"Of Mice And Macs" -- Remembering The Early Days of Home Computing

Many moons ago, before many of you were born, we old folks lived a simple life where mice weren't welcome in homes and MacIntoshes were apples that were eaten. That was also when I started working freelance as an advertising copywriter.  Something I've done now and again for 30 years-ish.  One of my BFFs, Carole, who is fabulous advertising art director and has always believed in me, even when I wasn't so sure, helped me get one of my first paying gigs writing ads for this barely known company called Apple Computers.  (By the way, this was several years before the internet became popular!)

I wasn't (and am not still) all that tech-saavy, but apparently nobody else was either LOL!  Along came this assignment to write an eight-page "advetorial" insert for the L.A. Times Magazine.  I was thinking I bit off more "apple" than I could chew, but it worked out and I remember how excited I was to get the check! It went on to win an "Addy" for the ad firm.  

(Blogger is free, so it's got some limitations to uploading sizes and kinds of files.  So I am only including the parts left that I wrote with the exception of the MIDI section that was on one of the pages:)

So, sit back and enjoy "the possible benefits" of home computers...


BTW, I am typing this on an iMac that by most folks' standards is a dinosaur at 8 years old with only one software upgrade.  Most computers this age are in the dump by now.  However, judging from the issues I had loading these pages, it would be less time-consuming to upgrade:)

I have a special post planned for you on Easter Sunday, so stay tuned!

Until next time!

Gale

Just Checking In...

Hello!

The Ides of March (complete with full moon) must be the reason this month has been crazy at home and at work!  Thank goodness my "March Madness" will soon be over for the most part.  On to April Fool's...LOL!

Speaking of "March Madness" (the real one), Taylor and I just finished watching the Purdue- Univ. of Cincy game and he totally called it right after halftime!  We missed the first half, but it happened to be on the channel the TV was left on, so we watched it over dinner.  Cincy was behind.  He said not to worry because they play just like Tressel's Buckeyes and always wait until the end.  Well, Cincy tied it at the final buzzer, went into OT, then got behind, then won at that final buzzer.  Whew!  It's exhausting, but Taylor had been to several games and knew exactly how they operate.  He was texting his band friends there during the game.

Audra got her cap and gown today and is very excited to be graduating on Mother's Day!  She wanted me to decorate her cap (and I said let's do this together...)  Apparently, it's a thing with college kids now.

I rhetorically asked the kids if they thought they were too old for Easter baskets and I got a resounding NO!  Really?  They are 19 and 22 years old!  But they quickly presented me with their baskets and of course the Easter Bunny will not disappoint!

Speaking of which, if you haven't read "Darby Creek Down" it's one of my earlier posts that you might find amusing, gruesome and a bit sad.  We have lots of bunnies living here at the 'Creek as their tracks (and "Cocoa Puff poo") remained after they came and ate the bird food I put out...

The Ladies' Third Birthday party "Egg Hunt"
L-R: Megg, Penelope, Martha Stewart, Petunia, Isabella, Henrietta, Sylvia and in front, Bonnie.  Absent:  Gloria, who was in the house laying her own chocolate brown egg.

The "ladies" will be four years old on Easter, so we will have to celebrate and take some pictures.  I can't believe they are all still here, though Megg had a bad few days last week.  They are thrilled to be out and about with the better weather (aren't we all?)

Well, enjoy your Spring Break if you get one and I will be back soon!

Gale