I will be live on the Crossroads show from 5pm – 7pm (eastern time) and the Folk Aire show from 7pm – 9pm Tuesday night…. 4 full hours of playing blues, folk, some rock and bluegrass. Tune in if you are local on 90.7 FM in Traverse City. You can listen live online at wnmc.org
I’m now feeling the Christmas spirit.. I’m done for this week at work and only work 1 day next week and 2 days the week after. Now that’s the way it should be! I would like that schedule all year around.
We don’t have to travel much this year for the holiday. Only trip planned is a trip to Grand Haven on the 25th and home on the 26th. The Teenager is heading to Florida this weekend for 2 weeks so the house will be quiet and it will be nice to get some stuff done.
One of the projects I have is to re-arrange the Ham Shack / Podcast Studio / Office in the basement. My plan is to take an older PC and make that the Podcast only machine. With that one, I will just have the audio apps and have the mic / mixer hooked up to it. That way I can can go back to Windows Xp and have castblaster work the way it should. The Vista machine will be the one I use for Skype and patch that into the mixer so I can record directly in castblaster. The Vista machine will also be the Video machine (along with the macbook sometimes) . I will also use that for my writing.
The other project is to get the wife’s new cloths hanger…err… I mean Treadmill setup in the house. It’s currently in the garage and it’s only 9 degrees out there now.. Not a good place to work out in the winter.
I hope to get the office/studio done on Sunday so I should be able to try out the new podcast machine and put out a podcast on Monday. I’m also going to be working on the new and improved Strange Today show. That will be starting season 2 the first week of January. Stay tuned to that (www.strangetoday.com)
Hope your year end / Holidays are nice and I hope you have time to spend time with Friends and Family or just get your stuff done.
Have a good one! (or two if you wish!)
-Mike
PS. I will be on the Geek News Central 24 hour podcast at http://geeknewscentral.com at 3am Hawaii time (8am Eastern time) on Sunday morning pimping the Ham Radio Podclass (www.hamradioclass.org) – Come join me there!
So, I’m sitting here wishing winter would end. We have had record snows and cold weather here in Northern Michigan all winter.. SO what do I do ? I’m heading north to Sugar Island Michigan ( This is in the St. Mary’s River between Sault Ste. Marie Michigan and Sault Ste. Marie Ontario Canada ) The Temp right now here is 19 and it’s supposed to be -1 in the Soo ( thats what we call Sault Ste. Marie ) Am I crazy? Maybe I will get my fill of winter and it will break up soon .. OR maybe it’s the Banjo Pickin’ with the Sugar Island String band that I get to do that keeps me warm..
Anyway. I hope everything is well with you all.. I will have my Crackberry with me so I should do some updating via twitter as long as things don’t freeze up..
I plan on recording and doing some Video from Sugar Island and our trip up..