you know all this, and you are in the North anyhow. Just don't overdo the commercial sunscreen, I guess is the point I am trying to make. :)
And don't overdo the coconut oil, either! Or you may be sneezing your head off....... :)
That was really all the news for today, a Nice Hot Hike.
This eve, I read my three books again, and listened to Radiohead.
Now I am listening to KUSC.
Sweet Dreams, my Baby. I will see you in the morning!
I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
I did wind up going on a hike today, back to Whitney Canyon in Newhall. I went about 3/4 of the way in, about a mile and a quarter or so, and I love it in there because it may be the ghostliest of all the canyon trails. Probably Whitney or Rice, as far as The Feeling is concerned. It was nice and hot, too, verging on a 100 Degree Hike, so that helped bring back the feeling from last Summer, when I was making all my trail discoveries. I took a few pictures, but didn't get any that I was really happy with, so I'll try again on my next hike. One thing I will also do is to be more careful with the coconut oil, which I've been using for sunscreen this year.
I'm sure you've heard recently about all the wonders of coconut oil, which has been very much publicised and advocated in recent times. One of it's uses is said to be as a sunscreen; Pacific Islanders have used it for centuries, so they say. Anyhow, I decided to try it because I am not thrilled with all the chemicals in commercial sunscreens, and for me, it seems to work pretty well. Keep in mind that I also use other lines of defense, meaning that when I hike I am in long pants and long sleeved shirt (always), not only to keep the Sun off me but also ticks, poison ivy, etc. I always have a hat on, too, and sunglasses. But last year, my sister got me to use sunscreen for the first time, on my face and neck. I was never fanatical about it, because I have brown hair & eyes, and what they call "olive" skin. I have never had a tendency for sunburn. Also, we do need some Sun, for vitamin D absorbtion, and I always covered up pretty well anyway.
But I switched to coconut oil this year, because it is natural. The only problem is that, for me anyway, it stings the heck out of my eyes, and today I put way too much on my face, and not only did it affect my eyes, but it did something I hadn't experienced in ages : it gave me an allergy.
I was sneezing like crazy and my sinuses were all stuffed up until about an hour ago. That was a normal condition for me from childhood until my mid-30s, as I think I've told you. I had really bad allergies for a long time. For the last twenty years, I have had practically zero allergies, really can't think of any, in fact.
But now I know to be careful with the coconut oil.
A caveat on the sunscreen issue : there is, as usual in the age of the Interent, all kinds of conflicting info on how much Sun is okay, and whether sunscreen itself might be a cause of skin cancer. I say use common sense, and especially for you because you have blonde hair/blue eyes (blue/green). In your case, you are Way Up High where the UV Index doesn't generally get up into the 8,9,10 range like it does here. So you have that advantage. Also, maximum UV hours anywhere are between 10am and 2pm, so avoid sun overexposure during those hours. Cover up when you do go out in the Summertime, but........
Try to look for natural sunscreens if you use them. Avoid parabens and those types of chemicals. I can get away with more, because of brown hair and eyes.
I know you know all this, and you are in the North anyhow. Just don't overdo the commercial sunscreen, I guess is the point I am trying to make. :)
And don't overdo the coconut oil, either! Or you may be sneezing your head off....... :)
That was really all the news for today, a Nice Hot Hike.
This eve, I read my three books again, and listened to Radiohead.
Now I am listening to KUSC.
Sweet Dreams, my Baby. I will see you in the morning!
I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Late Night Love
Happy Late Night, Sweet Baby,
I hope you had a nice day, and you were no doubt working on the video. In your new cover photo, from the shoot, I see that you captured the theme you were going for. Is the girl a model? Maybe the one you posted from the other day? Just guessing, of course. :)
Nothing much to report on my end, just workin' & reading in-between. Tomorrow I will try for a hike, the key word being "try", depending on a good sleep tonight. So far, all is well.
That's all I know for today. I will see you in the morning.
I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxooxo :):)
I hope you had a nice day, and you were no doubt working on the video. In your new cover photo, from the shoot, I see that you captured the theme you were going for. Is the girl a model? Maybe the one you posted from the other day? Just guessing, of course. :)
Nothing much to report on my end, just workin' & reading in-between. Tomorrow I will try for a hike, the key word being "try", depending on a good sleep tonight. So far, all is well.
