Wednesday, March 20, 2019

UFO conference in Rhode Island in April!

I will be speaking about my experiences and research at a conference in April.

X-Filers United!
2019 Rhode Island Convention
Friday thru Sunday — April 26, 27 and 28, 2019
at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Warwick, RI

link to the event HERE

Other speakers include:
  • Suzanne Chancellor
  • Joshua Cutchin
  • Timothy Renner
  • Thom Reed
  • Paul Eno
  • Susan Brunell
  • Aaron Cadieux
  • Gary McKinstry
  • Aleksandar Petakov
  • Shane Sirois
  • Mike Stevens
  • Andrew Lake
  • Colin Schneider
  • Greg & Dana Newkirk
  • Jaimy Mauricio
  • and Dean Haglund from the X-Files!
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Tuesday, March 5, 2019

“You're that guy!"

maybe that was the guy on the phone?

Last night I called the Apple Support help line. I'd spent a frustrating bunch of hours trying to solve some formatting issues using Pages, a word processing application on my computer. The first guy heard me out, and he quickly realized that my questions were so specific he would need to hand off me off to someone in the technical department.

I was on hold for a few minutes. The next guy came on the line, and said he had my case up on his screen. I was explaining my issues when he interrupts, “Wait, your name is familiar.”

I asked, “Uhhhm, do you rock climb?” I asked that because I did cartoons in Climbing magazine for over a decade.

He said no, and then I cautiously asked, “Do you read you UFO books?”

He blurted out, “You're that guy! I used to listen to your podcast!”

He seemed genuinely happy, and I was too! I told him the day before had been the 10th anniversary of my blog. We chatted for a little bit and then we got down to dealing with my formatting questions. We shard the screen so he got a quick peak at the upcoming book. With a little trial and error, we managed to solve my issues said goodbye.

This kind of thing doesn’t happen very often. It was a nice way to quell the frustrations from all the technical stuff that afternoon.
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Sunday, March 3, 2019

today is the TEN YEAR anniversary of this blog

It was March 3rd, 2009 when I uploaded my first two posts. Both are linked HERE.

I am in the throes of trying to complete my latest book project, a collection of blog posts spanning 2009 thru 2019. It should have been available today, but that hasn't happened. I foresee it being done in a few weeks!

Huge thank you to anyone who has followed the site over the last decade! Your support and interest has been so valuable–I appreciate it more than you can know.

Peace,
Mike C!

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