(10-09-2020, 03:05 AM)Drunk Monk Wrote: Cf - you never finished this (just like your Puerto tale - still wondering if you survived that). Did the castle keep survive 2017? What about 2020?
Thanks for another fine rabbit hole. I couldn't recall my address while living up there on Tomki Road, which kept me from pinning things down before. But just now it occurred to me that I'd written stories while up there, and those would have my address (part of proper formatting). Specifically, I wrote
Tomki Chronicles, a loose conglomeration of all my experiences up there.
So I looked for that manuscript on my computer just now and to my horror it's nowhere to be found. But I did track down a late 2017 version on an external backup drive and rescued that folder, though I don't know how up-to-date those 50-odd files are. Essentially, in late 2017 I did a Windows update that hung at 100% finished, and finally I had to hard reboot. That corrupted my hard drive, and took me a couple months to recover -- with loss of files.
Now, checking for my address on
Tomki Chronicles, I see that I used a post office box in Redwood Valley. Dammit. See, I was living in a small weird structure off the main house, and it didn't have a separate address. Jacques Vallee told me to just use the main house's address -- and the mailbox at the bottom of the lane -- but not to give out the address. Because he wanted to guard his privacy up there. Understandable, because as one of the world's leading ufologists, he was constantly hounded by nutjobs.
Anyway, I decided it would be best to get a P.O. box. So that's what's on all the manuscripts I wrote up there.
The street address has to be around here somewhere. But damned if I can track it down yet.
Thanks for the nudge, DM. I recovered Tomki Chronicles as a result, or some form of it. Not that I'm likely to do anything with it. (BTW, Jacques suggested that title.)
As for the Puerto Maldonaldo resumption, real soon now.
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I'm nobody's pony.