That's all I know for today. I will see you in the morning.
I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxooxo :):)
Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Hot Rods
Happy Late Night, my Darling,
I was really excited to see your post this morning, of the car you used in your video. For one thing, it is super cool (more on that in a moment), and for another - you are really getting into the role of Producer now, arranging for such a major prop as that. The super cool part, for me, is that when I was a kid, I was fascinated by Hot Rods. That's what we called 'em, and they are probably still called by that name. When I was nine, I even had a subscription to Hot Rod magazine! I spent about a year building model cars, gluing them together and painting them with great care, and I built all the famous ones, including the "Red Baron" by Revell. Google it! :)
You may know this, now that you've worked with the owner of that Hot Rod, but there was a guy named Big Daddy Roth in the 1960s, who was an originator of what you might call "character" cars, i.e. Hot Rods with names like Rat Fink, and I built that model, too. :)
Big Daddy Roth built cars also for the movies, he was very famous for a while when the Hot Rod ethos was in vogue in the 60s. And of course he never went out of style, and I can see that one of the commenters on your photo refers to the car in your video as a "ratrod", so he must know about Big Daddy, too.
Make sure you Google the Red Baron! That was my favorite model. I actually won a blue ribbon for a model Camaro I built for a model car contest in 1970, which was held at a 7/11 (of all places). 7/11 was a relatively new enterprise back then, at least in the L.A. area, and this one had just opened and was one of the first in the West Valley area. I painted my Camaro a dark red, with sparkles.........took care to glue it using toothpicks, so no excess glue would show.
They hung all the entries to the model car contest from the ceiling of the brand new 7/11 store. Many kids entered the contest (and probably some adults, too). Model car building was a big thing for kids back then, and they let our contest entries hang for a while before announcing the winners. And do you know what happened in the meantime?
We had an earthquake!
Yep, that was the Sylmar quake, in February 1971. My first quake, and a big one, though nowhere near as bad as the Northridge Quake 23 years later. I had forgotten about my model at 7/11 in the aftermath of that experience, but nevertheless, I got a notification when the contest ended, probably by mail, that I had won a ribbon, so I went up there, to the 7/11......
and they gave me my model back, along with my blue ribbon, and the back axle had broken, because it had fallen from the ceiling during the earthquake. But other than that, it was okay. It had been hung in a plastic bag to keep it from dust, and after I got it back, I had that model back at home for many, many years, perhaps even into the 90s, and maybe even up until the Northridge Quake forced us out of our home. I think I may have had it all that time...... :)
The kicker is that I now live just up the block from that 7/11. It's been there 45 years now.
I think it's time they had another model car contest! If they do, I'll enter it. :)
Because it's also about time I built another model car. ///
I had to tell you about it because your picture both reminded me and inspired me. Don't forget to Google the Red Baron (and Big Daddy Roth while you're at it).
I hope you had a nice day. Mine was quiet. I watched an absolutely classic Western this afternoon, "Virginia City", starring Errol Flynn, Randolph Scott and Miriam Hopkins. I had not heard of this one prior to a Google search for b&w Westerns, but it was stellar, and Flynn was great as always. More charisma you will not find in a movie star, he is one of my favorites. This evening was more reading of previously mentioned books, and of course my walk.
I also saw your post of your friend Annalisa's photo, and I really liked that too, because it's mountains and sunset - my kind of photo! :)
Well, Sweet Baby, that's all I know for tonight. Sweet Dreams and I will see you in the morning.
I Love You! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxooxo :):)
I was really excited to see your post this morning, of the car you used in your video. For one thing, it is super cool (more on that in a moment), and for another - you are really getting into the role of Producer now, arranging for such a major prop as that. The super cool part, for me, is that when I was a kid, I was fascinated by Hot Rods. That's what we called 'em, and they are probably still called by that name. When I was nine, I even had a subscription to Hot Rod magazine! I spent about a year building model cars, gluing them together and painting them with great care, and I built all the famous ones, including the "Red Baron" by Revell. Google it! :)
You may know this, now that you've worked with the owner of that Hot Rod, but there was a guy named Big Daddy Roth in the 1960s, who was an originator of what you might call "character" cars, i.e. Hot Rods with names like Rat Fink, and I built that model, too. :)
Big Daddy Roth built cars also for the movies, he was very famous for a while when the Hot Rod ethos was in vogue in the 60s. And of course he never went out of style, and I can see that one of the commenters on your photo refers to the car in your video as a "ratrod", so he must know about Big Daddy, too.
