Genesis Incunabula Exordium

I’m thinking about taking my blog in a different direction.  It’s been a really big deal for me to step out and toss my scribblings out into the ether.  I’ve been writing on and off since I was a kid .I liked writing papers back in my college days. I love researching and learning. I’ve delighted in the rabbit holes I’ve fallen into with my blog. My focus has been on tech but I love lots of other things and want to write about them, too.   

I love comic books.  I’ve read them since I was a kid. I vividly remember reading Casper the Friendly Ghost at my aunt’s house sitting on the stairs with my little brother.  I’ve read everything from G.I. Joe to Garth Ennis’ Crossed.  I read Batman before the first movie came out in 1989.   I bought them at the local grocery store, box retail stores, through ads for mail-order, toy stores at the mall, and creepy used book stores with green shag carpet.  I wrote my senior paper for my History degree on comic books and got an A minus. 

I love paintings.   I want to rummage around in my memories to find when I fell in love with art.  I remember going on school trips to The Art Institute of Chicago when I was a kid.  I visited the Prado during my high school trip to Spain.  The Hermitage when I did a two week stint in St Petersburg – Peter the Great’s city in the boggy north west of Russia, not the city in Florida.   Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera exhibit at the Seattle Art Museum during a Day of Dead Celebration hosted by the Mexican Consulate.   Most recently Vince Kirkland at his museum and the charming modern gallery with old school arrangements of the American Museum of Western Art. 

I plan to write about my many loves, not just tech.  Tech has been a constant in my life from toys to my career.  It’s been fun delving into the history of pieces of my childhood – putting together memories and history to reminisce about things and places long gone.  Zenith clickers to 5G home internet –  I wonder what the future holds.  

I’ll have as much luck as the sacred chickens of Rome in predicting the future. I had a PalmPilot and no idea that it would evolve into a smart phone.  I took a Visual Basic class and ended up doing application development on the mainframe.  I remember how cool it was that cable tv didn’t have commercials and now I’m vexed by all the commercials on my streaming services.  Things never go the way you think.  Might as well release hungry sacred chickens and see if they eat grain.