Alan Falcon's Blog

This is my introductory post to the world of Podshow.   If this is my only entry ever after three or four years, don't be surprised...  I have fleeting passions which never allow me to continue works that are continuing without promise of a complete date.  Those projects that do come with a deadline attached get completed at the last minute.  Yes it is becoming cliche, but why do today what you can put off until tomorrow?  And without a deadline, posting in a blog or updating a podcast can be put off indefinitely.

Which is why I am recruiting friends to force me to build Falcon Empire.  Schedules that must be met by myself and other people should be enough of a fascimile of a deadline that it will be enough to allow me to follow through with these neverending projects that have typically always ended up being fleeting passions.

So...  why am I entitling this post "Quit the dayjob..."?  I went to the first Podcast Expo (forget this Portable Media And Podcast expo stuff, this was the Podcast Expo to me) and came away with a desire to podcasts, and to get out of my seemingly neverending day job which I felt was holding me back.  So I quit.  I moved out of state.  I found a less financially rewarding job that was personally more rewarding and which allowed me free time again, and then I was ready.  I had the equipment, I even had enough technical knowledge to scrape by with some messy but functional RSS feeds.  And I had the podcasts and URLs.  But I also still had my Apathy, and not Enough of a Plan to overcome it.

Podshow ... perhaps the launch of this newly completed service will be enough to push me over the edge in completing and following through with a plan.  Perhaps my purchase of the clever URLs FleetingPassions.com and RantOrb.com will send me careening over that metaphorical separation line of ground underneath me and freefall.  Perhaps this will be the only result of this particular fleeting passion and the only person who will read this is myself, four years down the line, ego surfing to remind myself of what I have aspired to be over the years, and what, so far, I have accomplished.

For me, time will tell.  For you ... you probably already know the answer.  Funny how that works.