Make sure you Google the Red Baron! That was my favorite model. I actually won a blue ribbon for a model Camaro I built for a model car contest in 1970, which was held at a 7/11 (of all places). 7/11 was a relatively new enterprise back then, at least in the L.A. area, and this one had just opened and was one of the first in the West Valley area. I painted my Camaro a dark red, with sparkles.........took care to glue it using toothpicks, so no excess glue would show.
They hung all the entries to the model car contest from the ceiling of the brand new 7/11 store. Many kids entered the contest (and probably some adults, too). Model car building was a big thing for kids back then, and they let our contest entries hang for a while before announcing the winners. And do you know what happened in the meantime?
We had an earthquake!
Yep, that was the Sylmar quake, in February 1971. My first quake, and a big one, though nowhere near as bad as the Northridge Quake 23 years later. I had forgotten about my model at 7/11 in the aftermath of that experience, but nevertheless, I got a notification when the contest ended, probably by mail, that I had won a ribbon, so I went up there, to the 7/11......
and they gave me my model back, along with my blue ribbon, and the back axle had broken, because it had fallen from the ceiling during the earthquake. But other than that, it was okay. It had been hung in a plastic bag to keep it from dust, and after I got it back, I had that model back at home for many, many years, perhaps even into the 90s, and maybe even up until the Northridge Quake forced us out of our home. I think I may have had it all that time...... :)
The kicker is that I now live just up the block from that 7/11. It's been there 45 years now.
I think it's time they had another model car contest! If they do, I'll enter it. :)
Because it's also about time I built another model car. ///
I had to tell you about it because your picture both reminded me and inspired me. Don't forget to Google the Red Baron (and Big Daddy Roth while you're at it).
I hope you had a nice day. Mine was quiet. I watched an absolutely classic Western this afternoon, "Virginia City", starring Errol Flynn, Randolph Scott and Miriam Hopkins. I had not heard of this one prior to a Google search for b&w Westerns, but it was stellar, and Flynn was great as always. More charisma you will not find in a movie star, he is one of my favorites. This evening was more reading of previously mentioned books, and of course my walk.
I also saw your post of your friend Annalisa's photo, and I really liked that too, because it's mountains and sunset - my kind of photo! :)
Well, Sweet Baby, that's all I know for tonight. Sweet Dreams and I will see you in the morning.
I Love You! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxooxo :):)
Monday, August 10, 2015
Sunday Late Night Love
Hi, my Darling,
Happy Late Night! It's been a low key day around here, just reading my Stephen King book back at home after choir practice was over. We sang good this morning, always enjoyable for me. This evening, my friend David F. came over with his daughter for an Orange Grove walk. Not much else to report besides that.
I saw several posts by you today, the first being about the Miyazaki set. Now you know what to get me for Christmas, lol....... ;) It is about time I re-watched some of the earlier Miyazakis, like "Kiki's Delivery Service", one of my favorites, or "Nausicaa". That was the one that first got him noticed in America. My favorite, still, is "Howl's Moving Castle", then "Spirited Away". I saw each of those with my Mom, at the theater, very special times indeed. Have you seen "The Wind Rises" yet? You probably have by now. That film just blew me away.
I also see that you were working on your video today, with your friend Shawn's band. If I remember correctly, he has been mentioning wanting to do a video for quite a while now, so I am glad it is finally happening. :) I hope you got the props you needed, and your color scheme all worked out accordingly. So now you have two videos in post-production, including your own. I look forward to seeing 'em!
That's all for tonight, my Baby. Sweet Dreams and I will see you in the morning.
I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Happy Late Night! It's been a low key day around here, just reading my Stephen King book back at home after choir practice was over. We sang good this morning, always enjoyable for me. This evening, my friend David F. came over with his daughter for an Orange Grove walk. Not much else to report besides that.
