A bowl shaped device lowers down onto our hero's head.  Flashing lights and wires cover its outer surface while foam that normally is covering the inside of expensive equipment cases cover the inside to make the device as “comfortable” as possible.  The glowing red light of the big control panel beside our hero is glowing like a Police Siren

Our hero looks up at the LED clock that is above his head.  He can see the numbers tick down second by second while a computerized female voice counts down with him.

T minus 10….9….8….7….

Sweat starts to form on our hero's forehead, already staining the inside foam.

6….5….4…

Our hero grips the arm rests of the metal chair he is strapped to “for his own protection”

3…..2…….

Our hero cringes…..

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So as I sit here on my dad's computer wondering if I'll ever get my main PC back or any other computer for that matter, I begin to think about what has happened to me in the past little bit.  Obviously the Live Lab Rats blogging and the new radio show aside, it has been a busy week.  So much so that I haven't seen my friends in almost 3 weeks now.  It's sad, I know that they want to hang out, and some need help with computer stuff, but I can't be with them as much as I want to.

Granted I am having fun with what I'm doing, but sometimes it feels like what I am doing may not matter much.

That is until this past Wednesday.  The radio show went extremely well.  My co-host Mike “The Birdman” Dodd and I started our first ever Specialty radio show not with a whimper or a “meh” but with a freakin BANG! and a BOOM!

We literally crashed the Internet streaming servers.  It kept buffering throughout the entire hour we were on the air.  We know that it was due to the influx of people tuning in, and if you were one of them, THANK YOU!  It really showed the Program Director here at the station that our show is definitely something that people enjoy.  Now how confident are we that tit was people tuning in to our show that caused the buffering and not some random computer streaming glitch?  Well, we started recording the show firfteen minutes before and after the show and there was no buffering whatsoever during those times.  From the beginning of our show right to the end it started buffering like crazy!

Man I have never been so happy to see technology fail like that.

Suffice it to say we had a great chemistry together.  Which is freakin' cool because my co-host and I talked as if we were friends for years, and yet we only knew each other for a few days.  Isn't that odd?  Even with all that, it made me realize how much fun I have in being on radio and on TV, because it feels so natural to me.  It feels as natural as putting on pants.  Oh yes I said pants.  Anyway, it felt so good to be on air again that I now have a new focus on Broadcasting that I didn't have before, and I think I found my niche in it.  That's freakin' hawesome!

At any rate we are still continuing the show every Wednesday at 4:30pm EST on 90.1 FM The New Heat.  Sof if you want to talk to us email us at feedback@thisweekingeek.net or go to thisweekingeek.net for all the updates.

Hmmm, okay what else has been on my mind lately?

Oh yeah the book writing front.  I have changed my direction for the book.  Ever since the tech support story submissions were pretty much non-existant, I had to re-focus my energy to something that I could write and very easily put together.  Hence why I'm moving into different creative writing outlets for my new book which easily translates from tech support to my new topic which is being a geek.  I admit it, I am a geek and it feels so good to be one, that I want to write about it and then to make me happy to perform it in front of an audience.  I think honestly that is my ultimate “freakin' once in a lifetime” moments.  To be able to travel to different places and perform my material from my book to an audience and get paid to do it.  I think that would be sweet.  Anyway, the book is still in progress and will be tweaked out more sometime in the near future.

What else…..what else…..

I think thats it.  Just loving life and waiting to see what cool thin will happen next.

That's it for me.

Toodles!

Steve “Snowball” Saylor

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