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Just got me a new iRake and totally kicks butt!

This Thanksgiving I decided to take a little video throughout the day to give the rest of my family and friends who would not be attending a feel for our holiday.

Instead of shooting straight video, editing it and uploading to the internet. I used a new service which allows you to post your videos directly to the internet in real time. Over the past three weeks I have had the pleasure of using this new micro video service called Seesmic to document my life. I thought this would be the perfect medium to capture this Holiday and share it. Below are the the videos in order.

Happy Thanksgiving and Happy Holiday!

Today is my fathers 23 birthday. He is a man of great worth and wisdom and I would not be the man I am today without him.  He continues to give me the support and the love I need to get through this crazy thing we called life.  As he would say, “giving me tools for my toolbox”  We have been through the thick and thin and yet he still has all of his hair.  So Pop,  Happy Birthday and drinks are on me, this time. May the year a  head be as good and maybe even better than the year that has past.

So I am suppose to be working at this moment but I wanted to give you the heads up on a new service coming out of Alpha soon. It is called Seesmic and some are saying it is going to change the micro blogging space forever. Where twitter is just a quick 140 character txt blog. Seesmic uses the same basic format but with video. I started using it yesterday and it is the coolest thing ever! I am hooked. Right now I am stopping myself from taking a Seesmic video of me typing. Check out my first post from yesterday.

Chuck our friend Eve and I just spent the last 8 hours filming two Clip Shows and a Cinema Psychic. It was the perfect end to a roller coaster week. Happy we are done with it and I am looking forward to the week ahead.

This week we go to Phoenix to attend the first annual Podcamp AZ which is being held in Tempe on Saturday the 3rd. Chuck and I are really excited and I cant wait to get the next couple of days done so we can meet up with old friends in the PHX and enjoy some great food.

What does the week, or the three days before jetting off to Phoenix hold. Work and a quite a lot of it. Chuck and I set a schedule last week that included producing both shows and extra content for the next two weeks. This allowed us to take the week off while in Phoenix, which is great! This leads to a big crunch right before we leave that combined with my “work a day job” brings the stress! Someone said to me last week, “you could skip a week” I laughed. Chuck has yet to miss a week since we started the Psychic and we are quickly approaching a year. It is always hectic and sometimes rushed but I enjoy the race to the finish.

This week is also the celebration of that pagan holiday, Halloween. Over the last couple of years I have paired down my excitement over this time of year. I know I have written a couple times as to why, but I think this year might just be different. I have been thinking that maybe my head is been in the wrong hole which has lead to my removal of feeling and or overall excitement in the holidays that I once loved. This year I would like you to know, I am back. Which is to say, I will be dressed as a masked murder, watching scary movies and handing out candy to the kids this Wednesday night. You should stop by and say “boo!”

This weekend is done. I spent the whole week waiting for it to get here and in a blink of an eye here it is Monday. Why is it when you want the time to slow it speeds up and the reverse for when you just want it to be over. Spent quite a bit of time this weekend soul searching. I want to report, I might be a little more screwed that I had originally thought. I guess time will tell.

One last thing, I spent last night at a Halloween party. I dressed as Geek Guy of Clip Show fame. Chuck and his lady friend were along for the ride with a couple of their friends. For the most part I spent the night solo talking to randoms about any number of things. Quite a few friendly people and it turned out to be a decent party all and all. It is the first party I have been to in, well I cant remember when? Got me thinking about the parties we use to throw and how much fun we all had. Maybe it is time for another party. I guess what i might be saying is, New Years 2007?

If you are going to be in Phoenix this week. Drop me a line. Lets get together and have a drink or two. If you are not, why not? We could have a drink and talk new media. Fun times!

I spent the better part of my day today, talking. I know that might sound crazy, because we all talk all day long. I guess that is true. Though, I was not just talking to talk. (That is a lot of talk?) I had some meaningful conversations that got me to thinking. Jim thinking, equals dangerous.

Over the last year I have been hitting around in my head some ideas for a political type podcast. I am a passionate person. I was quoting my father right there. He was saying some really nice things about me at our lunch. It is always good to hear these kinds of things from the man that raised you. Anyway, it made me think that I need to take this passion I have for politics and harness it into something constructive.

Those of you who know me, know that when it comes to the politico, I can sometimes become a bit of a blow hard. Which is to say, I can go on and on and on until someone gets up and leaves or falls asleep. The later is always funny. Politics has always been something I love to talk about with people. I especially love hearing new ideas from both left, right and far right. So given my love for politics and my knowledge of the podcasting world you would think I could have figured something out? Not the case.

Then it came to me. I think the problem is that I have been over thinking the whole idea. What are two things I have always wanted to do? No not that Chuck, that is your dream and a sick one at that you pervert. Wait i guess there are a lot more than two, I would have to include singing in that list. Ok so there are many things I want to do. Two of them, I have talked about in the past, my love for politics and my love for my own voice (come on you like to hear it too). Are you seeing the logical progression of this? No?