I saw several posts by you today, the first being about the Miyazaki set. Now you know what to get me for Christmas, lol....... ;) It is about time I re-watched some of the earlier Miyazakis, like "Kiki's Delivery Service", one of my favorites, or "Nausicaa". That was the one that first got him noticed in America. My favorite, still, is "Howl's Moving Castle", then "Spirited Away". I saw each of those with my Mom, at the theater, very special times indeed. Have you seen "The Wind Rises" yet? You probably have by now. That film just blew me away.
I also see that you were working on your video today, with your friend Shawn's band. If I remember correctly, he has been mentioning wanting to do a video for quite a while now, so I am glad it is finally happening. :) I hope you got the props you needed, and your color scheme all worked out accordingly. So now you have two videos in post-production, including your own. I look forward to seeing 'em!
That's all for tonight, my Baby. Sweet Dreams and I will see you in the morning.
I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Sunday, August 9, 2015
Saturday Night Love
Hi, my Darling,
Happy Late Night. I hope your video shoot went well, and I imagine you are gonna shoot tomorrow, too. Or did you finish in one day? Just so long as you are getting the results you have wanted. I saw your post a couple hours ago, via Twig Noir, so perhaps she is a new model you are working with? Another guess on my part, but I do so because I've never seen you refer to her before, so maybe it's a New Project Thing for you guys. :)
My day was relatively quiet. This afternoon, I watched a movie by a French director named Marcel Carne, called "Port Of Shadows". Got it at the Libe, of course. Made in 1938, it's a nifty little existential noir (no pun or coincidence intended) about a diverse group of characters who all converge at a run down roadhouse at the edge of the ocean. Jean Gabin stars as an awol soldier. He was a big French movie star in the 1930s. I was very pleasantly surprised by this film, which also features some great b&w photography as well as fine performances by many other actors.
Marcel Carne, the director, also made a film called "Children Of Paradise", that in my opinion is one of the greatest films of all time. I own that one on dvd.
This afternoon I took the gang (me, Pearl & The Kobester) to Lake Balboa. The place was packed, as per Saturday in Summer. Then this eve, I watched the final episode of "Breaking Bad". What a show. Such great writing, great characters, and acting. I began watching in April, so it's been a marathon experience. I got so into the show that now I feel like jumping onboard another cable series (on dvd), but I'm not sure I'll find one as good. Maybe I'll research a few, but I don't wanna watch just for the sake of watching. It'd have to match up to the quality of BB.
Tomorrow morn is church, and so I will be here for a little while before we go, and then back at about 1pm, as always.
Sweet Dreams, and best wishes for your shoot tomorrow.
I Love You and will see you in the morning. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Happy Late Night. I hope your video shoot went well, and I imagine you are gonna shoot tomorrow, too. Or did you finish in one day? Just so long as you are getting the results you have wanted. I saw your post a couple hours ago, via Twig Noir, so perhaps she is a new model you are working with? Another guess on my part, but I do so because I've never seen you refer to her before, so maybe it's a New Project Thing for you guys. :)
My day was relatively quiet. This afternoon, I watched a movie by a French director named Marcel Carne, called "Port Of Shadows". Got it at the Libe, of course. Made in 1938, it's a nifty little existential noir (no pun or coincidence intended) about a diverse group of characters who all converge at a run down roadhouse at the edge of the ocean. Jean Gabin stars as an awol soldier. He was a big French movie star in the 1930s. I was very pleasantly surprised by this film, which also features some great b&w photography as well as fine performances by many other actors.
Marcel Carne, the director, also made a film called "Children Of Paradise", that in my opinion is one of the greatest films of all time. I own that one on dvd.
This afternoon I took the gang (me, Pearl & The Kobester) to Lake Balboa. The place was packed, as per Saturday in Summer. Then this eve, I watched the final episode of "Breaking Bad". What a show. Such great writing, great characters, and acting. I began watching in April, so it's been a marathon experience. I got so into the show that now I feel like jumping onboard another cable series (on dvd), but I'm not sure I'll find one as good. Maybe I'll research a few, but I don't wanna watch just for the sake of watching. It'd have to match up to the quality of BB.
Tomorrow morn is church, and so I will be here for a little while before we go, and then back at about 1pm, as always.
Sweet Dreams, and best wishes for your shoot tomorrow.
