The Bathroom Befuddlement.

Like all the great minds of my time I have all of my best ideas in the bathroom. 

Wait! It's not what you think. 

I don't get some serious thoughts while squeezing out a deuce. I can't even read when I'm in the bathroom, it's one of those get in and get out deals. 

That's why you come to my blog. To read about me having bowel movements. I guess I've finally crossed that line I didn't want to eventually cross. There is no coming back. Up next the failed sexual exploits of Tyson Elder. 

Back to our regularly scheduled blog post about thinking in the bathroom. 

The bathroom is where all my big ideas happen and slip away with the grime, soap, and water of the shower. (I had a particularly blue line to go here.) That's right I get ideas in the shower. 

Generally when an idea rolls around in my head all through the day. Most of the time I'll be at work when this idea pops in to say hello. I scribble some unformed idea in a notebook I keep in a coverall pocket and hope something happens with it. When I get home from my working day smelling like an aircraft's asshole I throw my notebook in my office, and have a shower. 

In that five to seven minute window of fluctuating temperature water the idea comes back in full force, but without me being able to write it down. I think of that witty one liner that will never see the light of day, the opening paragraph to this blog post, or something vaguely business related. 

By the time the soap is out of my eyes the idea is being back to half formed. Lacking those qualities that made it so “unique” in the shower. I rush to my computer, fire up 750, but normally it's gone. The light bulb is there but it is flickering with the last seconds of life. I bang something out, but I know it isn't right. That's why I normally don't have anything brilliant to put up here. A rule of thumb on my blog is that I don't like to put up things I'm not happy with. 

So, here is my predicament. I have ideas in the shower that I can't capture and therefor can't ship. Wow, that sounded really social media douche-y. 

Do you have any suggestions on how I save these ideas and thoughts in the shower without ruining my walls, shower, periodical table shower curtain, and bathtub? 

I'm all ears. Trust me they are clean I just had a shower.

Stowage.

I want to own a fancy axe  but just for show.

I'm in the market for an old fashioned red tool box. Maybe an antique.

I need a new tool box to free up some space in my tool bag that I use around the house and when building boats once a year. I don't need every single tool i own in the tool bag and a classic tool box would free me up from carrying everything.

Also it would double as a prop in the pilot I'm done writing. Well sort of... I've known for a while that i've wanted to write and direct a web series. Depending on how the pilot goes over (or how it gets made) I want to fundraise to make a 6 episode series.

So what is it about? Not giving that away just yet. It is going to be like a documentary/how to series. I've been toying with the idea for over 3 years. Thinking something similar to Put This On.

All I need to do is do some revisions get a cameraman, crew, designer of the internet, editor, and most importantly a host.

All in good time I guess.

Day 26: Insight.

Several times a day I have that Aha! moment where I think that I just solved all of my problems or this is the scheme that is going to make me something more then I am.

Most of them peter away but some stick in the back of my mind for quite some time. Unfortunately most of my ideas involve something I don’t have to invest. Money. One day I’ll figure it out but until then until I’ll save my half baked ideas in one of the 23 half filled notebooks lying around my office.

Maybe I’ll cut and paste them together for one big crazy idea.

How to get followed by robots and other Twitter secrets from beyond the grave.

All my good ideas come in the shower.

Usually they slip my mind before I get out of the shower and write a stream of broken thoughts. Most of the time when I lose my ideas it is due to me worrying when I'm going to run out of hot water or why they are running that damn washing machine again for the 11th hour in a row upstairs.

It is a brainless task getting clean and washing your beard so I think about things. I try to be funny but I either forget the joke or the punchline before the shampoo is out of my eyes. So I've decided I would like a Space Pen and waterproof paper for Christmas.

This way I can write in the shower, on butter, underwater, on the sun, and in space. Seems like a good idea that way you won't just get a funny title in a post but a whole semi-funny one.

Instead you have to picture me in the shower.

Thoughts on a Thursday night.

I am forever brainstorming ideas and projects. Very few ever see the light of day. There are stacks of notebooks and scraps of paper all over my place with scripts, ideas, stories, and much more lying around.

The most prevalent is thesidneyproject. A project that has gone through many phases from being short films shot in Sidney at 3am, a media collective, an online magazine, and somewhere where I can dump some travel stories. It's come close to having the ground work complete several times, but one or two of the people in the development process loose interest. I think this is the one I will keep returning to the most.

There is also another project that I've been working on in the wee hours of the morning. It actually isn't really anything much to do with me, but more of a promoting and organizing of it. The people I'd have to talk to about it I haven't even told yet. I'm waiting for the opportune moment to pitch it. I would also like to have everything semi-ironed out before the pitch.

I've also wanted to put a podcast together since my days as a volunteer at The Zone with Shayne. Later Darryl wanted to join in to make it STDcast (Shayne, Tyson, Darryl. Get it? It's catchy!). I'd like to get "Breakfast for Champions" up and running again a podcast recorded during breakfast with Shayne and Rozie. One day I will get a podcast going.

I'm a none procrastinator when it comes to my own things. Even though I believe if you want to make a name for yourself you have to do it on your own. No one is going to give you a hand out (unless your parents are rich or you suck some dick).

So I plan on getting things done for myself in the near future. I feel like my life right now is in my job and that is never where I really saw myself. I feel like if you do something for yourself you begin to see the rewards and people start to notice your accomplishments more. I think I can only put off these projects that I've been dreaming up over the last few years for so long before they get added to the pile of things "I should have done."

First thing I need to do for myself is clean my place.