Back to the Frozen Basement With You!

Hello. Welcome to Daily ish for Thursday, January 28. It's, I forgot to make a note. One degrees outside or something. Zero degrees.

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Three episodes on my much Ballyhooed by myself trip down to Mazatlan, Mexico. And, as everybody can probably attest to if you've tried this at one point or another, you think and plan for something and have great hopes that by merely changing locations and scenery, you will suddenly improve your personality and your, desire to do something. And as I found out and was reminded of so painfully, that is not the case. I was still me stuck in not stuck, but in in Mexico. All my same issues, hang ups, hold ups, and other ups stuck along with me on the flight.

So the biggest issue actually really was I mean, I I I I could've I should've and could've recorded more episodes, but the mic just was not well suited for the scenario or the situations I was in. And, and the Internet for three quarters of the trip was very frustrating to use for uploading files. It was fine for downloading and, you know, checking Twitter and stuff. That's not very taxing, but, yeah, uploading files and things like that. And I basically was trying to use as much of my bandwidth as possible to keep, client files, for podcasts that I'm editing and stuff, keep those in order.

And and and so as a result, yeah, by the time it came time to record my own stuff and upload it, it just was too painful. So and then as it often happens, like, I've never oh, it's been a long time since I've been on a vacation this long of sorts. Again, I keep saying vacation, but it really was, the goal was to work, which I did, and, and get in a bit of vacation time. But obviously, when you're down there and my family was around, my sisters and their kids were around for almost three quarters of the trip as well in various stages. It's, you know, it's kinda hard to be even harder than at home to be the guy who's like, no, I gotta go sit in the condo and work at my laptop while everybody else in the family is having a good time.

And which, I mean, seems obvious that that would be difficult to do, but, you know, you have good intentions, and the road to Mexico is paved with good intentions, I think, as the saying goes. So there we are. That's where we are. I'm excited to get back and and record again. That's one of the few things I was looking forward to coming home to.

The weather has been, unseasonably no, unseasonably warm, I guess, is how you'd say that. And, so it's it's hasn't been as bad as it could have been. Our basement still feels really, really cold. And part of that is is just adjusting to temperature, but also it just is cold. That's just even if I wasn't in Mexico for a while, it still would feel cold.

I don't expect any pity or sympathy, but the, the fact of the matter is it's cold. And so, anyways, I wanna get an episode out, recording this in the evening, Thursday evening, get an episode out so that starting again Friday. I've been toying around with the idea of, trying another experiment of recording an episode a day in February, kinda like to kick my butt into gear again just because January was such a waste of podcasting time from my own perspective. I didn't even listen to very many. I don't think I listened to a single episode while I was down there, maybe one or two.

So I just kind of it was good. It's healthy, I think, and I needed definitely a break, and it it was good to sort of pull my head out of the podcasting world, but, I definitely missed a lot of it and the creative outputs that it gives me. And so, yeah, turning around with the idea of doing the record every work day or whatever an episode for the month of January or February, I guess. We'll see where that goes. If you have any follow-up, any questions, I'll probably talk more about Mexico and stuff in future episodes.

If you have questions, feel free to tweet at me, I Chris on Twitter or, [email protected] is my email. As always, you can support me on Patreon, patreon.com/ichris. Apologies to the Patreon folks. There wasn't, as far as I could tell when people joined and stuff, there wasn't anybody who was, like, joining specifically because I said I was gonna record more episodes just for Patreon folks while I was down there. I still feel bad for saying that I was gonna do that and then not following through on that really.

But, I don't feel as bad as if all of sudden a bunch of people had joined just to hear that. And, so as such as it may be, thanks for, supporting me on there if you do. And, oh, man. I have, feelings and emotions about Star Wars, but I'm not gonna get into that now because I need to stop recording. And, feelings and emotions about life, work, happiness, all that kind of stuff.

Hopefully, I get podcast episodes recorded in time to get that all out, mouth blogging it out as I, my friend Dave Rupert, coined the phrase over on Shop Talk Show. I hope I have enough of my brain to keep it, going. Anyways, one last little tip, do not overload your mower.