Ridiculous Thoughts

The other night Shannon and I were in my room watching telly. She was wrapped up in her huge blanket fighting a cold. Her throat bothered her and she was stuffy – generally not feeling well. Out of the blue she got up and plopped down by my feet laying her head on my knee.

This isn’t someting she does very often so I asked if she was all right. I figured she was feeling pretty icky. What she said in reply just made me melt 🙂

She said, “Your presence is comforting.”

“My presence?”

“Yeah. I feel better when I’m near you. In England one night you were working downstairs and I had cut my finger on something. When I sat on your bed, my finger didn’t hurt at all and when I sat on my bed, it did.”

This was such a lovely, out-of-the-blue comment from her that I’m still thinking about it a few days later and I wanted to write it down.

I love my kid 🙂

Based loosely on fellow IndyKnow dude Mike’s idea for what we should do for the podcasts we’re going to set up, and to give me some more practice with editing, here’s another podcast featuring GetIndyKnow.com content and stuff. The real ones will not have nearly as much ‘me’ because I suck 🙂 For now, you’ll have to live with that fact. I do on a daily basis 😀

GetIndyKnow.com Podcast

Gimme some feedback pretty please because I need it. Other journos are starting to show some interest in creating podcasts and I need to be able to help them out. Some issues I already know about this ‘cast is I need a better mic, and need to learn how to use the multitrack function so I can have something playing behind someone speaking and not drown them out.

Anyway. Yeah.

Kid’s choice movie tonight and she picks Shaun of the Dead. I just have to tell her when the gross parts are about to happen. Right now they’re trying to get into the Winchester. “It’s a running Buffet – all you can eeeeeeeaaaaaattttt!!!”

Aaaannyway. GetIndyKnow is uber-cute this week so check it out. The little guy in the header belongs to the bloke who wrote the articles about the Running of the Wieners. He reminds me of our neighbor in England’s dachsund – er, the dog not the writer. Hamlet was always wandering up to the pub and getting in to beg for scraps while we were doing prep for the day and her owner, Sally always came through the door in a tizzy thinking the dog had run away for good. Always found it amusing the dog was named for a cigar brand and not the play.

Ohhhh it’s the Queen scene.

Hehe, hilarious. So the weekend… what’s happening. Experimenting a little more with podcasting. I promise not to speak too much on the next one. We’re going to be doing these for IndyKnow in a few weeks so I guess I’d better actually learn how to do them properly 🙂 The kid and I are going to watch Pride & Prejudice tomorrow. I introduced her to Sense & Sensibility the other night and she loved it so I figured we’d continue the Jane Austen theme. I know I know, bollocky love story crap but I never could resist a dripping wet Colin Firth.

Oh dear. Byebye David. Eeww.

I wish I would have had my camera with me today.

I caught on Blogger Buzz or blogs of note or something – can’t remember which – that someone used their blog to post a photo-a-day and I totally love that idea. Spend a year taking one photo from each day that you can have to look back on. I’m so going to copy that guy.

My thing was though, that I was going to wait and start doing it in the New Year because it made more sense to me to photochronicle 2006 instead of September 2005-September 2006, know what I mean? And then I thought I was being stupid about it. Who cares. just do it before you forget about it and lose the old enthusiasm for it.

Anyway so I’m having that debate with myself, and I’m driving home from work tonight and I get behind this guy in his beat-up Chevy mini truck and on the tailgate in bold, black letters it says, “Chick Magnet.”

I spent the rest of the drive wondering if he was being serious or self-deprecating because he drove such a shitty truck.

I should have snapped a pic.

I’m just testing out this podcasting thing and you my lucky three whole readers get to be the guinea pigs.

First lame attempt at a podcast.

Edit>> The RSS feed for the blog which includes the podcasting element is here. And the quality of this sucker isn’t great. In fact it’s quite crap so feel free to have a good giggle over it 🙂

So I’ve joined the squillions who’ve created accounts on MSN’s MySpace. Not quite sure why other than it seemed like the thing to do and I can’t resist new toys. I’m weak like that.

Anyway, here’s my sad little MySpace area. There’s something kind of pathetic about having 0 friends listed right on the front page.

It’s been an interesting week. Here’s why:

Work has, as usual, been crazybusy.
My Grandfather died.
I became the August employee of the Month.
My father was here for the funeral.
I’m spending my three-day weekend working on IndyKnow to get it ready for the launch next Friday.

It’s been interesting.

My Grandfather is someone I’ve never met though I’ve seen him several times in town. It’s a long story having to do with my reconnection with my biological father and his family that I’ve slowly been getting to meet and enjoy. Meeting Jo and Tom (Gary’s sister and her husband) and their fabulous kids has been a wonderful experience for Shannon and me. I’m soooo so glad to have them in our lives. So I keep asking myself what my problem was when it came to meeting my grandfather and his wife.

The answer is I haven’t a bloody clue. And when I got the news that he had passed away, I felt sad and sort of mad at myself for missing the chance – and for no real valid reason that I can pinpoint.

I struggled with whether we should go to the funeral because I really didn’t want the focus of the day to shift from him to us. But then I wanted to be supportive for Gary and Jo so we went. We planned to just let them know we were there and sit quietly in the back, then duck out before anything got awkward. It didn’t work out that way as we ended up being up front with the family – it’s a bit of a blur how that worked out. I’ve only ever been to two other funerals in my life so I’m not very familiar with funeral protocol and etiquette.

But the service was very nice. Afterwards we got to spend some time with Gary though I missed being able to say goodbye to Jo and Tom, Hannah and Gunter. Sorry about that guys.

Anyway so all of that was going on and meanwhile at work I found out that my loverly coworker Tonya had nominated me for employee of the month and it was quite a shock 🙂 But it was a nice shock and I really appreciated the proverbial pat on the back. And I felt all mushy and stuff even though Tonya’s a sneaky bitch 😀

And finally I’ve been working – ohhhh since the start of the 24 marathon at 1 this afternoon (it’s now almost 9pm) – on IndyKnow. We’re in the final week before the launch and my stomach’s in knots. So much to do and too much other stuff crowding my plate. Poor Shan’s not going to see much of me til we get through this.

But it’s coming along and we’re a hell of a lot further into it than we were a couple of months ago. I think it’s going to be cool.

Anyway, probably won’t blog for a while until I get past IndyKnow so umm, yeah 🙂