Mostly they were brought to us on time, even early, but not always. At some point, the company added an extra sheet of paper on the top and bottom of the stacks to prevent the tossing damage. When it rained, they’d have to put them in bags to keep them safe. Usually it was fine, but sometimes the driver would toss them out carelessly and damage some of the outer print. The guys would drop them off atop a sewer drain in front of our house. The bundles of papers would arrive each day from a delivery truck. The world of news, then, came to rest on my shoulders - quite literally and it was a heavy burden indeed. edition was smaller, inferior or lacking in some way. I guess that tells you that people preferred to read after work, or maybe the A.M. edition was nearly as popular, though, because it ceased printing halfway through my paperboy experience. Technically, the Evening and Sunday papers were separate products by the same city newspaper company but, somehow, we ended up taking on the Sunday morning task when there was already another distributor for a third paper called the Morning Sun. We also delivered big bundles of the Sunday Sun edition, too. I was the last of three brothers to engage in this occupation, and from the age of 10 to 16, I helped in the receiving and delivery of bundles of the Evening Sun paper to local homes. When I was a kid, our family spent about 8 or 9 years being “the paperboys” for our neighborhood. ![]() And if what we write benefits someone in some significant way, then Halelujah! Stack of newspapers awaiting an appreciative home destination - Photo via Pixabay The Five Chinese Three Paperboy Brothers I’ve been working in print media media for most of my life, and that’s what we do everyday: publish our observations. There’s a lot of ideas and observations in this head, and I just want to get them out and put it in my own space. If you like it, yay for us but “my point” is to finally have a place to scribble down my thoughts and make sense of my educational materials. I don’t know who might be interested in this material, other than me. But I never spent much time sharing my own interests, and I do have a decent variety of things that catch my attention. Mostly I have been helping other people and organizations to share their words and opinions and to pursue their interests. I have been a web developer for a long time. ![]() Let’s see how this this newness goes, shall we? Working with a new web host using a new version of WordPress that functions differently (Gutenberg), a new “block”-centered theme and trying to figure out how to edit text on a new iPad with the new iPad OS (v.13). I know what I’d like to do with this site eventually, but for now: a warmup. Let’s just call this website a personal notebook. Scene from Paperboy the video game A Career of The Printed Word: Part 1įirst post.
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