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Chris Lowry

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Chris Lowry is a prolific multi-genre author, publisher, and digital entrepreneur with decades of output and experimentation across fiction, audiobooks, video.

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“This isn’t working,” she said. It was the coffee maker Or the door Or the ice dam in front of the garage where her boyfriend broke my shovel piling up the ice and snow to make a path to his truck He moved it while it was soft And in the act built a two foot high ice wall that froze solid that ran the width of the garage Since we were in a week of sub-artic temps, eleven days below freezing It turned into a chunk And when he left to go back to his house after a week at hers He left the mess And she sent me a text Simple ones like “The coffee maker isn’t working” Or “Can you look at that ice by the garage.” Because she knows who I am The guy who solves problems There was a song that came out a decade ago On the country side of things About finding out who your friends are Which made me wonder Who is the guy you call at 3 AM when you’re stuck on the side of the road Or to bail you out of jail There’s a joke that the best friend is in jail with you And I don’t have one of those Not anymore Unless you count a 13 year old who texts me to come pick up him to take to a batting cage Or to pick him up after school with a friend and drop them off somewhere To which I say yes, because we get rare moments of him telling me “things” How they’re going How he’s feeling about the new boyfriend or how mom is acting or school Or his own lady friends Which lets me know who I am at heart A sucker No, I’m not the guy who gets into trouble with you I’m the guy who fixes the trouble Even if that trouble is just transportation to put in some reps Or to stop by the store, get some vinegar, and clear the lines on the Kueurig so that morning joe gets made Or the guy who knows how to chip at the edge of the ice block to break it up and clear off the driveway Helped a lot by high temps, for sure, but I’m the guy who knows about that Or re-wiring the stove hood and replacing the lights Or maybe she knows the first thing I do when I step in the foyer is look at the triple stack dirty clothes hamper And if one basket is full, I put on a load to wash, and then dry And if there’s more than one load, I end up folding them and putting on the bed And she knows I’ll swift the floor and maybe mop it Because the dogs are in and out of the back door a lot, and their tiny little fluff balls of paws pick up dirt Even if they don’t mean too A dozen little things get done every time I show up to solve a problem Because she knows I’m the guy who does it But… I rarely get thanked The guy you call to fix things But not the guy you invite for a happy hour beer Not anymore, though that was a pastime we did for a decade Where we snickered and talked She said her boyfriend didn’t feel comfortable with her hanging out with me Even if it’s okay if I come clean up the mess he makes on half ass jobs Which is a huge pet peeve of mine Any half ass job done by anyone, not just him Because if you’re going to half ass it, you’re just setting up a bigger problem further down the road Like me saying stay on top of washing the clothes and sweeping and wiping and dusting the ceiling fans or corners for cobwebs If you do just a little bit every day, it never becomes a problem for someone else to solve Except I know these things are true We live in a world of half ass’er’s Millions of them making small problems bigger for the rest of us Like making an ice wall that blocks the garage A twenty minute job to clear right after the snow fell And a four hour mess to clean up weeks later So the lesson I guess is do it now Whatever it is you’re putting off Go Get After It right now. And if it’s a problem you can’t solve and you don’t have someone like me Then let me know I might have some time
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I set aside some time to do some real good thinking Deep thinking And it was sparked by Youtube I have Youtube on TV and sometimes I play a podcast Diary of a CEO or Gary Vee or someone else Sometimes I play an audiobook Which is what you should be doing to the WESTERNS or THRILLERS Just open ‘em up on your TV and let roll Sometimes I do that, just to have the voice in the background while I do other things Subconsciously picking up biz tips or phrases that might catch my ear And while I’m working, sometimes, I’ll put on a playlist Greatest hits sort of things Not the music videos, but music played over videos And I fall often into the 70’s Which makes me think of a different time Browns and oranges and plastic and Pine Bluff I look at what I’m doing at the moment (typing on a computer) Connected to the world (internet) Listening to 50 year old music through a wireless connection to the world wide web And I wonder In my deep thinking state About a man in 1926 remembering 