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| Me and the 'rents as the Marx Brothers at a Christmas costume party in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico, circa 1975. |
Hey, all! Imma try to revive this blog. But first, a little catch-up, and a big announcement or two!
I have been putting the finishing touches on the manuscript of my "High Turnover" blog, in preparation for submitting it to Amazon's Kindle Digital Publishing. I'm hoping to have it submitted by the end of August. When I actually have a product page link, I will put it in a future post, as well as prominently off to the side of this here blog. Keep your eyes peeled.
I haven't forgotten about the Freakin' Green Elf Shorts photo caption competition. I am going to Australia in September, and I'm taking the Shorts with me. I'm hoping to capture a caption-worthy image of me wearing them, in the very land where their predecessors went sadly missing -- no offense, Princess, if you're reading this, but don't be too surprised if you should happen to look out your front window and see a doughy Yank flouncing up and down the footpath in front of your home wearing some shiny green shorts (and perhaps nothing else, depending on the weather). Ooh la la!
As far as reviving this blog, editing my memoir made me think of all kinds of other stories from my life that were not germane to a blog about having 88 jobs in my lifetime. If you've been paying attention, you may recall that the original subtitle of High Turnover was "87 Jobs in 35 Years". Well, guess what? Just the other day I remembered an 88th job. No, it wasn't the most recent! I'm not that senile yet. It was somewhere around my 34th or 35th job. I added it at the end of the manuscript in a special section called, "Updates!". As for the subtitle, it is now "Neurodivergence in the Workforce". A few years ago I found out I am autistic, and boy, howdy! does my past make so much more sense to me now.
As for those other random stories that I want to tell, I'm going to tell them here, and maybe also on my Tumblr blog, "Rimpy's Pinkeye" (it's not called that anymore). No particular order -- just as they come to me. And maybe when I've collected enough of them, I'll turn them into a book, too.
So I look forward to posting here more frequently. In the words of a great American orangutan, "Thank you for your attention to this matter."
Cheers!