I Love You and will see you in the morning. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Saturday, August 8, 2015
Santo, SK & Shakespeare
Hi, Sweet Baby,
Happy Super Late Night. I hope you had a nice day and maybe a fun Friday evening. You are probably getting ready for your video shoot. I did not end up going on a hike. I was kinda tired because last night the sleep situation was not the greatest, but I will make up for it by doing two hikes next week. Gotta stay in hiking shape, after all. :)
What I did today instead was to just relax, and I tried to watch the Santo movie I just posted on FB : "Santo vs. Frankenstein". The problem was that it didn't have subtitles. I still tried to watch, thinking that I got the gist of the Shakespeare plays even though much of the fast, Old English dialogue went right past me, so maybe I could just watch the Santo movie and get the gist from the imagery, while absorbing - if not understanding - the Spanish dialogue. This approach worked for about a half hour, and then I gave up. Too many subplots that I couldn't decipher, and it was too bad because as I said on FB, it looked like one of the better Santo movies.
Now, I know you are thinking I'm a complete goofball for watching Santo in the first place, so I should explain that I got hooked on his movies as a teenager. They used to show 'em on TV on a Saturday afternoon, and on American TV he was called "Samson", but I remember watching for the first time, and here was this guy, a Mexican wrestler wearing a silver mask, and he was some kind of good guy Superhero who drove around in a Jaguar and fought monsters. In the first movie I saw, he was going after a cave full of Vampire Women. They had henchmen he had to wrestle, and that was the catch - whoever he was trying to stop, he would do so by wrestling them. The Santo movies are beyond cheesy and campy, but there is also something kinda cool about them.......I even have "Santo vs. The Vampire Women" on dvd. :)
And "Santo vs. Frankenstein" looked great, but I gave up because I couldn't understand what was going on, and I read my Stephen King book instead.
In a minor coincidence, there was a scene of wrestling in last night's Shakespeare play, "As You Like It". While watching, I found myself thinking, "Gee, I didn't know they had wrestling in the 17th century". There's that "time" thing again. The 17th century was 400 years ago, so it's gotta be ancient. Even though 400 years is only 20 generations, or "20 grandpas", as I call it. That's really not so many.
So 400 years ago is nothing, if you take away the technology.
Shakespeare might have liked Santo, too, had he been around today. Just sayin'. :)
Well, Sweet Baby, all is quiet, and we will head into the weekend with good prospects. You in particular are gonna knock your video out of the park, as always.
Sweet Dreams until morning, and I will see you then.
I Love You, Elizabeth! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Happy Super Late Night. I hope you had a nice day and maybe a fun Friday evening. You are probably getting ready for your video shoot. I did not end up going on a hike. I was kinda tired because last night the sleep situation was not the greatest, but I will make up for it by doing two hikes next week. Gotta stay in hiking shape, after all. :)
What I did today instead was to just relax, and I tried to watch the Santo movie I just posted on FB : "Santo vs. Frankenstein". The problem was that it didn't have subtitles. I still tried to watch, thinking that I got the gist of the Shakespeare plays even though much of the fast, Old English dialogue went right past me, so maybe I could just watch the Santo movie and get the gist from the imagery, while absorbing - if not understanding - the Spanish dialogue. This approach worked for about a half hour, and then I gave up. Too many subplots that I couldn't decipher, and it was too bad because as I said on FB, it looked like one of the better Santo movies.
Now, I know you are thinking I'm a complete goofball for watching Santo in the first place, so I should explain that I got hooked on his movies as a teenager. They used to show 'em on TV on a Saturday afternoon, and on American TV he was called "Samson", but I remember watching for the first time, and here was this guy, a Mexican wrestler wearing a silver mask, and he was some kind of good guy Superhero who drove around in a Jaguar and fought monsters. In the first movie I saw, he was going after a cave full of Vampire Women. They had henchmen he had to wrestle, and that was the catch - whoever he was trying to stop, he would do so by wrestling them. The Santo movies are beyond cheesy and campy, but there is also something kinda cool about them.......I even have "Santo vs. The Vampire Women" on dvd. :)
And "Santo vs. Frankenstein" looked great, but I gave up because I couldn't understand what was going on, and I read my Stephen King book instead.
In a minor coincidence, there was a scene of wrestling in last night's Shakespeare play, "As You Like It". While watching, I found myself thinking, "Gee, I didn't know they had wrestling in the 17th century". There's that "time" thing again. The 17th century was 400 years ago, so it's gotta be ancient. Even though 400 years is only 20 generations, or "20 grandpas", as I call it. That's really not so many.