1870… It feels like two different worlds because it mostly is A world coming out of a Civil War and rebuilding Going through a first world war and a Spanish War and a pandemic that killed millions A world that probably seemed like it was on the verge of collapse at the time With riots in the street because of Zoot suits And banana republics toppling in the Latin countries at the behest of big business The 20’s were roaring if you were rich But if you weren’t, then times were tight And the US government was gearing up for a great depression with teapot scandals and corrupt congressman getting rich through private donors and parceling out government contracts for donations There were race riots in the South, which was still rebuilding at times and in places People killed by cops for crimes they didn’t commit I could keep going in my deep thinking phase Lining up a long list of reasons that the era from 1870-1926 seemed like it was the end of America and the end of the world Because for a lot of people living in that time, it was Especially when the royal cousins went to war with each other because Grandma Victoria was a huge failure But what are a few million dead here and there in the course of history It might have been the worst of times until they were gone Leaving only the survivors to say just how bad it was And looking at the headlines now it seems like we’re on the verge of the end again Because it seems like it’s more of all the same Maybe that’s why folks think we live in a simulation It’s the same script over and over again, just different players The Japanese beat Russia in a war Then Russia had a revolution And Mexico had a revolution And Russia had another revolution The US deported thousands of people who were “communists” in the Red Scare Congress was rife with graft and corruption The Panama Revolution supported by the US so we could build the Panama Canal Day after day, headline after headline, where just the names of the countries change Iran Ukraine China A man looking back at 1870 would have a lot to think about and over Wondering if history just repeats itself Wondering if we really never learn anything at all Wondering if that’s why all the aliens lock the doors on their UFO’s when they zoom past earth That’s something for me to think about
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What happens when the robots take over? She asked it like it was a question. Maybe it was fear. Maybe it was inevitable. I’ve been thinking about this the same way we should have thought about cars replacing horses a century ago. In a single decade, the poop scrapers, blacksmiths, carriage makers, and horse trainers were largely gone — at least in the big cities. That disruption birthed car culture, muscle cars, road trips, and an entirely new American dream. We’ve lived through something similar already. Do you still have a landline? We survived the smartphone “revolution” that was supposed to destroy our children and our society. Rock & roll was going to destroy us. The interstate highway system was going to destroy us. Almost everything “destroys the world” until it simply becomes the world. Now the conversation is about AI and jobs. Because for most of our lives, the first question we ask strangers is: “So… what do you do?” Our entire identity has been tied to our job title. Google. Amazon. Plumber. Builder. Development Director. Starting around 2027, a lot of that identity is going to get shaken hard. Lawyers, writers, analysts, coders, administrators — many of these roles will change dramatically or shrink. The streets won’t be paved with horse manure this time. They’ll be littered with cardboard signs from displaced knowledge workers. But here’s what the fear-mongers miss: we’ve been here before. Before the Industrial Revolution, most people spent their days milking, chopping wood, hunting, gardening, and trying not to starve. After it, they stood at machines for 12 hours to barely afford bread and coal heat. We traded one form of survival drudgery for another. Now the robots are about to become the new peasants and servants. They’ll till, assemble, drive, clean, and handle the repetitive work. And for the first time in history, a huge portion of humanity gets to ask a different question: Who do I want to be when I don’t have to define myself by what I do for money? Maybe we study literature, art, philosophy, and the stars again. Maybe we play more music, coach little league, restore old cars, or finally chase the dreams we shelved when “the real world” called. Some will still want to be cops, firefighters, athletes, or creators. Others will invent entirely new paths we can’t even imagine yet. The brain hates change. It screams danger. There will be rallies, laws, and politicians profiting from the fear. But you and I don’t have to play that game. We can choose curiosity instead. The only question that actually matters is this: Who will you be when the dust settles? And more importantly… how will you be?
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