Oh No, More Damn Joe Stuff!

Graphic element for SSC #12, exploring the Colonials who left Earth forother Worlds. I am cleaning. Not my house - yet - but the material to go up for sale in April. The final issue of the pre-sold subscriptions for my Jorune newsletter SEGMENT: SHO-CAUDAL #12 is being prepared, and I am cleaning up the HTML code for the attendant website. As much as I like the program, the Mozilla WYSIWYG editor, Sea Monkey, has been allowed to remain nonfunctional in the new web-authoring world. It no longer allows a search in the raw HTML mode. It also makes an automatic change in the HTML where the location of all graphics and download files are rewritten to seek my local folder names. That doesn't work — people on the web won't be able to read my local folder. So I have to use a raw text editor to seek and replace all the "file:///" replacements. I use CotEditor but miss my old BBEdit text editor for webpage work. Oh well. While I am waiting for the editor in England ...

I have been blessed with supporters who have appeared and saved me from going down the tubes. I was able to support most of my life with occasional swirls into the drain. The answer of "a roommate" was natural because I have lived with really good roommates for most of my adult life in California (Southern and Northern), Colorado, and Virginia - before North Carolina. To be fair, I was also in a life habit of moving at least once a year. None of them had to put up with me for all that long, but two of them shared multiple addresses with me and are still in communication willingly. Long Sad Tale of Roommatery While some of the niftiest humans I encountered in bulk have lived here, the people presenting themselves as roommates were not of that group. One day I realized I could  draw  myself with ovals. Honest. Get your violin tuned up - this is a real tear-jerker. Or at least it has jerks involved. Candidate #1 One lived with me for a year as ...

I will update the blog at least once a week but might do more than one. We shall see. I'm never ashamed to say I am a person involved with long-term recovery from alcohol (primarily) and drugs (hey, it was the 70s). Thirty-four years and counting. So far. I have no standing nor do I represent AA or any of the other Twelve Step Program (there are over 70 addressing various substances and behaviors with the step method). If you don't like me, don't worry - I am just a channel for other people and their words - some of which you might like. A big part of maintaining what I've found has been to give it away. To that end, with several other people involved with the same journey put together a collection of writings from the 1940s to the 21st Century. Where there were living families or estates, we went to the source for permission. We wrote and revised through an almost embarrassing first edition to this. Which stands on its own. (Quite well, too.) Respect for the auth...

The New Edition's cover. It is a novel. It is not science fiction or fantasy or detective novel, but - a novel. About a guy. Trying to find a life. And having dreams. The book is CLIMBING THE SPIRAL MOUNTAIN. The people who have read it seem to enjoy it, too. I go into my own work from time to time to give the same test I give any other novel I might pick up. I turn to a random page and read. If that page is good, I might read more. I will probably buy it. So far I have passed my own test. Repeatedly. For the six years. Always nice. But I live in a time when everything thinks they can write a book and deserve praise for what they do. I would like for some people to benefit from reading it. It is very much about the here and now. And facing your worst discoveries about yourself. It is all true, but not autobiographical. I'm doing fresh editions of my book and it should translate cleanly onto Kindle (where it has not appeared to date). There are a few corrections, m...

Tuning Up Before the Big Show. A blog. (Pause for hystrical applause.) For More Damn Joe Stuff. (Applause dies down.) For people already know me it is no surprise that I move in many circles: Self-Education, Repairing Damaged Adults, creating Graphics. writing Science Fiction, reading Comics. writing/playing Role Playing Games. exploring 12-Step Recovery, researching Histories, analyzing Pop Culture, listening to and creating Radio Theater, writing for Stage, and poking at a large number of sleeping monsters who may do Ghod knows what when they wake. For the new folks - Hello. The purpose of the blog is to track things I am doing and relating them to new projects as they emerge. What I have done so far may be available free through links to websites, Archive.org or YouTube.com , or whatever other outlets might be available. The news stuff - it remains to be seen. I am contemplating a Patreon to support certain projects that might be considered worthwhile. Poking at the m...