Hands In Too Many Pies + Travel Planning

O hai.

It’s not that I haven’t been writing, it’s just the blog posts are sitting in draft mode still. I thought of writing shorter entries, but have been busy with a few side projects. And then I just micro-blog about it and don’t feel the need to blog anymore. Discipline I need. Yeah, I know. Anyway, timing to leave work so I can catch my train right now, so I’ll write something quick.

One of the side projects involves possibly starting a video podcast about cooking, so I have to actually know a bit of that. That keeps me fairly busy.

I’ve been tempted by starting a t-shirt business too as a hobby. It is funny, but I was out of ideas the week before, but now I have several. Which is cool.

Another project is organizing a road trip to NYC for Easter. I’m the one that wants to go the most, so it falls on me to do the planning, the coaxing, the writing. Easter is only a month away! Yet my friends do not seem to share the urge to get all this done earlier rather than later. I’m all for more agile planning, but I suppose some things such as travel planning cannot be as agile. (Was also planning a huge trip to South East Asia for next Fall, but that will be delayed until next year or something). There are web 2.0-ish apps to help, but people have to buy in the concept, and I’m having a hard time getting people to use a mailing list and replying to questions. And we’re talking about friends here.

This is not to say that a service to help organizing trips could not help. I’ve got to organize a few trips recently (bitten by the travel bug). However, it doesn’t get any easier in terms of effort. We have changing variables such as the people involved, the places to go, logistics. Most of the people I travel with do not see the value in the web. I’m guessing it is still too complicated for them.

Maybe this is a human nature problem that the web cannot solve. Doesn’t make it any less frustrating… That I haven’t found the solution ^_^.