Picayune is now 15

While writing some e-mail to my friend Deb (Baedke) and scanning photos (part of my archiving project to cut down on clutter), I realized that Picayunewas first put together and mailed 15 years ago. My friends Deb & Neal Baedke were the first recipients too. 
 
Back in 1991 it was originally a newsletter done with QuarkXpress or PageMaker on the Mac SEs belonging to Marquette’s Business Administration lab. I had already graduated so I was quietly using them with José. I don’t remember how we got them printed out. I think our friend Winston let us slide on that. Originally, I tried to make it look more like a newspaper. I don’t know if I succeeded. Then I moved over to a magazine style in 1993 when I gained access to DG’s resources. Finally made the move to a Web page in 1997 and finally the ‘blog format last summer. 
 
But the credit for this idea originally belongs to my friend Lee “Doc” Rhea who sent me his Doc Times at the end of 1990. He had access to better equipment then, yet the concept was what intrigued me. It also served the purpose of keeping my basic QuarkXpress and PageMaker skills sharp for the typesetting jobs I landed later on in 1991. When I started the joys of unemployment in 1993, I cranked out more of them to pass the time while relearning QuarkXpress (GDW used the cheaper, weaker PageMaker). 
 
So thanks to you all who have been receiving my missives over the last 15 years. It has been a long, evolving process of how to communicate with you all after I let my letter writing habits go down the toilet within my first semester of college.