Planning for Future Blog Posts...

I am planning for several future posts on my blog here at Blogger.

Yesterday, I spent some time using the Snipping Tool on Windows to capture maps of hiking routes from the All Trails website.

Since I have dozens of photographs that I took while hiking on various hiking trails here in Maricopa County over the past couple of months.

My goal is to create posts about hiking that consist of the following:

• Map of hiking route or area
• Narrative of what occurred
• Photos taken along the way

The idea is to expand upon what I would normally do when I make a post to Facebook about hiking or riding my bike.

The difference would be that I can go into greater detail than I would in a Facebook post.

Looking over my blog, I haven't forgotten about some previous posts that need to be re-written and/or started from scratch all over again.

Yes, I need to re-write my post about the song "Seoul Music" by the Yellow Magic Orchestra.

Yes, I need to FINALLY write my LONG-AWAITED posts about movies that I saw at the Cine Core movie theatre in Seoul, South Korea.

Of course, this will take time and effort to accomplish.

Plus, I cannot butcher myself about my posts not achieving some high standard achieved by other bloggers.

It's an easy pit to fall into.

Stay tuned.

A Quick Update for My Blog...

Boy, it has been a couple of weeks since I last wrote a post for my blog.

I've been rather busy with work and a whole bunch of other stuff.

Hiking Updates

Back on Saturday, November 5, 2022, I went on an impromptu hike along the Waterfront Promenade at the Inner Harbor here in Baltimore, MD. As a result of that hike, there is a small list of items that I need to accomplish:

• I NEED to upload the photos from hikes from my cell phone onto my computer.
• I NEED to write a trail review over at the Alltrails.com website for the recent hikes I went on at Leakin Park-Gywnns Falls and the second hike I undertook at the Waterfront Promenade.
• I NEED to either re-write and/or expand my trail reviews for the recent hikes at Leakin Park-Gwynns Falls and at the Waterfront Promenade hikes to my blog here at Blogger.
• I NEED to add some additional photos from all of my completed hikes to my blog.
• Another idea that occurred to me was to look for a way display all of my photos either on my blog here at Blogger or use a website such as Flickr.
• I just accomplished making screenshots of the trail routes for my second and third hikes at Leakin Park-Gwynns Falls as well as my second hike at the Waterfront Promenade, so I need to add those to their respective pages.

Other Posts for My Blog

I also need to get cracking on all of the additonal subjects that I would like to publish to my blog.

• For example, I need to work on my post about the movies that I saw at the Cine Core Theater in Seoul, South Korea.
• That post will require A LOT more planning and work to get the post just how I want it.
• Rewrite the post using the mind map that I created as a guide.
• Get any additional photos for the movies that I saw at the Cine Core Movie Theater.
• Get the URLs from You Tube for the videos that I want to include in the post, such trailers and music videos.
• Another topic for my blog will be about Wendell Odom's series of blogposts about career planning for CCNA.
• I have watched several other South Korean movies since returning to watching them after an absence of several years. I've seen some really good South Korean films as well as a couple of duds. I have quite a few ideas on how to approach the subject of movie reviews. Simply, I want to write more than just movie reviews.
• I'm still playing Go. Using a 13x13 grid board and a two stone handicap, I managed to get as high as a 21kyu rank on The Many Faces of Go computer game on my computer.

I have high expectations for my blog. Given my knowledge about HTML, my expectations for my blog might be too high.

However, I am going to keep trying.

Eventually, I will get my blog to where I want it to be.

Mind Map About the Cine Core Movie Theater...

Over the past couple of months, I have been planning in my mind a rather long post about the Cine Core Movie Theater in Seoul (서울), South Korea.

While I was in the Army, I lived and worked in Seoul for the better part of 4 and a half years. Before I left Fort Hood in Texas, I heard all of the horror stories ob being stationed at Camp Casey in Tongducheon, not too far from the DMZ. I hit the jack pot. Instead of being assigned to the 2nd Infantry Division and being stationed at either Camp Casey or Camp Red Cloud, I was assigned to the 8th MP Brigade at Yongsan Garrison in the center of Seoul. 8th MP Brigade then sent me down to HHD 94th MP Battalion. In other words, I was assigned to the MP battalion stationed at Yongsan Garrison.

After staying on post for a couple of weeks, I started to leave post on the weekends and start exploring Seoul. Without any help, I figured out how to get on the subway and pretty much go whereever I wanted to go. One of the places that I found in my adventures around Seoul was the Cine Core Movie Theater located near the Jongno-3(sam)-Ga subway station. I remember seeing at least three movies at the Cine Core Movie Theater.

To cut a long story short, I am putting in A LOT of effort into making a really good post for my blog here at Blogger. A big part of my interest in returning to blogging is that I got really tired writing REALLY LONG posts on my Facebook News Feed that very few people read. With my blog, I can write as much as I want and then post a link on my Facebook News Feed.

For my post about the Cine Core Movie Theater, I used Google Maps for creating a map over lay. I used Google Slides to create a Power Point slide about the location of Cine Core Movie Theater. I even found movie posters on the internet for the movies I saw. I also used Google Docs to write my post.

Recently, I wrote a rough draft of my post on Google Docs, but I wasn't very happy with the result. At some point in the very near future, I will re-write my post. Before I will rewrite my post, I created a mind map of what I wanted to write. Since one of my personal goals is to use mindmapping more often, I created an initial mind map using a blank piece of paper and a pen. I then used a program called Wondershare MindMaster to actually create the mind map. Surprisingly, I'm actually rather pleased with my mind map. Here are the results.

Here is the top half of my mind map.

Here is the bottom half of my mind map.

My next step now is to rewrite the actual post itself. I have so much on my plate right now, but I hope to have my post about the Cine Core Movie Theater completed by the end of the week.