Since starting this blog in 2014 to supplement my main hobby, writing a financial newsletter, ECONOMIC LOGIC, I have never posted a picture of myself. Who cares what I look like? Most days I don't care !
It doesn't matter if I have a college degree or two. It does matter that I have lived with mild global warming for the past 45 years, and enjoyed it. This week is unusually cold here in Bingham Farms, Michigan, so I hope for a lot more warming in coming years,
A few times in the past I have posted pictures claiming to be me, as jokes, which confused a few people. Recently, the wife snapped a few pictures of me with her phone while I was doing other things -- I don't like "posing" for pictures.
The last four photos were taken in our living room, or from inside our living room. A very unusual living room. Two pianos and one drum set on one side, and a "pile" of my audio equipment on the other side. Including two six cubic foot subwoofers that I designed and built -- one is a a black vertical tube with a 15" driver. I used to call myself "BassNut".
And about 2.000 compact discs. Many purchased for one dollar each from local Salvation Army stores, where I have not shopped since COVID struck.
I retired in 2005, at age 51. After 27 years of 'on the job research', I decided that NOT working was more fun than working. I gave all my suits, except one, and most of my ties, to the Salvation Army. I have a theory that neck ties cut off circulation to the brain.
After retiring, when the driveway is covered with snow. my wife's pet name for me is "lazy bum" -- I refuse to shovel snow -- claiming "scientists say men over 65 die all the time while shoveling snow off of driveways. It is one of the leading causes of death here in Michigan."
That annoys the wife. But I have been annoying the wife since 1977, and would not want to stop now, due to sudden death from 'moving' snow, from one place to another. It will melt eventually. From global warming.
So that's my story.
The following photos are in, or from, our living room, and two of them Include me, not knowing at the time that I was being photographed. One is of me banging on the cheap drum set I bought at a local Salvation Army store. I have no obvious talent, but I can make a lot of noise.
The animals in the yard have been our most frequent visitors during the COVID epidemic -- the Bingham Farms deer -- visiting almost every day. There were about 10 deer outside, and most of them were caught in the photo below, through our living room window. The record is 14 deer at one time. Sometimes they drink water from our heated bird bath, just 10 feet from our living room window, (not visible in the photo).
