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As I mentioned, I’ve started working on some video projects.  In preparing for this, I’ve read a lot of books lately about all aspects of making movies.  Here’s a special edition of What I’ve Been Reading that covers those books. … Continue reading →

My latest obsession these past few months has been making movies. It really started when I took the summer of 2011 off from work, in what I called my pretirement summer.  Among the things that I did that summer was … Continue reading →

Sheesh, it’s been almost a year since I’ve updated the reading list.  Let’s see what I can do… Ebooks on iPad: - The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver.  If you paid much attention to the election, you’ve heard of … Continue reading →

For our last stop, we drove through South Carolina to North Carolina where we stopped for the night at Raleigh, visiting our last special guest star, Kate. I surprised her by showing up at her door in full-cowboy: We visited … Continue reading →

From New Orleans, our road trip took us across several of the Confederate states.  Louisiana to Mississippi to Alabama to Florida to Alabama to Georgia. Wait – did you say Florida?  That’s not on the route. Well, yes.  But I … Continue reading →

Wednesday night, Julie and I were getting on the elevator on the way to our room.  A group of women who had clearly just been on an Anne Rice tour said, “Wait a moment, how do we know you aren’t … Continue reading →

We finally got out of Texas.  We’re now homeward bound.  But because just heading home isn’t enough fun, we’ve got more stops to go. When I first planned this trip and mapped out how to drive to San Antonio, my … Continue reading →

It must be Austin! We left San Antonio on Sunday, stopped at Buc Ee’s, an amazing roadside stop that may be the beef jerky capital of the world, and hit Austin.  First stop: the South Congress shopping area, where I … Continue reading →

It’s been a few days since I updated, due to problems with network.  That’s now corrected, so it’s time for an update. After Dallas, Julie and I drove to San Antonio.  San Antonio held the reason for the road trip … Continue reading →

Switching this to the Great Confederate Road Trip, largely because it occurred to me that on this trip, we’ll be traveling through 10 of the 11 Confederate States, and not hitting Yankee territory at all.  And who knows – I’m … Continue reading →