So 400 years ago is nothing, if you take away the technology.
Shakespeare might have liked Santo, too, had he been around today. Just sayin'. :)
Well, Sweet Baby, all is quiet, and we will head into the weekend with good prospects. You in particular are gonna knock your video out of the park, as always.
Sweet Dreams until morning, and I will see you then.
I Love You, Elizabeth! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Friday, August 7, 2015
As You Like It
Happy Late Night, my Darling,
I went back to Los Encinos this evening for "As You Like It", and it was once again a stellar performance by SBTS. I could watch them night after night, and they have got me hooked on the plays of Shakespeare. Grimsley was there, too. He made both nights as well.
I hope your preparations for the video are coming along well. I guess you will begin shooting on Saturday, so I hope you're getting ahold of all the props you need. I saw your post earlier in the evening, via a musician named Ola Gjeilo. I don't know if you meant it to reference that you are working on your own music (cause he pictured a home studio), or maybe you are a fan. I checked his website and noticed he has a piece entitled "Madison". You probably know that. :)
Not much else to report for today. Tomorrow I will try for a hike. Not sure where yet, but perhaps down to Cave Of Munits again, or maybe Las Virgenes Open Space, both of which I hiked last year, and they are both relatively close by, too.
Sweet Dreams, my Baby. See you in the morning.
I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
I went back to Los Encinos this evening for "As You Like It", and it was once again a stellar performance by SBTS. I could watch them night after night, and they have got me hooked on the plays of Shakespeare. Grimsley was there, too. He made both nights as well.
I hope your preparations for the video are coming along well. I guess you will begin shooting on Saturday, so I hope you're getting ahold of all the props you need. I saw your post earlier in the evening, via a musician named Ola Gjeilo. I don't know if you meant it to reference that you are working on your own music (cause he pictured a home studio), or maybe you are a fan. I checked his website and noticed he has a piece entitled "Madison". You probably know that. :)
Not much else to report for today. Tomorrow I will try for a hike. Not sure where yet, but perhaps down to Cave Of Munits again, or maybe Las Virgenes Open Space, both of which I hiked last year, and they are both relatively close by, too.
Sweet Dreams, my Baby. See you in the morning.
I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Thursday, August 6, 2015
The Tempest
Hi, my Darling,
Happy Late Night. I was glad to see your post earlier, that you have a music video lined up. Great news! That'll be three in roughly a year, with your own video coming up. I also like the motif and color scheme of this new one : a beach or lake theme, fun-in-the sun, etc. I am gonna guess that it's not a metal band? Whatever kind of band it is, it's gonna look great with those colors, and I hope you can get all the props you requested. As usual, I look forward to seeing it.
Tonight I went to Los Encinos Park, as reported yesterday, and I saw a performance of "The Tempest" from the Shakespeare By The Sea company. This was my second Shakespeare play, both by this troupe, and I am hooked on both. These people are fantastic. The actors are all so good, and I am amazed at the dialogue and the ability to memorise all those words. When I saw "Hamlet" last Summer, I had a hard time understanding not only the use of the English language (don't know if it qualifies as Old English or not), but also the rapid fire delivery. This time around, I was better able to follow it. I loved the play itself, "The Tempest", and tomorrow night I will be back at the same park for a performance of "As You Like It".
Grimsley was there, too, but I only saw him at intermission. I was sitting up front, as always, he was in the back. I could watch outdoor Shakespeare plays all Summer. Will you come with me to the next one? :)
This noon, my sister Vickie finally came over, also as reported yesterday, and I met her and her tutor student at Lake Balboa, where we had a nice time walking the circumference of the lake and looking at all the different birds.
It's getting hot here, and I love it. August is real Summer.
I have a Complete Works Of Shakespeare book in a box somewhere in a closet of The Tiny Apartment, and now I wanna dig it out and start reading all those words. I really do need two of me, so much I always wanna do.
Sweet Dreams, Sweet Baby. I will see you in the morning......
I Love You! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Happy Late Night. I was glad to see your post earlier, that you have a music video lined up. Great news! That'll be three in roughly a year, with your own video coming up. I also like the motif and color scheme of this new one : a beach or lake theme, fun-in-the sun, etc. I am gonna guess that it's not a metal band? Whatever kind of band it is, it's gonna look great with those colors, and I hope you can get all the props you requested. As usual, I look forward to seeing it.
