Hi, All,
I apologize to everyone that has been reading my blog, I have missed several weeks of posts since I began my new job. I’ve been very busy and my time has been limited. That is no excuse for not completing what I promised at the start of the year to post at least one blog per week.
With Halloween only a couple of weeks away, we are being inundated with monster movies and ghost stories. This year I get to add my own Voice to the stories of things that go bump in the night.
I just completed the first week of a new job, and I just can’t stop smiling about it.
This is only a three-month temp contract position, but it is making me very happy.
Let me tell you a story.
Hi All,
Sorry I’m late with this blog, by several days.
I’ve been busy with several things, most of all preparing for a potential job opportunity.
Well, that job opportunity turned into an actual job, which I’ll be starting next Monday.
I can’t tell you much about it, maybe next week I can tell you where I work, but let’s just say I’ve been there before and I am very happy to be back. Even if it isn’t where I want to be. (Does that make any sense what so ever?)
Since the start of this year, I’ve applied to over 600 job openings. Which resulted in 1 interview.
I did have a two-day temp job, which was really fun. I blogged about it previously.
This new job also came through an employment agency and is only temporary, but it is schedule to last three months until the end of the year. So that is good news.
On top of that it isn’t too far away from home either, so there is no ghastly long commutes on the freeways.
Again, apologies for a very very late blog. Hopefully I’ll have more interesting news to tell you in a few days.
Thank you for all the support and the prayers. It was felt.
Kevin
This blog post proves it.
With the stress of the job search, and everything else going on in the world right now, (A lot of which has indirect connections to my job search, but I won’t go into that) it’s hard to come up with something of interest to write about
Let me tell you about a game that I’ve been playing for the last couple of years (or more, I can’t remember now).
Hi all,
I began this blog at the start of the year by doing a series of posts as part of an assignment for Toastmasters. That went on for a couple of months, and I’ve kept the blog going consistently ever since (well, other than missing a day here and there like tonight).
My next Toastmasters speech will be based on a blog I wrote a few weeks ago, about whether Yield Signs are necessary or not. What do you think? I’ll be giving that speech in a couple of weeks. Should be fun.
I suppose, I am a Brony.
As mentioned previously, I began my creative exploits in art, I wanted to be a comic book artist. Drawing super heroes; my dream job would have been to draw the All-Star Squadron off of Roy Thomas’ scripts.
At the start I hadn’t thought about writing my own stories, but it wasn’t long before I realized that art, whether it be in comic books or not, was all about telling stories.
The first actual story I remember writing, was based off of a dream, which in turn was based off of the Transformers animated series… no actually in the dream it was characters out of GoBots (which I didn’t watch a lot of). What I actually wrote, which was absolutely terrible in the end, became a story about enemy aliens fighting a war here on earth, but only experiencing life as humans, did they find a way to come together in peace.
I didn’t write any comic book related stories until Junior High School as part of a class. I wrote a Secret Origin story for a couple characters I called “The Aqua Sister”. The teacher liked it, but nothing much came from it. Though over the years I have developed it into something else, a Lovecraft like story, that one of these days I will actually write the full story. The teacher liked another story I wrote at that time, which is a lot closer to the type of stories I write today, but that’s for another day.
Along with comic books, I also enjoyed animations. Very rarely did I come up with an animation-based story that I jotted down and turned into an actual story. Most of what I did amounted to a couple pages of notes.
During this time I was writing a long story about detectives and aliens. There was a lot to it, but I’ve put it away from now. Though the characters live on in other stories I’ve written.
Hi all,
It’s been a very long week—what do you mean this is only Tuesday?
Today, and much of the week, I’ll be with my family helping out where I can. So this blog post is going to be really small, but I made the promise to post on each Tuesday, and a Substack on Thursdays, so please go and read the existing posts on both.
Let’s see what I can write about now.
Let’s start with a simple questions:
How are you doing?
Have you been staying creative?
I know it isn’t always easy, but we have to keep at it.
Creativity can start very small. I once wrote a murder mystery that began by describing fruit falling from a tree outside my window. It was quite a nasty little murder.
Have you ever seen something odd in the street. Perhaps a shoe, and wondered how it got there? I do that all the time, stories can come from all most anything.
I think I’ll turn this little thought piece into a great blog latter, but for now, I think this is all I can write.
Thank you all for sticking around and being creative.
Hi all,
Back in May I told you in a brief post that my father was in the hospital.
He had a terrible fall on Mothers’ Day, breaking a shoulder, elbo, and leg (the leg is a longer story for the future but not now).
My dad spent several weeks in a recovery facility. I am still praying for all the other patients there. Then finally, he was able to come home. A hospital style bed was set up in the family room for him and m mom has been sleeping on the couch next to him.
He praise God for his recovery, both arms are doing well, and after long weeks he is finally walking again, though he uses a walker and has brace on his leg. Hopefully that will come off in a week or so.
I just wanted to thank you all for the prayers. They are appreciated and felt.
Thank you.
Hi All,
Of all the super heroes I have read about, my favorite is the Golden Age Green Lantern Alan Scott.
And, of course, he was one of the 100 super heroes that appeared in the DC Blue Ribbon Digest comic that started my love of super heroes from the very beginning. Alan Ladd Scott (the middle name actually referencing actor Alan Ladd) first appeared in All-American Comics #16 and then became a founding member of the Justice Society of America in All-Star Comics #3.
Really suffered from a bad headache during the night, didn’t sleep well at all. It’s not entirely gone, but better than this morning or last night.
Headaches have been the little demon that I have suffered with my entire life, and really impact my creativity as an Artist, Writer, and Voice Actor.
It is said that Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel FRANKENSTEIN (The Modern Prometheus) is considered the very first science fiction story.
At the time, stories like this were in a genre called Romanticism.
What if Frankenstein was a Romance story?
Webster’s Dictionary has two definitions for the word Sophomoric.
Why do I tell you the definitions of the word Sophomoric? So that I may tell you about how I first learned the definition of the word Sophomoric.
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