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| Allow me to introduce you to Blue TAKEN: MARCH 31st, 2025 |
Today is day one of the annual April A-Z Challenge. You know the drill, I muse about a letter a day for 26 days of this month; with Sunday's off for good behaviour.
Well, this post marks my fourteenth offering of the letter A, for the April A-Z. I still find it hard to believe that I have been taking part in this challenge since 2013, and I have never used the same word twice. My, how time flies when you’re having fun.
Entering 2025 brought a big change to my wee electronic journal. Toward the end of last year, I commented to my son that I thought I may want to connect with a podcast platform and start recording my offerings. You know, so that followers could listen rather than read if that was their preference.
Low and behold, Jukebox bought me a microphone for Christmas and something that was just a passing thought, became a reality over the December holiday break.
Now, what I thought would be fun has turned out to be far more challenging than I ever expected. With no skill set in recording, nor software to edit the audio, I find myself doing multiple takes so I stay at a steady pace, without screwing up the entry I’ve written.
I am not sure how this will work for me mid-challenge, because I always travel for the second week for my birthday. I'll definitely write and post while I am basking in the sun but I have decided not pack my blue snowball mic for I fear I will put too much focus on recording rather than rays.
That said, I have decided to record after the fact and add link to the offerings from my PodBean site once I get home and continue on from there. At least that's my goal.
I can only imagine how hectic it will get, now that I have doubled the work for each letter.... Because I know first hand, that this annual posting ritual is going to take a toll on me.
Just like it has every other year!
#yagottalaughaboutit
I thought we had Sundays off because we slept in? Good behavior works, too.
ReplyDeleteLet's do both. With you getting the credit for my getting to sleep in!
DeleteSounds good to me. After all, if I'm asleep, I can't help but be on good behavior.
DeleteFor a second, I considered some sort of podcast. Then, I realized that I use quite a few pictures for wise guy effect. Don't know how that would translate.
ReplyDeleteI think the only reason I feel it may work for me is that each of my offerings generally only have a single association photo, which now accompanies by PodBean post.
ReplyDeleteWhen travelling with my sister last fall, I felt the humour would have translated better as a sound bite. Hence, an idea was born.
I hope I would have enough "comedic chops" to make it work. But, I also love throwing captions onto pictures.
DeleteI'm sure you would. They say a picture is worth a thousand works.... you may be onto something describing them!
DeleteWOW I'm suitably impressed that you did the challenge for so many years! I did it in 2013 and haven't done it since! So I thought this year was time to have another go! And I'm enjoying stumbling across other midlifers! It's great to 'meet' you!
ReplyDeleteSuzy x
Great to 'meet' you too! When I registered back in 2013, I believe I was in the 1500's on the list of registrants. This year I was 40 of about 141. Makes no matter, I still keep posting.
DeleteI thought about podcasting. I would like to hear more about your journey. Pop by for a visit https://thriftshopcommando.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeleteI guess mine isn't really a podcast, more utilizing PodBean to produce an audio version of my posts. Truth? I'm terrible at it.
Delete... Jumping over for a visit now.