This will be my last blog of 2018 as I look towards some fun things to happen in the New Year.
Come 2019 I will be self-publishing my media memoir “Raised on the Radio.” Yeah, yeah, you all have heard this from me before but I can safely say the entire manuscript (all 81,000 plus words) is finally completed to my satisfaction. During this past summer I realized what was missing was the tone of the book. It needed to be amped up to express how much fun I had when in radio. To put it bluntly, as I wrote in it, “Working in big city radio was a fucking blast!” During the month of November I tuned up that tone to where it belonged and finished the final edit.
While writing “Raised on the Radio’ I adopted the late Glenn Frey’s mantra,‘Perfection is not an accident.’ The book is now as perfect as I can make it and once formatted for download and an online cover is made, it’ll be on sale. Look for it to be out this coming spring and you’ll be able to buy it from Amazon.
Just so you know I have other books to write too. My next project will be a trilogy of fictional short stories that center on York High school in contemporary times. I think this set of tales will happen much faster because I have a laser-like focus on what’s going to happen in those stories.
Speaking of York High School, later in 2019 I will be going to my 40th (yes, you read that right) my 40th York High School Reunion! I feel like it was just yesterday when the York administration handed me a diploma and ‘participation trophy.’ The only reunion I missed was our 10th,because it seemed like we were barely out of college and since I still saw many of my former classmates during that time, a reunion felt premature. Sometimes I joke that going to class reunions results in glasses of booze being thrown in my face from the former high school girlfriends whose hearts I broke. In reality, that’s not true! I’ll write more about the 40th reunion of the class of 1979 in the coming months.
The York High School Class of 1979 will have a 40th reunion this year.
In the New Year I’d like to hit up some karaoke nights and want to check out the places that host house bands that play live to whatever song you want to sing. I’m also culling personal writings & jokes that I’d like to try out at an open mike for comedy. I could picture my stand-up special being called “No Bare Feet Allowed!”
Yeah, my barefoot phobia has yet to subside but I will be making my regular rounds to East End Pool in the summer. Come March I’ll order my new swim pass and a short couple months later I’ll be reunited with swim pals like Miriam, Barb, Jim, Melissa, Connie, Desiree her husband Steve and others.
I’m looking forward to another summer at East End Pool.
Come 2019 while not making specific resolutions I do want to treat myself better. There are times my closet could do with some new clothes, nicer shoes, etc. I often put things like that off but it’s time to enjoy some extras, because if not now, then when? I do for others whenever possible but too often doing for my own self takes a backseat and that should change. Also, I may be looking to buy a new car (my first in many years) and I’m making a vow to take better care of my yard. More frequent lawn trims and tending to the flowers beds and such.
One thing I’d like to change is my cell-phone. I hate having a complex android phone and want to switch it out for a simple Cricket flip phone that takes calls and allows me to text. That’s all I want! I don’t need all that other stuff so if anyone wants to put a simple bid for a Samsung Galaxy 3 phone, let me know!
Thanks to the perks of my radio career, for over 20 years I saw countless concerts, most of them for free. That left me kind of‘live showed out’ for a long time. Now I want to get out and see live music again. I’ll just have to brace for the fact that I now have to pay to get in. The first show I want to see is Elton John in February. The Allstate Arena is a 15 minute drive from my house and there’s no reason to not see one of my all time favorite performers.
I want to get out to see Elton John in concert at the Allstate Arena in February of 2019.
So now we wind down these last couple of weeks of 2018. I’m going to be seeing several new films in theaters which I’ll give mini-reviews on my Facebook page. Of course there’s Christmas to celebrate and then we move on to a New Year. So until I start new blogging, I want to wish all of you who read my silly ramblings the best holidays possible and to have a healthy and Happy New Year!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
