Two milestones!

Within the last five weeks, two unexpected things happened in my online life.

I first got on YouTube in 2009; four years later, I started putting my own videos there...most of them turned out to be music videos (olay, me doing the music on most of them).

Nothing spectacular...nothing viral. For the next ten years, I was content with having 40-50 subscribers to my YouTube channel.

All this time, I'd wanted to digitize my VHS tapes...tons and tons of VHS tapes. And do it without tying up my TV set.

So...this past March, I sent in for a VHS-to-DVD converter in order to do the work at my computer. Then I started going through my VHS videocassettes to see which old TV shows I'd taped would be suitable to put on YouTube.

Well, late last month, after putting up six telecasts from the 1990s (one a rerun of a 1970s show), I received an email from YouTube saying I'd reached a hundred subscribers.

No, it's not a thousand...but I'm still very happy with a hundred.

In October 2019 (nine months after I joined Stage 32), I joined CJ Walley's outstanding screenwriting/TV writing platform, Script Revolution. (The philosophy was: "It really shouldn't hurt to get as many eyeballs on these scripts I've written as possible.")

At the time I joined up, I'd written four feature-length screenplays. I'm now up to 27 full-length scripts and a TV pilot.

I'm proud to follow 298 other Script Revolution writers...and I'm humbled to say that earlier this week, I gained my 200th follower.

Thank you so very much, YouTube subscribers and Script Revolution followers.

And I'm going to continue to try my best to come through for you.

It's all over...it's all over

On Wednesday, 10-5-2022, during the 12:00 Noon hour, I made a phone call to the human resources department at the company I joined on Monday, 1-26-2004. And I told the department: "I've decided to retire, effective today."

Eighteen years, eight months, one week, and two days at the same plastics factory here in Omaha. Bottom line: My body and my mind just couldn't take the rigors anymore.

I'll be 67 on 11-11-2022.

Got tired of the traffic hassles...parking hassles...hassles due to lower product standards...increasing pressures at the factory.

Since calling it quits at the plastics plant, I've been devoting more time to my screenwriting/TV writing efforts. (I can now read whole screenplays in one fell swoop...one sitting. Previously, working in that factory forced me to read ten pages at a time...and confined my own writing to weekends.)

Got some hobbies I want to get back to...such as playing computer sports games more often than in recent years (in addition to stepping up efforts to digitize my vinyl albums).

Plus: As long as things work out, I can get "Boston's Blog" back to once-a-month status.

To top it all off: I feel a lot better since making my retirement official.

Now it's your turn: If you've recently called it quits, how do YOU feel?