Archives for August 2012

Lounging with LannaLee RULES in New England

So. Lounging with LannaLee has lots of listens.

Increase of listens per month since March. [The first Three months are an average.]

So I will show you my graphs and go to bed. Because that’s how I roll.

Lounging with LannaLee RULES in the Northeast, too!

My next guest on Lounging with LannaLee (Steve Trombulak, look for his episode on Thursday) got it right when we were talking after we recorded the show on Saturday. I mentioned that I’d love to get paid to do Lounging with LannaLee, but haven’t figured out how that would work.

Steve said:

It’s like the Undperpants Gnomes!
Step 1: Make Podcast
Step 2: …
Step 3: PROFIT!

I said: Exactly!

Are you familiar with the Underpants Gnomes? They’re from a South Park Episode. As depicted in the screen shot, they “Collect” underpants (by stealing them). Eventually this was to lead to profit. So. As Steve intimated, I’ve been making my podcast. Collecting it, you might say. How long must I wait for profit!?

I find it very amusing that my business plan is EXACTLY like the Gnomes’ plan. The Gnomes’ plan has been running through my mind for a few months now, and it I found it HILARIOUS that Steve caught on from the get go.

The thing is, as I mentioned last week, I’ll be speaking at the #140conf State of Now SmallTown Conference on November 8th in KANSAS. For those of you keeping score, it is approximately 1750 miles away. It would take 30 hours to drive there. So I was thinking, how awesome could we make this? An epic Train Trip with my Bureau of Awesome pal (and hubby) Edmund, perhaps. Podcasting Half-Way Across AMERICA, perchance?! To that end, I’m working on a plan to do an indiegogo campaign AND a live Lounging show.

[Indiegogo is like Kickstarter, but the difference is that all funds raised will go to me regardless of whether I reach the stated goal. This means that if I raise half the money I want and am able to kick in the rest myself, I can still go.]

Look, I will unabashedly be asking people for money. If you have extra funds, I hope you would consider giving me some of them. The indiegogo campaign will have prizes/perks for each level of giving, please choose whatever you feel most comfortable giving. I am also working on some sponsorship ideas and will have a donate button for long-term giving for expenses.

If you DON’T have funds, I will still need people to spread the word by sharing links to my podcast and to anything else that is coming up, like the indiegogo, the live show, whatever. If you can RT or repost in Twitter or Facebook or Google+, I will really appreciate it. Because PR and getting the word out is just as important.

Alex Steed is holding a couch. Of Awesome!

Alex is a great sport and we had an excellent conversation. Right out of the gate with AWESOME!

Here is what I said about the episode:

LannaLee and Alex Steed talk about FoodComa.tv, Kickstarter, Facebook/Are you really my friend?, and Twitter. Alex lets Lanna know just what a Community Digital Specialist is. And he answers 10 questions. Lounging with LannaLee inaugural episode.

Click it! Commence to the listening!

These are not the couches you are looking for.

I know this is boring. But it’s all I got today.

Today was pretty good. Not thinking about bad things. Bad things are BAD! Good things are GOOD!

Couches GOOD!

Bad things BAD!

The Maheux-/Davis-Quinn household is having a mini-financial crisis. All because I have a car (Mini-Van) I need to drive to work. And this wonderful car got a problem with a valve thingy and then there was a problem with a gasket (not THE gasket, I suppose, just another one.)

To the tune of $404.13.

That’s Four HUNDRED and FOUR dollars and thirteen cents.

Excuse me.

Done hyperventilating now.

So. It hurt, but we paid it. My savings, wiped out (again). Now we are going to have to economize hardcore until our next paychecks, all coming at the end of the month.

But here we go. For the most part, Edmund and I are doing pretty well. We are making enough to pay our bills plus do some fun stuff. We got behind on our bills from the (fun, awesome) trip we took in June, and as of last week we were almost caught up. And one broken car upsets the apple cart. [The proverbial apple cart. We don’t really HAVE an apple cart.]

It’s not devastating or anything. It just sucks.

Like, we’re not going to be eating Ramen noodles and Ritz Crackers – [one of my favorite “I’m poor” meals. You dip the crackers in the broth and eat the noodles with chopsticks (so you feel cool.)] We might be eating a higher ratio of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, but they’re awesome anyway. Fortunately we stocked up on some ice cream a few days ago – so we have that going for us.

Notice that I’m cheerfully avoiding that elephant in the room, the living paycheck-to-paycheck elephant. Well, it can just stay unnoticed as far as I’m concerned.

Fun deadlines have me clickety clacking on my computer. Click, Clack. Brief Genius Statistical Data thing. CRUNCH the DATA!

Wait for download.

Wait.

Still waiting.

CRUNCH the DATA!

Brilliance!

Clickety clack.

Copy. Paste. Copy. Paste. Copy. Paste.

Insert.

Clickety Clack.

Genius!

Thinkity think.

Thinking. Puzzling.

Brilliance!

Java Java, not javascript the hard stuff using the Java to CRUNCH the datas.

SPSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSssssssssssssssssssstatistically AWESOME!

The Terminator on my TV!

Good day today, Lounged with Allie from Broke207 and didn’t really do much else. Except for try to vacuum a bit at my Mom’s house.

And get bitten by fleas.

Also. I found out that I will be speaking at the upcoming #140conf State of Now SmallTown Conference on November 8th. Yay! Trying to figure out how I’m going to get there. To that end, looking for sponsors! And whatnot. Good thing I have a couple of months to figure it out!

I will be talking about how my family and I used social media, namely this blag and Facebook, to communicate during my Dad’s terminal illness, and how it helped us cope. Lots of Laughs! – don’t worry, there will be humor.

So. It’s time for bed (to play Zynga Poker).

We could do without the fleas, though.

I am such a slugabed. Today I got up at noon. Because Eddie woke me up.

I showered. And then met Edmund at the Dancing Elephant for lunch. Well, for me it was brunch, since I wasn’t awake for breakfast.

Then laundry. We did it together, which is always nice. Easier for both of us. Even though we do laundry differently from each other and keep saying things like: “Well, I wait until they are all folded until I put them in the bag.” The Clothes are clean and we are still speaking, so put that into the WIN category.

32 Gigs of AWESOME!

All of a sudden it was after 8pm.

Edmund called, he was at Mom’s house on flea duty, getting ready to vacuum. But we had wanted to purchase a flea collar to put in the vacuum bag to help kill all the fleas he vacuumed up. And he was already at Mom’s house doing stuff. So I went to CVS, then Hannaford, and purchased the LAST flea collar in Westbrook. Brought it over to Mom’s house.

I did not walk in the house. I stood on the stoop, helped Edmund with the vacuum and then made a graceful exit.

Back at home. Trying to decide if I should make another couch or not. Thinking that it won’t get done.

That’s okay.

At least I’m posting this before midnight. As far as you know.

Rich Lounges with LannaLee and gets a couch!

Rich’s office was perfect for lounging. He had a nice red couch that I sat in, and he sat in a leather chair. As often happens after a great Lounge, we talked longer after the show was “in the can.”

Rich gives good lounge. You should listen to it.

I will keep linking to this podcast until you click on it.

Seriously.

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