This is a journal

I’ve always had to fight between tech­no­log­i­cal posts and keep­ing this as my life jour­nal. The fact is that I’m lean­ing more towards other medi­ums as my plat­form. Any tech­no­log­i­cal posts I want to make end up as com­ments on Hacker News and I some­times stop to think I could write a blog post about it, but then decide I don’t have enough to make a post on it.Sec­ondly, I’m now writ­ing weekly columns for Man­a­Na­tion, my Magic the Gath­er­ing podcast/strategy web­site, so there is only so much con­struc­tive con­tent I can come up with in a week. Or is there…

Regard­less, the fact is that this is my mem­oirs, a story of my hec­tic crazy life. It’s here I’ll tell sto­ries about work­ing for Mind­Comet, and what it’s like to run a video pod­cast, per­form improv com­edy on stage, launch T-shirts at the Orlando Magic games, as well as my other entre­pre­neur­ial projects, and about liv­ing in a sweet ass house with a big honkin’ TV with the love of my life and a puppy who never ceases to make me laugh.

Like Mat­tie and her abil­ity to make me laugh, I love doing improv for an audi­ence. Last Tues­day I got to per­form at SAK. There’s an amaz­ing feel­ing to per­form­ing Improv, and when­ever I tell peo­ple that I do it the imme­di­ate com­mon response is “Oh I could never do that.”

When I’m off stage I have to mind what I say and mind the social stan­dards. I’m Patrick the soft­ware devel­oper. Sure I may be a bit crazy and off the wall.

But when I hit the stage that all falls away and I’m free to do what­ever. I can be the six year old kid who throws a tantrum. I can be the mafia hit­man with a soft side. I can be the obliv­i­ous father to a par­ty­girl daugh­ter. And I can escape every­thing from the real world.

On stage there’s no chance to stop and think about that nag­ging prob­lem from work, or the fam­ily drama, or won­der­ing if I left the gas on at home. There’s sim­ply no time to let your mind wan­der, you have to always be focused and lis­ten­ing to the other performers.

Also, I’m a sucker for the crowd’s applause.