Tonight I went to Los Encinos Park, as reported yesterday, and I saw a performance of "The Tempest" from the Shakespeare By The Sea company. This was my second Shakespeare play, both by this troupe, and I am hooked on both. These people are fantastic. The actors are all so good, and I am amazed at the dialogue and the ability to memorise all those words. When I saw "Hamlet" last Summer, I had a hard time understanding not only the use of the English language (don't know if it qualifies as Old English or not), but also the rapid fire delivery. This time around, I was better able to follow it. I loved the play itself, "The Tempest", and tomorrow night I will be back at the same park for a performance of "As You Like It".
Grimsley was there, too, but I only saw him at intermission. I was sitting up front, as always, he was in the back. I could watch outdoor Shakespeare plays all Summer. Will you come with me to the next one? :)
This noon, my sister Vickie finally came over, also as reported yesterday, and I met her and her tutor student at Lake Balboa, where we had a nice time walking the circumference of the lake and looking at all the different birds.
It's getting hot here, and I love it. August is real Summer.
I have a Complete Works Of Shakespeare book in a box somewhere in a closet of The Tiny Apartment, and now I wanna dig it out and start reading all those words. I really do need two of me, so much I always wanna do.
Sweet Dreams, Sweet Baby. I will see you in the morning......
I Love You! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
General Ad (late night love)
Good Morning, my Darling,
I am back home after dropping Pearl off at Golden Agers. Already took The Kobester on a CSUN walk, which I have taken to doing on Tuesday mornings when the cleaning lady is there (cause he barks at her). He had a blast going to the Orange Grove and Duck Pond.
I see your post, and I am glad you are picking up your camera! I don't know if you are doing it for a project, or pro work, or just for fun, but any reason at all for picking up your camera is a good one. :)
Plus, it's just plain fun.
Also, I wanted to add, re: my blog last night, that I know that with some of my writing, the subject is generalised. Like when I say, as an Adultier Adult, to "just keep doing what you do", well, I know that is very general-sounding, non-specific advice (even though I mean it 100%).
This is due to time constraints and the nature of blog writing. I could also give you very specific information/advice/observations or what-have-you, if I were talking to you directly. When I generalise, I am never trying to just be vague or downplay the importance of a subject. It's just that, because of my work, and the hour at which I usually write, and the fact that writing takes longer than talking, I can only write so much in the given time frame. Hence, the often general nature of my observations.
However, I do try to put emphasis into those observations, and as you know, I can sometimes go on and on and on (Ad Nauseum, my long-winded nickname), so if it's specifics you ever need, just specify that, lol.
Also remember that your Mom is your direct, in person Adultier Adult, and she is in your corner 1000%.
I'll just keep doing what I do, part of which is writing, and whether it comes out sounding general or specific, I'll always do my best. :)
That's all for now. Have an awesome day. Usual Tuesday schedule for me.
I Love You! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
(around all day, back in a bit)
12:15am : Happy Late Night, Sweet Baby. I hope you had fun with your camera today, if you did indeed shoot some pictures or video. Hope you got good results, too. I was reading most of the afternoon. I got the new Stephen King book from Northridge Library, and because I know I won't be able to renew it (too many people want it), I've gotta finish it in three weeks. I discovered today, though, that it'll be no problem. It's a real page turner. It's called "Finders Keepers", and is a sequel to his book of last year, "Mr. Mercedes". Both books are crime stories rather than horror, but because it's SK, he can't help but put some scary and gruesome stuff in there. So today, just reading, and then this eve I watched one of the final "Breaking Bad" episodes. Man, this show has gotten pretty brutal as it nears the end. Ruthless and cutthroat, but given the subject matter I suppose that was inevitable.
It sure is one heck of a well written, well acted show, though. It's like a Stephen King book, you can't wait to see what's gonna happen next.
Tomorrow night and Thursday night I am gonna go see two Shakespeare plays, "The Tempest" and "As You Like It", put on by the Shakespeare By The Sea company. You may recall I saw them last Summer, too. It was my first Shakespeare play, and I was instantly hooked. They do them outdoors, in this case it will once again be at Los Encinos, an old Adobe ranch that is one of the oldest properties in the Valley, a holdover from when California was a Mexican territory. Los Encinos is now a park, and it's a nice atmosphere for these plays. Each one will start at 7pm, so I will leave straight from Pearl's at 6:30 and get there with a few minutes to spare. The plays are free, though donation suggested.
