A New Project

A New Project

 I lie awake at night and wonder why I push myself to do so much.  I get these ideas and I devote time to them and each idea  and project means there is less of me to go around, but it is such challenge and I enjoy exploring these personal challenges. We'll see how long they last, but it gives me great pleasure to at least try. So I got it into my head that with our grandchildren already in the primary grades, I ought to try and read to them, or rather, I would like to read to them. So I thought about it and while I am already reading picture books and posting them in our WhatsApp group listing, I wanted to do something more. So I decided to podcast. Here was a new skill and one that seems to be very popular right now.  I did research and just picked one podcasting host, Google, although I expect our daughter will suggest I try other sites too. It seems that you can get more than one site to host.  We'll see how that evolves.   Once I decided to use a particular host and get an RSS feed, then I needed to figure out which software to use for recording. I tried several actually, from looking at several different lists. One I chose, which I thought was free, clearly indicated I was on a 14 day trial and so I didn't want to use that.  Then I went with Audacity, which is software I had used before, when taping all my vinyl record albums and encoding them into Digital tracks.  That went much, much better until realized that I needed to convert from AUD files to MP3 files. Another search and I spent time during one night thinking that one through.  But all is good to go now and I've landed on doing a podcast of me reading to my grandchildren old enough to enjoy chapter books. There were over a dozen books to choose from but I settled on one and after today's work, I am on a roll.  I like to think the technical issues are overcome.  For now.  However, I need to work at advocating for my podcasts and my blogs and my book stuff.  After I get my second printing underway and my paperback available on Amazon, I'm going to make a serious effort to get my website up and running. I've had to promise myself I would not try to cover all my bases for the next couple of weeks.  I'm not going to do any ore videos, this is the last blog posting , and I"ve done all the oral reading, save the podcasting, till after the New Year. I look forward to really pushing my online presence over the next couple of weeks.  I might have taken on too much, but I also can, at least, see an end to the tunnel.