Reflections on Change as the First Half Century of My Life Starts its Final Year

In this next week or so I am going to publish some reflections and ideas on what has happened during my so brief life and what awaits and looms down the road. This will be the beginnings of the foundation for another blog which I will embark on in the comings months which will be an autobiography of my life. The internet gives us the opportunity to record personal histories of ourselves for all of time in cyberspace. As long as technology survives, these writings will survive, and I also plan to print them so they can be preserved for future generations to read. I do not pretend to be of any importance or to have any amazing revelations to make or note, but personal oral histories are the basic foundation of sharing and understanding lives and would not it be so great to have had these available for those living ordinarily in the past. I think I will name my new blog "THE_BIG_J_autobiography" or something to that effect. But before I begin to work on that, I will make a few posts here with some of my observations and insights about what I have seen, witnessed, and experienced in my life on a more macrolevel.

On another note, I had hoped to get my property out of CO this weekend or next, but I believe it is more rational and logical to do it farther into June, perhaps on Sunday the 17th or 24th. Incredibly, U-haul charges an extra $55 to rent vehicles on Fridays and Saturdays and also within 10 days of a planned date so it behooves one to look a little farther out timewise even though there is a strong likelihood gasoline prices will go up another 20 to 25 cents. I do, however, plan to get the 10-15 items that HBL has been so generously been storing for me in his garage these past six months and perhaps as soon as Monday, 28 May, and certainly before this week ends accomplish that.