Notes from the First Week

The first item up for auction will end in a couple hours. At this moment, it hasn't sold, but it has been looked at and some other items have bids and watchers. That is as exciting as it was to see that this blog had been viewed from four or five continents (if China is a separate continent from Europe, then it's five). And someone from here had actually gone to the eBay store.

In going through the old magazines, I've been particularly impressed by the World War II era ads. Many if not most manufacturing companies were not making their rods, reels, lures, binolculars, rifles, scopes or motors, but rather were making things for the war effort. The scope is just amazing. And just as the humans who fought the war are leaving us in large numbers (my first post-retirement obligation was the funeral of an uncle who went into Normandy on D-Day plus 2 or 3), the magazines with those ads are probably disappearing as well. so the ads are real treasures as a piece of history. They sure were pre-PC!

I think I like this new career. It uses a lot of what I did in print graphics (especially the spellchecking) and adds to it with all the online facets, which are overwhelming in total, but still just a zero or a one if you take it easy. This old dog is learning some new tricks.

Happy day to all.