Also tomorrow, my sister Vickie wants to meet me at Lake Balboa at noon, just because we haven't seen each other since about April, and also because she wants to bring a kid she tutors. So tomorrow will be a little bit "here and there", and I will have to postpone my weekly Wednesday hike til Friday, but I'll still be around in the morning and after about 1:30 in the afternoon. And then my usual schedule after the play is over at 9pm.
I will see you in the morning, then, my Darling. Sweet Dreams.......
I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
I am back home after dropping Pearl off at Golden Agers. Already took The Kobester on a CSUN walk, which I have taken to doing on Tuesday mornings when the cleaning lady is there (cause he barks at her). He had a blast going to the Orange Grove and Duck Pond.
I see your post, and I am glad you are picking up your camera! I don't know if you are doing it for a project, or pro work, or just for fun, but any reason at all for picking up your camera is a good one. :)
Plus, it's just plain fun.
Also, I wanted to add, re: my blog last night, that I know that with some of my writing, the subject is generalised. Like when I say, as an Adultier Adult, to "just keep doing what you do", well, I know that is very general-sounding, non-specific advice (even though I mean it 100%).
This is due to time constraints and the nature of blog writing. I could also give you very specific information/advice/observations or what-have-you, if I were talking to you directly. When I generalise, I am never trying to just be vague or downplay the importance of a subject. It's just that, because of my work, and the hour at which I usually write, and the fact that writing takes longer than talking, I can only write so much in the given time frame. Hence, the often general nature of my observations.
However, I do try to put emphasis into those observations, and as you know, I can sometimes go on and on and on (Ad Nauseum, my long-winded nickname), so if it's specifics you ever need, just specify that, lol.
Also remember that your Mom is your direct, in person Adultier Adult, and she is in your corner 1000%.
I'll just keep doing what I do, part of which is writing, and whether it comes out sounding general or specific, I'll always do my best. :)
That's all for now. Have an awesome day. Usual Tuesday schedule for me.
I Love You! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
(around all day, back in a bit)
12:15am : Happy Late Night, Sweet Baby. I hope you had fun with your camera today, if you did indeed shoot some pictures or video. Hope you got good results, too. I was reading most of the afternoon. I got the new Stephen King book from Northridge Library, and because I know I won't be able to renew it (too many people want it), I've gotta finish it in three weeks. I discovered today, though, that it'll be no problem. It's a real page turner. It's called "Finders Keepers", and is a sequel to his book of last year, "Mr. Mercedes". Both books are crime stories rather than horror, but because it's SK, he can't help but put some scary and gruesome stuff in there. So today, just reading, and then this eve I watched one of the final "Breaking Bad" episodes. Man, this show has gotten pretty brutal as it nears the end. Ruthless and cutthroat, but given the subject matter I suppose that was inevitable.
It sure is one heck of a well written, well acted show, though. It's like a Stephen King book, you can't wait to see what's gonna happen next.
Tomorrow night and Thursday night I am gonna go see two Shakespeare plays, "The Tempest" and "As You Like It", put on by the Shakespeare By The Sea company. You may recall I saw them last Summer, too. It was my first Shakespeare play, and I was instantly hooked. They do them outdoors, in this case it will once again be at Los Encinos, an old Adobe ranch that is one of the oldest properties in the Valley, a holdover from when California was a Mexican territory. Los Encinos is now a park, and it's a nice atmosphere for these plays. Each one will start at 7pm, so I will leave straight from Pearl's at 6:30 and get there with a few minutes to spare. The plays are free, though donation suggested.
Also tomorrow, my sister Vickie wants to meet me at Lake Balboa at noon, just because we haven't seen each other since about April, and also because she wants to bring a kid she tutors. So tomorrow will be a little bit "here and there", and I will have to postpone my weekly Wednesday hike til Friday, but I'll still be around in the morning and after about 1:30 in the afternoon. And then my usual schedule after the play is over at 9pm.
I will see you in the morning, then, my Darling. Sweet Dreams.......
I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
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