Under my Belt

February has come to October and I remember I started a blog. A wordy, self-conscious weaving of an intro it was and promising revisits that have not happened until now, some months later...

during that time I have been evicted from a HUD project for tenant organizing and have been preoccupied trying to make my way, since just after July 4th, on $650 a month for rent, utilities and food in a $1200 a month world.

Certainly I websurf everyday... I should add the cost of Internet broadband to that monthly money mark needed to survive. It's $32.95 per month, and, with a MagicJack hooked up, it pays for the cost of phone service right there.

I will now try to write a little every day and build up momentum as I get more and more under my belt about how I look at the world and what I look for in the world.

For starters, my favorite book is Carl Sagan's "Demons from the Haunted World; Science As A Candle in the Dark"... I read Vonnegut in High School but did not get much of it beneath the fluidity of the style and the remorse over what Man does to Itself. Now I am here at 52, the age my father died when I was 15, and wanting of a sense of having pooted forth any artifact of accomplishment that can seen by others of my benevolent ilk.

To finish for today, after Vonnegut I ran across recordings by Frank Zappa in 1972.