you may be asking.

Well, it’s my newest blog – where I can blab for hours about rock hounding, rock polishing, rock drilling, rock cutting, rock, rock, and more rock.  Oh, and this is where I’ll be going on and on about a new venture I’m calling Keyboards for all Ages.

“The hell is that, anyhow?”

Well, if you were followin’ my experiments on my other blog: mymidnightmuse.wordpress.com you saw the beginnings of a really crazy idea I’ve hatched, and nurtured thanks to a couple of friends of mine (Pete Tzinski  and Lori Basiewicz ) who have been more than patient in tolerating a wild notion I call the Stone Age Keyboard. I got this idea while pineing away over a design called the Steampunk Keyboard, then this and that happened, yada yada yada, ipso facto I came up with my own Caveman take. There was a false start, I admit, when I tried using a microsoft natural ergonomic keyboard – which come to find out most normal human beings can’t tolerate – so I’ve gone back to the cave painting and I’m trying it out with those standard, plain Jane keyboards. I have a black one right now that’s serving as a prototype, and dang if it ain’t lookin’ good.

What I’m doing, for the new folk here, is taking a hobby of mind – the lapidary arts – and merging them with the modern computer keyboard. As a writer, I’m constantly typing on these things, much to my dismay, but recently a return to the old fashioned notion of writing novels using pen and paper appealed to me so much, this seemed like a natural extension. A way to blend the old with the new, keeping the whimsy and adding some art.

And I needed a blog to talk about rock polishing, collecting, hounding, and such and whatnot. When I got into this hobby, it immediately struck me how generous and big-hearted rockhounding folk are. They’ll bend over backwards to help a newbie learn the grit, and I haven’t met one yet who wasn’t perfectly willing to teach you every trick they know, and help you along the way. Even though I’ve only been in this hobby for 3 years now, I felt it was time to give back, such as I’m able, and try to show other newbies just how easy, fun, and amazingly addictive this hobby is.

Oh, and the keyboards – well what I mean by all Ages is pretty simple. I’ll be making several models, for several ages. We’ll have the Ice Age, the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Dark Ages, the Industrial Age, and I might even get crazy and do a New Age.

So stay tuned, I’m just getting my stones together, as it were. There will be much gabbering of rocks, much gabbering and crazy-talk about wild notions such as returning to the simple pleasures in life, and loads of photos as I perfect my Stone Age keyboard.