One of the many goals I have for this blog is to post many videos of me acting like an idiot while I explore California wine country. I really enjoy being in front of the camera. Especially if all I have to be is myself. Simply because I can be extremely lazy and being myself doesn’t take a whole lot of work. Unless, of course, I plummet into despair or fall into a major depression or whatever. Then being myself becomes a sincere burden.
I took a hosting class earlier this year taught by Maureen Browne (one of the many encouragers of me starting this blog) and my prime objective there was to reinvent myself as sort of a Huell Howser / Hunter S. Thompson hybrid of hosting. But that seemed like too much effort so I chose to just stay being, y’know, myself. Only take it UP a notch. Especially technically. And so I took three months after I recovered from sinus surgery to completely re-do my office, switch from PC to MAC, invest in a much higher-quality camera… and learn entirely NEW editing software.
I’m not QUITE there yet. But I will be. I also MUST lose more weight because this nowadays HD bullshit can make you want to flee to a darkened den for the rest of your run. If I wanna be ON camera, I can’t look like a 500lb. ruddy Ron Perlman. I am WAY too vain for THAT. That’s one reason why I go get regular facials from my wonderful friend, Ricki. She’s the ONLY chick I know outside of my wife who has ANY interest in the Manson Family saga. So we’ll jibber-jabber away about Charlie, the girls, and other true crime tales while she scrapes the shit out of my face as I weep and shriek.
Meanwhile, here was my trip to Bravo Farms we made last year on the way up to Lake Tahoe for my kid sister’s wedding. Ever heard of an ELDERBERRY…?
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