It's officially October! You know what that means: Halloween is around the corner and everyone starts thinking about ghosts. Things for me become a nightmare. Not in the terrifying dream sort of way. More like everything happening all at once.Last night was a presentation at the Sandy Valley Branch of the Stark County Public Library here in northeastern Ohio. For such a small, rural area, it was quite a turnout (over 30 people). I had an opportunity to see a few old faces I truly have missed and meet quite an interesting group of people. Technology wasn't on my side, and because of a bit of miscommunication (or lack thereof on my part) I was unable to show any projected images. My talk ended up being more of a lax meeting, going entirely from memory. What was supposed to be a one-hour lecture ended up lasting until the library closed.
But this was just one event marking the beginning of an insane time for me. Aside from the few investigations lately, there is so much slated for the coming weeks, I'm not sure how to wrap my mind around it all. Night hikes in the valley, a newspaper interview/event, a possible involvement with a production company filming about a haunted place in Ohio, taking part in another lecture with Western Reserve Paranormal, visiting family, and continuing work on my current book project. All this crammed into four weeks.
It's crazy! Crazy, I say!
After a decade, I should be accustomed to the slam every autumn, yet it still catches me off guard. Everything is always planned at the same time! I'll manage to muddle through, no doubt. But I'll be looking forward to November when the excitement wears down a little...
In other news, my wireless connection to the internet officially stopped working on my laptop, so I'm having to get creative for the time being with connection to the internet. Great timing, really. I think my best option is to get a DSL cable that's long enough to stretch and give up on trying to connect wirelessly. A new computer is not an option right now.
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Try doing this kind of stuff AND holding down a 40 hour a week job. That would be enough to put anyone in the looney bin!
October is crazy. We've been having a deluge of incoming cases since the middle of September with SPI. Seems like October makes everyone think they have to have their place checked out right now! On top of that we've had interview requests (luckily that doesn't impact me), special event appearances, library lectures, etc.
In the midst of all that we're squeezing in investigations every weekend during the month by all three teams in the state! Whew!
Ah, yes. October media...
Anyway, I had a similar situation a few years back when my really kick-butt video presentation was nowhere to be found on my flash drive. I freaked and had to do it all from memory and I felt like the whole audience was staring at me like I was an idiot and I felt like I was less articulate than Sarah Palin... Cripes what a nightmare. Afterward, everyone kept saying how great my talk was. WTF? Were they even in the same room I was? Were they just being polite? It was a disaster but for some reason no one seemed to notice. Lesson learned: back up the back ups. :-D
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