Phew... Where have I been?

Hey folks.  Long time no see.  I suppose I need to really make an effort to get back to writing here again, even if it is just to vent.  I guess I'm like many and wind up either venting on Facebook or reading so many other people venting there that I just can't seem to muster it up.  But no more.  Weekly tirades shall return.  I hope to be able to put together some posts like the Revelation series.  I lost the pale horse material during a computer crash (along with a lot of other things) and it really derailed me in posting.

So point number one.  Back up your stuff.  I now have a back up hard drive that I connect every so often and do a full backup of my laptop.  I also back important docs to Google Drive as often as I can remember.  My most important documents, ones I update frequently, I work on in Microsoft OneDrive so the document is updated immediately in the cloud (plus that makes it available from all my other devices as well.)  So ends the public service announcement of the week.

I've been working on my other website a lot lately.  It's not done, but you can poke around if you choose at http://www.starvt.com.  This website is the start of my promotion for my book series (only 1/3 of the way completed so far).  The series is called the Providence Series.  Currently I have plans for three books.  The first one is done minus some final tweaks and probably a couple of more proof reads to find those pesky typos and grammar errors (commas!).  I need to buckle down and knock out book two.  I'm not quite half done.

So I think I'll talk about Robin Williams.  I was pretty sad to see him go.  He was a comedic genius and darn good actor all around.  He supported the troops as well as many other charities.  Of course I didn't know him personally, but he seemed like a good guy.  He will be missed.  I'm not going to harp on the suicide.  There is already enough of that on the interweb already.

Now the rant...  Have you seen those car commercials (and many other types) that have that little disclaimer on the bottom, "Professional Driver, closed course.  Do not attempt."  as the car jumps bridges or skids around corners.  I even saw one at Christmas when some family was driving into the woods to hang a Christmas ornament on a tree.  Give me a break!  What world do we live in that it should be required to put something like that on a commercial?  I don't care where you get the idea - from a commercial, a book, or an action movie - if you try to jump your Yugo off a bridge and die, you're an idiot and no amount of disclaimers are going to change the fact you are an idiot!

That's it for this week.  See you next time.