{"id":7,"date":"2012-06-29T11:55:59","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T18:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kaser.com\/BlogicallyYours\/?p=7"},"modified":"2012-06-29T12:36:42","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T19:36:42","slug":"my-world-and-youre-welcome-to-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kaser.com\/BlogicallyYours\/2012\/06\/29\/my-world-and-youre-welcome-to-it\/","title":{"rendered":"My World (and You’re Welcome To It!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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No one can accuse me of being behind the times.<\/p>\n

Well, okay, they can<\/em>, and they’d probably be right, but after so many decades I think I’ve earned the right to a little slack, so sue me.\u00a0 (No, wait…)<\/p>\n

Blogging has been around since cave men did things with cave women in caves, but I’ve always kind of thought it was a bit of a narcissistic endeavor, and besides, I’ve had way<\/em> too many important things on my bucket list.\u00a0 But as we age beyond the point of moldiness, we inevitably feel the urge to share our wisdom and experience with those who are less well endowed (and usually wish either they were deaf or we were mute).\u00a0 I’ve also long thought of myself as a creative person, regardless of my medium.\u00a0 It’s mostly come out in the computer games I’ve created for over 30 years (yes, I am that<\/em> ancient, but please try to overlook it, okay?)\u00a0 But I’ve enjoyed writing almost since I learned to read Dick and Jane<\/em>. “See Dick.\u00a0 See Dick run.\u00a0 See Jane.\u00a0 See Dick see Jane.\u00a0 See Dick fall down.”\u00a0 I can remember reading (and loving it) in the fourth grade (“The Boxcar Children”), the fifth grade (“Hardy Boys”), the sixth grade (“Tom Swift Jr”), but it was in the seventh grade when I started reading more adult level books, the Doc Savage books were being reprinted, Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan and John Carter of Mars books, and my first out-and-out science fiction novel, Daniel F. Galouye’s Simulacron Three<\/em> about a man who realizes that he’s not real<\/em>, that his world isn’t real, that it’s all a simulation running in a computer, and he manages to “upload” himself into the ‘real’ world, only to realize that it’s also a simulation, a story that still sticks in my mind 46 years later (it was a much cooler idea in the 1960s, when computers were large, remote, mysterious things).\u00a0 I quickly moved on to the giants of science fiction, all the well-known writers (Heinlein, Asimov, Sturgeon, Tolkien, Lieber, Bradley, McCaffrey, Zelazney, etc).\u00a0 It’s only been in the last decade that I’ve branched out much into other areas besides science fiction and fantasy, now that we’re actually living in the (sort of) future that we all dreamed about back then. But science fiction is still where my heart lives, even though the field has shrunk drastically and been almost completely subsumed by fantasy and by science fiction TV and movies, most of which is little better than the pulp science fiction stories written in the 1930s.\u00a0 Why is it so difficult for screenwriters, directors and producers to achieve the quality of content that was reached in print 60-70 years ago?\u00a0 Of course, I suppose the same could be asked of film and television in general, hmm?<\/p>\n

But I drift.\u00a0 I’ve probably read in excess of 4000-5000 books, and still own many of them.\u00a0 They loom over me each day as I sit and work, two walls of six-foot tall bookcases crammed full, stacked on top, with seven-foot stacks of books piled up in front of them.\u00a0 Old friends, difficult to part with.\u00a0 And like so many avid readers, I always thought, “I could do this.\u00a0 I could write stories like this.\u00a0 How hard could it be?\u00a0 You just dream all this great stuff and then write it down!”\u00a0 But life rarely takes the freeway, straight and wide.\u00a0 It likes to travel the back roads, the byways, the unexpected detours and dead-ends.\u00a0 Life is what happens while you’re making other plans.<\/em>\u00a0 I’ve written many<\/em> computer games (I currently have 31 of them available at www.kaser.com<\/a>), and will continue to write more.\u00a0 As long as we suck air in and push it out, we have to suck food in and … uh, push it out, too.\u00a0 More and more often, I find my fingers and mind itching to type something other than for(i=0; i<MAX_LIMIT; i++)<\/strong>, something with a little more ‘heft’ to it.<\/p>\n

So, logically, a blog is a good beginning, a place to get into the rhythm of putting words together and then releasing them into the wild.\u00a0 Soon, I intend to start work on a non-fiction book for my extended family, about the murder of my father’s oldest brother in 1955, and I may share some of that on this blog, we’ll see.\u00a0 Mostly, I expect the entries here to be an eclectic collection of thoughts, opinions, compositions, diatribes and diuretic discourse.<\/p>\n

I hope that you’ll join me from time to time and perhaps even discuss things once in a while.\u00a0 That way I won’t have to do all<\/em> the heavy lifting.\u00a0 (And no, that’s not me in the picture above, I’m not that cute.\u00a0 That’s our newest grandchild, Kinley.\u00a0 Think of all the open possibilities that lie before her.\u00a0 As life passes, our available choices seem to narrow down, from wide-open to tightly-constraining.\u00a0 But, ’tis not entirely so.\u00a0 At every point, our lives are ours to choose.\u00a0 In every moment, choose wisely!\u00a0 Whenever possible, choose consciously!<\/p>\n

Blogically yours,<\/p>\n

Everett
\nJune 29, 2012<\/p>\n

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