Can I have some cheese with my whine?

Here is it is. All my shinny new equipment just waiting for me to start recording.



I've got my copy of Podcasting for Dummies by Tee Morris and Evo Terra. I've got my glass of throat lubricating beverage. My levels are good (and how far have I come that I can say that and actually know what that means?!?!). But I can't seem to get started. I can't make myself record anything that will be released to the masses. I have stage fright!!!!

I'm such a weeny.

Okay. Tonight there will be podcast progress. And I will report back tomorrow on what I did.

And I will stop whining on my blog.

Well . . . that last one was probably a lie.

Man or Mouse?

I do not love podcasting today. Today I hate it. Today, podcasting can kiss my white beeeehind!

I'm frustrated and annoyed. I have two fairly good ideas that will not stand on their own but cannot fit together. I can't decide what to call it. I can't decide who to use for file hosting (Libsyn, MWS Media, or one of the many others). One of my ideas would be WAY better if I actually had interviews - but I can't figure out Skype (I feel sooooooo dumb) and interviews are scary! My new kitten is living in my recording space so I have no where to go. All of my equipment ranges from crappy to crappier. ARGH!

These are mostly excuses, I know. Today I am crippled by the fear that I have nothing interesting to say and no one will care. Who cares if no one reads a blog? But no one listening to podcast? That's just sad.

So, I guess the question is: Am I a (wo)man or a mouse? Am I going to suffocate under the pile of excuses I've created? Or am I going to actually find some guts and make a go of it?

I guess we'll just have to see.

I still love you.

Blog, I have not abandoned you.

Well . . . I have sort of. But that's only because I'm working on bigger and better things. I'm slowly but surely getting together an idea for a podcast and it's eating up every bit of my spare time. So, stay tuned and soon you'll be able to listen to me ramble on instead of reading it!

The Golden Compass

Just a Geek

This past Wednesday I believe I may have forever cemented my fate as a geek. To celebrate one of the 10,000,000,000 different Star Wars anniversaries the USPS created 400 R2D2 mailboxes and scattered them throughout the US. When I heard about this I knew that I had to see it there was one near me. I could think of nothing better than having my picture taken with an R2D2 mailbox!



So, this past Wednesday me and a friend set out on a epic journey throughout St. Louis in search of the elusive R2D2 mailbox. It really wasn't as difficult as I make it sound. Someone with WAY more free time than I has taken the time to list out where all the assorted mailboxes were located along with pictures (I love frapper). Turns out there are 4 mailboxes in St. Louis. On Wednesday I visited two of them.


Here are some pictures of the mailbox (and me) that is located in downtown Clayton on Central Ave:



And here is the one on Delmar Blvd. in the St. Louis Loop:



It was drizzling outside and kind of cold (for April) but this adventure was the most fun I've had in while. Go find the R2D2 near you!

My First Love

I have the bug. The sickness. The addiction. The yen, if you will.

And that yen is for, of course, podcasting.

This should come as no surprise to anyone who knows me. I had fully intended this for this blog to be about all the various things in my life that make me more than a geek (hence the name, Not Just A Geek). But after calling my husband at work squealing with glee that SCOTT SIGLER and TEE MORRIS posted on MY blog he said:

"Babe, maybe you should call this thing 'Just a Geek.'"

At first I was slightly offended. But then I realized that he was right. My blog has become all about my obsession - podcasting.

Which brought me back to: Why don't I create a podcast?

But I've tried it before, very unsuccessfully in fact. But there is something about podcasting that is so alluring. It's like a compulsion. I HAVE to create a podcast. Now I need a topic. Something that will entertain myself and hopefully others for more than one episode. Think, damn me, THINK!!!

Stay tuned . . . .

Feeling Blah

I'm feeling very uninspired as of late. I have a million unfinished craft projects decaying in my bright and shiny new "craft room" that came with my new house. I'd hoped to make this room a place of sanctuary and inspiration, but instead it feels like The Forgotten Realm of the Unfinisheds. All gathered into one place, the Unfinisheds have started to mock me as a group. Their jeers assault me every time I enter that purple room of doom. When I sleep at night I'm haunted by nightmares of being sewed into the bed and stabbed with knitting needles, the Unfinisheds cheering louder with every turn.

I don't know how long I can hold them back. The Unfinisheds get stronger every day. I know if I could finish one project, just one, then the madness would finally stop. I would once again be in control. The Unfinisheds would fear me and know that their fate lies in my crafty hands.

The question is . . . which one do I dare finish?