Old Man Look at My Life
This was not submitted for publication and is personal correspondence. It does contain information about the possible future direction of this blog. Dad and Trout, Glad the holiday circular is going over well. The initial development was fun, working with so much more space than in years past. But as with most creative endeavors the fun gradually transformed – first to annoyance after I bought out the town's stock of 9x12" envelopes and then also the town to the south's, then to drudgery as I meticulously folded each unit in half and inserted into envelopes, then to supreme frustration as I tried to interface various computers with the office printer and the address label sheets that caused it to choke repeatedly, and finally to the anxiety that attends a near lynching when, on an unassuming Saturday morning, I dumped well over 100 envelopes in front of the sole clerk at the local post office and caused a rather impressive backup. I offered some time back to work for their