So the whole time I have been thinking about doing some kind of video project. Which is crazy as Chuck and I are already over burdened each week with our current shows. Another video podcast would surely kill us or lead to one of us killing the other. As that thought went through my head, while chomping on a chip, I thought why not just do a weekly audio call in show. I already have the technology in place. It is easy to produce. I can put almost the whole thing together by myself. Leaving Chuck to do whatever it is he does when he is not slaving away on our other shows. The end game, I think I would really enjoy it! Even if my Mother was the only caller and or listener.

I am going to put some more thought to this in the next couple of days. I know there are like a million of these things on the Internet already. I am not looking to stand out and or make some kind of political statement. I just miss good mind numbing political conversation. I have been saying for years this is the constant that seems to be lacking in my life. Maybe this is the easy solution?

What you think? Leave me a comment.

It became aware to me over the weekend that I was going to need to get out town. I am lucky at this moment in time as I have very little pressing responsibility. I can do my work from just about anywhere in the world. However, I am at this point in my existence not the kind of guy who can take you to all the best clubs in the NYC. So my travel budget is somewhat limited. That and I am suppose to travel to both Boston and Phoenix in the next couple of weeks. Which leaves me in somewhat of a money crunch. So, Denver is were I ended up. For a couple of reasons. One being, my younger brother is currently residing here and is lonely for some older brother love. The other, I am sure we will get at later.

I know you are thinking right now, wait, didnt this guy just come back from some time away. You are right, I spent a week in California. Who am I kidding almost two weeks. Now if there is anything that week taught me, and you, if you were paying attention. Time away from your every day helps to keep your head from become mush. Or at best it helps you to maintain a fresh look at the things going on around you. Justifying and rationalizing should be a Jim Kirks past time.

Hey, now I dont want you to think I have come to Denver for nothing more than time away from the super exciting COS lifestyle. Where the big city can be a lure for the younger crowd, men of my age and stature. Age and stature, really full of it in that last sentence. Ok seriously there is a podcast get together tomorrow that I and the 2 other people that have signed up on meetup.com will be attending. Should be interesting at best or at least a way to pass the time. That time between.

I think there is more, but I don’t know what. It has been a long time since I didn’t have a point, not writing about robots and or linking to some obscene youtube clip.

Ok so, where do you go when you want to get away on the cheap for a short time? You know when you need to either clear the old head or add so much haze and cloud you cant see out.

Today ends eight years of routine for me. Way back in 1999, yep before you were born, I took a job with a small real estate firm to help them with a hardware/software conversion.  Today ends that long journey.

Over the course of that first year I worked for them, we completed the conversion and it looked as if I would be moving on. When the job was completed, the head of one of the departments asked if I could stay on and oversee all up coming special projects. This was to include the companies first website along with some internal marketing. I agreed.

Time passed and my contract with the company was renewed, altered, laughed at and re-evaluated, but I kept on working learning new job skills and making new friends.

My experiences with this company gave me the know how and courage to to start my own computer/tech consulting business.  Using the contacts I made through the company to get my new business off the ground. All the while keeping them as my first and biggest client.

The road over the last eight years has been bumpy. The market has gone up and down and back again. In the last year the company has fallen on some harder times. They have lost some key business and assets, which has lead to some down sizing.

Last month, I was asked by the President to change my capacity with the company and to draw up new terms and a new contract in 30 days. Which I did.  Many things changed, less time, money for me and some much needed savings for them.  It comes out as a wash in the end for me.  I have freed up more time to seek more business, if I so desire, and I get to keep a client I really enjoy.

Over the years I have had many conversations with my good friends about starting new chapters in our lives.   How it can be helpful to start new and to take a new approach.  I am hoping that this is the case with this shift in my life.  Who knows what the future has in store.  I know that the last eight years have been good to me.   I am looking forward to the next eight years being even better!

It is Thursday. It is not as hot as it was yesterday, in fact I think I saw a rain drop on the way into the office. I have nothing exciting going today and as of this moment, I am drooling board. The stock market was taking a digger, that is fun. I have caught up on my regular work a day work. Blogged a bit this morning. But otherwise, slow day. Fact in point CNN, MSNBC and FOXNEWS were all talking about that Atlanta Football player. You know, the one who likes to kill dogs. Slow news day.

Speaking of american football, why is it called this? I think we should change the name. Ideas?

From Wikipedia:

While it is widely believed that the word “football” (or “foot ball”) originated in reference to the action of a foot kicking a ball, there is a rival explanation, which has it that football originally referred to a variety of games in medieval Europe, which were played on foot.^[1] These games were usually played by peasants, as opposed to the horse-riding sports often played by aristocrats. While there is no conclusive evidence for this explanation, the word football has always implied a variety of games played on foot, not just those that involved kicking a ball. In some cases, the word football has even been applied to games which have specifically outlawed kicking the ball.

Foot ball