Live, post, repeat

To celebrate the third birthday of this blog, I recently bought a hardbound book from intorealpages.com containing everything from the first year. They did a nice job, automatically fitting the right number of posts onto a page, inserting monthly chapter headings, and producing a good quality color rendition of all my musings from 2012. I just ordered the next year, soon I will have a complete set. It’s fun to look at, and one form of insurance against the site suddenly disappearing.

When I hear real authors interviewed on TV, or actors, or other creative types, it seems like a common theme that they never go back and watch their own films or read their own books. Not so for me: it has been a lot of fun to flip back through the jokes and stories and memories, even from only three years ago. If this were a breakup or heartache blog, like so many of the others I see here in Tumblr-land, I suppose that would be called “wallowing”, but since it’s mostly a here-is-what-happened and travel blog, maybe it’s not so bad.

Three years ago this week, I was in San Antonio for a meeting. Today, I am in San Antonio for a meeting. I wonder where I will be in January, 2018?