I don't really get to talk to the people who have been important to me the most for the longest as much as I'd like, so I've been toying around with the idea of making a "regular" podcast so they could keep up a little better. I sat down today, watching some Star Trek (I'm somewhat like a fine wine except I just get geekier with age) and chatting with a friend, trying to think of something interesting that I could actually talk about. I mean, the highlight of my days are usually walking to and from work, an amazing 1/3 mile jaunt that takes me all of 7 minutes.

So far, here's the ideas I've thought of ... and shot down.

1. Record myself "thinking" out loud while I walk
• I don't really think my family and friends ... well, my family ... want to hear my thoughts on the hot group of young ladies that just walked by and my reasoning as to why the one in the middle is the prettiest (it always seems to be the one in the middle, no matter where I go), the one on the left has the nicest body, and the one on the right looks like the one who's most willing to "go" (if you know what I mean ... wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more)
• I also don't think my parents/grandparents want to hear me cursing at the dumbass taxi/bus/car/truck drivers as they play the game, "Who can come the closest to hitting the pedestrian without actually hitting them at 50kph" game
• It's getting really freaking cold outside
2. Record a video once or twice a month and post it on Youtube
• The amount of interesting things that happen to me in a month could easily fill a 90 second video, but would struggle to get to 91
• Search Twitter for #GFW, Wikipedia for Great Firewall, or come to China ... youtube has been blocked since March of 2008
• Technically speaking, this is pretty easy to bypass, I do have an easily accessible VPN through work and I could easily SSH my way onto it other ways, but I'm still using it as an excuse

I guess what I'm trying to do here is find a way to use this site to connect more with my friends and family from home, that is the primary reason I started the site. I kind of got off on a tangent a lot of the time, which I guess would mean the times I actually wrote for my friends and family, it looked more like a tangent than the norm. I'll keep thinking (I can hear my cousins and sister saying now, "I hope he doesn't strain himself." ha ha ), I probably won't come up with anything, but I'll keep thinking. I think I need a vacation, maybe then I would have an excuse to get out my camcorder, a multitude of empty cassettes, and actually record something ... but now, I sleep.