Having "signed on" for another year in NE Ohio, I'm continuing to organize the domestic situation so that I can accomplish as much as possible this winter. Going through the spring and summer cycles of the year, I tend to forget about the misery of enduring the winter holidays (Nov. 20 to Jan. 20 is my official personal "grief zone"), alone, but I'm getting better and better at letting them "slide by" with minimum adverse effects.
That's all part of being someone whose life has been left to be based more on the rate of accomplishments rather than ongoing "interpersonal communications" and "personally associative life involvements".
Perhaps I ought not attempt to predict which areas of endeavors will be given the most attention in the next several months, but I still plan to try to further develop my online presence and promotional potentials through learning how to work with audio / video files. I may get around to completing the "LJ's Mix" CD of the oldest studio, etc., recordings, we'll see. All such things are very time consuming, so the goals are likely to stay the same for a while.
I've concluded that my involvement with "extra pages" like Myspace or Facebook will be minimum, if anything. My goal here is to simplify and be more productive, not to complicate things further with having to keep up on details about such important things as friends and acquaintences through the systems of other web sites.
Most anyone can find me if they look online a bit. One or another of my pages tends to come up when searching my name or associated matters. I'd certainly like to encourage those who may be concerned to spread the word about my own web pages.
People can communicate with me if they so choose, and I even have the message board for those who may want to create a "public" comment or conversation.
One thing for sure is that it seems as one grows older, anyone who is out to accomplish anything must learn to compensate for the seemingly "increasingly quickly" passing time.
It seems in order to be "on top of things", one ought to be considering and planning activities a good 6 months in advance.
It remains to be seen what portion of my overall efforts to define matters and share artistic expressions with the "world" may be considered to be of any special value.
From what I can see, however, I'm still on the "cutting edge" of defining aspects of some of the social dynamics (stuff we see and don't see going on), that have been / are encountered by my generation.
The only real problem with my situation remains not being able to wake each day with nothing but the responsibility to be about the "things that LJ really ought to be tending to" to be dealt with.
Most of us have become very conditioned to having to put forth efforts at doing things that have little or nothing to do with us, personally. It's no wonder we tend to take the adverse effects of such sacrifices as for granted, or having to feel that they "ought to be made", when a greater contribution to society might be made (and a higher level of mental health and quality of life maintained), by people who could invest their time doing a type of "work" that they could relate to.
But, oh, well, that has to do with helping people line up their personal thoughts and attributes with opportunities within a society, which doesn't always happen so well.
I'm still just glad I don't have to suffer like I did in the plastic factory, and can have the presence of mind to manage at least some pace of progress with things.
I'd suppose promoting the live solo show and recruiting members for the final "old man's oldies band" will continue to be a challenge for me, due to various circumstances, but though those gears may turn slowly, they will turn.
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