Hello. Welcome to Daily(ish) for Friday, 08/19/2016. It's, currently something degrees outside and, cloudy, but, you don't care. This is not a weather podcast. That's not why you tune in.
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Speaker 1:I have turned 40, so I am now 40. This is 40. I posted Instagram as you do, I guess. I don't know. This is a new thing to me being 40 and did that.
Speaker 1:I don't imagine my parents posted an Instagram picture when they're 40, but this is the new 40, I guess. And what else have I done? I've commented and replied to the all the people who felt obligated to congratulate me on living another year on Facebook because Facebook reminded them to do that. And so that's, that's done.
Speaker 2:You can check
Speaker 1:that off. Although I keep going back and, you know, liking and thanking the folks who who've said happy birthday, to the machines on Facebook. And, breakfast slash lunch this morning provided by my lovely wife. Sue made me I I was debating. I couldn't decide between omelets or crepes.
Speaker 1:She gave me a list of options for breakfast including waffles, pancakes, omelets, crepes. And I said crepes, but she surprised me with a crepe omelet, which is my one of my favorite things in the world. Discovered it, Cora's, and I'm sure other restaurants have it. I I don't imagine Cora's is the first place to have combined the wonder of the crepe with the amazing tasty omelet. But such is life and such is what I had for brunch.
Speaker 1:So crepe omelet. Check it out. And what else what else has Forty brought me? Work working today and many different random folks congratulating me and thanking thanking I'm thanking them now for congratulating me on living another year. So we got that squared away.
Speaker 1:And the the one thing I want to mention that I did yesterday on Twitter while I was getting distracted from doing work and it's it's easy when you're running your own business, working for yourself, or I would imagine even for remote workers, knowledge workers or whatever of this digital age to like, you're just typing away on computer doing stuff and it feels like you're very productive, but then you get to the end the day, you're like, oh, actually, I didn't really do anything that I was supposed to be doing in terms of work, but I felt really productive because I created stuff. I did stuff. Not that I wild, spun away the whole day, but towards the end of the day I I tweeted out a, just a question of what would happen if and that's I love putting this out onto the onto the Internet and generally I don't get much response but this time, and, it's kinda goes along with being 40 and maybe midlife crisis, what I show is branding hashtag ends life crisis. I was trying to play off the end of life crisis, I did I don't think anybody got that joke and I it was a bad joke to begin with.
Speaker 1:But anyways, I tweeted, what would happen if I packed up my family in a fifth wheel and we drove across North America? Reply with what state slash province you're in if I could borrow Wi Fi? And like most things, I tweet like that. It's it's a like nobody responds it's just a fun throwaway comment and who cares I was just being joking. Why would you think I was being serious?
Speaker 1:But then if people do respond I can you know have a little fun with it. And so a bunch of folks started responding it was just kind of fun and and so then what I did is I set up a quick Google form to, basically allow for folks to tell me the state or province they live in, but also then, you know, if they really wanted to, they could optionally optionally say the city, their name or Twitter handle, how they could help out if they can provide Wi Fi, a place to park a trailer, have a meal together, maybe your tour guide, if there's a co working space nearby to set up for work or podcasting, best time of year to visit, anything else they wanted to say, and their email address. And, I got 15 responses from folks which is just what I love about the Internet when it pays off. Sometimes you throw these things into the Internet machine and nothing happens because everybody's busy and working as they should be and other times you happen to catch the right zeitgeist, whatever for, for these kind of things to pay off. So so far we've got Washington state or Washington Washington, the state of Washington Washington, Nevada, NL is Newfoundland, That's province in Canada.
Speaker 1:British Columbia is a province in Canada. California, Nebraska, those are both states in The United States. I don't know why I'm making that clarification. I'm assuming both the Canadians don't know the states and the states folks don't know the Canadian provinces. Nebraska, Alberta, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Indiana, California, Minnesota, Maryland, all covered.
Speaker 1:So this is awesome. And so we'll it's very much a I've told Sue, so it's it's out of the just my own dumb head idea phase. It's something we've we actually have sort of jokingly talked about as a fun thing to do. Sell the house or rent the house or whatever. Buy some sort of crazy trailer truck thing and just go for a drive, because it would be a fun adventure obviously and and we can do homeschooling and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1:But it's definitely a bit of like midlife crisis type stuff as well just in fun. So I'll put a link to it in the show notes just for fun. You can you can fill it out. We're not it's it's not like something that we would do tomorrow or even maybe this year. It would be something probably you make the most sense not to do during over winter.
Speaker 1:But a lot of the places like people are saying time to visit, the best time to visit their area of the world, mid October, fall, summer is great, winter is great, spring spring is great, it's beautiful all year but July, August tend to be a bit warm. August, September, winter or spring, spring or fall, autumn, spring or fall, fall always three hundred twenty nine days of sun. I wonder which one that was California probably I guess, and then not summer. So there's a lot of folks who are like it's seems like fall would be the best time. So maybe, you know, it's already August 19, we pack up somehow sell our house this, you know, in a weekend and decide to do not very likely if you know what it's like to try and move a family of five in a hurry.
Speaker 1:So anyways, the link will be in the show notes just for fun. Fill it out if you want to. You're not being legally bound to, follow-up on that if follow through on that if we actually do decide to go through with this. But by the same token, who knows? Maybe something will happen with it.
Speaker 1:Anyway, this is not a plea for any sort of special birthday wishes or anything like that. You don't
Speaker 2:have to feel guilty just because
Speaker 1:you listen to this into saying something about my birthday on Twitter or whatever, anything like anything like that. I just wanted to more make you aware of the fun we're having with ends life crisis. So I think that's it for this episode. I flew completely blind. I didn't have any notes in front of me.
Speaker 1:Just was listening to WTF with Mark Mayer and was thinking, I need to rant on the Internet a little bit more and, so thus you get this episode of the podcast. My thanks to you for listening and thanks to the 15 folks who filled it out already and thanks to the folks who support me on Patreon patreon.com/ichris. It would get really interesting on Patreon if we did this adventure that's for sure because right now it's like I I sit in my basement the whole time there's not like super amazing things to like show or report on but definitely things would get ramped up significantly on an adventure like that for Patreon folks. But all that aside. The the other thing sorry.
Speaker 1:I was gonna wrap up, here I'm not. I got a a minute and a half left according to my ten minute time limit. I was self imposed. Is I can basically I can keep working on the road. I have clients who I do website work for who may not fancy their web designer person disappearing, but obviously I can get anything done remotely because their web server is not in Saskatoon here.
Speaker 1:It's not at their office. It's somewhere else. And same thing with the podcast editing that I do, which is that basically I just need an internet connection to download the audio files from the podcast clients, then I can be offline, edit them, and then go back online to send the files back. And same thing with, although like for web stuff, definitely need to be consistently connected. That's easy to do in a coffee shop or whatever.
Speaker 1:So at any rate, I it's an idea that excites me. I know it's not realistic to actually happen but I could if I really wanted to make it happen, we could make it happen, I know. So let's let's make it happen, whatever that means. Alright. Happy fortieth to you.
Speaker 1:If you're 40 as well, watch this space for things in the future. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Bye.