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Doing Some Housekeeping

 I changed a couple of things here tonight.

First was my profile pic. The one I had was taken close to 13 years ago. My hair was short because I was unemployed and I didn't thinkprospective employers wanted to hire an aging hippy. At that time, in 2010, I was unemployed for about 9-1/2 months. So I guess people didn't want to hire an aging anything. I was 54 at the time. The current profile pic is the same one from my Facebook page. I amy change the photo later.

My handle here has changed as well. I figured that 74WIXYgrad has seen better days. Might as well use my own name, Cliff. It has been a long time since I interacted with the radio folks and local radio has changed. But the name of the blog will remain the same.

I had wanted to do a podcast for many years. The first name I kicked around was the WIXY's Gone Bananas Podcast. I guess, at that time, I didn't persue it quite enough. But I have 2 podcasts now. Inside Cliff's Mind, which I record when I have a longing to, and

Around Rittman, which comes out at the minimum of once a week. In both Locations, I am known as Cliff. 

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