video blog! and reading tips

since i got no useful feed back to my last post (in fact i got no feed back. at all.), i’m hesitant to reach out into the inter-web for more input and suggestions. still, since this is what’s on my mind at the moment, i will optimistically do so….

i’ve been giving a lot of thought to the creation of a video blog, vlog (i’m not sure how i feel about that abbreviation, or whatever you call it). during this past week, i reached out to two of my oldest and smartest friends to see what they thought of the idea of a vlog, solicit concept ideas and suggestions, and if they might be interested in participating in a collaboration. both, intrigued by the idea, said they’d give it some thought.

in the meantime, i continue to ponder the idea myself, while also poking around the internet for ideas, tips, etc. also, i started watching other video blogs, to get an sense of what others are doing, and came across the vlogbrothers, which i find very entertaining, and have been watching, starting from their first post and working my way to the present. it channel is done by two brothers, both very geeky and funny. 

as i’ve been watching, i’m been inspired to try to do more reading (they’re smart and well-read) and this brings me to the second part of my post.

i don’t read nearly as much as i should (or as i’d like). the reasons for this, it seems to me are two-fold. one, i have many days when i come home from work, meetings, exercising (though not so much these days… stupid campaign season), and don’t feel like reading. i just want to come home, lie on my couch and not think. this a reasonable problem, i think, and one that requires some will power and not much else.

two, often when i try to read i end up dozing off, or at least getting really sleepy. this makes it hard to progress through a book, article, etc., and makes me not want to read. top google results suggest this happens because my brain associates reading with sleep (i blame the college course that required me to read plato’s republic). i’m not sure i agree with this as a cause, but am curious if other find you readers out there have this same problem. the internet has offered a number of fairly straightforward steps to correct my brain (don’t read in bed, close to bed time, sit up straight, etc.). if you have this problem, what, if anything, do you do to try to keep this from happening?

come on, folks, speak up!

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