First True Post on my Blog

What you will see posted here in the future will be musings on my attraction to things of the past.  I have dipped my toe into the realm of blogging almost by accident.  In the interest of devouring information about subjects I love, I have lurked around several blogs. One evening I set about understanding the technical workings of blogs, and the best way to learn a subject is in doing it.  So I set up a blog only with the intention of understanding the blogging technology.  Before I know it I had a creation that was online and accessible.  An empty creation.  So I figured I better fill it up.

You will not see many typecast (See definition below) posts from me.  My interests in items from bygone eras are in both their functionality and beauty.  I do type on typewriters.  I do capture images with film cameras.  I do not pretend to live in those eras and whenever possible only use those items.

I have long been interested in and collected things from the past.  Cameras, coins, firearms, books, historical documents, and more recently typewriters.  I think this interest was brought about thorough an interest in history.  Looking at and touching beautiful and useful items actually used by someone in the past allows me to have a connection with that time period.

I tend to also provide definitions at the bottom of my posts whenever I use terms that might not be understood by the casual reader.  I have always found it frustrating that when one jumps into a new interest, lingo from that interest is thrown around as if everyone should already know the meanings in that current context.

More to come………………….

Definitions—

Typecast: Creating an actual typewriter produced document, which is then scanned and inserted as a post, in the place of typing the words directly using the computer keyboard.

Typosphere: Online blogs whose subject matter is typewriters.

Photosphere: I just made that up in this context.  Dictionary meaning is: the luminous envelope of a star from which its light and heat radiate