Chicken with it’s head cut off…

Isn’t that the proverbial saying?  Like.. when you have way too much going on and can’t seem to make any progress on anything?

I looked at REAL chicken pictures. Too graphic!

Sort of what I feel like with the various projects I’m working on.  Oh yeah, you have NO idea what I’m working on.  OK, well, here’s a short summary.  Two phases, including a web based phase which not only includes this blog, but another support website for a Disney based travel project.  Second, what I’m tentatively calling the IBN or ‘Internet Broadcast Network’.  It’s basically a television station for the internet, and with it I’ll have the capability of pulling you, yes YOU, wherever you are into an internet wide broadcast.

It’s not that complicated, but uses some pretty slick software that allows me to bring up multiple video Skype callers, and put their conversations AND video on the air.  Interactive.  Because of the television features in it, I’ll be able to insert video, play music, talk back and forth… anything you see done on most television stations, and a lot of things you DON’T see being done.

So, between trying to learn WordPress for the various projects…  coding what I can…   wiring things as they become available and test modes…  all I can say is “cluck, cluck”.  (Although a chicken that truly had his head cut off, probably wouldn’t be doing that…)

It even got to the point that I went to the site www.fiverr.com Sunday night.  It is a site where people are willing to do all sorts of things for five bucks.  I was desperate for a logo for one of these projects, so I figured it was worth a shot.  I sent some person in India five dollars through Paypal, and a couple of hours later I had a logo!  The principle was a good one, and the program worked great.  The logos I got back had valiant effort, but I’m not using them.  Later, when I’m ready to announce the project, I just might publish them here.  Might not.  You might like them better than the one I settle on, and THEN where would I be?

Looking at that site DID make me ponder doing a bit of voiceover work.  There are some incredible talents on there, primarily from Britain.

Mrs. Peel. Inspiration for my GPS, and a thousand boyhood fantasies.

Mrs. Peel. Inspiration for my GPS, and a thousand boyhood fantasies.

I guess people over here like having stuff done in an English accent.  (Even my GPS, ‘Mrs. Peel’, talks in a British accent, but then again, it IS an English car)  Maybe somebody across the pond will like having an AMERICAN accent on their stuff!  (Yet another project.  ..sigh..)

I took the night off last night, and had dinner with an old friend.  I relaxed, and for once didn’t think twice about this stuff.  It was an EXCELLENT move on my part.  Every now and then I just need to be reminded that there are other things in the world, and yes, other PEOPLE.  I have a great number of casual friends, and they’re wonderful.  I only have a limited number of GREAT friends, and I treasure them.

Anyway, this site is doing exactly what I wanted it to do, which is to provide me a place to write, vent and track my progress.  Time to go watch the rest of ‘Outsourced’.  And despite how awful it sounds, I may have some fig newtons and orange juice.

Might have to even look around for those old ‘Avengers’ DVDs.

Down goes Spurrier! Down goes Spurrier!

From 2011.

I put this on the blog for two reasons.  One, I wanted to make sure the video insertion portion of this blog was working.  (It is.)  And two, it remains one of the top watched videos that I’ve uploaded to YouTube.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVuDjVLG5Hs

(Editors note!  Just one year later, we lose 54-3!  OUCH!!!)

OK, I’m here….

Welcome to www.edowen.com.

(The following has been updated from the original 2011 posting.)

For the longest time I’ve thought I needed a blog.  A personal blog.  Where I could talk about things that interest me, that catch my attention, that let me vent.

True, I’ve blogged before, but that always had specific intent, usually travel.  I also have thought I needed one website that brought ALL my stuff together.  My blogging, my tweeting, my travel interests, my broadcast interests, UK Sports.  I might even touch base on politics now and then.  And after a lifetime of meeting fun and sometimes even famous people, I’ll occasionally mention one of them.  Oh yeah, there will be pet talk.

I’ll probably talk about the things that make me happy. And I’ll talk about things I abhor.  If you refuse to think for yourself and march lock-step to a cause, you won’t like it here.  If you look at some of your fellow men differently than others, get ready.  I have no use for either.

Eventually, you’ll find links to all my twitter accounts, FB info, websites and blogs.

Ultimately what am I trying to accomplish here?  Just that “one stop place” to find me.  Do I want people to read this?  Sure.  Will I be upset if they don’t?  Maybe a little, but when it comes down to it, it’s more for ME than for anyone else.  If you find your way here, I hope you enjoy my ramblings, and please provide feedback.

What you WON’T see is me railing against others in a personal way.  Life’s too short.  Enjoy the ride with me.

One final thing.  If you have to ask what the ‘Big Blue Man’ means, you and I need to have a LONG talk!

RIP Elvis, the true boss.