Homeland Security and Economics

Meanwhile, his cronies are hard at work turning the United States into a whites only oligarchy.

Enough about that. Most of us are watching the news as much as I am. In other news, Dublin, Ireland is under riot control once again, as some undocumented middle eastern immigrant raped a ten year old girl and the native Irish are going wild once again over the nearly open borders there. It's pretty bad from what I can see in the Irish news. Mostly the independent reports I see on Facebook, more so than what the American news is reporting. More evidence is blatant American media censorship or bias news.

All of this wants to make me run out into the night to scream sometimes. I want to keep abreast of what's going on but I'm getting to the point of sensory overload. I'm starting to tune things out now, especially the more sensationalist news broadcasts I have been watching on YouTube.

I don't watch local cable TV news. I haven't since 2017. As we can see from the sellout legacy news corporations, I'm glad I did. I still watch a little bit of MSNBC now but I watch it from YouTube. That way I can pick what I want to watch, instead if being force fed news stories I don't want to watch or be bombarded with commercials. I pay for a subscription to YouTube to get the ad free version.,

I'm thinking about changing my website and media production for the new year. I had a thought today while we were going on our evening walk around the neighbourhood. As I mentioned before, I'm currently taking a photography class and I have been asking myself, what do I want to do with all of this newfound knowledge?

I got to thinking this evening, that I want to do more travelling starting next year. I want to take more pictures but what would I do with them? Then I got the sort of brilliant idea of remaking this website to accommodate all of the pictures in a sort of photo gallery. Instead of focusing on all of the bad things in the news, I could focus on more feel good things to take the stress off.

Which means I would probably quit podcasting altogether. Or retool it to talk about where I've been and the photos I took while I was out on walkabout. My wife likes to travel as long as there is something worth looking at when we get there. She likes nature but she's not big on hiking in the remote woods or climbing mountains and such. She doesn't like museums (They're boring she says). She likes going to famous national parks but there are only so many interesting parks we can go to. And the really famous ones are back out in northwest part of the country. Out in the Rocky Mountains. Shes not so sure she wants to make another west coast trip so soon after our recent one last spring.

So that leaves me to try and find something she likes closer to the east coast. I mentioned the Gulf Coast but she wants to think about over the winter months. Maybe New England in the late spring? I don't know. We'll see I guess.

I typically change things up in my life around every Samhain (Pronounced Sow in) to ring on the Celtic new year and this year will be no different. I will delete all of my old posts from the previous year from this blog and start anew.

Which is why I'm thinking that I may get out of podcasting next year. I'm tired of wading through all of the shite coming from the news media every week and regurgitating it for people. There are plenty of other people doing that and I'm tired. I want to pursue more relaxing things as I turn the ripe old age of 70 years soon.

Which is why I'm thinking seriously of remaking this website into a photo gallery full of landscape and wildlife images going forward. My dear friend Bruce from Massachusetts, does this a lot, whenever he can. He likes to travel around New England taking photos of the countryside, interesting museums and other interesting things.

I want to do something of the same. I'm not real big on museums either, big or small, but taking landscape pictures and wildlife, you bet. I've always loved hiking in the woods, or when I lived in Northern Maine, I would take my camera bag with me when I went snowmobiling in the winter months.

I have hundreds of photos of wildlife and landscapes that I've never really paid much attention to. I took them with my old 35mm film cameras and stuffed them away in boxes. My digital photos are buried in folders on my servers.

I am going to give this some serious thought after Samhain. It will take me a few days to remake this website to accommodate a photo gallery to showcase my photos. I have so many photos going back fifty years, I could share a handful a week, for months until I can get out and start taking new ones next year.

I have thought about this quite a bit today and I will be thinking more on this over the next couple of weeks. I'm pretty sure this is what I want to do. Now I just have to make a plan and execute it after the new year. I will keep the e-commerce book store, the donation page and contact page, although I will remake the basic web page template some. I want to make it more mobile friendly than what it currently is. I'll also keep this blog.

I want to continue writing and use this blog to tell of my travel adventures.

That's another thing that's been on my mind a lot lately. My second book that's been stalled because I've let the podcast and all of the news feeds distract me from completing it. I feel so guilty about not working more on it but I haven't been able to sit down very much this year to get much written. That needs to change also.

I spent a solid six months writing the draft of my first book, and I spent a lot of time with designing the book cover and editing and marketing, which all cost a butt load of money. Even now, I have strangers emailing me wanting me to pay them to market my first book. I do need more marketing but I'm not willing to pay another several hundred dollars for Facebook or Amazon ads right now. Maybe later but I have other things I need my money for. If I were making some money on book sales, I might consider it but I'm not, so these easy money grifters will have to wait.

If anyone knows of a publisher that might be interested in publishing my book, let me know. I could sure use the help with marketing. As I read somewhere today, they said that there are close to 11,000 self publishing writers uploading their books to Amazon every day. I guess a lot of people think writing books is easy money. I have news for them. It isn't. I think one of the biggest reasons that I can't sell more than one or two books once in a while, is because the self-publishing book market is over saturated with writers now. The traditional publishing houses are over saturated with submissions so I hear. Everyone wants to be a bestselling author and become famous I guess.

I'd just be happy to sell a few books. I don't need to be famous.

It's getting late. I'm going to go and spend some time with my wife and dog before lights out. I will post more updates on my transition from podcaster to landscape and wildlife photographer in the coming weeks. I'll especially let everyone know when the newly remodelled web site is ready to take a look at. That's another marketing project I will need to take care of when the time comes.

Good night, sláinte (cheers)