Wow, its been so long since I updated the personal blog page that I don’t know where to begin. It is kind of like writing a letter to an old friend to say what has been happening with the family and life in general.
I limited my time on Antisocial Media. Yeah, I saw that one coming. I’ve been working on back-end stuff for SCV and taking more personal time to work on other side projects—the stuff I want to do, not the stuff I have to do.
I have also been doing a ton of reading and audiobooks. I am always trying to keep learning, and I will say I did laugh a few months ago. I had just finished a book by Survivorman Les Stroud. I was listening to his audiobook when, out of the blue at the worst timing, as I was rushing to go and pick up Neva at the courthouse since she had just got done with Jury Duty, I received a phone call from an unknown number that did not get flagged by the several spam and robo caller app’s that I use to avoid the scams. The guy on the other end asked the standard questions about rates and how to get video. Since I was driving and rushing, I cut him short and asked if I could call him back. I asked him what his name was, he said “Les Stroud”… I was like WTF and said “Survivorman?” He said “yeah that’s me” Told him to give me five minutes as I was picking the wife up from Jury Duty and I would call him right back.
Yeah, I had that Holy Shit moment where the song BU2B came to mind “The universe has a plan…” I called him back, and depending on how 2021 goes with COVID-19, lockdowns, travel restrictions, and such, we could be doing some cool new productions if the stars align. But it was still pretty cool to have someone whose work you admired for years with how they did all the camera work by themselves for their TV show, and then out of the blue, they call you. I kind of see how musicians feel when someone they have admired and listened to for years calls them up and says hey, we should do something together.
So what about the insane 2020 Hurricane season? Well, due to COVID-19 and my foot being injured with a nice deep hole from a planter wart and not wanting to walk in wastewater with open wounds, I was told to sit out most of the season. I did make it down for Hurricane Delta, where I chased with Simon Brewer, which was probably one of the funniest chases of my life. Here is the video from that chase. https://youtu.be/ZqiVJPfCKHE
Winter has been so-so for the season, but as I said, I have been working on other side projects for what I want to do and not what I must do. Hopefully, the SteamPunk computer system will be operational in the next couple of weeks. I just sorted through the life’s work and organized about 100 Terabytes of data, removed duplicated data, and then backed up everything. Once the Steam Punk setup is up and running, I’ll post some photos of it. It has several computers and editing systems in a custom-painted half rack. Trust me, it will look cool.
Otherwise, not much else is new. Laura is going to be five next month, and time does not stand still at all. I’m off to read the shortest book on my book list that just came in today: Neil Peart’s Illustrated Quotes. It’s 100 pages of quotes from the legend. This should take me about 15 minutes to read.