Whew! I just finished recording JIMM 82 and will be editing, mixing down, and listening to it before I post it up here. I can tell you this: pack a lunch because it’s going to come in at around an hour long, packed with music, feedback, and the warm, juicy goodness you’ve come to love about the Journey Inside My Mind.
I expect to post the show on Saturday and make it available definitely by Sunday morning.
Hi there, listener of the Journey Inside My Mind Podcast! I’ve missed you. A lot. It turns out from the feed statistics that you’ve been checking out past shows. I’ve been doing some of that, too. Listening to a lot of other podcasts as well.
I feel like a pressure cooker; I’ve got so much I look forward to sharing with you!
So, while I’m getting my “ducks in a row”, I’d love for you to send in your thoughts:
Voiceover gods:
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In about 7 hours we are going to Bum Rush The Charts!
Starting at midnight Eastern Daylight Time, I want everyone reading this post to go to the following link and buy “Mine Again” from Black Lab is:
http://www.FinancialAidPodcast.com/bumrush
Using this link will net 5% in affiliate fees from Apple on top of the 50% donation from the band to a scholarship fund.
You can GIFT “Mine Again” using this link as well, so if you already own it, you can gift it to a friend, colleague, or associate who may not have heard of Black Lab before.
If you or someone you know is in college or graduate school, in order to be eligible for the scholarship, you need to set up a free profile at:
http://www.ScholarshipPoints.com
If you haven’t already done so, you need to download and install iTunes, plus open an iTunes Music Store account with a valid credit card and/or PayPal account. You could also buy and redeem an iTunes Gift card, which is what I did.
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Earlier I made this post on Twitter:
*!$% hearing impairments! Ugh. So frustrating sometimes!
Then I put my daughter to bed, cooling off a little bit. I returned and decided I should post again:
Clarification on my last Twitter: I’m just frustrated at hearing impairment. Ppl who know me understand that we deal with it every day
Now the real back story. Earlier as I was trying to get her into bed, different things kept coming up to hinder that. Then as she was getting her bed ready, I was in the living room, and she called out. She needed a pillow because hers were in the dryer.
So I told her to get one from our bedroom. She apparently didn’t hear me – go figure. So I called out a bit louder for her to get one from our bedroom. Again – so I basically called out as loud as I could for her to hear.
A few minutes later I went to her room to tuck her in, and she had this hurt expression on her face. “I don’t like when you yell at me,” she said.
That’s what I meant by hating the frustration of hearing impairment. I need to remind myself constantly that I practically need to be in the same room as Keisha in order for her to hear me; especially when she has her hearing aids out at night. If I’m going to be sensitive, I need to make this kind of effort.
I have written about our experiences with deafness and hearing impairment a lot in this blog, but I’d love to know what you have to say.
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I’ve been thinking a lot about branding lately, both on a personal level as well as on a company and employer level. I have often thought about reorganizing my blogs under one domain and making them subdomains. I do, after all, have many of them.
Today I read this article on Ask Pud saying that sub-brands haven’t been that successful. He’s got a good point.
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Someone put together this mashup that makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.
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Refocus is a natural part of life.
If you have listened to the most recent episode of the Journey Inside My Mind Podcast, you’ll know that I have put it on hiatus until the end of this month. I have spent the month thus far listening to lots of other podcasts and thinking about the direction I want the show to take. Here are the options as I see them:
I’m like a pressure cooker now, though, getting eager to record something. So stay subscribed or get subscribed, and you’ll be able to hear what I have got to say.
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I’ve often said in this blog that my dreams are weirder than yours. This morning as the alarm started going off and I went through the usual routine of hitting the snooze button every 9 minutes, falling back to sleep, guess what?
I started thinking about my day, previous days, and my mind went off to Twitter. I thought about how frequently some of my friends update and how I’ve stopped getting notified via IM because of frequent notifications. I now prefer to get updated via the website. As I was thinking about these interruptions via chat, the alarm went off again. Thinking about one interruption interrupted by another.
I thought that was weird, or at least interesting. Have you ever had something like that happen to you?
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It takes a lot to get me outwardly upset. One thing that does it for me, though, is poor customer service.
We just came from the Marathon station on Colerain Avenue, north of Banning Road, in Cincinnati, Ohio. I paid at the pump for gas, and, as Keisha and I are cleaning off the windows, she says she has to go to the restroom. When she says it, she means it and usually needs to go right away. That’s what we have learned from the past anyway.
She went inside and came out a few seconds later. “Daddy, they don’t have a restroom.”
I went inside and asked the attendant if that was so. “Our public restroom is broken.”
“But where do YOU go then?”
“Oh, we have our own.”
“Okay, so let me get this straight. You’re going to let this little girl have an accident here on your floor because you don’t have a restroom for her to go to.”
“Yeah. The one we have for customers is broken.”
“I understand. But YOU have one that’s working, but you’re not going to let her use it.”
Why not provide a great customer service experience, huh? Whether it’s buying gas or needing to use a restroom or buying a refreshment, why not make it great for customers so that they will tell their friends and will return? Why not go the extra mile to help customers out?
I now understand why we go to the more modern stations that have restrooms for everyone.
None of this probably makes any sense, but I just had to get it out here.
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