It’s an amazing feeling to have 239 my 280+ journals preserved to PDFs. The balance will be done in the next few days. I hope to finish them all by Sunday night but I have a garage sale again on Saturday, so I won’t be available to preserve any then.) It has been a massive undertaking, but one that will be well worth it.
The Kelley/Star Trek Items
I’ve sent two mugs to a fan/friend back east and some photos to a friend in Elmira, New York.
These pro Kelley/Trek/VHSs and DVDs remain. They will go for from $5 and $10 each (plus shipping and handling) if fans who live far away want to own them. If you want anything De/TOS-related, you’d better let me know, quick!
The De and Carolyn binders are truly unique, with many one-of-a-kind items in them: notes, letters, and cards to me from De and Carolyn; signed totes and sweatshirts from De; photos of his entire career, from Fear in the Night through Star Trek and Night of the Lepus… reviews of movies he was in that named him in them and so much more than I can even list here.
The items inside will go for $10 per page/unsigned photo OR $350 per three-ring binder, if someone wants a whole binder instead of just a few items. I have a Special Events binder (De’s star ceremony and the Mann’s Chinese Theater ceremony where the whole cast put their handprints in cement), two Trek career binders, and a humungous one that covers all of his other career highlights. Most of the De and Carolyn binders contain personal notes, cards, letters, signed comic books, signed totes, signed sweatshirts, etc. It’s best if you’re a local collector and can come look through them, because there is no way I can photograph everything that’s in them.
Terry Rioux, De’s biographer,
told me I had the most complete Kelley collection
of any she was able to find, including from the Kelley’s long-time best friends,
all of whom created albums that chronicled his rise to fame across the decades.
I’m immensely proud of what I have and I know that De and Carolyn would be glad to see I am capitalizing on them to get myself to Costa Rica in September with enough money to sustain me for a month or two until I get my feet under me and the banking system working for me from afar. They’re still helping me out!
Habla Espanol? Si, Mas or Menos!
(Sorry, my keyboard doesn’t allow upside down questionmarks before questions in Spanish, or the scrolly thing above the i in si and the n in espanol!)
Other than that, I’ve been renewing my knowledge of Spanish on evenings when I have three brain cells left to rub together. As soon as the journal project is finished, I can dedicate more time to Spanish during the day while my mind is well-reted and refreshed.
But I feel muy bueno about my progress so far, anyway! I really want to be more than half-assed fluent when I arrive in CR because I will need to get out and about among the ticos fast, make contacts, meet health care providers, and set up INR, immigration, and banking appointments, etc.
